Making the powerful squirm
by Tom Sullivan
For those who missed it, here is a nugget from Rep. Katie Porter. The California freshman Democrat is a consumer law specialist and former student of Professor Elizabeth Warren’s at Harvard. A professor herself, Porter held a May 30 town hall to discuss her first few months in Washington. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell showed a clip from the event that evening.
O`DONNELL: When Congresswoman Porter was asked today what`s her favorite thing about being a member of Congress, she said this.
PORTER: Well, I should be honest. I like committee. I like asking my questions.
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PORTER: So – I would say that I like that. Although I do … people ask me, I do get very nervous and part of it is you know, in the first couple times I wasn`t as nervous. But also nobody knew what hit them. So I had the advantage of surprise. Now when it`s my turn, the witness just looks like they`re going to puke.
Porter was on the panel Friday night on “Real Time with Bill Maher.” She brings the same kind of non-nonsense attitude to issues as her former professor, but with better comic timing.
WATCH: @RepKatiePorter hilariously goes in on Joe Biden over #HydeAmendment pic.twitter.com/XFhwsFoWWC— Tommy Xtophernobyl (@tommyxtopher) June 8, 2019
Wow @RepKatiePorter out-funnied Bill Maher on his own show. Maher said he's "squishy" on choice because his mom almost didn't have him, and Porter absolutely brought down the house with this response pic.twitter.com/F6WDDfYSqQ— Tommy Xtophernobyl (@tommyxtopher) June 8, 2019
It’s not often lately that people part of what’s going on in Washington make us laugh at what’s going on in Washington.