Senators Showboat During Questioning

WASHINGTON (Jan. 10) - The Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. were supposed to be about the judge, but on Tuesday it sometimes seemed as though somebody forgot to tell the senators on the Judiciary Committee.



The lure of 50 cameras and the captive audience in the Senate Hart Office Building appeared too much of a temptation for some of Capitol Hill's windiest lions, who began by promising not to run a marathon session of questions, then did so anyway.

At one point Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, was even granted two extra minutes from the committee's chairman, Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania - drawing groans from colleagues, among them Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York.

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I am so disgusted by this I can hardly see straight. Not sure if it's LBN but there you have it.

It says plenty of nothing.

I was thrilled at the Kennedy smackdown, I thought Schumer nailed some serious stuff down yesterday...I do agree that Biden overtalked, but he made up for it today by needling the bum about CAP.

The real bullshit is coming from the GOP--they may as well go over there with massage oil and give the schmuck a backrub.

"Eh Oh El" Salon has an article up as well along the same lines.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/01/11/alito_confirmation_hearings/


Probably a little better take. It seems to be the consensus that these guys haven't built a strong enough case for a filibuster yet. I'm hoping that they do.

During BCCI - the media spin against the EXTREMELY IMPORTANT questions about what the Bush administration was hiding went unnoted while the media, instead, hammered Kerry for asking the questions. He was called "Liveshot" for exposing Bush administration complicity with the terrorist bank network.

Media challenged Kerry and questioned his reasons for investigating BCCI instead of furthering the questioning of Bush1 and his thugs who were accomodating and funding the global terror groups.