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Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Joe Biden has completely lost it

Does Joe have no idea just how petty, ingnorant and pathetic he looks during the Roberts' confirmation hearings? He must not, because he just keeps going and going-- taking any presidential aspirations he might have straight down on the rocket sled to hell. His questions are poorly structured, ramble, often circle back on themselves and are usually delivered in a petulant, whiny little tone. And then, when he finally does splutter out his inane little observations and questions, he won't let Roberts' answer.

Most likely because when Biden does let Roberts answer, Roberts makes Biden look like an ingnorant lout with little or no understanding of the Constitutional structure of our country. All of which is Biden's right as a member of the Judiciary Committee, but I can't imagine it's playing very well with any but the most far-left constituencies-- most folks can spot a bully and a pretender pretty easily.

Then, of course, there's the not so small matter of Biden's complete hypocrisy. He wants specifics from Roberts about how Roberts would rule on different issues. When Roberts says it would be inappropriate to respond with specifics about issues that were likely to come before him as a Supreme Court Justice, Biden angrily claims that Roberts is being unresponsive. Yet 12 years ago, when the same Sen. Joe Biden was the chair of the Judiciary Committee, he had this to say early in Ruth Bader Ginsberg's confirmation hearings:
"[Y]ou not only have a right to choose what you will answer and not answer, but in my view you should not answer a question of what your view will be on an issue that clearly is going to come before the court in 50 different forms, probably, over the next -- over your tenure on the court." (Sen. Joe Biden, Committee On The Judiciary, U.S. Senate, Hearing, 7/22/93)
Joe, Joe, Joe. You are such a disingenuous putz. How is it possible that the good people of Delaware keep re-electing your hypocritical, narrow-minded, petulant little ass to such a prestigious position as U.S. Senator?

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Biden is a pusillanimous twit. My favorite part of Biden's statements on Monday was when he pointed out that it was once held by the Supreme Court that states could forbid women from being lawyers, that separate but equal was upheld as lawful, and that the federal government was previously found to be powerless to outlaw child labor.

This from a Senator, much like Schumer and Kennedy, who is dead-set to ensure that Roberts will uphold precedent in order to preserve Roe. If you want to drive home that a nominee to the bench should be willing to uphold previous Supreme Court rulings, then you should probably avoid mentioning the aforementioned decisions which were overturned decades after their initial decisions.
 
Pusillanimous : lacking courage and resolution : marked by contemptible timidity.

I don't think the above fits ol Joe all that well. It takes a little bit of temerity to plagiarize a term paper.

Twit: a silly annoying person : FOOL

Now that fits!

Thanks to m-w.com for supplying the definitions.
 
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