January 11, 2006
(via Drudge)
Judge Samuel A. Alito’s wife Martha left the confirmation hearing room in tears this evening, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) apologized to the Judge’s family for the behavior of his fellow committee members during the course of the last three days.
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8:22 pm [ Quote ]
The Dim Bulbs of the Star Chamber…
Jonah Goldberg writes that Senate hearings to approve conservative Supreme Court nominees have “a whiff of a show trial” to them:Amid all the country club decorum, there’s a whiff of a show trial to these proceedings. The aim isn’t to…...
8:50 pm [ Quote ]
[...] Update: Report: ALITO’S WIFE LEAVES HEARING IN TEARS Video: Alito’s wife leaves Senate confirmation hearings in tears. Video: Rep. John Cornyn calls Alito “Scalito” twice. [...]
9:02 pm [ Quote ]
SHAME, SHAME ON THE DEMS…
Why is this woman crying? The Political Teen has the video of Judge Alito’s wife breaking down as Sen. Lindsay Graham offers an apology for the past three days of relentless smear attacks by the Dems. I’ve isolated video…...
9:13 pm [ Quote ]
This is why I am no longer a “Democrat”...
Just look at Chuck Schumer: He’s pulling the stuff he pulled on a certain Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts saying he might vote for the guy… when he has every intention of not doing so. (Even) I can see through him.
9:14 pm [ Quote ]
Alito’s Wife Leaves Hearing In Tears…
It got ugly today at the hearings! At one point, Senator Arlen Specter slapped down Senator Kennedy.
The excitement of the day came when Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said he wants the committee vote on issuing a subpoena to the Library of Congres…
9:50 pm [ Quote ]
Thank you, Sen. Graham…
Senator Lindsey Graham (D-SC) slammed the arrogance and patronization that has been alive and well at Judge Samuel Alito’s confirmaton hearings.
Graham was a Senator for who I had high hopes, and even though I’ve been disappointed with hi…
9:53 pm [ Quote ]
[...] Here’s some video of Sam Alito’s wife getting up and walking out of the hearings while Sen. Lindsey Grahm apologizes for the actions and statements of his colleagues. [...]
10:06 pm [ Quote ]
Dems Personal Attacks Hurt Alito Family…
The attacks on Judge Samuel Alito by democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are outrageous, repetitive, and personal. It is not surprising that Alito’s wife, Martha, left the confirmation hearing room in tears. What is remarkable is that …
10:09 pm [ Quote ]
Mrs. Alito is Human…
Ian at the Political Teen has the video of Mrs. Alito’s tears today. It will break your heart to watch her try to hold tears back as Senator Graham talks about the ordeal their family has gone through. I think…...
10:34 pm [ Quote ]
It would have been priceless IF she would have left while Kennedy was ripping him.
And if Alito was to get up and request a break, and throw in that he “Will not leave a womans side while she is drowning…. in her own tears”
And then just walked out to catch up with his wife to console her.
Would have been great to see Kennedy’s reaction.
I guess I can only dream!
I also use to be a misguided Democrat!
10:37 pm [ Quote ]
Kennedy’s Attacks Grow Ugly…
Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and his team of Democrats are displaying their desperation to sink the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court by linking him to the alleged discriminatory policies of the Conservative Alumni of Princeton (CAP),......
10:48 pm [ Quote ]
Thoughts on the Alito Hearings…...
In a conversation with a friend last night, we were lamenting the fact that it is not possible for Judge Alito to simply state that as a supreme court justice, I will overturn the egregious decision of Roe vs. Wade and allow the issue to return the po…
10:56 pm [ Quote ]
So is she crying because it’s been exposed that her husband is a proud longtime member of a racist mysoginist white boys organisation? Or is it because Lindsay Graham called him a bigot?
Or is she crying because her husband is a suck up to power and will say anything to get close to it? Or is she crying and weeping because her husband denies truth just so he can get a permanent job?
SUCH DRAMA!! You must be proud.
11:11 pm [ Quote ]
[...] I haven’t seen today’s hearings, but the Democrats apparently caused Sam Alito’s wife to leave the hearing in tears, distraught by the unfair smears of Kennedy et al. [UPDATE: The Political Teen has the video.] [...]
11:12 pm [ Quote ]
There is no crying in confirmation hearings…
The free pass on nominees is over
Washington Post
The wife of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito left his confirmation hearings in tears Wednesday.
Martha-Ann Bomgardner, who had sat behind her husband for hours of questioning over several day…
11:15 pm [ Quote ]
Dem’s Disgrace: Smear Alito to Wife’s Face…
If a picture paints a thousand words, the video speaks many volumes more.
What’s wrong with Democrats in the Senate? Don’t ever let anyone try and pull the moral equivalence argument “There’s no difference between Democrats and Republicans.” Here…
11:23 pm [ Quote ]
I wonder if Mrs Alito weeped when Alito said it was okay to strip search a 10 year old girl?
11:23 pm [ Quote ]
[...] The Political Teen [...]
11:23 pm [ Quote ]
Compassionate Liberalism Makes Alito’s Wife Cry…
Senator-MA Ted Kennedy, along with the usual suspects, tried to paint Bush Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito as an anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-minority bigot at todays hearing. The political accusations from so called “compassionate liberalism” wer…
11:29 pm [ Quote ]
I’ve watched the hearings while at my desk all week at work, and it really has gone far beyond tough questioning. The Democrats have accused Alito of being racist, sexist, a liar, a bigot, unethical, and even implied that he was told by the Bush admin what to say in the hearings.
Some apologies are certainly in order, but I don’t in my wildest dreams expect them to show that kind of decency, though. I did find new respect for Sen. Graham today; what he did was very respectable and I commend him for being the bigger man.
11:59 pm [ Quote ]
[...] No one likes a bully that makes a woman cry…Senator Kennedy. The worst thing possible for the Democrats was watching Mrs. Alito break into tears at the attacks on her husband. They have not the sense to see how badly they are being hurt. [...]
12:20 am [ Quote ]
I think what we are seeing is the last throes of liberalism….
12:26 am [ Quote ]
[...] Here’s Michelle Malkin picking up the Drudge torch. The title is called Shame, Shame on The Dems The Political Teen has the video of Judge Alito’s wife breaking down as Sen. Lindsey Graham offers an apology for the past three days of relentless smear attacks by the Dems. [...]
12:38 am [ Quote ]
Just wondering….
Forgive me if this has been asked before. In Kennedy’s letter that is allegedly dated December 23,(and that Specter never recieved) he says:
“Judge Alito’s assertion that he cannot recall anything about his controversial involvement in CAP, requires us to find other ways of fulfilling our constitutional responsibility to get at the facts.”
My question is, back on December 23, was CAP even an issue at all, and if so,was Alito then saying he could not remember much about it?
If not, then the letter is clearly a fraud, as it discusses events that had not yet occurred.
1:52 am [ Quote ]
[...] Sen. Ted Kennedy badgered Judge Alito today about the Vanguard issue. For background about that ridiculous issue, see here. In a nutshell, Alito was asked in 1990 about “potential conflict-of-interest during your initial service in the position to which you have been nominated,? and Alito responded that he would recuse himself from cases involving Vanguard. Twelve years later, Alito felt that his initial period of service was over. Today, Sen. Kennedy absurdly disagreed, ad nauseum. Just like Kennedy’s implied accusations of racism and sexism, none of Kennedy’s charges today stuck, but they do reveal much about the well-intentioned yet extremely misguided party of which he is a leader. KENNEDY: You made a pledge to the Senate — effectively, to the American people — that you were going to recuse yourself. Now you say, well, it was just for any initial time, and I think 12 years is more than I really had in mind — you just qualified your answer. How long, when you made that pledge and that promise to the committee, how long did you intend to keep it? … ALITO: Looking at that question today and looking at the answer, the question was: What you intend to do during your initial period of service? And I think that that’s what the answer has to be read as responding to…. KENNEDY: You’ve just indicated that when you made a pledge to the committee that you were going to recuse yourself, that you thought that at sometime you were going to be released. And I’d just like to know how long that was going to be. Was that going to be two years, was it going to be three years, was it going to be five years? When did you feel that you were going to be released, if we followed your interpretation?… ALITO: Looking at the question now, where it says initial period of service, I would say that 12 years later is not the initial period of service. But that was… KENNEDY: When did it stop then? When did you think that your pledge to the committee halted, after how many years? Six months? What did you intend at the time that you made the pledge? What was in your mind at that time? I’m interested in what’s in your mind at this time, but what was in your mind at that time? ALITO: I can’t specifically recall what was in my mind at that time, but I’ll tell you what I’m pretty sure I had in mind. I was not a judge, and I was being considered for a judicial position. And what I was trying to express was basically the policy that I followed during all my years on the bench, which is to bend over backwards to make sure that I didn’t do anything that came close to violating the code of conduct or give anybody the impression that I was doing anything that was improper. KENNEDY: The last question on this is how long then — when you made the promise under oath to the committee that you were going to recuse yourself — and you understand that now to be in your own interpretation to be just the initial time — how long did you think that that pledge and promise lasted? ALITO: Senator, as I said, I can’t tell you 15 years later exactly what I thought when I read that question. It refers to the initial period of service. And looking at it now, it doesn’t seem to me that 12 years later is the initial period of service. KENNEDY: My question to you, which I guess I’m not going to get an answer to, is when did it? Is 10 years? How about three years? Is that? ALITO: I do not know exactly what the time limitation would be, but 12 years does seem to me to be not the initial period. 9 responses to ‘Badgering the Witness’. RSS feed for comments and Trackback URI for ‘Badgering the Witness’. [...]
1:59 am [ Quote ]
xrayiiis, a simple Google search would have answered your question in all of about 5 seconds.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/12/02/top_democrats_question_alitos_credibility/
7:10 am [ Quote ]
Alito ‘The Untouchable’...
The Political Teen has the video of the incident, and Michelle has more on the Dems’ disgusting behaviour, as well as the transcript…...
7:28 am [ Quote ]
[...] So what are the charges that moved Lindsey Graham to apologize, which moved Mrs. Alito to tears? They are charges of bigotry, charges of racism, charges of unethical behavior. The incessant focus on CAP (which had some pretty obnoxious articles in their magazine, and which Alito stronly disavows and detests the views of) and on the Vanguard case (which had no conflict of interest anyway, and which was reheard with the same finding, and which Alito has candidly admitted he would do differently if he could) proves that they cannot find any substantive problems in his 4,000 cases and 300 written opinions. [...]
8:23 am [ Quote ]
Teen, you should get a link from the Viking Pundit. He has some cogent obaervations like the quote about if you can’t win on the law, pound the table. That is all the Democrats are doing.
The Viking Pundit also has something about William Rusher’s CAP letters that Kennedy wants are in the Library of Congress, and that Alito isn’t mentioned in them.
Democrats are resorting to McCarthy like tatics such as guilt by association.
9:40 am [ Quote ]
[...] Righties have seized upon yesterday’s theatrics by Mrs. Sam the Sham as one more opportunity to enjoy self-righteous outrage over the perfidity of Democrats. [...]
10:06 am [ Quote ]
[...] (video from the Polical Teen) [...]
11:28 am [ Quote ]
You Voted For Him, NY (Maybe) & Blogger Games…
As I noted earlier today, Daniel Drezner is holding a contest for “stupid politician comment of the hearing”. The rules are simple: Find the dumbest comment a United States Senator made during the Samuel Alito hearings and post it. A few people in a …
11:30 am [ Quote ]
Noble:
Wow, what a nut job. : )
11:34 am [ Quote ]
I wonder if Mrs Alito weeped when Alito said it was okay to strip search a 10 year old girl?
See the statement posted above? It’s not only baseless and gutless, its heartless. That is unfortunately the type of person many of today’s “Mainstream Thinking Democrats” represent. What a hideous band of trash talkers! God bless our troops who protect all of us…even the trash talkers.
11:40 am [ Quote ]
Jihadgene,
Democrats think statutory rape is ok when it is Michael Kennedy having intercourse with his underage babysitter for his children. They love taking things out of context and feigning outrage.
I notice not one Democrat has brought up Kelo and the taking of a persons home by the government for the benefit of a private developer. Could it be that the Democrats don’t want the people to see how wrong their people are and the Liberal justices that voted for this rape of the Constitution?
11:48 am [ Quote ]
Furtive Glances…
A few quick ones for the morning. Captain Ed Morrissey has been doing yeoman work in Washington blogging the Alito confirmation hearings. He interviewed Senators John Kyl and Orrin Hatch yesterday, and finds Sen. Kennedy’s tactics McCarthy-ish….I ha…
11:49 am [ Quote ]
Dems make Mrs. Alito Cry…
From Drudge:ALITO WIFE LEAVES HEARING IN TEARS AFTER DEM ATTACK Wed Jan 11 2006 17:22:11 ET Exclusive Judge Samuel A. Alito’s wife Martha left the confirmation hearing room in tears this evening, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. Sen. Lindsey…...
12:17 pm [ Quote ]
What is wrong with you people…this man is not applying for a job at macys or even a mayor position. He is up for nomination for the supreme court people…that is no minor task. What do you expect more questions like “Do you think the president is above the law or the constitution?” To me thats a joke.
You sit and criticize the dems awful behavior? Oh, Ms Alito ran out crying? Who really cares? Dont tell me you all are tugging at the emotional violin now?! This is the government…Im pretty sure you knew that already..this isnt the place for softball tactics.
I dont really need to use the “worn out” but always revelent “double standard” to make the point but its fun anyway…
You all know that if the sides were switched and that was a dem nominated candidate, the same intensity would be there and the same hard ball tactics. But of course it wouldnt be a problem if his wife ran out crying then now would it? This would probably have been a joke blog instead of a bashing one then.
12:23 pm [ Quote ]
DeRon,
Your problem is that you have no history beyond the top of your talking points memo. All we have to do is go back to the Ginsburg and Breyer hearings. The GOP did not act like a bunch of anal orifices as the Democrats are doing. Also, political opinion questions were not asked.
Get a clue, man, this a hearing for a Justices. It is advise and consent, not the minority select their candidate based on ideas that lost them the past elections.
1:26 pm [ Quote ]
Jihadgene, couldn’t have said it better myself.
1:32 am [ Quote ]
Fellow Judges and The ABA say Sam Alito is OK…
At the last day of Judge Samuel Alito’s Senate nomination hearing, there was a panel of judges and ABA lawyers that had nothing but great things to say about him. They totally shot down every single lie and trash comment made by Democrats against…..
11:44 am [ Quote ]
Sorry PCD, cant agree with you there but I apoligize…Im currently working at the moment but my work allows me to come to this site and blog from time to toime…I dont have time to do research previous instances unless the topic and my arugment warrants it. This does not…in the previous blogs dems were called monsters and disgusting for attacking this man. You did see what Bush tried to pass off last time as a Supreme Court Nominee so my question to you, can you really blame them??? Stop being one sided and digging up 1 incident where it was different out of the hundreds ok…The main point was his wife leaving crying….somebody tell her “thats politics” and move on….
Every blog does not require that you have a research paper with references to make a solid point. Although it does help most of the time, its not a neccesity.
12:01 pm [ Quote ]
DeRon,
Thank you for admitting you came here with a load of bias, prejudice, and a closed mind.
The Democrats were all disgraceful. If the truth were out in the open, all the correspondance from Nan Aron, People For the American Way, and other fringe left wing groups would have been a part of the record.
Just like the Democrat senators, you throw baseless charges, run for your room and declare victory. It don’t work here that way. You got called and you had less in your hand than “Cool Hand Luke”.
5:53 pm [ Quote ]
Drop Zone…
It’s been awhile since we’ve done an ER round-up of must-read information. I’ve been skipping through my bloglines and more than a dozen links are screaming for attention. So here’s the first edition of Drop Zone for 2006.
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