4:50 of Ted Cruz's disrespectful (and McCarthy-esque) exchange with Eric Holder

[underpants]

Who (WHY?!) is the staffer in the frame? that is pure TV.

Cruz sounds and looks like Joe McCarthy (drunk - WI).

Oh, Cruz is one of the "bright stars in the Tea Party movement"....problem is he can't be on the national ticket

Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz#Early_life_and_education

By the time of their inauguration, the President and Vice President must be:
natural born citizens (including naturalization passed from parents)
at least thirty-five years old
inhabitants of the United States for at least fourteen years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Two_of_the_United_States_Constitution

[Iwillnevergiveup]

1. Oh man,

this newly-elected Senator is ultra bad news. Ted McCruzthy...yeah, that's the ticket.

[LeftInTX]

2. Saw that the other day

Cruz is despicable. He's out to give a harass anyone on team Obama for no reason.

Cruz could care less about anyone's civil liberties.

He was also grilling Holder about fast and furious and Benghazi.

[MrMickeysMom]

3. Republican Jack off, YES.... but, he's asking the right question!

How about asking about prosecuting war criminals like Bush, Cheney, corporate CEO's with tax shelters off shore next?

[Left Coast2020]

4. Since Al Franken is on the same Committee...

I'd like to see the Senator from MN question the asshat from TX if he can define the word "intelligence"

[lumpy]

5. Cruz's confusing question does not qualify for a simple yes or no answer.

Unless it could be resounding no. Cruz could have just asked if it is illegal to kill someone without going through legal procedure. Simple minded question that might to appeal to a simple mind.

[underpants]

8. He did that for sound editing I am sure

Cruz, a lawyer, gives another lawyer a hypothetical and demands a Yes or No - lawyer types don't like narrowing things down so much. The answer is and was about to be NO but everytime Holder got close to (or actually answered it) Cruz interrupted bemoaning that HE hadn't got an answer yet.

[A Simple Game]

6. The real question is: why is someone on a supposedly left-leaning web site

telling me I should accept the fact that my government wants to use drones against it's own citizens?

When someone is on the right side of an issue I agree with them, no matter how I feel about them or their stands on other issues. To do otherwise would be hypocrisy.

But beyond that, you should realize this is just taking an issue to an extreme so when they lose on this issue we will accept the lesser infractions which are killing people with drones on foreign soil and spying on Americans on American soil.

[underpants]

7. I am sorry that I wasn't clear about that

I wasn't saying the Holder (& Obama) are in anyway right about this I just wanted to provide the full exchange. I have been hearing about this from the voices coming from my dashboard (I am not a dashboard believer) so I had to check it out. Cruz, a lawyer, gives another lawyer a hypothetical and demands a Yes or No - lawyer types don't like narrowing things down so much. The answer is and was about to be NO but everytime Holder got close to (or answered it) Cruz interrupted bemoaning that HE hadn't got an answer yet.

The staffer sitting beside him is something I don't think I have ever seen before.

[DhhD]

11. In my opinion, Cruz is in to character assignation. He does not care to wait on an answer because

an answer to his own question is really not what Cruz is after. One should not answer a rhetorical question. In my opinion, the person listening, is in control of the situation, especially after the first denial of accepting an answer by Cruz. Think of the films and videos: an out of control questioner - Cruz, and a listener - Holder.

To me, Cruz is nothing but a tacky, hate filled grandstander tattling on himself.

[BREMPRO]

9. may be disrespectful and purposely ignorant and obstinant, but mccarthy-esque?

nothing in this exchange is remotely like mccarthy's relentless and frightening witchhunt of supposed communists..

[underpants]

10. I meant that more on the looks of it

as I was watching it I thought - he looks like McCarthy. That's all.

[02potato]

12. the blind leading the dumb or visa/versa!

[wandy]

13. It does not help my opinion of my fellow man to know that so many of them........

Would support a raving madman, wanabe bully, fool, tool and clearly not in their right state of mind creature such as Ted Cruz.
It's not so much what is wrong with Ted Cruz. Clearly he is "cut loose like a duce another Teapublican in the night".
What kind of sickness befell the people who voted for him?

[EC]

14. Don't like Cruz

but Holder has to learn to just say no and let it go.

[Volaris]

15. Holder sux at his job..

all he needed to say was

"I would encourage you to ask the LAST Administration how they would have answered that question, 'cause MY boss is MOSTLY using Jr's playbook on this stuff. If you're not willing to do THAT, Senator, I suggest you STFU."

[Rhiannon12866]

16. Yikes! You're right! He actually looks like him!

I am so tired of hearing these jerks pontificate, total waste of time and oxygen.