Who could have predicted that Democratic senators would live to regret voting to confirm John Roberts and Samuel Alito?
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Jesus Christ What The Fuck?
Are those supposed to be serious quotes from Byron Dorgan, Jay Rockefeller, and Pat Leahy?
All this time I just figured they knew what they were doing and their agenda just wasn’t the same as mine. If they’re serious in those quotes then I guess a better answer is that the Senate just stuffed full of naive fools.
I mean I’ve never been particularly impressed with Jay Rockefeller’s intelligence but Jesus – I always at least gave him some credit for being somewhat clever.
I mean, on one level, what do we expect them to say? That they don’t regret voting for them? That the judges are ruling just as they expected them to do?
But, yeah, it reads like they’re frigging retarded.
I know rationally that they can’t say “oh yeah, he turned out just like I thought he would”. But you’d think they would have a better answer to that question that didn’t make them look like a bunch of rubes that would respond positively to a Nigerian e-mail phishing scam.
Maybe something like “well, I knew he was being deceptive and evasive when he answered, and I expected him to be fairly bad, but at some level you have to defer to the President and all of Bush’s choices were probably going to be pretty damn bad and these guys seemed about as good as we were going to get from the Jackass in Chief. But I’m shocked at just how blatant the lies turned out to be and just how bad they’ve really turned out to be.” It has the benefit of possibly being the truth for most of them.
They were warned, but they were in the powder room, taking a powder, uh…keeping their powder dry.
Any day now I expect to see regrets for going to Iraq, ratifying warrantless wiretapping after the fact, and voting for the Bush tax cuts.
It makes ordinary citizens think that they can be a Senator too, doesn’t it Alvin Greene.
It’s pretty disgusting all right.
It took one question and one answer between myself and John Roberts for me to realize just what kind of judge he was going to be. I would not have noted to confirm him.