Posted on 01/12/2006 8:03:37 PM PST by freedom4me
"The Democrats on the committee seemed forlorn in a way, as if they knew deep in their hearts that nobody's listening. Two decades ago they could make their speeches and fake their indignation and accuse a Robert Bork of being a racist chauvinist woman hater and their accusations would ring throughout the country. But now the media they relied on have lost their monopoly. Everyone who's fired at gets to fire back, shot for shot."
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
Now we can "bork" them back. Thank God for Free Republic and other sources.
Yeah no Borkbackmountain for them.
LOL. Good one Peggy.
Pretty obvious that the cmte Dems were just appealing for more cash from Soros and MoveOn.
Peggy Noonan can make commas into swords. Who else can lacerate her opponents backside with them?
There's several other paragraphs that I found quite entertaining....LOL...
Man oh man can that woman write.
If there's one thing Bill Clinton must wish he had done in between jerk-off sessions into the Oval Office sink, it would be to have taken Rush Limbaugh and the other conservative talk hosts off the air when he had the chance, thus strangling the alternative media in the crib. As it is now, the left wing thought Nazis have a much more difficult task ahead of them to win back their media monopoly.
Old Fat Teddy thought after what he did to bork...he could do it too Alito...LOL...he's got to be sooo depressed he's outlived his usefullness. What worked before will never never work again. Thank God for the internet and FR.
Nothing like getting a "compliment" from Noonan.
In this, in the hearings, he is unlike Ted Kennedy in that he doesn't seem driven by some obscure malice--Uh, I, uh, cannot, uh, remembuh why I hate you, Judge Alioto, but there, uh, must be a good reason and I will, um, damn well find it. When he peers over his glasses at Judge Alito he is like an old woman who's unfortunately senile and quite sure the teapot on the stove is plotting against her.
Another squish from Peg.
No, this is the best line of the whole article:
" ... In this, in the hearings, he is unlike Ted Kennedy in that he doesn't seem driven by some obscure malice--Uh, I, uh, cannot, uh, remembuh why I hate you, Judge Alioto, but there, uh, must be a good reason and I will, um, damn well find it. When he peers over his glasses at Judge Alito he is like an old woman who's unfortunately senile and quite sure the teapot on the stove is plotting against her. ..."
"In this, in the hearings, he is unlike Ted Kennedy in that he doesn't seem driven by some obscure malice--Uh, I, uh, cannot, uh, remembuh why I hate you, Judge Alioto, but there, uh, must be a good reason and I will, um, damn well find it."
Today I finally found an endearing quality about Biden.....he is reported to have said today on FOX that there is no longer any need to have hearings on the supreme court nominees. It was as if he finally conceeded to the conservatives....we have nothing decent to ask,...we have nothing decent to say....we shoot ourselves in the foot when we open our mouths. The democrats, even with the rehabilitation efforts of the MSM, were shown for what they are....mean, mean-spirited sons-a-bithes, devoid of any decency. As long as that was kept under wraps by the MSM they could continue. Now they cannot get the genie back into the bottle....they are bumfuzzled as to what to do. They will not consider being decent, God-fearing centrist. That is as alien to them as the far side of the moon. So Biden, today, seemed to shrug his shoulders and "give up". What a glorious conclusion Mr. Biden has arrived at. The democrat, in his vanity, realizes he is irrelevent.
"Old Fat Teddy thought after what he did to bork...he could do it too Alito...LOL...he's got to be sooo depressed he's outlived his usefullness. What worked before will never never work again. Thank God for the internet and FR."
Amen.
How rude was it for the Dems to leave the hearing room when the distinguished panel of judges came to testify on behalf of Judge Alito.
Rude, arrogant, self-absorbed, brats. If I were their teacher (I teach junior high), I would put each one in the corner with a dunce hat.
However, the good thing is that liberalism was on display for all to see this week. They, like the Wizard of Oz, have had the drape pulled back and, oh, how weak they are.
The genie out of the bottle is an apt description. Bringing up that CAP membership was unbelievable. Do they think anyone with half a brain is really going to care about a goofy organization that Alito belonged to almost 30 years ago? Also, Schumer constantly referring to Alito as an extremist. This was such a bad miscalculation by the Democrats. I bet they are laying awake at night right now thinking "how could we have been so stupid?" Then again, they are Democrats and likely incapable of that kind of introspection.
They didn't all leave...several stayed...but oh how rude those slimy basturds all are.
Those judges testifying for Sam Alito were so very impressive. They all knew how mean and nasty those liberal goons had gotten...so they all made a wonderful decision to support their friend and stick it in all those dumbos faces. LOL
Time for old Teddy to take a stroll in Fort Marcy Park?
I wonder what Peggy's doing in 2008...
Agreed!
LMAO!:)
". . .it is good, it is helpful, to let each senator reveal himself through his own words. I think senators feel that their words, when strung together, become little bridges. I think the White House feels that their words, when strung together, become little nooses."
Why I love Peggy.
Let's just hope the days of GOP Senators voting overwhelmingly to confirm commies like Ginsburg are long gone. .....although I'm skeptical.
BUMP!
Yesterday I remarked that Biden reminds me of a cheap used-car salesman. But I like lounge lizard better.
When 86 year old Judge Aldisert, who had been a friend and supporter of both John and Bobby Kennedy, praised Alito to the skies, calling him one of the top judges he had ever known, the Chappaquidick Kid stared straight ahead expressionless, and then shortly after left the room.
I wouldn't count on it. They're trying to stop conservatives from stepping up to the plate and go through this mess. What the rats don't understand is just how really tough conservatives are due to their strong convictions.
In this, in the hearings, he is unlike Ted Kennedy in that he doesn't seem driven by some obscure malice--Uh, I, uh, cannot, uh, remembuh why I hate you, Judge Alioto, but there, uh, must be a good reason and I will, um, damn well find it. When he peers over his glasses at Judge Alito he is like an old woman who's unfortunately senile and quite sure the teapot on the stove is plotting against her. Mr. Biden is also unlike Chuck Schumer in that he doesn't ask questions with an air of, With this one I'm going to trap you and leave you flailing like a bug in a bug zapper--we're going to hear your last little crackling buzz any minute now!
Gad! Peggy, you hit a homerun!
I do like this one:
When Mr. Biden says things like, "Try to follow me, Judge Alito," as he goes on one of his long, sterile journeys, I wonder if Judge Alito has to control himself with an act of will. I wonder if he has an inner Regis Philbin, and wants to throw out his arms and say, "Follow you? If I follow you, we'll both wind up lost!" When Mr. Biden says, "Now this is a somewhat subtle point," I wonder if Judge Alito wants to say, "Joe, if it were a subtle point you wouldn't be making it!"
I like this one too:
I think senators feel that their words, when strung together, become little bridges. I think the White House feels that their words, when strung together, become little nooses.
This nomination ritual has become a farce. It is nothing more than a hazing these poor nominees have to endure that is fathoms below the dignity these emminent men of law deserve to be treated with. It has to be excruciating torture to sit and listen, stonefaced, to these blowhards and pretend that they are worthy of your time and attention. Excruciating. I would cave. No way could I sit there, respectfully pretending I cared about anything those Dims had to say. Regis? How about McEnroe? "YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS?"
"I bet they are laying awake at night right now thinking "how could we have been so stupid?" Then again, they are Democrats and likely incapable of that kind of introspection."
I agree with you but as I listened to Finegold, Leahy and Feinstein, I got the impression that they were thinking, "we're not going to lay a glove on this guy, but while he's here, let us ask him questions that will help us develop our case to impeach President Bush. After all, we don't have to pay him while he's here".
Branding someone "extremist" - classic, textbook stuff ain't it? The problem with rhetoric, for best results one has to have the monopoly on discussion and debate, define, redefine, undefine, the terms and so on. A mite bit tougher these days!
Be Sure to note that while the honorable Senators *say* they want "someone with mainstream views", on point they want nothing of the kind. What, exactly, are "mainstream views" anyway? It sounds so democratic! Majority rules! Mom, Dad, Apple Pie, and Chevrolet, hoo-rah.
OK, I got it. The views the people actually hold at any given time are thus presumably always and inherently "good".. Oh wait... never mind...
As most should discern, what they really mean is that some opinions/beliefs/etc, by their very nature, are inherently correct and so therefore by re-definition are thusly "mainstream", or by golly oughtta be, regardless of how many people actually agree.
Why can't nominees ask a few questions to the panel, I've got a couple myself.
Presumably one defines "mainstream values" on balance as those values generally held by the citizenry; rather what elitists in the rarified atmosphere of academia *say* people hold, or should hold. Where it gets tricky - The latter is more likely, for a leftist it's more elegant to just define their general onward and upward agenda as "progressive" and "mainstream". I'm not buying. "Either believe as I do, or you are an extremist".
Nah. He'll just break out another bottle of Chivas to dull the pain. He'll be fine.
I said almost the same thing, without having read your post first!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1557156/posts?page=22#22
I wonder if it will be a national holiday when old Ted finally croaks? Probably not, but maybe it will be on the 4th of July.
I agree with ms noonan on a lot of the article except for the part of biden having spirit. It's not spirit. It's showboating and nothing less.
PS: I had to look up the word PRESAGE as I had never heard it before. It's a GOOD word. :) Check it out!!!
I remember when the democrats just had to get the ball into the air and the MSM would handle the rest for a touchdown. Now-a-days, the democrats are getting sacked repeatedly because the MSM is so bogged down with the alternative media that they can't protect the quarterback any more.
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Nice writing, Peggy, but waaay too nice.
Biden is a bum, pure and simple. Oh ......... and if Biden is like the uncle after a drink, what's Chappaquiddick Fats?
That was great alright. How about this one:
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"The great thing about Joe Biden during the Alito hearings ............... that he is incapable of staying on the river of a thought, and is constantly lured down tributaries from which he can never quite work his way back--you can see him batting the little paddles of his mind against the weeds, trying desperately to return to the river but not remembering where it is, or where it was going."
LOL
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This was Peggy's best work in a long time. I like Peggy a lot, but she's been out to lunch lately.
Yes......... I loved that phrase (sentence)
Peggy is a very fine word smith, but of late she's been a little lacking. Not with this article.
;-)
Michelle Malkin. My other 'pen is mightier than the sword' writer.
When the Judge said he had heard Hatch's first case and that he had won it, Leahy laughed and said, "You won one?". Considering the moment, Leahy came off like a son of a B*****H. There was a palpable feeling of uneasiness in the air until the judge continued.
bump for later
Priceless!
It may be difficult for the Democrats and Rinos to shut down the alternative media - but they have a plan and they will renentlessly seek to enact it as soon as they get power again.
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