Posted on 01/11/2006 4:05:29 PM PST by george76
Let's have some fun with statistics, shall we?
In the senate judiciary committee hearings this morning, Ted Kennedy clumsily attempted to make use of a Cass Sunstein "study"...
Writing for National Review Online two days ago, Byron York pointed out in advance that, with all its caveats, qualifications, and disclaimers, Sunstein's report is useful "to prove virtually nothing."
Well, it does prove that if a bloated liberal senator gives Cass Sunstein enough money, in a very short time that scholar of unimpeachable credentials will produce a study of sufficient rigor to convince the bloated senator that what the bloated senator wants to be believe is actually true.
Kennedy didn't mention Sunstein's ample disclaimers because the ample senator doesn't care whether Sunstein's ginned up stats reveal everything, something, or nothing about what kind of justice Alito would be.
If any of the senators on the judiciary committee actually cared about using these hearings to learn something about Alito, they would spend more time listening to what the nominee might have to say, and less time self-indulgently bloviating.
Kennedy's use of Sunstein's dubious statistics inspired me to do a little number-crunching myself, to answer the pressing question:
Which senator, when measured by an objective standard, can be identified as the biggest gasbag on the judiciary committee?
BIDEN:...
I didn't even like Princeton...
I mean, I really didn't like Princeton. I was an Irish Catholic kid who thought it had not changed like you concluded it had.
I admit, one of my real dilemmas is I have two kids who went to Ivy League schools. I'm not sure my Grandfather Finnegan will ever forgive me for allowing that to happen.
But all kidding aside, I wasn't a big Princeton fan...
(Excerpt) Read more at adeimantus.blogspot.com ...
I'm glad I'm at work and can't watch this.
I only watched small pieces of it.
The DUmmies have sunk to new lows. I did not think that was possible.
They attacked Alito personally so hard with fake stories that they made his wife cry and then she left the room.
They are loosing on the law, they are losing on the facts...so all they have left is "politicas of personal destruction."
Hell, we didn't need a study to tell us that!
They need some Beano.
Best I can tell from the written reports, they're going to lose on that, too.
Of course, they know they're immune to such a tactic in return. Pat Leahy was busted for releasing classified information, Joe Biden was busted for stealing a campaign speech, and Joe Kennedy somehow was not busted for what was involuntary manslaughter, at the very least.
"I'm not only the Hair Club president, I'm also a member!"
("Huh, huh! Huh, huh! He said member!")
You missed BIDEN make the ultimate idiot of himself.
The Princeton hat thing was pathetic.
He actually did that today at the hearing?
Roger that. It was idiotic to the nth degree
He's lost it. What staffer actually went out and bought that hat for him for that stunt and thought it was a good idea?
Oh man. I guess I'm sorry I did miss that bit. Will Leahy put on a clown nose tomorrow?
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