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CTyankee

(68,197 posts)
Tue Sep 29, 2015, 04:25 PM Sep 2015

Two of the stupidest questions asked Cecile Richards at today's hearing:

"Who is that bald man sitting behind you?"
(he is a lawyer)

"Has President Obama ever called you?"
(she said no)



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CTyankee

(68,197 posts)
3. "You make more than the President of the United States!"
Tue Sep 29, 2015, 04:31 PM
Sep 2015

And...your point is, Congressman?????

CTyankee

(68,197 posts)
5. some of her interrogators seemed not to know the questions they were trying to ask!
Tue Sep 29, 2015, 04:38 PM
Sep 2015

They seemed to be plotzing around, wildly grasping for straws, not making any point, any sense...

Jim__

(15,222 posts)
6. Another very stupid question was, "Has anyone from the Justice Department, the Inspector ..."
Tue Sep 29, 2015, 04:49 PM
Sep 2015

"... General's Office or ... called you or anyone on your staff, or anyone on the Planned Parenthood Board since the videos came out?"

malaise

(296,076 posts)
10. I watched the first hour
Tue Sep 29, 2015, 05:12 PM
Sep 2015

and could not believe the behavior of those ReTHUG scumbags.
Loved Elijah Cummings comments re their silence on the salaries of the guilty Wall Street versus their attacks on Cecile Richards salary.

These men really fucking hate women.
Cecile handled them very well. She's way more patient than me - I would have told them about their anatomy and not nicely.

MoonRiver

(36,975 posts)
11. POS were trying to create some kind of bizarre scandal!
Tue Sep 29, 2015, 05:18 PM
Sep 2015

Bald men, especially lawyers, are scary! Must be in cahoots with Obama to kill fetuses!

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