Views far outside the mainstream happen

The hearings are unwatchable. Teddy -- "the more we learn about [Alito], the more questions we have about the credibility of his assurances to us" -- is "concerned." Joe Biden --  "if you are disingenuous in the hearings, you may need my vote relating to a filibuster" -- is smirking. These tired old non-war horses have been inside the Beltway -- and on our TV screens -- decades too long. Their same-old same-old cant wears thin.

Judge Alito with family and friends are a breath of fresh air.

Great perspective from Opinion Journal today in one of those classic essays that start out with what appears to be a description of today's issues but turns out to be a description of yesteryear, illustrating that only the party in power changes:

Much was at stake. Justices called upon to decide cases involving some of the most controversial legal questions of the day were expected to be impartial. But the New York Times complained that, if confirmed, the nominee "would take his seat upon the bench equipped with a variety of preconceived and firmly-held notions." That wasn't the only red flag: The prospective justice, it was said, held views far outside the mainstream, and harbored a transparent commitment to an agenda that would revolutionize American law.

The nominee was Louis Dembitz Brandeis, a confidant of President Woodrow Wilson and a prominent "movement" progressive.

Fun and informative to read. Unfortunately, Teddy, Joe & Company are too busy pontificating -- and too full of contempt for us little people -- to give history a second thought.

Update:  Diane Feinstein voices specific issues of concern and behaves like a perfect gentlelady:

I hope you really will be straightforward with us, and therefore with the American people, so thank you and welcome.

Very nice. We need more classy folk like her representing the loyal opposition.

Update II: Like the making of sausage, "the process . . . or at least the way it works today," as John Cornyn is saying, is such that "the strategy is to try to impose their agenda through elected judges." The will to dictatorship arises from deep within the human heart in all times and places. The Founding Fathers recognized that big time and applied all their knowledge of both history and human nature to writing the Constitution.

Update III:  What must it be like for one of our nation's most brilliant men of integrity to spend an entire day harassed by a sideshow of blowhard fools/phonies impugning his motives? Let's hope it's a small price to pay for the lifetime of wise judgements he will shower upon our nation once he is confirmed.

Comments

[John Palcewski]

I watched much of the hearing on Fox News because sitting here in my office watching a web C-Span stream would eventually put severe bruises on my slender ectomorphic ass.

Anyway, in the middle of it--and I really wish I could remember which senator was speaking at the time--Fox went to News Flash mode and ran a double screen showing the NYSE board approaching the 11,000 DJA.

As for analysis, it depends on who was talking when that news flash occurred.

If it came during an anti-Alito rant by a Democrat, well, what a great way for the wingnuts to shift the focus from the strip-searcher to how great the Bush tax-breaks-for-the-rich economy is.

If the news flash came as a Republican was kissing the strip searcher's ass, well Jeeze Louise, what a lucky friggin' break!

[Sissy Willis]

A loony-left moonbat of one's own. Sigh. Dear John: Thanks for stopping by. Had you not volunteered to project your own fantasies onto Judge Alito, I might never have known a thing about the fun meme of the so-called "strip-searcher." For my other readers who may not know, check out Technorati for all your strip-searcher reference needs:

http://www.technorati.com/search/strip-searcher

[beautifulatrocities]

Exactly. Like Alice being tried by a bunch of chess pieces