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In Ted Kennedy’s bizarro world who were the presidents between Goldwater and Biden?

Is there ANY serious questioning of Judge Alito that people here can abide by, or is it all an outrage? Or is it perhaps a case whereby, just as the only proper position for women in SNCC was “prone”, according to leader Stokely Carmichael, the same also holds true for liberal Democrats in Congress?

As I suspect the latter possibility is the case, I would therefore appreciate the opportunity — as a “Democratic Party activist” (according to Buddy Larsen) — to apologize to Roger and to other Real Americans, on behalf of those Democratic Senators, and to the “special interest groups” entirely responsible for electing them to office!

Biden, he is Chirac’s man in the Senate, right?

Anyway, the US Senate has resurrected an ancient form of inquisition, the “trial by ordeal.” Alito survives, he wins judgement.

Markus: you’re right that much of the righty blogosphere has ignored the legitamate questioning in order to ridicule and lampoon the senseless bloviating and cheap shots, but there’s no denying the quantity of senseless bloviating and cheap shots.

The Senate bills itself as our nation’s greatest deliberative body. If they can’t live up to their own hype, then they need to change their motto. As it is, certain members of the judiciary committee have insulted the entire country this week. We have a right to expect more of our leaders.

Biden says, “Please, somebody stop me!”

Biden says, “Please, somebody stop me!”

That’s what I was thinking, but more along the lines of “Stop me, before I kill again.” Is that an old movie line from somewhere?

Biden seems to be like a moth inevitably drawn towards the flame. He knows it’s bad for him but he just can’t help himself. He can’t stay away. He’s crying out for someone to please blow out the damn candle before he gets singed one more time.

When he descended to becoming a prop comic act with his Princeton cap it was the surest sign that he had gone around the bend. It’s my understanding that in the world of comedy so-called “prop comics” are on the lowest rung of the respect ladder. (Maybe Roger can confirm from personal experience.) As an “art form” if it’s not considered good enough by other comics what does that say about a US senator who engages in it? At a Supreme Court hearing, no less!

He should go home to his district wearing an “I killed the judiciary committee but all I got was this lousy T-shirt” t-shirt.

When I said “personal experience” in regards to Roger I didn’t mean as a prop comic, of course (as far as I know). I just meant his direct experience of knowing people in Hollywood (including Richard Pryor, the ultimate non-prop comic).

Unless you count the F word. I liked this answer by comic Carlos Oscar:

Q. If you were a prop comic, what would your favorite prop be?

A. THE “F” WORD. THAT SEEMS TO BE THE BIGGEST PROP COMICS USE.

There’s actually even a question about blogging in the little Q&A session at Comedy Central that I lifted this from:

Carlos Oscar

The National Gallery of Art displays Honore’ Daumier’s hilarious biting Parlimentary Portraits from the French Assembly of the 19th Century. They are wonderful, masterfully done, small sculptures, perhaps eight inches. Politicos have not changed over two centuries. they are still the whorish, ugly, corrupt lot they were then. Americans miss a Daumier to roast Prince Teddy de Hyannisport, “Flannel Mouth” Joe of the Delaware Shore, the Chuckster and Steely eyed Harry. Now we don’t have to wait to see them in bronze, they are in our faces all day, every day, every hour of the day, torturing us with their inane comments, boorish personalties, outlandish behavior and supreme arrogance. At least with Daumier, there is silence, the sculptures don’t talk back, they reside in the case in all their boorish imagery.

Who said we have it better now than then.

Good, jedrury. Shall it ever be?

If Biden thinks the hearings are a waste of time, why not just skip them himself? Those who want them can still go, and perhaps with the posers skipping out we could actually get a relevant q & a session for a change.

Is there ANY serious questioning of Judge Alito that people here can abide by, or is it all an outrage?

Markus, as Gandhi-ji said about Western Civilization, I think it would be a marvelous idea.

Repeated reference to a satirical article in a single article in a magazine to which Alito subscribed 20 years ago wouldn’t be it.

It’s hard to believe Delaware is the same place that gave us Senators Roth and Williams for so many years. Biden is a stupid oaf, and Sen. Carper, who is up for reelection this year, is just as bad. You have to ask yourself how Biden and Carper can be “safe” with these people who elected Roth and Williams year after year. A strange, strange little state.

Joe Biden is the biggest wind bag ever to “grace” the US Senate. I believe that he was probably the source for the treasonous NYT wire-tapping article and that he may have been involved with the “outting” of Valerie Plame. I can only hope that the people of Delaware have sense enough to recall him from office before he does any more damage.