Posted on 01/12/2006 12:47:15 PM PST by pabianice
It seems as if it was only this afternoon--because it was only this afternoon--that conservative bloggers were flopping all over each other to express their boredom with the windbag monotony of the Alito hearings, trying to outdo each other with yawns, snores, and zzzzzzzzzz's.
Then Mrs. Alito suffered a case of the weepies that was so dramatically well-timed and patently maudlin that I was reminded of the classic stage direction in Private Eye (takes out onion, wipes away tear), and suddenly the proceedings turned into a soap opera with Fox News commentators arriving on cue to deplore the toll taken on innocent bystanders in these brutal proceedings. From their sympathetic clucks and disapproving tones you would have thought Alito had been subjected to a Stalinist show trial presided over by Randi Rhodes in a bad mood rather than honey-tongued Lindsey Graham asking Alito with tender solicitude, "Are you a bigot?" The hypocritical highpoint came when Newt Gingrich, who during his reign as Speaker of the House did more than any political leader in recent memory to dump raw sewage into the political discourse, had the gall to invoke Joseph Welch's famous rhetorical throwdown of moral umbrage during the McCarthy hearings--"At long last, sir, have you no decency?"--to showboat his phony disgust over this trivial episode of upset feelings.
Yes, so heartsick were conservatives over this lady in distress that they immediately hurrahed Mrs. Alito's walkout as the humanizing moment that would win the public's sympathy vote and put Judge Alito's candidacy over the top and assure him a seat on the Court. If Alito is confirmed, Mrs. Alito and Judge Clarence Thomas's wife can commisserate by exchanging monogrammed crying towels as their men folk roll back women's rights and civil liberties and go duck hunting weekends with Scalia.
Bump.
You are being far to forgiving to a sniveling gutter rat like wolcott...
I think most of us have never underestimated the Left.
Muleteam1
What's wrong with duck hunting????
Oh yeah, it involves guns.....
Bump for later.
My letter to Mr. Wolcott-
Mr. Wolcott,
Boo Hoo! You guys on the left lose...again! If anyone needs a tissue it sounds like you and your fellow Communists do! You've lost the House, Senate, White House and now the Supreme Court. It's over! Slam Dunk! Keep your chin up though as you only have 3 more years before everyone's favorite Marxist, Hillary!, gets her shot at the title! It's gonna be fun watching you guys at Vanity Fair go through the Kleenex when she gets sent packing back to Chappaqua! Other than that I hope that you have a nice day!
Xanadu2112
That's the first mistake. Leftists get more loathsome by the hour..
Yeah I hear ya..
It was BRILLIANT simply BRILLIANT.. go girl.. what a wife..
What a spouse, what a partner. Denny Crane could have done no better..
Alito's Ace in the hole.. totally exposed the democrats.. PUBLICALLY..
If Biden, Kennedy and gang would skip their opening speeches, they could ask about 3 times as many questions as they were able to get around to. They weren't interested in investigating Alito - they just wanted to insult him for their campaign contributors.
And it involves killing something other than unborn children.
I guess Wolcott's memory doesn't extend far enough to recall President Clinton blaming the Kansas City terorrist bombing on conservatives.
Oops make that Oklahoma City. But the point stands.
What a dolt. Today, Rush said something to the effect that liberals are intellectually bankrupt. This certainly substantiates that.
"loser" is good, also how about 'miserable failures'.
It's because they have become so jaded, so perverted, so soul dead..That the only reason they can think of for such a display of emotion, is that it is an act..the only reason *they* have for such a public act.
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