Alito Confirmation Hearings

You've gotta love the Senate. And you've gotta love it best when it's holding confirmation hearings. The posturing and playing to the camera by the Senators can be better entertainment than much of what Hollywood turns out. Especially when the nominees are up to the challenge.

Which Judge Samuel Alito is.

This article in today's WorldNetDaily is a case in point. It deals with Sen. Arlen Specter's questioning of Alito today.

Responding to a question by Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., Alito said he agrees "with the underlying thought that when a precedent is reaffirmed, that strengthens the precedent."

But in a reference to terminology Specter used during the confirmation hearings for Chief Justice John Roberts last year, Alito said he doesn't believe in the idea of "super-duper precedents."

"It sort of reminds me of the size of laundry detergent in the supermarket," Alito said.

Specter was contending that decisions such as the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion should be enshrined in law, because they have been reaffirmed so many times in subsequent cases.

Once upon a time, most of these Senators were able to get a law degree and even pass the bar, but it looks as though they've forgotten a whole lot of what they learned. "Super-duper precedent?" Oh, please!

Hugh Hewitt said on his radio show yesterday of Senator Joe Biden, that Biden proves the theory of relativity. The more Biden talks the longer it takes for time to pass.

And over at Hugh's blog, his post about Senator Joe Biden has this report of Hugh's joy over Biden:

I just sent Joe flowers. Really. How could I not do so? He makes my job so easy, so full of smiles. I just left Duane, my producer the message, that he needs to grab the entire Joe audio, and to prepare... outakes of all of Joe's many ahs, aaaahs, uhmms etc, but also a montage of his "puzzles," "puzzleds," and "puzzlings."

The message [to Sen. Biden] read "Thank you, thank you, thank you for being you."

Slow Joe Biden: A testament to the proposition that, truly, anyone can be a United States Senator.

Update:

Chris Malott has this inspirational post on the confirmation hearings. A must-read, if you're a Republican.