Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) is an asshole/bigot

[LetMyPeopleVote]

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[Jilly_in_VA]

1. Well no shit!

who threw you the clue!?

In all seriousness, I would love to call Old Putty-face a perfect asshole except for two things:
1. Nobody's perfect.
2. Assholes serve a useful purpose.

My late ex used to refer to such a person as a "vermiform appendix". I had to stop that when I learned that the appendix is actually a part of the immune system (even though we can live without it). Old Putty-face is more of a nasty virus, and there's unfortunately no cure for those.

[a kennedy]

4. "Old Putty-face"....... This just made my day.....😂 🤣 😂

[Stuart G]

5. What this senator is....simply put...."A Pile Of Decomposing Shit that Has BEEN OUTSIDE FOR A MONTH

...Not fresh, but decomposing and totally useless....like this senator. from LA.

Of course, my apologies to S**T ADVOCATES OF WHICH I AM ONE!!!!

[ironflange]

2. Talk about sullying a good name

[Stuart G]

3. Thank You for Posting This. The senator from LA just defined himself as "STUPID" forever and forever

....He, like the rest of his crowd of fools, don't have a clue ...says Stu

[Casady1]

6. These guys

if that had their druthers and their wasn't so much pressure on them they would be segregationists.

[Solly Mack]

7. That man is scum. Always has been.

[lame54]

8. He's just a man who doesn't understand the definition of disrespect

[Hav]

9. Jesus

I admire people who can remain that calm facing such open bigotry but you can tell how insulting it is to be judged by things you cannot control. She still made her point and showed everyone what an ahole he is, just in a very polite way.

[True Dough]

10. Sen. Warren telling it like it is!

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[dalton99a]

11. NEXT: "How can you be Russian? You look Chinese!"

[PDT69]

12. That guy is an ass...

but I think she was a bad pick on Biden's part.

[EleanorR]

13. This you John?

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[dalton99a]

16. +1. Russian Assets in Congress:

[Baitball Blogger]

14. What caused him to ask such an astonishing question?

He sounds like a pure out and out racist. The crazy way his tone changes when he says, "I don't know whether to call you professor or comrade?"

His voice is so creepy.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. GOP senator suggests Soviet upbringing of Biden's pick for top bank regulator indicates Communist lo

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“Senator, I’m not a Communist,” Omarova said. “I do not subscribe to that ideology. I could not choose where I was born.”

She said her family “suffered under the Communist regime. I grew up without knowing half of my family. My grandmother herself escaped death twice under the Stalinist regime. This is what’s seared in my mind. That’s who I am. I remember that history. I came to this country. I’m proud to be an American.”

Omarova earned an undergraduate degree from Moscow State University before emigrating to the U.S. in 1991 and continuing her studies. She earned a PhD from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a law degree from Northwestern University. She then worked at Davis Polk & Wardwell, a top New York firm, where she focused on corporate transactions and advising financial industry clients on regulation. She also served in the Treasury Department of Republican President George W. Bush’s administration as a special adviser on regulatory policy.

If confirmed, Omarova would be the first woman, the first immigrant and the first person of color to lead the 158-year-old agency.

Kennedy’s line of questioning prompted a rare interruption from Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), who chairs the committee. Brown said Omarova renounced her Soviet citizenship. Kennedy protested Brown’s interjection, calling it a violation of “senatorial courtesy.” Brown replied that “senatorial courtesy is also not doing character assassination.”

[Rhiannon12866]

17. This performance absolutely made me cringe. This senator is apparently ignorant of history.

This woman grew up in the Soviet Union, that's how things were done. I visited the Soviet Union in the late '80s with my grandmother and her peace group from the small progressive NC town where she was living. We visited the cities, but the point of the trip was the initial visit to "our" sister town, 2 1/2 hours up in the Caucasus Mountains. And that's what was expected of kids in the former USSR. We visited the small school there and all the kids aged 9+ belonged to the Young Pioneers, they all wore orange neckerchiefs. It was just expected.

My group of senior citizen peaceniks led the kids in peace songs and one lovely elderly lady invited the group to visit her house. She was designated as the head of the Communist Party in that small town and became my 86-year-old grandmother's pen pal. The people we met everywhere were dedicated to peace since after the extreme suffering they experienced during WWII, they never wanted it to happen again.