Dems in the hot seat for skipping crucial hearing on radical group hiding in US: 'Embarrassment' Democratic lawmakers were missing during Wednesday's Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing, skipping a hearing on the Muslim Brotherhood’s alleged network inside the United States and drawing a blistering rebuke from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. "You may notice that there are empty chairs on the Democrat side of the dais," Cruz said as he opened the hearing by pointing out every Democratic member of the subcommittee refused to attend. "The American people should ask themselves why not a single member of the minority decided that a hearing on terrorism was worth their time? It is an embarrassment." Cr
uz tied the Democrats’ boycott to Abdul El-Sayed’s primary victory, arguing the timing helped explain why no Democratic members attended. Cruz accused the party of embracing a candidate who had campaigned alongside left-wing streamer Hasan Piker. Cruz cited Piker’s past statement that "America deserved 9/11" and asked the witnesses what El-Sayed’s rise said about the direction of the Democratic Party. HASAN PIKER UNLOADS ON 'ISLAMOPHOBIC PIECES OF S---' DEMOCRATS AS EL-SAYED FACES PARTY UNITY TEST "Abdul El-Sayed, the son-in-law of a leading member of several Brotherhood groups, won Michigan’s Democrat primary for U.S. Senate. Perfect timing for this hearing. Probably explains why no Democra
ts are here, and none intend to attend," Cruz said. "Because their campaign is now openly embracing terrorist organizations waging war on America." The five Democratic members of the subcommittee — senators Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, Alex Padilla of California and Peter Welch of Vermont — announced beforehand that they would not attend. In a joint statement, the senators accused Cruz of staging a "political creepshow" that scapegoated Muslim Americans. "Scapegoating Muslims may be a Texas Republican strategist’s idea of ‘solid gold’ to whip up their voters, but Democrats have no intention of indulging this political creepsho