[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.

[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

[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]

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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!

[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

[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.

[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.

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Ya know some people say that not Biden's own hair. That's a damnable lie. You pay $6,000 for something, you own it. That's what I say.