Thursday, January 12, 2006
The Biggest Blow?
A volcano erupted in Alaska yesterday. Normally that would be the biggest eruption of any day. But apparently Senator Ted Kennedy, behaving like what Michelle Malkin calls a "Category 5 windbag" managed a larger one. Hugh Hewitt thinks Kennedy and his compatriots have gone "Thelma and Louise" and links to Volokh making a McCarthy comparison, perhaps the first such appropriate comparison in decades. Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment. (Salute to BOTWT)
But it's Drudge that best describes the eruptions and its devastation.
That dear public is a hearing too far. So much for the world's greatest deliberative body. Drudge reports that Lindsey Graham apologized to Alito's family but that's the wrong person. Kennedy has violated every reasonable rule of decorum in reducing a nominee's wife to tears. The word "gentleman" has left the building.
They are no longer wrong, they are no longer misguided, they are no longer anything but mean - poor losers.
When I was a senior in high school we were undefeated in football. We were really good. At one point we went up against a team that frankly just wasn't in the stadium with us. That happened several times in the season actually. We worked hard to keep from embarassing our opponents, and anybody on our team that taunted or otherwise verbalized in an unsportsmanlike fashion not only found the bench - coach did not even let them dress the next week.
But one opposing team, well, they didn't get it. They responding to their frustration by playing dirty, resulting in a couple of injuries. One of their players was ejected. I happened to be nearby on the sidelines when he was escorted out of the stadium. He spit on me. Coach grabbed me in case I "reacted," but it wasn't necessary, the guy was pathetic. I haven't thought about that in years, not until I watched Ted Kennedy do the rhetorical equivalent in a committee of the Senate of the United States.
Too bad Kennedy cannot be ejected.
But it's Drudge that best describes the eruptions and its devastation.
Judge Samuel A. Alito's wife Martha left the confirmation hearing room in tears this evening, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.Hugh Hewitt interviewed a confirming attendee at the hearings on his radio show yesterday, who said the breakdown happened when Mrs. Alito was struck by the contrast when a Republican Senator actually complimented the nominee. Michelle Malkin has the pictures.
That dear public is a hearing too far. So much for the world's greatest deliberative body. Drudge reports that Lindsey Graham apologized to Alito's family but that's the wrong person. Kennedy has violated every reasonable rule of decorum in reducing a nominee's wife to tears. The word "gentleman" has left the building.
They are no longer wrong, they are no longer misguided, they are no longer anything but mean - poor losers.
When I was a senior in high school we were undefeated in football. We were really good. At one point we went up against a team that frankly just wasn't in the stadium with us. That happened several times in the season actually. We worked hard to keep from embarassing our opponents, and anybody on our team that taunted or otherwise verbalized in an unsportsmanlike fashion not only found the bench - coach did not even let them dress the next week.
But one opposing team, well, they didn't get it. They responding to their frustration by playing dirty, resulting in a couple of injuries. One of their players was ejected. I happened to be nearby on the sidelines when he was escorted out of the stadium. He spit on me. Coach grabbed me in case I "reacted," but it wasn't necessary, the guy was pathetic. I haven't thought about that in years, not until I watched Ted Kennedy do the rhetorical equivalent in a committee of the Senate of the United States.
Too bad Kennedy cannot be ejected.
