Wednesday, January 11, 2006

i've heard enough

After watching 20 minutes of the Senate hearings for Judge Alito (first Sen. Schumer's questions, then Sen. Cornyn's) this afternoon, I had enough. All Sen. Schumer wanted to do was completely discredit the potential justice based on his apparently superficial membership of this Concerned Alumni of Princeton group and his refusal to come down definitively on the abortion issue. And all Senator Cornyn did with his time was feed Alito softballs, like "tell us how you are different from Justice Scalia and Bork" and make comments about how Alito is obviously talented and qualified and the opposition is desperate to find fault with him. Give me a break people. Meanwhile, Alito seemed cool under pressure but a little tired. Understandably, given this is the end of day 2 of questioning.

I hope at some point the committee will get beyond their bickering and just send the nomination to the full Senate for a vote. There's nothing that I have heard that makes me think his views are much different than any of the other justices (nominated by Republicans) who survived their confirmation hearings. So let's stop grandstanding and move on, folks.

(That concludes my political commentary for the week.)

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