Mark Steyn: Flawless Roberts holding Dems scoreless

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

[Hardastarboard]

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

This has to be one of the best lines ever written about Chuck Schumer!

[Carolinamom]

Good Morning! How ya doing? Steyn's column above has had me in stitches. LOL

[Grateful One]

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

I have a vision (fantasy) of watching Janice Rogers Brown being grilled the same way, with Condi Rice sitting behind her, watching it all.

[jocon307]

"I have to vote for the Schumer description as a shifty mob accountant, myself."

Yes, that is brilliant. I would never have thought of him that way, but when I read it I realized: that's EXACTLY what he's like! Spot on!

[alnick]

I heard Rush the other day say that a dem senator had a damning memo to spring on Roberts at the hearing. Was it the amigo memo? If not, does anyone know what that was about?

[The Raven]

>>Ever since prolonged attendance at "the world's greatest deliberative body" during the Clinton impeachment trial, my general line on the U.S. Senate has been to commend the example of New Zealand: They had a Senate, and they abolished it.

Wow!! Look at all the money we'd save

[nuclady]

Steyn is absolutely priceless in this one!! Thank you, made my Sunday morning.

[sirchtruth]

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.

I've been raking my brain since that infamous Wellstone funeral as to why the dems have gone off the reservation. It's finally hit me as to why the left have invited all these loonies to the diner table.

MONEY. These wacko, socialist, communist anti-American groups give them Money. Not regular America's, but the traitorist groups. Michael Moore, George Galloway, Cindy Sheehan, Howard Dean all these complete morons cator to groups that can bring the dems big bucks!

This is why the dem party has totally abandoned reality because they can't get the average American to contribute to their delapidated causes.

[Peach]

Steyn is brilliant. And funny.

I wish he'd remembered that it was a Democrat - former KKK member Senator Byrd, who used the "n" word in an interview. Not once. But twice.

[Ole Okie]

Ever since prolonged attendance at "the world's greatest deliberative body" during the Clinton impeachment trial, my general line on the U.S. Senate has been to commend the example of New Zealand: They had a Senate, and they abolished it

Once the Constitution was amended to allow the direct election of Senators rather than appointment by the states, the usefulness of a bicameral legislature (as opposed to unicameral) has become asymptotic to zero.

But the saving grace is that each state having two senators gives states with large land areas and small populations a substantially greater voice than they otherwise would have. For whatever that's worth.

I therefore vote to retain the Senate, but with a minimum IQ requirement (80, 90, 110?), mandatory retirement age, and a total reworking of the seniority system so that newly elected Senators aren't powerless.

Steyn is great.

[dennisw]

why get Chuck Schumer to play Senator Oprah? He has the shifty air of a mob accountant...

That's a damn insult to the late great Meyer Lansky. I knew a  very old Jewish guy (lived to 96) who used to run into him on the streets of Miami Beach as Meyer walked his little dog

[Gritty]

>i>But these guys seemed to be locked into some anything-you-can-bloviate-I-can-bloviate-longer contest of their own, a nightmare reality show of Senatorial Survivor where none of 'em ever gets voted off the island.

Bullseye!!

[foreshadowed at waco]

Oh, dear. With enemies like Chuck, who needs amigos?

Reading a Mark Steyn column is such a fantastic experience...the words roll off his tongue so smoothly and they're so precisely placed...his mind is just wonderful...and he's ours.

[nicmarlo]

New York's senior senator, Chuck Schumer, began with some observations about Judge Roberts' "troubling" record on "the issue of civil rights." Ah-ha! "Many of us consider racism the nation's poison," he said sternly. And then he dropped the big one: Twenty-five years ago Roberts had inappropriately used the word "amigos" in a memo.

ping

[sweetliberty]

Schumer is irrelevant.

[nicmarlo]

He is; I wish, though, I had a different "irrelevant" senator than Schumer.....he's no amigo to NY. : )

[AnAmericanMother]

I dunno. There DOES seem to be a strong resemblance . . .

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Practice, practice, practice.

[sweetliberty]

Well, I'm not too keen on our RAT senators either.

[bert]

Does this mean that Schumer is the bastard child of Meyer Lansky?