By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-16 03:20:54 | Updated at 2024-11-16 05:33:17
2 hours ago
HOW DUMB ARE OUR SENATORS?
Powerline ^ | 15 Nov 2024 | John Hinderaker
Posted on 11/15/2024 7:04:03 PM PST by Rummyfan
We try to be polite in talking about our political opponents, but sometimes it is impossible. Some of them are–there is no other way to put it–morons. Such as Senator Mazie Hirono, Democrat from Hawaii. I can’t find a good clip of her comments during Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on bump stocks, but here is a report:
Hirono began her opening remarks by referencing an earlier hearing in which the “entire panel” of witnesses agreed that “this nation is awash in guns.”
She went on to stress the phrase “awash in guns” at least three more times, then said, “Meanwhile, the Supreme Court in various decisions, Heller was pretty much an astounding decision to me when suddenly, individual could, [under] the Second Amendment, individuals could own firearms.”
The idea that individuals couldn’t own firearms–or, more charitably, that we didn’t have the right to own firearms–until the Heller decision in 2008, is mind-blowingly stupid.
More:
She then jumped to the Bruen (2022) decision, feigning shock that, “Suddenly, we’re supposed to look to what the Founding Fathers thought about in…1791 or some astounding time-frame such as that.”
Suddenly. Suddenly we are supposed to care about our Constitution, even though it was adopted in the “astounding time-frame” of 1788.
It is depressing to realize that there are only 100 senators, and Mazie Hirono is one of them.
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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; heller; rkba
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Patty Murray is up there - down there? - in the stupidity department too.
A nation of over three hundred million people and these are whom get elected to The Senate?!
1 posted on 11/15/2024 7:04:04 PM PST by Rummyfan
To: Rummyfan
Loaded question. I don’t have enough hours in a day to answer that.
2 posted on 11/15/2024 7:05:16 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Climate Change is Real. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.)
To: Rummyfan
Unfortunately, a good number of our senators and representatives are far from being our “best and brightest.”
3 posted on 11/15/2024 7:12:19 PM PST by Salvey (<I)
To: Rummyfan
“HOW DUMB ARE OUR SENATORS?”
Good question John. On a scale of 1-10, I would say a 5.
Now a question for you. How dumb are the voters who reelect the same dumb senators over and over again?
4 posted on 11/15/2024 7:13:28 PM PST by Mr. N. Wolfe
To: Rummyfan
Put a gun to my head and I still wouldn’t be able to name a single liberal female who isn’t mind-numbingly stupid.
5 posted on 11/15/2024 7:13:37 PM PST by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
To: Newtoidaho
Camille Paglia had her moments.
6 posted on 11/15/2024 7:17:38 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Not the whore in '24.)
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