Drudge: Alito Wife Leaves Hearing in Tears After Dem Attack

Drudge Report ^ | January 11, 2006 | Drudge

[Wolfstar]

Excerpt from Bloomberg News:

Alito, a 1972 Princeton graduate, says he can't recall joining the group and that he may have supported it because it opposed the expulsion of military training on campus during the Vietnam War. He said he wasn't aware until recent weeks that two prominent alumni, former Senator Bill Bradley, a New Jersey Democrat, and Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist, had denounced the group.

If I had been involved actively in any way in the group, I'm sure that I would remember that," Alito testified.

Alito's wife, Martha, began to cry and left the hearing room as the issue came up again. She wiped a tear from one eye when South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, a supporter of the nomination, was trying to debunk suggestions that her husband shared the group's view.

Are you really a closet bigot?" Graham said.

I am not any kind of bigot, I'm not," Alito replied. "No sir, you're not," Graham said. "You seem to be a decent, honorable man."

"Graham's statement brought out some long-held emotions about how he was being characterized," said former Indiana Senator Dan Coats, who was assisting the Bush administration on Alito's nomination.

"Her emotions just caught up with her after 2 1/2 days of hearing her husband's record mischaracterized," Coats said. Alito's wife returned to the hearing room after the committee's late afternoon break.

Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito shares a moment with his wife Martha after returning from a lunch break during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2006 in Washington.

[beyond the sea]

I'm sorry I missed what sounds like the one moment of humanity through this circus.

They just showed it again on FoxNews. That means it will be on again later. Lindsay Graham (god bless him) was also almost in tears!

[tet68]

I think we should go back and open up the records on Chappaqwidick (sp?) and review those records.

I had a conversation with a friend today and told him
that if the internet had been around when Kennedy had
killed that girl, he never would have held office.

Too many smart intelligent Freepers and bloggers
would have pulled back the rug of deceit the swimmer
and his family and cohorts of the "Press" managed to use
cover up his crime.

Too many questions that were not asked at the time,
too many answers that didn't add up.
We saw what happened with Dan Rather, while it might not
have saved Maryjoe it certainly would have prevented her
murderer from becoming a Senator, and might have sent him
to jail for his crime or negligence.

[aligncare]

You go, man!

(after your eloquent post all I could say was the equivalent of a grunt...sheesh.)

[Angelas]

"I wish him an eternity of this degraded existence, this increasing decrepitude. I wish him an eternity of seeing all that he represents crumbling into dust."

I think his eternity will be very hot, literally :)

[1rudeboy]

Say, CBS Evening News' Bob Schieffer just stated that Mrs. Alito began to cry during Sen. Graham's questioning. Does anybody know when this really happened?

[Hildy]

AMEN....leave it to the libs to use this against him. They are despicable creatures...every last one.

[Hildy]

AMEN....leave it to the libs to use this against him. They are despicable creatures...every last one.

[goodnesswins]

I've wondered WHY the spouses put themselves THROUGH that, anyway.....WHY, beyond a cursory visit, are they even there? I know, I know.....could be "Stand by your man." But, sheesh....it seems it would be more a distraction than anything, although, at home, tonight, I'd love to be a fly on the Wall!

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Ted the Swimmer Kennedy has the moral authority of a blood-sucking weasel.

[mass55th]

Boy, would I like to photoshop something into her clenched fist...but it would probably be deleted by one of the moderators.

[Ohioan from Florida]

That pic reminds me of Carnac the Magnificent (Johnny Carson), only this time he hasn't got a clue.

[Lucky2]

Ted Kennedy is nothing but a bully.

No, Teddy the swimmer Kennedy is an a$$hole!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"Ted Kennedy is nothing but a bully."

Oh....Ted Kennedy is so much more than a bully.

So much more

[Thinkin' Gal]

hateful old wind bag

No windmills off the coast of the Kennedy Compound will be tolerated... they would generate stiff competition.

[Right_in_Virginia]

I just caught the clip, complete with Graham's statements...which is what Mrs. Alito was reacting to.

God bless her.

[veronica]

[pctech]

I'm sure she is and that is an admirable trait. I just can't believe the rats would sink so low as to the catalyst for her tears.

[mass55th]

LOL! A fine example of why Mark Levin calls her Diane FrankenFeinstein.

[popdonnelly]

"Just imagine what it must be like sitting there in the Senate, year after year, thinking, "I could have been President"

He coulda been a contendah before he could have been President. Don't forget, this guy finished second to Jimmy Carter.