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15. LOL. Norman Bates gets schooled by The Velvet Fog

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Sat Feb 6, 2021, 04:28 PM

Feb 2021

I love the way Durbin is so easy-mannered when he's skewering the bull-shitters.

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Watch: Dick Durbin gives Tom Cotton a history lesson -- and a smackdown -- on judges [View all] turbinetree Feb 2021 OP

I love this senator, with his pocket copy of the US Constitution. And I hate Cotton, who is SWBTATTReg Feb 2021 #1

Yes. A scumbag who lied about his military service. leftieNanner Feb 2021 #7

Cotton completed Ranger School which means he's an Army Ranger Yeehah Feb 2021 #44

He is also a traitor. One of the 47 senators who signed the Iran letter. niyad Feb 2021 #26

FYI to those who don't know what Congressman Cotton did, on his own, authored a letter to Iran... SWBTATTReg Feb 2021 #30

I remind him regularly that some of us have not forgotten. niyad Feb 2021 #31

Wow, well played Senator Durbin! PatSeg Feb 2021 #2

Oh, yeah.............. MyOwnPeace Feb 2021 #3

That's my Senator! AwakeAtLast Feb 2021 #4

Mine too. Love him (oh and Duckworth too). perfessor Feb 2021 #8

Oh yes! AwakeAtLast Feb 2021 #10

Mine, too. He can really give a punch when he needs to, and with class. ancianita Feb 2021 #21

Isn't cotton one of the RePutinican smartest guys in the room? NoMoreRepugs Feb 2021 #5

Traitor. niyad Feb 2021 #27

schooled him malaise Feb 2021 #6

Well done, Senator Durbin!! leftieNanner Feb 2021 #9

"Shrank the court to 8 seats." 3catwoman3 Feb 2021 #11

Men like Cotton and Hawley are undeniably smart, but they are not wise. Midnight Writer Feb 2021 #12

Not wise, for sure. I found in my professional career that self-important weenies, thinking they... machoneman Feb 2021 #32

I love my Senator! murielm99 Feb 2021 #13

check out the resumes of some of the trump judges at Ratf*ckingTheCourts.com TomDaisy Feb 2021 #14

Wado................thank you turbinetree Feb 2021 #20

LOL. Norman Bates gets schooled by The Velvet Fog nuxvomica Feb 2021 #15

It was over a year. 2/13/16 - 4/10/17 with just 8 justices. SleeplessinSoCal Feb 2021 #16

Really enoying our Dems fighting back! cp Feb 2021 #17

Smarty Pants!😁 dchill Feb 2021 #18

He said he was an Airborne Ranger. He said he lived a life of danger. Marcuse Feb 2021 #19

KR! Cha Feb 2021 #22

Smackdown without actual blood. Dem2theMax Feb 2021 #23

More of THIS!!! Blue Owl Feb 2021 #24

Thank you Senator Durbin! I think 15 is a nice number. Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2021 #25

It has a nice ring to it 15........and that doesn't include the appeals courts or district courts turbinetree Feb 2021 #33

I am liking Mr. Durbin very much right now. BobTheSubgenius Feb 2021 #28

"Sen. McConnell...shrank the court to eight seats for nearly a year in the last year of the Obama" Nitram Feb 2021 #29

Just rubbing it in did he not ..........let's remind your party what your leader did turbinetree Feb 2021 #34

I've been having a discussion with a Trump supporter online. This is the type of comeback I need. Nitram Feb 2021 #36

Yeah they kinda forget that they have been just breaking the Constitution night and day turbinetree Feb 2021 #37

Trump supporters "forget" a lot of stuff. Not surprising, I guess, if their sole source of "news" is Nitram Feb 2021 #38

And that's falling by the way side, sponsors are dropping them or the sponsors will be turbinetree Feb 2021 #39

The best thing that could happen to US democracy would be a dwindling of the influence of Nitram Feb 2021 #41

And going back and taking another look at two things Fairness Doctrine and Citizens United turbinetree Feb 2021 #42

Absolutely. Citizens United must be overturned/repealed/destroyed. Nitram Feb 2021 #45

I truly believe that the Roberts Court and this Federalist Society bench turbinetree Feb 2021 #46

Boom! Bluethroughu Feb 2021 #35

⭐️K&R⭐️ spanone Feb 2021 #40

Tom Cotton is rat poison DFW Feb 2021 #43