Dr. Thomas Sowell reiterates the bafoonery of the Alito Hearings

Dr. Thomas Sowell, the legendary professor from Stanford, has a column today which confirms the sorry and laughable (if it weren't so pathetic) performance of the democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee last week throughout the Alito Hearings:

The Senate confirmation hearings for Judge Samuel Alito told us more about the Senators than it did about Judge Alito.

First, there were those long-winded preambles to "questions" for the judge. Then there were the Mickey Mouse maneuvers and insinuations, spiced here and there with outright lies.

The ridiculousness of the charges was classically illustrated by Senator Joseph Biden's claim that Alito had been part of a group that was trying to keep minorities and women out of Princeton. Apparently wanting everyone to meet the same admissions standards is considered to be the same as being against minorities and women.

To dramatize his position, Senator Biden said, "I don't even like Princeton." Unfortunately for him, a radio talk show host played that back on the air -- along with a speech that Biden gave at Princeton, praising it to the skies.

At the same level of farce was a loud and insistent demand by Senator Ted Kennedy that the Senate Judiciary Committee vote to issue a subpoena for certain records -- even though those records were readily available without a subpoena. In fact, the records in question had already been received by the committee.

The biggest hypocrisy was asking Judge Alito questions that everyone knew in advance no judicial nominee could -- or should -- answer, and then complaining afterwards on nationwide television that he was not "forthcoming" or "responsive."

None of these ploys had anything to do with determining Judge Alito's qualifications to be on the Supreme Court. At most there were attempts to provoke him to anger with insulting questions, in hopes of providing an excuse for Democrats to vote against him and for the weaker Republicans to be afraid to support him.

But Judge Alito remained unruffled and dignified.

Of course, his entire column is deserving of your attention. Go there!

That we heard NOTHING of the hearings and the obscene performance of the left this week is very, very telling! They would like everyone to forget those hearings ever happened because of the embarrassment it caused for the entire democrat party and specifically the titular muckity mucks who make it a point to represent the dems whenever a camera appears. You would know them as Kennedy, Schumer, Durbin, Feinstein, Leahy, Biden, and Feingold. They are the shining stars of the Left.