Posted on 01/10/2006 4:14:05 AM PST by OXENinFLA
ALITO CONFIRMATION HEARINGS
Questioning Begins Today
Each of the eighteen senators on the Judiciary Cmte. will have 30 minutes to question Supreme Court nominee Samual Alito today during round one. Sen. Arlen Specter, as chairman, will begin, then they will alternate by party in order of individual seniority. Round two starts on Wednesday.
What is he talking about?
Kennedy… world class cheater.
did not hear
arrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhh.........one hand is driving me nuts
LOL! Look at him closely. The wrinkles on his forehead look like devil horns. Ironic. LOL!
In listening to Kennedy and Leahy worry about spying on Americans (i.e., "Americans" in contact with Al Queda operatives), it's obvious that they are most passionate when arguing for the rights of America's enemies.
These people really do despise our country and its sovereignty.
I think the timer was broken deliberately. It was a plot by Karl Rove to make sure Ted gets the rest of the day to try and attack Alito. The more that fool speaks the better it is for Alito!
Did the left of him just boo because he was given an extra 2 minutes?I thought I heard boo's.He told them to be quiet.
And Kennedy moves on instead of discussing it.
Kennedy is blowing hard but hardly touching Alito. He's done.
why didn't ted object when Reno sent in armed thugs to kidnap elian?
I'll dance a jig down Broadway when he croaks
Kennedy is pissing me off..
Hey, Kennedy is talking about Elian Gonzalez being kidnapped from his relatives in Miami.
Oh, no wait, it just sounded exactly like it.
Guns at the back of innocent farmers. Alito grabbed the case from the jury? Oh my goodness....
If your name is Kennedy, it will...and you run in Massachusetts.Most everyone else has that ton of blubber figured out. Teddy the Lifeguard couldn't get elected as assistant dog catcher in most jurisdictions.
i just hate this lying
we just cannot let these people EVERR have power again
Teds vodka glass is empty; he just finished it.
What is that French ditty? "Al he wet toe jaunty al he wet toe"
Ted Kennedy's Driving Record - List of Traffic Offenses
- Ted Kennedy had a record of serious traffic violations. Their nature formed a pattern of deliberate and repeated negligent operation. Particularly bothersome was a June, 1958 conviction for "reckless driving."
- On March 14, 1958, Deputy Sheriff Thomas Whitten had been on routine highway patrol outside Charlottesville, Virginia, when an Oldsmobile convertible ran a red light, sped off, then cut its tail lights to elude pursuit. A license check revealed the car belonged to Edward M. Kennedy, a 26-year-old law student attending the University of Virginia. Kennedy had previously been fined $15 for speeding in March 1957.
- Whitten was on patrol at the same intersection a week later, he testified, "And here comes the same car. And to my surprise, he did exactly the same thing. He raced through the same red light, cut his lights when he got to the corner and made the right turn." Whitten gave chase. He found the car in a driveway, apparently unoccupied. Looking inside, he discovered the driver, Teddy Kennedy, stretched out on the front seat and hiding. Whitten issued a ticket for "reckless driving; racing with an officer to avoid arrest; and operating a motor vehicle without an operator's license (Mass. registration.)"
- Kennedy's attorneys were able to win numerous postponements, but eventually he was convicted on all charges and paid a $35 fine. Court officials never filed the mandatory notice of the case in the public docket, however, and Kennedy's name had not appeared on any arrest blotter. Instead, a local reporter discovered the case when he spotted 5 warrants in Kennedy's name in a court cash drawer.
- Three weeks after his trial, Ted Kennedy was caught speeding again, and still operating without a valid license.
- In December 1959, Kennedy was stopped again for running a red light and fined $10 and costs. In Whitten's view, "That boy had a heavy foot and a mental block against the color red. He was a careless, reckless driver who didn't seem to have any regard for speed limits or traffic ordinances."
- The offenses in Virginia had occurred on Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts driver's license, but mysteriously neither the Registry of Motor Vehicles nor the office of probation in Cambridge had any record of the out-of-state convictions. Had it been revealed at the inquest, the Senator's history of negligence and reckless driving would have been further evidence to support a charge of manslaughter in the Chappaquiddick accident.
~ Senatorial Privilege by Leo Damore
- Senator Kennedy's driver's license had expired on February 22, 1969 (nearly 5 months before the accident at Chappaquiddick) and had not been renewed.
- Although driving with an expired license was only a misdemeanor, it did provide the evidence of negligence needed to prove a manslaughter charge in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.
- The license problem was "fixed" by officials at the Registry of Motor Vehicles, under the direction of Registrar Richard McLaughlin, before the legal proceedings began.
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