Kennedy Voted 'Biggest Windbag' at Alito Hearings

Human Events Online ^ | 11 January 2006 | Robert B. Bluey

[Aussie Dasher]

Sen. Teddy Kennedy (D.-Mass.) was voted overwhelmingly the "biggest windbag" on the Judiciary Committee in yesterday's AlitoBlog.com poll.

With 500 votes cast, Kennedy received 69.6% of the vote -- far outpacing his nearest rival, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.), who finished with 18%. Sen. Joe Biden (D.-Del.), a likely presidential candidate in 2008, had 6.4% to finish third.

The committee's ranking Democrat, Sen. Patrick Leahy (Vt.), despite his prominent role during the hearings, placed fourth with 2.4%. Sen. Dianne Feinstein had 1.9% for a fifth-place finish.

The other two Democrats, Senators Herb Kohl (Wis.) and Russ Feingold (Wis.), received no votes.

Yesterday AlitoBlog.com asked readers: "Which Democratic senator was the biggest windbag at the Judiciary Committee's round of opening statements about Judge Samuel Alito?"

[LucyJo]

It's a close call, but he gets my vote.
His ability to string sentence, after rambling sentence together with no apparent necessity to catch a breath is remarkable, but the grin is the clincher.

[BobS]

"At the bar watching I heard,...

That's the proper place to watch this. I watched only a few minutes of it after work to get the correct impression. Alito's boring them to tears and they act like caged animals.

[gov_bean_ counter]

I heard Kennedy wanted to ask Judge Ali Ito why he let OJ go free, but his staff talked him out of it.

[Chickenhawk Warmonger]

Don't forget his trusty companion, Splash!

[GOPJ]

bump

[Palladin]

Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest:

[Fudd Fan]

"Sen. Joe Biden (D.-Del.), a likely presidential candidate in 2008"

Oh now I'm gonna have nightmares.

[MensRightsActivist]

"Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest"

Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dumb, and The Big Dummy

[Palladin]

I would call them "The Three Stooges", but that would be an insult to the memory of Moe, Larry, and Curly.

[Republican Wildcat]

Yes, I heard that. That was quite a question. You just have to laugh, really.

[Holicheese]

The question should have been, " The President rapes a ho from the trailer park, shouldn't he be immune from prosecution?"

[gpapa]

Unlike Mary Jo Kopeckni

[gop_gene]

Leahy: If the President commits murder, should he be immune from prosecution?

Alito: Only if he does it on a bridge in an Oldsmobile.

God what I would'nt give to have Alito say that, just to see the look on Teddy K's face and the gasps (and maybe giggles as well) of everyone else.

[~Vor~]

"Careful- somehow I think that 69 is one of his favorite numbers....."

Actually it's 20....equaling 1 - 5th....

[Ranald S. MacKenzie]

The only part of the hearings I got to see featured our very own Lindsey Graham. He would ask Judge A. a question, the judge would begin to answer, and Graham would cut him off in mid-sentence to answer his own question.

He did this at least a dozen times. Alito has the patience of Job.

[Aussie Dasher]

Graham made a complete goose of himself today. God alone knows why.

[beyond the sea]

A bag of wind can float on water...

Ironic that you mention that.

Mary Jo died of asphyxiation rather than drowning in that '67 Olds Delta 88. So I guess she could have used a few "bags of wind". No telling how long she suffered in that car as the driver split the scene.

[Liz]

Guess who was at the Alito hearings?

[mewzilla]

...far outpacing his nearest rival, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.), who finished with 18%.

Poor Chuckie. Always the bridesmaid these days, never the bride.

[LIConFem]

Massachusetts' squishy, rum-soaked senator finally gets the accolades he so richly deserves!!

Congratulations, sterno boy!!