"Troubling"

 
Mark Steyn has a recap of this week's Democratic antics at the Senate confirmation hearings for Judge Sam Alito. As with Justice Roberts, the contrast between the rabid, mean-spirited, out-of-touch Democrats and the Supreme Court nominee was striking. Listen to the Liberal members of the Judiciary Committee, and everything about Alito is "troubling":

"Even smear tactics require a certain plausibility. When you damn someone as a big scary mega-troubling racist misogynist homophobe and he seems to any rational observer perfectly non-scary and non-troubling, eventually you make yourself ridiculous. The boy who cried "Wolf!" at least took the precaution of doing so when there was no alleged predator in view. If he'd stood there crying "Wolf!" while pointing at a hamster, he'd have been led away for counseling. That's the stage the Senate Democrats are at."

Besides their understandable frustration at lacking the political clout to stop a conservative Bush nominee, I think the likes of Kennedy and Schumer feel a certain jealousy; jealousy that despite a full-fledged effort to tarnish Alito with something, anything, from his past, they came up empty-handed. As with Roberts, they had, sitting before them, a polar opposite; a truly nice human being. And there is also the jealousy that, once confirmed, Alito will enjoy a power they can only dream of; to make influential decisions based solely on one's intellectual opinion, without having to answer to the likes of NOW or MoveOn.org.

As I've said before, it's too bad the Democrats hadn't succeeded in postponing these hearings until closer to this Fall's elections. They believe they are scoring political points, but while watching this display, and watching Alito's wife being brought to tears, I believe mainstream American voters are "deeply saddened".

Comments

[Marty]

It's gotta be tough being a Democrat. I mean, how many of those people believe all that crap they're beholden too? They have to kowtow to their big backers. The nutjobs like MoveOn have all the money!