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Have you seen the airline commercial that shows actors (thanks to their own carelessness or mischief) suffering through painfully embarrassing moments (like looking through the medicine cabinet in a neighbor's bathroom only to have the shelves come crashing down on the floor below) with the tag line, "Wanna get away?"
Even if you haven't, you will appreciate this red-face moment. Fewer than three minutes after Senator Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., complained the time clock was obscured (preventing him from seeing how much or how little time he had left to question Judge Alito), a photographer who was blocking the senator's view accidentally knocked the clock off its pedestal.
The loud thud didn't appear to throw off Judge Alito, but the glares in the room were steely, not to mention plentiful. Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., gave Sen. Kennedy an extra two minutes for his session, which drew polite applause from the other committee members.
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One has to wonder which is worse for this country: Judge Alito's views or the posturing and pontificating of senators who seem to want to show themselves as statesmen when they could be homing in on his views with serious, succinct questions? The answer is Judge Alito's views since he will, if approved, be around a lot longer than any of the pontificators and will be able to do a lot more damage to the country than any single senator.
Henry R. Rupp (Sent Jan 12, 2006 11:44:01 AM)
One has to wonder which is worse for this country: Judge Alito's views or the posturing and pontificating of senators who seem to want to show themselves as statesmen when they could be homing in on his views with serious, succinct questions? The answer is Judge Alito's views since he will, if approved, be around a lot longer than any of the pontificators and will be able to do a lot more damage to the country than any single senator.
Henry R. Rupp (Sent Jan 12, 2006 11:42:50 AM)
I don't think the Senator looked at Judge Alito once while the Judge was answering Sen. Kennedy's speech...I mean questions. Why can't more Senators be straight-talkers like Sen. Biden or Sen. McCain?
David, Crofton, MD (Sent Jan 10, 2006 2:47:09 PM)
Kennedy will probably use the two extra minutes granted to him to eat another buffet. I mean, c'mon, this guy isn't serious about doing his true duty here, all he wants is to muck up some dirt about Alito so he can announce how unfit he for office.
S. Canuey (Sent Jan 10, 2006 1:53:11 PM)
I'm sure Judge Alito was just thrilled to have an EXTRA two minutes of questions from Sen. Kennedy.
Philip Shoffner, Dallas, TX (Sent Jan 10, 2006 1:32:10 PM)
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