Still catching up on the thread so I might be late with this take--while I want to see Tulsi in action (no boys, not that way) before I make a judgment, part of the reason she seems so robotic is we're not used to a female politician who isn't screeching, wailing, shaking, etc. with emotion. Harriet Hageman is pretty calm, but Tulsi has very still body language, a low timbre voice, and stone faced demeanor. I don't think that's a bad thing, especially for a woman. It gives her gravitas, something extremely lacking among our politicians as a whole. The hearings have been a clown show, but they always are. I will say while Mark Kelly came off as an idiot with his Iran/Russia concern I appreciated the calm way he asked the question and let her respond.
It's another black mark on the Dems on how hard they're going after these people of color and disability. Tulsi looks more tan and the white really sets it off (I think that's on purpose to play up her ethnicity, well done), Patel is Patel, and those idiot senators not giving RFK a chance to talk when he struggles to be heard reveals another level of their hypocrisy.
The best thing that could come out of these hearings other than these three being approved is Dem voters will wake up to what their party has become--grifters, mean girls, and people who have no idea how to do their job or how the government even works.