[Carolina]

The sharpest barb from Maria Cantwell????

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I'd say the hearings fizzled.

[goldstategop]

Yeah the Rats figured John Ashcroft would be an easy target for them --- just paint him as a small minded paranoid Edgar J. Hoover and watch all hell break loose. But when the Attorney General waved that Al Qaeda manual around the steam went out of the Rats offensive and suddenly all they wanted to do was make the hearing go away even to the extent of changing it to their favorite issue gun control. You can always count on the Rats to blow themselves up on a land mine. They're like the Taliban in the sense that they don't know how to conduct themselves in the face of a determined foe and they sure couldn't handle Ashcroft. Next time they'll make sure not to tangle with him again.

[anniegetyourgun]

Yet a frowning Cantwell snapped, "I'm not sure everybody in America is laughing at that."

I am laughing at the "I-bought-my-seat" Senator.