Mark Steyn: Flawless Roberts holding Dems scoreless

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | September 18, 2005 | Mark Steyn

[knighthawk]

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[NutCrackerBoy]

We're now told that most Dems will vote for Roberts in order to give themselves some bipartisan cred before they Bork the president's next nominee. That sounds like feeble spin to avoid getting flayed by the Moveon.org types. -Mark Steyn

Ha! Bring it on!! Let them try to prove there is some line that makes Judge John Roberts acceptable but Judge Priscilla Owen unacceptable.

Let the Dems filibuster Owen, looking like the slaves to liberal special interest that they are, and suffer the Constitutional option to get their pathetic obstruction out of the way of the business of the American people.

[Northern Yankee]

I yield to no one in my disdain for Schumer, but at that moment my heart went out to him. If I'd been president, I'd have declared his mouth a federal disaster area and allocated $200 billion so FEMA could parachute in a reconstruction team to restore his tongue to its previous level of toxicity.

Wish I had written that. Priceless, just priceless!

[GretchenM]

Thanks for beating you know who to the posting punch.

"a nightmare reality show of Senatorial Survivor where none of 'em ever gets voted off the island."

"Chuck Schumer ... has the shifty air of a mob accountant, even with every intern on his staff holding onions under his eyes."

HA HA

[Carolinamom]

I loved that visual of interns holding onions under Schumer's eyes! Love it! LOL

[xzins]

I yield to no one in my disdain for Schumer, but at that moment my heart went out to him. If I'd been president, I'd have declared his mouth a federal disaster area and allocated $200 billion so FEMA could parachute in a reconstruction team to restore his tongue to its previous level of toxicity.

Steyn line of the year nomination.

Rotflol!

[nickcarraway]

Isn't Schumer the one who calls Italians "tomatos?"

[johnboy]

although there are a lot of people in this world smarter than me, mark steyn is one of the few who does not cause me any embarrasment or feelings of inferiority on account of him being just a whole lot smarter, and a whole lot better wordsmith, than me. william f. buckley, jr. is another. maybe p.j. o'rourke, too, but i'm not sure he's smarter, but he sure is a whole lot more amusing. and robert bork, of course, i would proudly carry his water. yeah. there's probably twenty or thirty people i could name who: 1. are obviously much smarter and much better educated than me; and, 2. i don't feel bad about that. but of them all, steyn is in a class by himself.

[Bahbah]

Clueless Joe. LOL. So true...man.

[Beth528]

[Miss Marple]

I have to vote for the Schumer description as a shifty mob accountant, myself. Never has Chuckie been so well-described in so few words!

[aardvark1]

I realized as I was reading this column that Mark Steyn must have actually subjected himself to the torture of watching this kangaroo court. The things people will do to make a buck.

[lysie]

LOL Good morning.

[kittymyrib]

Not bad writing for a high-school drop out. I'm convinced that the way he became so educated and such a briliant writer is that he never went to college.

[SERKIT]

...their pants had fallen down, but they bravely stood there waggling their fingers at the nominee...

Pants around their ankles, wagging WHAT?!?! I thought maybe this was an article about Bubba's impeachment, but then I see Teddy "The Swimmer" Kennedy was involved, and figured out it was about the Robert's confirmation hearing. Never bring stupidity to an intellectual confrontation!

[Carolinamom]

Do you know whether Steyn has ever written about the farcical Senator Byrd? Steyn, unsurpassed in his ability to skewer politicians, will never run out of material.

[squirt-gun]

Interrogated by a drunk, a murderer and a cheat in Law school...?....Then by another who graduated second from the bottom of his law school...then by a mental lightweight from New Yawk...?

Gods can't we somehow get a senate we can respect?

[Tom Bombadil]

maybe Bush will nominate Marcel Marceau so the bloviators can talk over the nominee to their hearts' content...

Marceau would clean their clocks in any open debate.

I too wished that the hearings could have gone on for another 10 years. There is nothing more entertaining and enlightening than morons trying to act smart in front of a truly intelligent person.

[Northern Yankee]

Good Morning!