[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!

[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!

[lysie]

LOL Good morning.

[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.

[chesley]

Nobody's better than Steyn. Nobody. 'cept maybe for Jonah Goldberg on a good day.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Meanwhile, despite retinues larger than the average Gulf emir, few senators seemed engaged enough by anything other than their own emoting to order their minions to rustle up some questions on judicial philosophy. 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 like the way he goes to the point – he doesn't dance lovey dovey nor does he fool around with words. Mark tells it like it is with a dose of sarcasm, humor, and a healthy dose of reality check.