I’d settle for one, but there aren’t any.
So Dio, from this I assume that if Hillary steps onto the national stage as a candidate in a few years time, playing a spotlight on her husband’s lies, affairs and womanizing and wondering what sort of a woman would take a man like that back is A-OK? Or will you be screaming that those things are irrelevant to Hillary as a candidate if that comes to pass?
And I have never said that I think your a fucking boring asshat, but that doesn’t make it any less true. 
Graham wasn’t asking the question seriously, he was lobbing an exaggerated softball so that Alito could knock it out of the park. It wasn’t a question which legitimately sought information. It was a question designed for Aliti to be able to deny being a bigot without having to discuss his possible association with CAP.
Of course they’re irrelevant but how would that be inconsistent with my thinking that Alito’s crying wife is irrelevant to his confirmation?
I guess I think Graham deserves the pitting more that Mrs. Alito, for dishonestly portraying the line of questioning by the Democrats. No Democrats called him a bigot, they were exposing Alito as someone who would claim an association with a known right-wing group to get a job in the Reagan administration.
Maybe there are, maybe there aren’t.
I don’t know.
I do know what any rational person can extrapolate from your body of work, though ;).
I bet you’d find it difficult to find a Pat Robertson quote in which he says, “I hate homosexuals” but I don’t think anyone doubts the matter.
So pit the republicans that are trying to make hay out of this. Hell, I’ll add in the Today Show for making such a big deal out of this, (though it was just adorable when Katie Couric tried to get all tough on a democratic senator :rolleyes:.
There’s no reason to go calling the wife a cow.
He’s said a lot worse than that.
I wouldn’t call it A-OK, but it’s bound to happen. Politics is a dirty business, and smear campaigns are nothing new. If you’re not prepared to hear some people call you everything including “murderer,” you don’t belong running for office.
It’s been speculated for some time that these particular confirmation hearings were going to be ugly. Why on earth would Alito have his family members there? Is that SOP? And if it’s not, what genius came up with the idea that the committee members opposed would throw softballs just because the man’s wife and mother in law were there?
Apparently none of you watched the rest of the hearings. It turned absolutely awful. Martha Ann Bomgardner lost it again and had to calmed by the same people questioning her husband.
The official transcript hasn’t been released yet but through my job I have an RSS of the transcript before it’s made public.
SENATE FLOOR, 12 JAN 2006
ALITO CONFIRMATION HEARINGS FOR THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
CHARLES SCHUMER, D-NY
While the process is not yet over … the evidence before us makes it very hard for us to vote yes on your nomination. I just have to tell you that I remain very troubled, not by anything in your personal history, so much as by your judicial views…
MARTHA ANN BOMGARDNER
Let him go! Let him go! I’ll blow your fuckin’ head off! I’ll kill ya! I’ll kill ya! You’re gonna die, you’re gonna fuckin’ die bad!
ROBERT BYRD, D-WV
Tell that bitch to be cool! Say, bitch be cool! Say, bitch be cool!
JUDGE SAMUEL ALITO
Chill out, honey!
MARTHA ANN BOMGARDNER
Let him go!
DIANNE FEINSTEIN, D-CA
(softly)
Tell her it’s gonna be okay.
JUDGE SAMUEL ALITO
I’m gonna be okay.
JOSEPH R. BIDEN, D-DE
Promise her.
JUDGE SAMUEL ALITO
I promise.
ARLEN SPECTOR, R-PA
Tell her to chill.
JUDGE SAMUEL ALITO
Just chill out.
CHARLES SCHUMER, D-NY
What’s her name?
JUDGE SAMUEL ALITO
Martha Ann.
ROBERT BYRD, D-WV
So, we cool Martha Ann? We ain’t gonna do anything stupid, are we?
MARTHA ANN BOMGARDNER
(crying)
Don’t you hurt him.
TED KENNEDY, D-MA
Nobody’s gonna hurt anybody. We’re gonna be like three Fonzies. And what’s Fonzie like?
(No Answer)
TED KENNEDY, D-MA
C’mon Yolanda, what’s Fonzie like?
MARTHA ANN BOMGARDNER
(through tears, unsure)
He’s cool?
TED KENNEDY, D-MA
Correct-amundo! And that’s what we’re gonna be, we’re gonna be cool.
Journalists are still debating exactly why Senator Kennedy referred to Mrs. Alito as “Yolanda” in the final exchange. The likely answer according to Fox News has to do with his pet name for a desk clerk at the hotel to which he returned after drowning Mary Jo Kopechne, while CNN speculates it is a psychic insight into her past life and will be discussed in a forum with Sylvia Browne, Shirley MacLaine and Barbara Eden’s hairdresser tonight at 9.
Sampiro, the only word I can think of is brilliant. I suppose I could add an expletive for emphasis.
That was gosh darn brilliant.
Ya damn right I’m edgy.
If I thought the wife had been given any legitimate reason to cry, I’d go easy on her but her husband was in no way being “abused” or treated unfairly. All the questioning about his past affiliations was completely appropriate and warranted. If her crying was authentic (though I find it a little too convenient that she was positioned in prime camera range right behind her husband) then she’s way too hypersensitive and thin-skinned to be there at all. If she’s that high strung then somebody should have informed her that it wasn’t just going to be a butt-kissing exercise and that her husband might have to answer some questions about his past that he didn’t want to answer.
I do agree with others, though, that the brunt of scorn should fall on Lindsey Graham and the other legislators and commentators who truly are granstanding and trying to exploit as much mawkish sentiment as they can from the incident.
It’s too bad Senator Kennedy had to hurt her feelings while he was showing his ass. I guess the constant quest for ever-elusive political relevance is making him cranky.
It’s too bad Mrs. Cow-lito can’t stand for her husband to be asked a legitimate question.
Memo to Senate Minority Leader:
Have someone other than Diogenes question the female judicial nominees.
I don’t know that I’d call her a cow, but I definitely have no sympathy for her whatsoever. There’s no crying in baseball! And if her crying wasn’t staged, it might as well have been for all the policital hay made out of it. Like DtC said, if you can’t take the heat…
But then I agree with those who pit the whole sordid process. They’re all grandstanding, especially the Democrats. I don’t know who they think they’re trying to fool. Even those of us in “their base” already know they’re completely spineless. Listening to Kennedy, especially: the man just likes to hear himself speak. They all do. They’re not asking questions; they’re making speeches using the interrogative mode. If you’re going to drag the guy through this at least have the courtesy to pretend you’re interested in his answers, instead of going straight to preparing your next question while he’s talking. Not every question needs to be a treatise, either: the less time Alito has to speak, the less rope he has with which to hang himself. You’d think the Dems would understand that.
Yer just makin’ it worse, man. You should shut up while you’re still (marginally) ahead. Mebbe the poor woman was crying because of that migraine. Bright camera lights in the eyes of someone suffering a migraine attack could be positively excruciating. My point is, there are other explanations that might reasonably be made and you’re looking like a bit of a dick.
What, exactly is is about the woman that makes you call her a “cow,” anyway? Sounds an awful lot like you’re being abusive for some physical characteristic. And Al Franken played that tactless line to its bitter end years ago.
Wow. That is just…incredibly childish.