Posted on 01/11/2006 2:22:19 PM PST by precedence
Edited on 01/11/2006 2:55:57 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Judge Samuel A. Alito’s wife Martha left the confirmation hearing room in tears this evening, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) apologized to the Judge’s family for the behavior of his fellow committee members during the course of the last three days.
Sen. Graham said: “Judge Alito, I am sorry that you’ve had to go through this. I am sorry that your family has had to sit here and listen to this.”
Democrats on the Judiciary Committee have attacked Judge Samuel A. Alito over his membership in Concerned Alumni of Princeton and his involvement in the Vanguard case.
One senior Republican in the hearing room said of the situation: “After three full days of attacks against her husband’s character, Mrs. Alito had enough. Democrat behavior during this hearing has not only been wrong, it’s been embarrassing. Ted Kennedy is nothing but a bully.”
Developing...
Fatso Teddy is a drunken sot, babby killing lover, and murderer.
The LSM is reporting that it was in fact Grahm that made her cry.
lolll..... Ahem. Yours was too fitting a caption.
Still is.
I've been ticked off at Graham a few times lately, but in this hearing, and with regards to judge Alito, he has been outstanding. I wished he was more consistent as a true conservative. He's got to get away from McCain's influence.
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Do I get two points for a fast save? ;)
Graham Cracker seems to act like he has the Gang of 14 in the bag for Alito. All these bloviations are nothing more than fundraising letters going out to $oro$ and he will soon be sworne in.
Pray for W and Our Troops
To my friend, George: I can see you have been following our dearest, dearest friend, Ward Churchill: Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art. That's a topic for another day!!! GO CU, Buffs!!!!
Ted Kennedy is more than just a bully, and these wimpy media people ought to get enough backbone to call him what he really is. He is a self aggrandizing person who has no life of his own, no respect among his peers, and no more purpose to his life. He is a drunken fool. He proved it today.
Makes me want to know her too---God Bless her and her family.
There is nothing remotely dignified about this hearing...it is a cross examination one might expect to hear in a courtroom where a grotesque felony is being prosecuted.
And seeing the likes of ted kennedy and leaky leahy, in particular, stand in judgement of ANYONE is flat out surreal.
The democrats are repulsive.
Excellent!!
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They also could not work out how Kennedy escaped from the car. When it was recovered from the water all the doors were locked. Three of the windows were either open or smashed in. If Kennedy, a large-framed 6 foot 2 inches tall man could manage to get out of the car, why was it impossible for Mary JO Kopechne, a slender 5 foot 2 inches tall, not do the same?
Local experts could not understand why Kennedy (and later, Markham and Gargan) could not rescue Kopechne from the car. It also surprised investigators that Kennedy did not seek help from Pierre Malm, who only lived 135 metres from the bridge. At the inquest Kennedy was unable to answer this question.
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Other questions were asked about Kennedy's decision to swim back to Edgartown. The 150 metre channel had strong currents and only the strongest of swimmers would have been able to make the journey safely. Also no one saw Kennedy arrive back at the Shiretown Inn in wet clothes. Ross Richards, who had a conversation with Kennedy the following morning at the hotel described him as casual and at ease.
Kennedy did not inform the police of the accident while he was at the hotel. Instead at 9am he joined Gargan and Markham on the ferry back to Chappaquiddick. Steve Ewing, the ferry operator, reported Kennedy in a jovial mood. It was only when Kennedy reached the island that he phoned the authorities about the accident that had taken place the previous night.
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Afterward, I headed back to Edgartown with a shopping list of questions in my head. Although I desperately wanted to go to sleep, I wanted to learn the official cause of death as well as the results of the autopsy I expected had been performed on the girl. So I went to the obvious place: the Edgartown Funeral Home.
The first question I asked was who had been called to the scene to examine the body after it had been pulled out of the car. The owner and director of the funeral home, Eugene Frieh, told me that he had been called together with Dr. Donald R. Mills, an Associate Medical Examiner for Suffolk County. Mills had examined the body at the bridge. According to Frieh, Mills estimated that Mary Jo Kopechne had been dead for approximately six hours before being pulled out of the car.
But the radio reports-if you could believe them-said that her body had been in the car at least nine hours before being brought to the surface. That left three hours of possible life to account for. I wondered if there was an air pocket in the car after it sank in the pond. I then asked Frieh about the autopsy.
"There wasn't any," Frieh said.
"No autopsy?," I asked in astonishment.
"No," Frieh answered. "They said it wasn't necessary."
"Who said it wasn't necessary?"
"Dr. Mills. He said she drowned."
"What kind of examination did he give her?"
"He checked her with his stethoscope, pushed against her chest and turned her over."
"What happened when he pushed her chest?"
"Mills said there was a lot of water in her. I didn't see much water. I saw a lot of foam around her nose and mouth." "How long did the examination take?"
"Just a few minutes."
"That's all?"
"That's all."
I was dumbstruck that an autopsy hadn't been demanded.
Where I come from, an autopsy would have been standard operating procedure. During the years I was assigned to Harlem's Twenty- fifth Precinct, the currents of the Harlem River frequently became the escort for bodies that floated up the river with other flotsam and jetsam and then got wedged up against the base of the Triborough Bridge.
When a body was pulled out of the water, the amount of fluid pouring from it governed the intensity and the time the "brains" in the detective squad spent investigating the cause of death. The less saturation of the tissues, the more intense the investigation. Ordering an autopsy would have been automatic.
As I talked to the Edgartown funeral director I also knew that the presence of foam around the nose and mouth was an indicator of oxygen starvation, not drowning.
If the radio reports issued about the time of the accident were accurate and Mills' estimate of the time of death was on target, then there was a good chance that the girl had been alive in Kennedy's car for quite awhile after his car hit the water. For public consumption, Mills was quoted as saying, "The body was rigid as a statue, the teeth were gritted, there was froth around the nose, and the hands were in a claw-like position."
During my discussion with Frieh, I noticed that he kept twisting and turning his body to point out a casket as he talked. I didn't need a road map to tell me that it was the girl's casket.
Frieh also told me that on Saturday afternoon, after the body had been placed in his custody and delivered to his funeral home, someone-Frieh couldn't remember his name-identifying himself as a Kennedy staff member said he was there to complete arrangements to fly the girl's body back home to Pennsylvania. "
Never forget.
It was at times was so ugly from the pro-quota side, students did leave the debate to puke, some cried, outside. Ugly? Being there through one of these types of "debates" with a certain "ideologic party" is ugly. Except in this event -- it's not a debate.
It's the Torquemada on one side, and Justice Alito on the other side.
Being in that room is very different from observing it all from a camera.
You can be told it's going to be rough. You can be forwarned.
Being there, is another story.
Tell me about it...those Kennedy boys...call me a conspiracy hack but I still have my doubts about Monroe..but i digress...
Its sad that his wife had to sit there and take all of that...embarrasing for the Dems in my opinion....
AND CAN I JUST SAY THAT JOSEPH BIDEN MIGHT JUST BE THE MOST CONDECENDING, ARROGRANT, A-HOLE EVERY CREATED BY OUR SPECIES!
I totally get why she started crying when she did.
Up to now her rage at those dem scumbags had been building and when Graham was so kind and understanding and apologizing she just lost it.
Maybe its a woman thing but I totally get it.
I'll second that. But, imo, Mrs. Alito just needs to try her best this week to hold it together for her husband. The democrats are on parade, and they are acting true to form. Judge Alito can be so darn proud of his replies to the lunatics sitting perched before him. I mean, can you imagine being in his chair? I give him so much credit for not having had laughing spells at the expense of these morons. All this has been is a freak show, in my opinion, with very few individuals being innocent and clean. Senator Orca of Massachusetts is an embarassment to our country. When the h$!$ are the people in his state going to vote him the heck out of there, and let him go booze himself off a pier?
Really...the last thing a nominee needs is to have to worry about the members of his cheering section sitting behind him. Hopefully, she has gotten all this out of her system, and has assured her husband a million times over that this will not happen again.
The context of the situation is unimportant. The pictures are devastating to the committee Democrats.
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