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🗓️ 13 October 2020
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Al wishes he was still there. Here's what he would have asked if he still was.
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. I'm going to do a podcast about the hearings right now. I've been listening to them. It's |
0:11.2 | day one of the questioning. And I see that the Democrats are more organized than they were during |
0:18.6 | Kavanaugh. As I'm sure many of you remember, I was on the Judiciary Committee. |
0:24.0 | Man, I wish I was there asking questions. |
0:26.5 | And that's what I'm going to do here. |
0:27.6 | I'm going to, what you're going to hear are the questions I would ask. |
0:32.0 | The Republicans have been raising straw men, |
0:34.7 | claiming that the Democrats are going after Judge Connie Barrett's religion, |
0:40.0 | which no one has, no one. |
0:42.9 | Hawley of Missouri claimed that Democrats are aiming to get rid of Article 6 of the Constitution. |
0:49.2 | Article 6 is there can't be religious test to get a job in the government, as if Democrats really want to do that. |
0:56.0 | And, of course, not one Democratic senator has said anything about her religion. |
1:00.5 | John Kennedy of Louisiana told the judge that members of the committee have claimed overtly. |
1:07.7 | He used the word overtly that you'd be on a mission from God to deny people health care. |
1:14.7 | Now, Ben Sass gave this completely condescending speech about eighth grade civics. |
1:19.4 | This is a quote. |
1:20.2 | Civics is the stuff we're all supposed to agree on. |
1:22.9 | Civics 101 is stuff like Congress writes the laws, |
1:28.6 | and the executive branch enforces the laws. |
1:31.7 | The courts apply them. |
1:33.7 | None of that stuff should be different if you're Republican or Democrat. |
1:38.2 | Oh, my God. |
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