Bondi Blasts Sen. Alex Padilla: ‘I’m Not Gonna be Bullied by You’
“I guess you didn’t want to hear my answer. I’m here to answer your questions, I’m not here to do your homework.”
Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi wants to answer the questions. She’s not at the hearing so the senators can get in their talking points for fundraising.
Bondi showed this during an exchange with Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA):
PADILLA: YOUR job will be – I am SPEAKING – to protect voters and election workers, not to undermine them… let’s move on to a different topic-
BONDI: You were speaking, may I speak? You cut me off-
PADILLA: When I ASK you the next question, you can speak, and I hope you answer.
BONDI: I’d like to answer your previous one… you pointed your finger at me. Let me answer my question. I’m NOT gonna be bullied by you, senator [Padilla keeps talking…] I guess you didn’t want to hear my answer. I’m here to answer your questions, I’m not here to do your homework.
🚨 'I'M NOT GONNA BE BULLIED BY YOU': Pam Bondi tells off aggressive and rude Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) for pointing his finger at her and not letting her talk.
Unprofessional.
PADILLA: YOUR job will be – I am SPEAKING – to protect voters and election workers, not to… pic.twitter.com/iBYt4EkoYi
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 15, 2025
Pam Bondi goes NUCLEAR on Senator Padilla🔥
“Senator, I’m here to answer your questions, I’m not here to do your homework and study for you.”
This entire dialog was golden. I think she won me over. pic.twitter.com/MjiAvbLHmn
— Anna Matson (@AnnaRMatson) January 15, 2025
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Bondi looks like a disaster to me. Should be nowhere near executive authority.
I’m trying to think of a more ringing endorsement of Bondi than the above comment.
I got nuthin’
How is that your takeaway? She’s kicking ass right now!
Maybe that’s what he doesn’t like.
And, of course, the first response is a ridiculous one.
You’re right. She should have cowered and simpered and let Padilla abuse her.
We wouldn’t want the AG to do something like have a spine and be able to stand up to criminals and politicians, now would we?
“..:criminals and politicians,..”
That’s kinda like saying, “dogs and beagles,” isn’t it?
😉
Gosh, that’s a shocker.
Wow! Just wow!
Who would you select. Jeff Sessions?
Pam Bondi has more balls than the entire male and trans Senators sitting on that panel.
Your ignorance has been duly noted
That’s because you want her tied to a stove I guess. She sounded like a boss not taking nonsense from self entitled A holes trying for sound bites at her expense.
You have women issues, big time.
And, you sound like a jerk
The vile, evil and stupid Dhimmi-crats plumbed new depths of infantile idiocy, histrionics and grandstanding, in these various Committee hearings.
I didn’t think it was possible for this wretched, subversive and despicable party to disgrace itself further than has already been done, over decades of their fifth columnist agitation and subversion antics and rhetoric, and yet, the shrieking, obnoxious, intemperate, uncivil and dishonest harridans, crones and geezers on these various Committees have accomplished that feat.
In the private sector, interacting with a person in this type of rude and unprofessional manner would get your fired.
The old expression, “Let sleeping dogs lie” applies to the moronic Dems. They woke up a real mad dog and got bitten.
The speaker who tells you that he has torn up his speech in order to speak to you directly has torn up the wrong speech. Erving Goffman, somewhere.
I don’t know what to call her technique, maybe playing the helpless woman card. A better strategy is always to show respect and reframe what’s wrong so that it’s right. Politeness is everything. You might say it needs to be displayed in an AG, a good test.
Politeness and courtesy should be a two-way street. The Democrats have shown a disregard for politeness and courtesy.
Rather than be bullied, Bondi has been standing up for herself, and there is nothing at all wrong with that.
Hardin is a troll. I don’t get why he’s still tolerated here, given his antisemitism and defense of terrorism.
He is tolerated because the site is NOT run by free speech-hating Democrats.
Hardin makes as many good points as bad ones… though his curve far more resembles a saddle than a bell.
Is it a blazing saddle?
Discourtesy is self-defeating in several ways. One is that it shows you’re baffled by language and its resources. The AG has to turn opinions politely, in the job. If the AG can’t manage that routinely, the AG is a bad choice. That’s why I say disaster.
It’s a free country, and you have a right to be wrong.
Padilla was obnoxious. He insisted Bondi respond in a yes-or-no manner, but he has no right to do that. This was a confirmation hearing, not some sort of investigative hearing, and she had a right to respond in the manner of her choosing.
While trying to respond, he repeatedly interrupted/talked over her, preventing her from actually providing an answer.
Bondi was actually quite polite to Padilla, and her eventual statement that she was not going to be bullied was delivered with a very reasonable tone that was respectful to the importance of the hearing and its participants.
I agree 100% these petty, elitist, narcissistic, toddlers who call themselves Senators (D) should learn to be much more courteous to perspective nominees. Maybe then they wouldn’t look so bad when they get slapped down by nominees that are very much superior.
It’s precisely this white, Christian culture of politeness to the undeserving that allows the left to eat slice after slice of our salami forever.
Today is the time to call the assholes assholes to their faces. I hope this is the year Republicans finally figure out the difference between being in office, and being in power.
Power is what? Auctoritas, officium, imperium or potestas.
The one that makes cattle jump. The Romans didn’t have that one.
Agreed. The whole ‘a soft answer turns away wrath’ is very outdated in the political sphere.
That’s not to say being polite or civil isn’t important but it’s also important to match the tone of the opponent. One can be polite and IMO should be …up until the moment your opponent becomes impolite. At that point we have to be prepared to push back.
IOW don’t initiate conflict but when your opponent chooses conflict you are in one whether you wanted one or not and the prudent person then discards civility for victory in the conflict their opponent chose to create.
TL/DR ‘don’t start none, won’t be none’.
Politeness is able to stay on topic. Important in an executive position.
Effective politicians learn how to pivot the topic to what THEY want to speak about, not play an eternal losing game of dee-fense.
Good leaders adapt to changing circumstances, recognize the necessity to abandon ideas that are outdated/failing and have the courage to create and implement necessary change to reverse the failure…. especially so when some sitting safely on the sidelines offer up pious platitudes as a form of passive aggressive condemnation.
Thank you President Trump for nominating people outside the beltway deep state that won’t just talk all around the ball park with Kamala salad happy talk to get into office but will go straight at these superficial nonsense people. This is what we elected Trump for.
I am delighted that every nominee so far has refused to play the Kabuki game of the nomination process where nominees are expected to be timidly deferential to overtly offense and inane lines of ‘questioning’.
No good comes from being a little sissy Ned Flanders sitting on one’s hands afraid to speak up and confront Senators who offer argumentative statements, flawed premises and bad faith questions.
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