More On The Death of Borking
Yesterday, I expressed the hope that the failure of the Ted Kennedy ‘smearing in the hearing’ strategy was imminent. Daniel Henninger seems to think it is, and he provides us with a nice summary of ‘borking’, which he actually sees beginning with Rehnquist and not Bork. Let us hope Henninger has written its epitath:
It was apparent on Tuesday that the Bork irregulars’ long march was ending at the Battle of Princeton. Ted Kennedy tilted his full 20 minutes at the Princeton windmill, producing nothing more than a laughable spat with Arlen Specter, which ended with Sen. Kennedy weirdly admitting, “I regret I haven’t been down in the gym since before Christmas.”
Late in the afternoon Lindsey Graham puckishly engaged in what for all the world sounded like a, well, filibuster, whose effect was to drive Sen. Schumer’s turn to the exact stroke of 6, when every cable network switched to news programming. Alone now on C-Span, Sen. Schumer rode the thin reed of the 1985 job résumé. Going nowhere, he told an odd mother-in-law story, which Judge Alito mistook for a question: “Senator, I think–.” Sen. Schumer cut him off: “–Just let me move on.”
After 20 years of this, it’s about time.
Yes, indeed…
Loved his observation regarding the end of the hearings, when he heard Kennedy say something like..”well, I haven’t been to the gym since before Christmas.”
What the…what gym could he possibly be referring to? A gym for women in their third trimester?
…time to make the donuts, time to make the donuts…
from an AP article:
After four days of hearings, there are “even more questions about Judge Alito’s commitment to the fairness and equality for all,” Kennedy said.
our founding fathers did not aspire to the life is fair principle. as for equality…..some are more equal than others. i don’t want to imagine for an instant what our constituition would look like today if this slug had been around some 225 years ago. wait, wait,……..something tells me that the founding fathers would not have allowed him a seat at the table.
Alito’s Justice Will Prevail
First and foremost, the need for Republicans to present a defense for the nominee comes from the inability of the hearing process to allow the nominee to effectively defend himself. The only participant not given time to present counterarguments to cha…
From today’s Borowitz Report:
“Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), who has dominated this week’s confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito with his seemingly nonstop talking, is producing dangerously high level of carbon dioxide that could pose a serious environmental threat, leading scientists said today.
While many observers have found Sen. Biden’s interminable orating tedious and wearisome, few suspected that the lawmaker was producing gases that could threaten the ecological balance of the planet.”
Read the whole story at borowitzreport.com –
peter, good link…I almost always find Borowitz quite amusing…