The Crying Game (Leftists jump the shark)

Jameswalcottcom ^ | 1/12/06 | Wolcott

[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.

[J.Birch]

There is no soul left in the Democrat body.

[yer gonna put yer eye out]

"Keep your chin up though as you only have 3 more years..."

Did you mean to say, "keep your three chins up?"

[Clemenza]

Let's not forget Alec Baldwin calling for us to stone Henry Hyde to death.

[Ditter]

You are good! LOL

[SuziQ]

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.

Oh man, I LOVE the smell of schadenfreude in the morning!

[El Gato]

They jumped the shark when they let Teddy the Hut become their chief spokesman. This is just part of their decline. Although the decline does seem to be accelerating. Sort of like jumping from an aircraft, and suddenly finding you are in a vacuum, and still accelerating rather than reaching terminal velocity. :)

[El Gato]

It WAS a Stalinist show trial and if the 'Rats had their way, they would not only not confirm Judge Alito, they would have him hauled out and shot.

Someone needs to remind them that us nasty old Rednecks, regardless of the color of our skin, are the ones with the guns and the knowledge of how to use them.

[CFC__VRWC]

The really ought to stick to canonizing Joe Wilson and his wife Mrs. Secret Agent Man. At least then we could get a few laughs.