It's possible to cross-examine someone -- even someone asserting that she's been the victim of a sex crime -- without sounding like a gratuitous ass. I mean, it's definitely not possible for the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee. But it's possible.
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I mean, there's no way the Senate Republicans can handle examining Ford without sounding absolutely awful. That's not to say there are no reasonable questions to ask. There always are. That's to say they are incapable of asking them without sounding like a Lifetime movie villain.
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I mean, Ted Cruz knows how to debate, but when he questions a witness, you can imagine him demanding that a college classmate provide RATIONAL reasons for not going out with him, given the aforementioned eight factors he has enumerated and the identified flaws in her arguments.
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One key problem is that Congressional questioning is performative, not truth seeking. The two conflict. GOP Senators will have an instinct to cater, through their performance, to the most gruntingly troglodytic elements of humanity, to pwn the libruls. That will be ugly.
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