Drudge Report has reported that Judge Samuel Alito's wife was so taken aback by the rough and sometimes humiliating treatment Alito received at the hands of Biden, Kennedy, Feingold, Schumer, etc. that she broke into tears. This was an interesting moment, potentially a watershed. I'm very interested to see how this plays out in the press the next few days/weeks/months, but as far as Spitfire's Hurricane is concerned, I can't see it being a net gain for the Democrats on the judiciary committee. Making a man's wife cry is....uh....kind of brutish and ugly, and certainly won't play well with women. Whether it is a factor during this mid-term election remains to be seen. (Mind you, we're only in January, and the elections are a long way away.) But it isn't good. At all.
Reading Eric Alterman's daily leftist rage today on MSNBC's website, I was happy to see that he agreed with my previous contention that all this Democratic bloviating from Biden, Leahy, Kennedy, Schumer was actually helping Alito, not hurting him. The libs on the Judiciary Committee are spending the lion's share of their allotted question-time on throwing haymakers at Alito, and less time listening to his answers.
It's all over but the shouting. Alito is in, barring some unforeseen unearthed dirt on the man.
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I think it's fairly apparent that Mrs. Alito crying in January will have ZERO effect on the mid term elections.
That said, you're right about him getting in. Welcome to the SCOTUS Scalito. . .
You're probably right about the long-term effect of Mrs. Alito's crying. It all depends on how much hay the right makes of it come November. However, it doesn't make Mssrs. Kennedy and Schumer look very nice.
His name is "Alito", btw.
I believe that Moses was attempting a witty contraction of "Scalia" and "Alito" ... very clever, Moses, very clever :)
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