It's 4:47 and the hearings are in recess for another few minutes.
It's being reported that the Dem attack has brought Martha Alito to tears. Nice job, guys. Makes ya'll look real good. Keep it up.
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It's 4:23 though and now Sen Cornyn is showing how responsive Alito is being vis a vis Ginsburg. (Who counts these things?!! But then again, given these hearings, who wouldn't?!)
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It's 4:20 and Sen Cornyn is bringing up the erstwhile Dem witness about CAP, the nutjub Dujak. This might bite them. The GOP has dropped a witness for Alito who would have questioned his bona fides on advancing women's rights.
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It's 4:15 and Schumer is addressing--can you guess it?--CAP. He's nearly shouting so it must be an important issue.
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It's 4:13 and Sen Schumer is doing his darnedest to read every possible extreme position into a statement of 20 years ago (Alito, as a government prosecutor, presented the government's case that the constitution doesn't protect a woman's right to an abortion), but is only "succeeding" in his attempts by interrupting Alito before he can address the question. This won't stick.
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It's 4:05 and Sen Schumer gave the Lie of the DayŽ: "It doesn't matter which way you answer the question, just so you answer the question."
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It's 3:59 and Sen Schumer is beginning his nails-on-the-blackboard questioning.
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It's 3:48 and Sen Lindsey Graham is defending Delay against Abramoff charges. Oh, wait a minute, no he's attempting to help Judge Alito. Oh, I don't know. Which is it?
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It's 3:33 and hold on there! Sen Feingold just invoked the leftward drift of SCOTUS justices on capital punishment issues. Take that, right wing base! (I'm sure the phones of the rightward senators are ringing now. Yawn.)
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It's 3:30 and Sen Feingold is belaboring Alito's rulings on capital cases. Move along, nothing going on here.
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It's 2:46 and Sen Sessions is citing statics about Alito's rulings to rebut Dem criticisms that he's a xenophobe and ideological bigoted racist.
My question is: Does Judge Alito feel that this legal inquisition is tantamount to a proctological exam?
He'll soon be singing, "Moon River!" "You using the whole fist, doc?"
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It's 2:41 and Di Fi is boring me (and by his facial expressions, Alito, too). So here's a bit from the Q&A; with Rusher (him whose papers were in question earlier today).
Lopez: What was Concerned Alumni of Princeton?Rusher: CAP was exactly what its name implied: a group of alumni who were concerned over various liberal tendencies that had developed in the Princeton administration in recent years. Shelby Cullom Davis, the former ambassador to Switzerland, gave us the money that enabled us to send mailings to the alumni, etc. Naturally, the University administration wasn't happy about our existence.
Lopez: Was it racist and or sexist? Anti-gay? Ted Kennedy read a pretty bad-sounding quote from its publication today.
Rusher: CAP was none of the things Senator Kennedy is smearing it as being: anti-black, etc. Since Alito appa