Feinstein describes feelings during exchange with ‘arrogant’ colleague

[Tx4obama]

Feinstein describes feelings during exchange with ‘arrogant’ colleague

Washington (CNN) – Saying she felt "patronized" by Senate colleague Ted Cruz, Sen. Dianne Feinstein explained Thursday why she felt the need to raise her voice in anger at the Texas Republican during a debate over gun control.

"I felt he was somewhat arrogant about it," Feinstein said of Cruz's suggestion the Senate Judiciary Committee was ignoring the Constitution during its debate over banning semiautomatic firearms.

She spoke on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer."

"When you come from where I've come from ... when you found a dead body and put your finger in bullet holes, you really realize the impact of weapons," she continued, referring to the 1978 assassination of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, whose bodies she discovered at City Hall.

"When you see these weapons becoming attractive to grievance killers, people who take them into schools, into theaters, into malls - you wonder, does America really need these weapons? My answer to that is no. And so it's based on my experience," she continued.

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Full article here: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/14/feinstein-describes-feelings-during-exchange-with-arrogant-colleague/

Here's a link below to a 3:23 minute VIDEO of Feinstein/Cruz exchange for folks that haven't seen it yet:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ted-cruz-and-dianne-feinstein-battle-in-explosive-debate-over-gun-control-in-senate-i-am-not-a-6th-grader/

[ellie]

1. That's right!

I forgot that she was there in San Fran. Cruz is an idiot.

[indepat]

5. Cruz is an effin' domestic right-wing extremist, just one of a group of domestic right-wing

extremists in the Congress who are giving America and Americans a good effin' over.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. She went to hold Harvey Milk's hand as he lay dying...

...and inadvertently put her index finger thru a bullet hole. She knows her stuff.

Cruz is headed for the dustbin of history, just like his hero, ol' Tail Gunner Joe.

[DFW]

3. I hope Cruz is noted as the low point in Texas Senators

Just as Louie Gohmert is a low point in Texas congressional representation.

It is downright painful to have one's state shown to the world as a place populated by ignorance-glorifying, mean-spirited, phony populists who are not in the slightest truly conservative. The world sees these human versions of uncaring garden slugs, and thinks Texas is populated exclusively by illegals and this kind of trash, and it just isn't so.

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. Does Cruz really believe his BS arguments?

I guess it's possible that he is that dim.

But really. Does he mean to imply that under the 2nd Amendment, citizens should be able to own ANY weapon? Machine guns, anti-tank rockets, shoulder launched anti-aircraft missiles, nerve gas ordinance, nuclear weapons? No? Then yes, Congress can place restrictions on the type of weapons available.

Can Congress ban a particular type of book under the 1st Amendment? Senator, how about child pornography? Bought much lately?

[Bob Sacamano]

11. Why didn't she say any of that?

Not only would it had been a good point, it would have been relevant to the topic at hand.

[Tx4obama]

13. Tonight on Lawrence O'Donnell's Last Word show in the Rewrite segment...

... Lawrence said that Senator Schumer brought up the 1st Amendment pornography issue.

Here's a link below to the segment...

O’Donnell Obliterates ‘Liar From Texas’ Ted Cruz For ‘Embarrassing Himself’ During Feinstein Debate
VIDEO here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/odonnell-obliterates-liar-from-texas-ted-cruz-for-embarrassing-himself-during-feinstein-debate/

[ZRT2209]

6. Carnival Cruz - right wing clown. And asshole.

[rurallib]

9. smug, cocky, arrogant, unfeeling, superior

just looking at his condescending face made me want to - well I can't go on.

[ReRe]

7. K&R

I watched every bit of it go down this morning. Cruz is a total AH. He's a great speaker, sounds real good, but everything that comes out of his mouth is propaganda, lies, and shit. He definitely needs to be taken to the pantry and have more than a little bit of soap rubbed on his tongue. And given a good paddling for disrespecting his elders. Feinstein, Franken and Blumenthal pretty much mopped him up, though.

[AsahinaKimi]

8. She was there (close by) in San Francisco

When Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone was killed by Dan White. She took over the city after that, as a newly sworn in Mayor. She knows about gun violence.

[The Wizard]

10. Ted Cruz

could only get elected in a slave state.

[eppur_se_muova]

12. Like most on the GOP Libertarian fringe, Cruz thinks he is the only one who understands anything.

He was trying to lecture a senior Senator on elementary points of Constitutional Law as if he were the only one in the room who knew what the Constitution said, or what those words implied -- as if the devil weren't all in the details of implementation, and one only needed to grasp the pure principles more firmly to have pure, simple, unworkable, black-and-white answers to everything.