A Day of Firsts, Overshadowed

From Dana Milbank in the Washington Post:

Yesterday's opening of the John Roberts confirmation hearings was a time for historic firsts.

Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) made 49 first-person references in a 10-minute statement that was, ostensibly, not about himself...

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My Comments
Schumer is an idiot. If it weren't for the past willingness of the Democrat Senators on the Judiciary Committee to give credence to the dangerous "Schumer Doctrine" (the notion that persons of deeply held religious faith are disqualified from serving on the federal judiciary), he'd be a joke.