I’ve lived in NYC for 30 years and never heard “Grill like Peter Lugar”. Thank you!
Yup, the bar is so, so, so low that the youngest congresswoman, a first termer who is just learning the ropes and building up a staff, can stand out as the best fit person to be running congress. She’s not even a lawyer and yet her questions tend to be the most legally significant of any of her peers. I like AOC a lot and I’m down with DSA for the most part but she’s really surprised me by being able to handle the shit storm that landed on her and do some real governing.
Katie Porter, another first termer, did an okay job asking Zuckerberg questions but, whew, nearly all of the rest of the Dems were lame. The bulk of the Dem’s questions were legally insignificant, ill-informed, dumb, misleading, counterproductive, and/or grandstanding nonsense and arguably worse in context than the (universally ridiculous) GOP questions. How hard is it to ask Zuckerberg meaningful questions? Maybe it takes 15 minutes of research? And if you can’t figure it out, do what AOC did and crowdsource some questions. I’m fine with AOC taking over the Democratic party, um, tomorrow.
