The first day of the Alito hearings ended without a trace of anything interesting happening. NPR has a taste.
The expected gamut of “Dems express concern, Republicans are amazed at how wonderful and qualified Alito is, Alito himself is humble and credits his parents, teachers, dog, driving instructor and the guy who sold him a Blizzard at the K Street Dairy Queen.” I particularly enjoy Senator Kyl’s (R-AZ) quote that, “No judicial nomination should answer any question that is designed to reveal how the nominee would rule on any issue that could come before the court,” and then identifying it as the “Ginsburg Standard,” suggesting that the Republicans would love to ask those questions, but the sneaky smarmy DemocRats established a precedent with their beloved Comrade Ruth. Also, when he got confused on Roberts’ gender. Which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
Hopefully tomorrow will see some goat-fucking questions. I don’t want to sit through another batch of audio files without hearing Teddy Kennedy ask about goat-fucking.