Opinion: Democrats gave Barr a really snitty time

"Snitty" fairly describes the tone of Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats during their Wednesday interrogation of Attorney General William Barr over the Mueller report. "General Barr," as some of his questioners called him, did indeed betray his upper-crust roots when he commented that the letter of complaint special counsel Robert Mueller sent him on March 27 was "a bit snitty." Snitty is the sort of mannered usage not often tossed off in the halls of Congress these days, and as a result, the AG came in for some ridicule in the press and among late-night comedians.