My Favorite Moment from the Sessions Confirmation Hearings

My favorite ten minutes, actually.  During the Jeff Sessions confirmation hearings, I kept shouting at the television asking myself where were these oh-so concerned Democrats when Obama and his stooge Eric Holder were tearing up the Rule of Law again and again for years?  Finally, Ted Cruz pointed out the herd of elephants in the room:

These screaming Leftist protesters who interrupted Cruz just gave punctuation to the fact that Democrats and other Leftists ignored the truth about the Obama Regime for eight years.  They don’t want to hear the truth, much less act upon it, and don’t want you to hear the truth either.

For those who don’t want to watch the video or who just want to bask in Cruz’s truth-telling, here’s the text of the core of Cruz’s speech:

For eight years we have seen a Department of Justice consistently disregarding the rule of law. When Eric Holder's Department of Justice allowed illegal gun transactions, illegally sold guns to Mexican gun traffickers as part of Fast and Furious, guns that were later used to murder border patrol agent Brian Terry, the Democratic members of this committee were silent. When Eric Holder was found in contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with Congress' investigation into Fast and Furious, once again, the Democratic members of this committee were silent. When the IRS illegally targeted United States citizens for exercising their First Amendment views, for exercising their roles in the political process, Democratic members of this committee were silent. When the Department of Justice refused to fairly investigate the IRS targeting citizens and indeed assigned the investigation to a liberal partisan Democrat who had given over $6,000 to President Obama and Democrats, Democrats on this committee were silent.

When numerous members of this committee called on the attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to ensure that justice was done in the IRS case, Democrats on this committee were silent. When the Department of Justice used Operation Choke Point to target legal businesses because they disagreed politically with those businesses, the Democrats on this committee were silent. When the Obama Justice Department sent millions of dollars of taxpayer money to sanctuary cities that were defying federal immigration law, the Democrats on this committee were silent. When the Obama administration refused to enforce federal immigration laws and unilaterally rewrote those laws, the Democrats on this committee were silent. When the Obama administration released tens of thousands of criminal illegal aliens, including rapists and murderers into the general population, Democrats on this committee were silent. When the Department of Justice signed off on the Obama administration paying a nearly $2 billion ransom to Iran contrary to federal law, the Democrats on this committee were silent.

When the Obama administration ignored and rewrote provision after provision of Obamacare, contrary to the text of the law, the Democrats on this committee were silent. When the Obama administration signed off on illegal recess appointments that the Supreme Court had to strike down unanimously, the Democrats on this committee were silent. And when the Obama administration released five Guantanamo terrorists without the prior notification of Congress, the Democrats on this committee were silent.

Cruz went on to take Al Franken especially to task.

I think we need more of this.  Having apparently learned nothing from the past two elections, Democrats are already doubling down on their double standards and their lies.  We need to double down on telling the truth about them.