Posted on 01/11/2006 5:01:17 AM PST by OXENinFLA
Day 3: Questioning Continues
This morning, Round 1 concludes with Senators on the Judiciary Cmte. who did not question nominee Alito yesterday. During Round 2, questioning is limited to 20 minutes for each of the eight- een senators. Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) leads off, followed by the others, alternating by party in order of seniority.
WEDS., 9:30AM ET, C-SPAN
this jackass has had a few months to search for dirt and now he has to pull this garbage??
What did I miss? Russert doesn't have it? Hard to keep up sometimes.
"No way Arlen grants him a subpoena now, and the committee will vote to uphold the chair.."
On a party line vote. And the dims will not be able to vote in favor of Judge Alito due to lack of important information.
Kennedy's Attack on Privacy
[Ed Whelan 01/11 01:09 PM]
With no plausible factual basis bearing any connection to the hearing, Senator Kennedy wants the Judiciary Committee to issue a subpoena for the private papers of William Rusher. Although those papers are currently in the custody of the Library of Congress, they remain Rusher's papers. There is zero chance that Specter will let Kennedy pursue his silly game, but it's telling that Kennedy is so eager to invade a private citizen's right of privacy in his private papers in his attack on Alito.
Kennedy Round 2
[Ed Whelan 01/11 12:47 PM]
Kennedy returns to Vanguard! His silly focus on this trivial issue starkly shows that the Dems have no ammunition. Kennedy somehow doesn't understand Alito's clear explanation. Silly badgering about length of "initial service" (term in Senate questionnaire), even though Alito has made clear that his recusal decisions did not turn on this phrase.
Now on to Concerned Alumni of Princeton! Turns to CAP magazine, called Prospect, and tries to tie Alito to some article someone else wrote at a time that Alito evidently wasn't a member. Asks whether Alito read article. Alito says that he can't imagine he did. Kennedy asks about another article. Same. Kennedy asks whether Alito was aware back then of Bill Bradley's resignation from CAP in early 1970s. No. And so on. Alito explains that the Princeton that some in CAP said used to be was a Princeton that wouldn't have had him and that he wouldn't have identified with. Reiterates concern over ROTC and military.
Kennedy says that ROTC was a dead issue by 1985. Evidently he wasn't listening to Alito's exchange with Durbin. Alito recalls aspects of ROTC as continuing source of controversy.
Kennedy: Explanations about radical group are extremely troubling. Tries to raise issue over access to William Rusher's papers at Library of Congress. Wants vote on subpoena. What a ridiculous diversionary tactic.
Exchange between Specter and Kennedy gets testy. Specter says he never received previous letter from Kennedy. Good job, Teddy, entrenching Specter's already strong support for Alito!
Specter: I'm not concerned about your threats. (Good to have someone stand up to Kennedy's bullying.)
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Can he remember Mary Jo?
oh listen...........teddy talking about somebody not rembering sometging,,,,,,,,lol
What time will the Jerry Springer show resume?
CNN does, TomGuy was relating a funny comment back to Tim Russert and his elusive interest in Valerie Plame.
Listening to Judge Napolitano this morning the GOP SHOULD call him... he sat on the board and says he doesn't remember Alito participating and that he probably only subscribed to the magazine.
As Rush mentioned this morning, Teddy was also expelled from Harvard for cheating. He has some nerve setting himself up as the arbiter of what's morally right.
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maybe he said rusher?
OMG Shamu is saying now the committee is trying to hide something. Give me a freaking break! Alito said he is more than welcome to have the papers!! What the hell is there to hide!
He probably went to whine to his willing accomplices in the Media Wing of the Democratic Party...and THAT is what will make the news tonight.
It appears to be their "Anita Hill" of the double 0 decade.
(Did we ever decide what to call this decade? LOL
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