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Senate windbags fail to land a blow on court nominee
The London Telegraph ^ | January 15, 2006 | Philip Sherwell

Posted on 01/14/2006 10:41:28 PM PST by Clintonfatigued

Instead, they turned the sessions into a festival of long-winded bluster, from which President George W Bush's nominee emerged unscathed and almost certain to be confirmed to the Supreme Court bench.

A breakdown of the hearing transcripts provides indisputable evidence, if the American public ever needed it, that their Senators are much more interested in hearing their own voices than in listening to answers.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 109th; alito; alitohearings; confirmaitonhearing; windbags

1 posted on 01/14/2006 10:41:29 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
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To: wagglebee; LdSentinal; RWR8189; neverdem; Soul Seeker; Salvation; ambrose; ...

The Democrats looked like fools overseas, too.

I admit it, I'm gloating.


2 posted on 01/14/2006 10:43:41 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (Sam Alito Deserves To Be Confirmed)
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To: Clintonfatigued
The worst offender was Joe Biden, a veteran Democrat who harbours presidential aspirations for 2008. Tellingly, he was forced to pull out of the 1988 race after admitting he had borrowed passages from the speeches of Neil Kinnock, the then Labour leader nicknamed "the Welsh windbag".

So that would make Biden the "Wilmington Windbag" in '08?

3 posted on 01/14/2006 10:44:36 PM PST by No Longer Free State (No event has just one cause, no person has just one motive, no action has just the intended effect)
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To: No Longer Free State
So that would make Biden the "Wilmington Windbag" in '08?

Hilarious!
4 posted on 01/14/2006 10:46:45 PM PST by There You Go Again
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To: No Longer Free State; Kuksool; Keith in Iowa

Good one. Even the liberal grass roots are amazed at what a poor job their Senate minions did.

Speaking for myself, I never Alito's confirmation hearing to go so well.


5 posted on 01/14/2006 10:47:44 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (Sam Alito Deserves To Be Confirmed)
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To: Clintonfatigued
I've said it before and I will say it again. The Dims don't know HOW to be the Minority party. They held sway so long they don't know what it means to be insignificant.

The more they do this, the more they will continue down that path of insignificance.

Anyone with a pulse who watched the process would have wanted to just punch the daylights out of the Dims and the way they treated Alito, not to mention what his wife felt at the time

6 posted on 01/14/2006 10:48:23 PM PST by Pistolshot (Condi 2008.<------added January 2004. Remember you heard it here first)
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To: Clintonfatigued
The Democrat Senatorial mascot is....Foghorn Leghorn.
7 posted on 01/14/2006 10:49:01 PM PST by Apercu ("Res ipsa loquitur")
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To: No Longer Free State; Clintonfatigued

ChiaJoe BinBiden,bilious enema bag '08

kinda has a ring [dirty ring]


8 posted on 01/14/2006 10:50:27 PM PST by Dad yer funny
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To: Pistolshot; Paleo Conservative

"They held sway so long they don't know what it means to be insignificant."

You have that so right.


9 posted on 01/14/2006 10:56:20 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (Sam Alito Deserves To Be Confirmed)
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To: Pistolshot; Clintonfatigued; VeniVidiVici; Dave S
Anyone with a pulse who watched the process would have wanted to just punch the daylights out of the Dims and the way they treated Alito, not to mention what his wife felt at the time

Two hundred years ago they would have been challenged to duels for that kind of treatment.

10 posted on 01/14/2006 11:30:35 PM PST by Paleo Conservative (Happy New Year!)
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To: Apercu
The Democrat Senatorial mascot is....Foghorn Leghorn.


11 posted on 01/14/2006 11:57:20 PM PST by adamsjas
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To: Clintonfatigued
In his allotted 30 minutes to quiz Judge Alito, Mr Biden asked just five questions and spoke 3,739 words, leaving the nominee time to respond with just 1,021.

Next place in the verbosity stakes went to Chuck Schumer, who uttered 3,471 words to the nominee's 1,166. Among a cluster of senators vying for third place was Ted Kennedy, who allowed the judge to speak 1,557 words to his own 3,282. I guess someone had to count them which reminds me of a song from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."

read the news today oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
I'd love to turn you on

12 posted on 01/15/2006 1:32:00 AM PST by Paleo Conservative (Happy New Year!)
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To: Clintonfatigued
In his allotted 30 minutes to quiz Judge Alito, Mr Biden asked just five questions and spoke 3,739 words, leaving the nominee time to respond with just 1,021.

Next place in the verbosity stakes went to Chuck Schumer, who uttered 3,471 words to the nominee's 1,166. Among a cluster of senators vying for third place was Ted Kennedy, who allowed the judge to speak 1,557 words to his own 3,282.

I guess someone had to count them which reminds me of a song from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."

read the news today oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
I'd love to turn you on

13 posted on 01/15/2006 1:32:16 AM PST by Paleo Conservative (Happy New Year!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Open ridicule, worldwide!!! This is a moment to savor...


14 posted on 01/15/2006 2:49:34 AM PST by AmericaUnited
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To: No Longer Free State

Senator Joe "Wilmington Windbag" Biden.

Priceless ;D!


15 posted on 01/15/2006 3:46:35 AM PST by poobear (Imagine a world of liberal silence!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Wow...the British Press turning on the Dem/Libs...this is HUGH!


16 posted on 01/15/2006 5:03:24 AM PST by Solamente
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To: Paleo Conservative

This Sargent Pepper sounds like a great poet, has he done anything else?


17 posted on 01/15/2006 5:27:29 AM PST by Mark was here (How can they be called "Homeless" if their home is a field?.)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Blackburn, Lancashire- huh. Thank you for ending thirty years of Me not knowing the lyrics.


18 posted on 01/15/2006 6:07:12 AM PST by CalvaryJohn (What is keeping that damned asteroid?)
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To: Solamente

It's not only hugh! It's SERIES!


19 posted on 01/15/2006 7:11:05 AM PST by Antoninus II
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