Appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday, Attorney General William Barr deftly deflected questions Democratic Senators had about his understanding of the Mueller investigation.  New concerns about how the attorney general has handled the report have surfaced with the revelation that Robert Mueller sent Barr two letters indicating that the AG has presented a distorted view of the report’s findings.  But during the proceedings, the Democrats were a bit flummoxed and seemed to be caught off guard by the AG’s  clever use of abstract thought and personal adaptation of the meaning of words commonly used in the English language.

In contrast to the Democratic senators who one after another became confused by Barr’s baffling explanations,  Republican senators were able to communicate with the attorney general with relative ease.  By choosing topics of discussion that had nothing to do with the Mueller report, like anything involving President Obama or Hillary Clinton, the Republicans consistently forged a common dialog with Barr.

“Democrats just don’t get it,” said one Republican senator after the hearings.  “If you want to understand a man like the attorney general, you have to talk about something he likes to talk about. You can’t go wrong if you  bring up Hillary. They need to start thinking  outside the box!.”  The senator suggested the Democrats would be better served in the future if they ask the AG about his favorite restaurants or possibly persuade him to give a critique of a  movie he recently enjoyed.

While engaged in non-answering senatorial questions, AG Barr was given to conducting lessons in sentence syntax arrangement and, as seen here, enumerating possibilities of synonyms for a particular word like “suggest”