Bloviating Senators-Statistical Proof Senators In Love With Their Own Voices

Ankle Biting Pundits ^ | 1/11/06 | BullDogPundit

[areafiftyone]

During the John Roberts confirmation hearing it became clear that the Senators from both parties were not interested in the nominees views on matters as much as they were in love with the sound of their own voice. So we did something that was highly popular. We did a statistical analysis of the percentage of words spoken by each Senator compared with the number of words spoken by the nominee. We found that in nearly every case the Senators spoke far more than the nominees.

So, by popular demand we have done the same thing for the Alito hearings. And although your might think it impossible, the bloviating from the Senators on the Committee has gotten worse 0 and wait till you get a load of "Rosary Joe" Biden's stats (which if you can believe it were even worse than they were during the Roberts hearings).



I got the transcript of yesterday's Roberts confirmation hearings and did a count of words spoken by each Senator and John Roberts in their 30 minute Q&A sessions. Then I figured out the actual percentage of words in each exchange used by the particular Senator and those by Judge Alito. I'm listing them here, grouping the Senators by party in descending order of bloviation.

So here they are side by side, Senators percentage first, followed by Alito's percentage (w/ actual numbers of words used by the individual Senator and Judge Alito during the Q & A in parentheses)

Democrats

"Rosary Joe" Biden 78-22% (DE) (3,673 - 1,013) (a 1,879 word, and 13 minute opening "question")

Chuck Schumer (NY) 75-25% (3,555-1,165)

Ted Kennedy (MA) 69-31% (3,439-1,539)

Pat Leahy (VT) 60-40% (2,714-1,874)

Russ Feingold (WI) 56-44% (2,976-2,364)

Diane Feinstein (CA) 42-58% (1,912-2,593)

Herb Kohl (WI) 37-63% (1,835-3,094)

Republicans

Mike DeWine (OH) 82-18% (3,398-1,323)

Lindsey Graham (SC) 65-35% (3,032-1,643)

Jeff Sessions (AL) 61-39% (2,827-1,773)

John Cornyn (TX) 56-44% (3,407-1,900)

Jon Kyl (AZ) 53-47% (2,594-2,255)

Orrin Hatch (UT) 54-46% (2,686-2,242)

Chuck Grassley (IA) 51-49% (2,305-2,183)

Arlen Specter (PA) 50-50% (2,232-2,194)

[areafiftyone]

Maybe we should send them all mirrors so they can look at themselves while bloviating!

[Mr. K]

After Biden's record 11-minut long question Alito should have asked "can you repeat the question"

[YouPosting2Me]

Alito should sit and listen to his IPOD (or read the paper)and when they actually ask a question he can be nudged to respond.

[MadCharity]

Now, they should pump this stuff into Gitmo and use it as torchure. Then it really would be.