Republicans have a strategy.

[Baitball Blogger]

Their questions may seem unhinged to us, but every Republican who uses their five minutes is building up to something. They came in with a plan. I think they are trying to trip him up so they can later come in and say he lied again. So, whatever questions he answered in the beginning of the testimony, will be used to trip him up at the end.

They are also trying to show that he's not repentant, and that he's still playing a game.

I don't think they're being successful, but I'm sure they'll use whatever they think they have afterwards to make their point.

[BeyondGeography]

1. They're going to be the guy who shows up with both eyes shut

and says, "See, I won the fight."

They're playing to their shrinking base and Cohen has gone over their heads, at times even brilliantly. I'm not worried.

[zaj]

2. Is working a little

Hes a bad guy, who's handling this pretty well, but anything short of perfect is going to work well for their propoganda campaign to follow.

[stopbush]

3. They're already trying that tact, but it is falling worse than flat.

[lame54]

4. Except...

They are rarely letting him speak

They clearly have not done their homework and are asking ill informed questions

They may have a strategy but it's not a competent one

[uponit7771]

5. At this point I'm skeptical, they seemed unprepared at best at first ... now they have a string of .

... disjointed questions about what he can get out of his working with Mueller and congress right now.

It's stupid, we know he's going to get something out of it

[Bettie]

6. What gets out of it

is no extra jail time for lying again.

In the end that covers it. He lies again, he gets more time. He tells the truth, he gets what he's already sentenced to.

[uponit7771]

7. +1