The argument that some books are not allowed in schools is specious because we do restrict the "rights" of children.

The dimocrats don´t care what the constitution says or means. They will just pass bills for their own benefit and hope they can slip them by the supreme court.

I love Ted Cruz! He clanks when he walks!!!!

This is a perfect example of why it is useless to argue with a liberal who thinks she knows what is best for everybody. The thing to do is just vote against them and go on.

It is not often that I can say that I am actually PROUD that I voted for an elected official.

I am extremely PROUD that I voted for Ted Cruz!!!

Yes Ms. Feinstein, the American people need
exactly the same weapons the military has.
It was designed that way so when our government tries to
suppress the people, we have an equal ability to remove YOU.

Packin´ Moll Senior Senator pistol Diane: "Respect my rule" they are more equal than your rules.

Just like the drone question.....they want to justify their position but they do not want to acknowledge it or own it or even admit it.

So they go straight to: "How dare you ask me that ?!?!?!"

Just say: "Yes" and Ted will shut up.

They can´t do it.

But they can´t admit it either.

Counseling might be in order.

They can´t be happy people.

Poor little baby got her feelins hurted.

There ought to be a means by which the sane states could remove politicians elected in insane states... like California... like "Senator" Frankenstein.

He clearly rattled her - which is fine, that means whenever they speak next time her stomach will be churning. Doesn´t matter how much she explodes, the Bill of Rights had a purpose.

I highly doubt that Dianne Feinstein gives a wit about the Constitution. Democrats invest a lot of their career into finding ways around it. Go Ted.

The dems & rinos can´t handle a real man...they are sooooo used to the same ole, same ole in DC they just allow the dems to scare them into babies...where are the other repubs assisting Cruz...hiding in the closet with their pacifier....

FTA: "Finally, in response to Cruz´s question, Feinstein likens so-called assault weapons to child pornography, which she suggests is a limit to the First Amendment and can legally be banned."

>> Great, so these usurpers consider owners of contemporary sem-auto firearms to be no better than child pornographers and pedophiles.

When and where would they like the war to start?

Note the immediate emotionalist response from Feinstein. That´s where you go when you don´t have a leg to stand on. And with our vapid, shallow voters, it´s a consistent winner.

Feinstein is an old hag who needs to retire. The one who´d replace her would probably be even worse, though.

She looks like George Washington with veryyyyyy dark hair. How dare Cruz question the won´s lap dogs.....

Note that Feinstein didn´t address the material points Senator Cruz made. Clearly, knowing that he´s a recognized constitutional scholar (and the Obama sort, either, a real one) she didn´t want to there. Instead she did her indignation dance, and prattled on about how long she´s been around. Yes, Ms. Feinstein, we all know, sadly, how long you´ve been around.

Too bad he didn´t follow up and say "since you are not a 6th grader, then I am sure you know what the phrase "shall not be infringed" means, do you not?"

I´m a conservative, but Ted Cruz comes across as an ideological idiot in this exchange. If that´s the best that conservatives can do, then the Democrats will keep the Senate and may win the House. And they would deserve to.

Long overdue!!

It´s high time that someone got in this pious woman´s face and made her explain herself. For too long Dianne Feinstein has been treated like a queen. She is not worthy of the respect that has been given her.

You can see why the Texas TEA Partiers worked tirelessly for Ted Cruz against the RINO establishment candidate.

If you´re waiting for the McCain/McGrahamnesty/McRove McRINOs to put up a fight for our Constitutionally protected freedoms, you´re in for a long wait.

You do have to give Cruz credit for standing up to the dem & repub establishment in DC....they are so used to being treated like royalty they can´t handle real questions.

The harlot did not answer his question.

Notice that she did not directly answer the questions. Just remember that Mayor Feinstein is responsible for killing hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people, when she refused to establish a quarantine in SF as the AIDS virus began to spread from beyond the *bathhouses* to the rest of the world.

And yet today, March 14th (mmMMmm PI)we still do not have a definition of exactly what constitutes an assualt weapon. But by God we will ban them because I was a mayor and saw a shot of Milk.

Banning any weapons from law-abiding citizens of the United States does not ensure that violence will cease as a product of criminal and psychopathic individuals within and without our country.

Banning weapons from law-abiding citizens who have no intent to use said weapons in any fashion outside of the law is nothing more than what it is:

Marxist control of law abiding citizens and the prohibition of law abiding citizens to exercise their rights as free Americans under the Constitution.

Shut up Marxist Feinstein.

Hammer ´em Ted.

What 21 said.

#17, trolling is frowned upon on this board

she sounded a lot like Billary.

She listed her past history, at length I will add, trying to make the questioner have less merit with his question. A psychological play with the help of the idiot to her right.

The question was never answered. The Dems do an end around. Use a lot of words and
direct the question behind all of the bla,bla,bla. It could be said she has been
in office too long and has lost the integrety of the law. If it doesn´t fit her beliefs, get out of congress. It´s the people´s law!

Mr. Harvard-educated lawyer dude is doing just fine at his new job. CONGRATULATIONS, Texans! You done good!!!

#-17
Cruz merely provided an opportunity for Phynstyn to declare herself, an idiot, and more.

If you´re going to troll, don´t start out "I´m a conservative butt", "I love Rush butt", Yada yada yada. All those catch phrases mean is that you´re trolling, in someone else´s ideological pond, wearing a neon pink suit.

You cannot have a rational discussion about the US Constitution and the BOR with Feinstein. She is an absolute moron! The US Constitution does not matter to her (and ilk).

She is educated! Can´t you see that people? What is the matter with you people...she has skills!

Did you catch Little Dick Durbin, at the end, saying that any of our rights can be taken away? Thank goodness for Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul... these folks are fearless. Durbin tried to belittle Senator Cruz by saying he went to law school, the man was a judge and he knows more than the rest of the committee combined about the constitution!

Feinstein says she´s been there for 20 years. Does that mean she thinks she owns the place? Term limits ring a bell?

Is that the same Senator Feinstein who complains about the availability of "150 round clips?"

Yeah. I thought so.

P.S. She is generally considered to be the "smarter" of our two Senators.

It is indeed a sad state of affairs when Fineswine is considered the intellectual heavyweight of the two senators from CA.

I lived in the Bay Area in 1978, when both the Jonestown massacre and Moscone-Milk assassinations occurred within a two week span that tragic November. DiFi rose to prominence in the wake of that, as she demonstrated a reasoned confidence that calmed the populace. Like John McCain, her political capital has been exhausted.

Kudos to Sen. Cruz for speaking truth to power. We are witnessing a genuine changing of the guard.

When SHE felt the need to own a gun for her protection, she went and got one and a cc permit.
2nd amendment for she, but not for thee.

Regardless what congress decides, I will not give up any of my firearms without a fight. I would rather die than become a sheep.

He did NOT lecture her, he asked her a very reasonable (if not terribly well-phrased) question, or two.

Which she did not directly answer. Indirectly I guess she said, "well guns are different", which they may or may not be, but that does not address the constitutional issues.

The standard defense of the First Amendment, is that the answer to offensive speech is not less speech, but more speech. The wise should respond to the foolish and dysfunctional.

This might even be true for "child pornography," at least in the case of offensive *cartoons* depicting sexual abuse of children. Simply expose publicly, via free speech, the people who generate and distribute such garbage. Offensive misuse of media should not justify intrusions on the First Amendment.

The same with so-called "hate speech" which doesn´t directly advocate violations of rights. Answer it with freely expressed, and non-violent, hatred of the haters.

Similarly, the answer to misuse of guns by street thugs (or would-be tyrants) is not fewer guns, or smaller capacity magazines, but more availability of weapons as good as theirs. More guns, less crime (and less tyranny).

Feinstein missed the total point, and she obviously does NOT (want to) understand the Constitution...´Shall NOT be Infringed´ means just that. If anyone, like she is, tries to put a law in place that DOES Infringe on rights guaranteed in the 2nd Ammendment then is the same as Cruz points out...what other Ammendment is safe from Congressionals Illegal tampering? This is a slipery slope indeed!

The witch not only did not answer the direct question (typical Lib response) but arrogantly dissed Cruz´ question because she knows full well what she is trying to do and does not want to entertain any challenge.

Someone needs a good electoral lesson to get their head right! Don´t expect it from the airheads in Californication.

She acts like a FIRST grader, and, I would guess, is about as intelligent as a sack of rocks.

Feinstein; "I´m old. don´t question me". Me: "Who cares, Ted Cruz got you good".

#26 and #29

I´m not a troll - I´ve been posting here for years - and I´m still a conservative and I still think this makes Ted Cruz look worse, not better, and makes Feinstein look better, not worse.

Senator Ted Cruz does it again. Note the facial features and body language of the two protagonists. Cruz calm, unsmiling, with the cool, clear eyes of a seeker of wisdom and truth. Feinstein ("Please don´t call me Ma´am") in high dudgeon (love that term) for merely being challenged by this upstart, freshman, hick Texan (who probably has 93 IQ points over her).

But Diane has seen bullets that "implode" and that has to count for something.

Senator Cruz makes for a wonderful David against all those Goliaths like Hegel, Feinstein, etc., but I do wish that he had more company. One man (even with the backing of Rand Paul and Marco Rubio) cannot do it all.

Educated In the public school system and the liberal university system. And been in congress for 20 years. Those are her two qualifications she hangs her hat upon?

#´s 17/44: You may´ve been here for years, but your post at #17 marks you as a stranger in a strange land. You may take the rest of the year off.

#17, Why would you say something like that and not explain? Just sort of shoot & scoot?

All the hoo-hahing over who "needs" what weapons [tools, that is], over "what´s an ´assault weapon´," is utterly beside the point.

Four simple words, just five syllables, comprise an inviolable barrier: "shall not be infringed."

As Feinstein [among many others in the Senate and House] stands in explicit violation of her oath to support the Constitution, that is, to support and defend "shall not be infringed," she should be expelled immediately. Forfeiture of taxpayer-provided benefits also seems appropriate.

Always, always, always keep the focus and discussion on "shall not be infringed."

Always.

Notice that she never did answer the question.

She said that she´d seen firsthand people who had been shot.

The next question should have been "Were they victims of crime, or criminals shot by victims in self defense?"

(You see where I´m going with this, right?)

Ted Cruz/ Rand Paul 2016.
You guys need to shake up and spit out ALL the commies in DC. The rest of you Republicans can learn something from these two American Hero Patroits

Feinstein may be on solid ground in that Obama slipped a provision into a recent piece of "executive legislation", null and voiding Bill of Rights and the Constitution if the circumstances warrant it in his opinion. Learned about that last night. I need to get more info but it is scary to contemplate.

This is one Senator who came to Washington to represent US, which is certainly more than we can honestly say for most of them. It´s high time Republicans quit giving deference to every female Democrat. Feinstein, Pelosi, Hillary are treated like queens and they need to be held accountable ! Cruz is awesome!!!!!

Durbin embarrasses himself by stepping in. There is no justification for passing law in contravention of the Constitution.

Did you notice that Feinstein said absolutely NOTHING?? She said that she has been around a long time. Yes, we know...you are a old fossil that needs to be reburied. She said she is not a 6th grader. But she forgot to acknowledge that she uses the logic of a 6th grader. She equates certain guns with pornography--that is nothing more than fallacious logic. Why not just compare kumquats with carburetors? Makes as much sense!

#17/44:

´Evil men succeed when good men do nothing´.

Sen Cruz understands that.

The bottom line is that upholding the Second Amendment is not a matter of life and death. It´s more important than that!

Just as the SCOTUS ruled against the Constitution on the Individual Mandate, I expect it to rule against the Second Amendment and Assault Weapons (AR15 rifles).

Hence, from my porch, I can see 1775 and 1862 just over the horizon! Can you?

Kafir

What a great man and what a true Senator should be, how very rare. So competent, with just the facts, so calm. If only we had 50 like him! What has happened that a creature the likes of Feinstein could ever be elected a Senator in America?

Ted Cruz rendered a technical knock out to the poor excuse for a US Senator Feinstein. Senator Cruz please continue your clean up of the cesspool known as Mordor on the Potomac!

Feinstein revealed herself to be an old geezer(ess) with this exchange, trying to treat an accomplished man in his 40´s as a young whipper snapper. We can tell by looking that she is way past her "use by" date. She sounded rather whiny and defensive.

A senator needs to tell DiFi " it is a tragedy that a mentally ill man killed schoolchildren. If that same disgusting criminal act happened every single day it would take several thousand years for the body count to equal that of murderous and despotic governments against innocent unarmed citizens. Our founders recognized the basic human right of armed self defense. If you do not recognize this right, you are less like Washington, Jefferson, mason, and Franklin, and more like Stalin, hitler, Mao..."

I´m a little surprised we didn´t hear something like ´WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE´. Frothy emotional appeal seldom suffices! It does try to shift the focus however, and is often effective if unchecked.

Obviously, Sen. Feinstein is a racist.