Did anyone catch the fact that the Democratic Senators had thirty minutes to ask Samuel Alito questions about his judicial philosophy and spent at least twenty minutes reading prepared statements, while spending a fraction of the time actually quizzing the Supreme Court nominee?
Was he really that unstoppable? Or was it because the Democrats fumbled the ball over and over, and asked all the wrong questions?
Or was it because they had already made up their minds, despite repeated statements that they had open minds?
In spite of Senator Biden's windbag routine during his time, he did say something afterwards that I generally agree with: do away with the hearings and have the nomination go straight to the Senate floor for debate.
While it's probably unwise to completely get rid of the hearings, they can probably be streamlined so that time isn't wasted on Senatorial windbag routines like what we saw last week.
But everyone knows that will NEVER happen; who has ever heard of a Senator or Congressperson who doesn't like to hear themselves talk? For them to lose the golden opportunity to get their names in the press...it would be like a preacher trying to impart a lesson from the Bible without using the Bible or any quotations or reasoning from it to a non-religious person. It will never happen.
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