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Honeycombe8

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8. I watched part of the Barr hearing confirmation.
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 06:57 PM
Jan 2019

He hit most of the right notes, had the right tone, gave the right answers. He will be confirmed, with some Democrats voting to confirm. Barr remained definite that he thinks Mueller should finish the investigation and that it is unlikely that Mueller would conduct a so-called witch hunt.

I didn't watch the whole hearing, because in between all those answers are other questions that should have been asked. Maybe they were.

He did refuse to say that he would recuse himself if such and such happened, because that's a hypothetical. But he didn't rule it out. Which means nothing.

He gave an appearance of being reasonable, acted with decorum, and the like. He made a good appearance in other words.

It doesn't matter, though, since he'll be confirmed. No matter who Trump chose, he (and it would be a white male) would be questionable, if not outright sleazy.

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