Senate’s Liberal Lion Defanged

Real Clear Politics ^ | January 12, 2006 | Tom Bevan

[freeangel]

Funny, how the only time spectator gets his panties in a wad is if he is being personally attacked. This had nothing to do with helping Alito.

[PogySailor]

Nobody has felt, or suffered, the weight of changes in the electoral landscape and the resulting shift in the power structure in Washington D.C. over the last twenty-five years more than Kennedy. He came to Washington in November 1962 as the brother of a sitting President and an Attorney General and as the member of a party that controlled 66 seats in the Senate and had an 83-seat majority in the House of Representatives. It was the height of both his family’s and his party’s power, and it has been more or less a downhill ride ever since.

Maybe ol'Kennedy is part of the reason for that decline. I wonder if the writer considered that?

[kingu]

The author had me until he implied that the public is more conservative these days. Close, but incorrect in the implications. It is the liberals who have moved away from what the public believes, and the conservatives who have trailed not all that far behind.

As for Kennedy; he and Howard Dean define the party at the moment, and that is a fine thing as far as I'm concerned. So long as they're trying the same antics over and over again, I can concentrate on trying to keep my own Representative in check and harassing my pair of liberal wackos in the Senate.

[Miss Marple]

Maybe. However, I think Spector has run these hearings (both Alito and Roberts) fairly and efficiently. Roberts was confirmed, and it looks like Alito will be, too.

I don't try to look into a man's heart. His actions are good enough for me.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

I think Specter was clearly annoyed. A RINO he may be, but even he could only take so much from The Swimmer.

I think Lindsey Graham said it best when he apologized.

[JohnLongIsland]

cheney should have walked in and sent both of them to the corner without milk and cookies, well in the case of hyannis orcinus without scotch and pretzels.

[Popman]

Michael McGough of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote that Kennedy was “meandering and listless” at a pre-hearing press conference designed to lay out the case against Alito

Being a lush and can do that to you.

I detest snarlin Arlen, but at least he has thin enough RINO skin to be irritated by Swimmer

[johnny7]

I caught a glimpse of 'Fatso' on C-SPAN yesterday just as they were going on one of their breaks. He was slowly leaving his seat at the table... staring straight at the camera and mumbling. He would move a foot... then glare DIRECTLY into the camera... over and over again. It was as if he had been shut-off in a bar and was deciding whether to leave or start throwing punches.

Bizarre to say the least.

[saganite]

The senate's liberal lyin' has been gumming his food for a long time now.

[leprechaun9]

I believe whale would be more fitting than a lion!

[starbase]

That was nicely written. I enjoy reading about when slime bags implode.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Rush has it right. Kennedy is the gift that keeps on giving. He is such a loud mouth toad that he must cure some of the public of his brand of left wing politics. Also, he may have been in congress a long time, but I don't think he will make it to 100 like Strom, with his lifestyle.

[armydawg1]

"Conservatives now enjoy much more media parity today as well,"

I must have really missed something......

[RightOnline]

Senate's Liberal Lyin'.......

[old and tired]

I must have really missed something......

Yup. Talk radio, Britt Hume, Neil Cavuto, John Gibson, the internet, the decline of the NY Times and the LA Times...

I'm guessing you're too young to remember when the whole country got their news from Peter Jennings or Walter Cronkite. And their whole view of the world from 60 Minute and Dateline. It's a different world. Conservatives have a voice. And an outlet for putting the MSM's godless socialist bias on display.

[Just mythoughts]

Well according to these liberals nothing is done in WDC without a lobbying effort, so who is funding these liberals.

Wonder if we can track a huge money dump in their coffers during the Alito hearings?

[normy]

It was as if he had been shut-off in a bar and was deciding whether to leave or start throwing punches.

You described this perfectly. How hilarious.

[wolfcreek]

Today, Specter's gonna tell all the Libs to STFU! Maybe some will resign in protest?

[jslade]

I think the American people should call his offices in D.C. and MA and ask to speak to Mary Jo Kopechne.