Senator Kamala Harris’s Voice Is Amplified by Interruptions

[CaliCat 3,957]

Keep asking those questions. Keep at it. 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/us/politics/senator-kamala-harris-democrats.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

 

Unlike those men, she is not a man, a fact that has figured prominently in her introduction to mass audiences in a recurring (and highly rated) television series: Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing Into Possible Trump Ties to Russia.

Twice recently, Ms. Harris’s pointed questions and interjections during long-winded witness testimony have prompted uncommon interruptions from Republican colleagues, John McCain of Arizona and Richard M. Burr of North Carolina, the committee chairman, urging her to let the officials answer.

In the outsize fallout, her supporters have questioned whether a white male senator would have been confronted the same way.

“There are times,” said Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, “when men don’t like women who are smarter than them.”

Yet this early exposure has obscured a more nuanced Washington debut for Ms. Harris, who seems determined to distinguish her voice from the Democratic pack while offering at least a measure of deference to Senate norms.

In one such nod to rookie humility, she declined to be interviewed for this article, in keeping with an apparent policy against participating in profiles with major publications at this point.

“Oh, God,” she said when approached recently by a New York Times reporter at a congressional softball game. (She smiled through brief pleasantries, clutching a pink pom-pom to cheer her colleagues, before hustling toward the lawmakers’ dugout.)

At the same time, her advisers argue, Mr. Trump’s election has so scrambled the rhythms of the upper chamber that tenure has become a less valuable currency.

“Seniority does not govern all,” said Sean Clegg, a top strategist for Ms. Harris in California. “In effect, all voices are equal.”

This view is not universally shared in the Capitol. Or in her state.

“She just got here,” said Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, when asked about Ms. Harris’s future as a national figure, extolling the virtues of Senate hierarchy and committee-chairing.

The senior senator, now 84, did speak warmly of Ms. Harris, saying she was “on the way to becoming” a good friend.

“What she should do is concentrate on being a good, and possibly a great, United States senator,” Ms. Feinstein said. “The rest will either happen or not happen.”

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You probably saw my previous post where she kept an innocent man in prison for years on a technicality. She also left this state last year with "underground regulations" at the end of her term as AG. The Office of Administrative Law just threw them back to the DOJ.

 

I would not raise this person up as anything but your typical dirty politician.

[smilesammich 10,727]

all politicians are dirty. it's an all or nothing game. never support a politician unless they're not a politician. in order to make america great we must only vote for those who are totally inexperienced, like they shouldn't have even taken a civics class in high school. also prerequisites; old money lineage, vast network of ceo cronies, natural talent for pathological 'twisting of truth' (i.e. i didn't get any sun, i was wearing a hat), and utter contempt for plebs.

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10 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

all politicians are dirty. it's an all or nothing game. never support a politician unless they're not a politician. in order to make america great we must only vote for those who are totally inexperienced, like they shouldn't have even taken a civics class in high school. also prerequisites; old money lineage, vast network of ceo cronies, natural talent for pathological 'twisting of truth' (i.e. i didn't get any sun, i was wearing a hat), and utter contempt for plebs.

Sorry maybe a better term would be criminal

[smilesammich 10,727]

Just now, 8bit_Theatre said:

Sorry maybe a better term would be criminal

you're right, i left criminal out of the prerequisites. 

[Dashinka 25,885]

1 hour ago, smilesammich said:

we must only vote for those who are totally inexperienced

Isn't that how Obama got elected?

[smilesammich 10,727]

3 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

Isn't that how Obama got elected?

isn't that how trump got elected? obama had more experience going in the  T rump.

[Dashinka 25,885]

Just now, smilesammich said:

isn't that how trump got elected? obama had more experience going in the  T rump.

Only slightly more, but who would have known that given the media coverage.

[smilesammich 10,727]

Just now, Bill & Katya said:

Only slightly more, but who would have known that given the media coverage.

only slightly more  you're funny.

 

only trust fund babies get the job with no experience, which explains how trump got the job..

[Dashinka 25,885]

1 hour ago, smilesammich said:

only slightly more  you're funny.

 

only trust fund babies get the job with no experience, which explains how trump got the job..

So a few years in the Illinois state senate and a couple of years in the US senate are a plethora of experience?  Now I am the one laughing.  

 

[jg121783 3,921]

A lawyer versus someone who built a multibillion dollar business. That's a tough one.

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24 minutes ago, jg121783 said:

A lawyer versus someone who built a multibillion dollar business. That's a tough one.

To quote Obama "you didn't build that"....and actually its the truth this time.

 

 

[smilesammich 10,727]

3 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

So a few years in the Illinois state senate and a couple of years in the US senate are a plethora of experience?  Now I am the one laughing.  

 

the comparison made doesnt have to match a plethora of experience. it only has to be more than zero, the amount of trump's experience. 

[jg121783 3,921]

Trump: years of experience as the chief executive of a multi billion dollar corporation. Obama: a constitutional lawyer who doesn't understand the constitution (or chooses to disregard it).

[Dashinka 25,885]

9 hours ago, smilesammich said:

the comparison made doesnt have to match a plethora of experience. it only has to be more than zero, the amount of trump's experience. 

So you agree Obama only had slightly more experience than Trump?  It is interesting that this topic came up as it appears Ms. Harris is eyeing 2020.  It seems that we are now hearing she may be too inexperienced even coming from those lacking a Y chromosome.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/07/07/just-got-here-feinstein-offers-subdued-response-about-harris-2020-potential.html