Stop This Donkey-&-Elephant Show

From Sunday's Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:

Heavenly fire, Joe Biden has a great idea. And given the subject matter, it's pretty much assured that he didn't nick it from Neil Kinnock, as he did portions of that infamous campaign speech that scotched his 1988 presidential aspirations.

But, and as unwittingly is the case sometimes with liberals, the senior Democrat U.S. senator of Delaware is right for exactly the wrong reason.

On NBC's "Today" show Thursday, Mr. Biden, a longtime member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Supreme Court nominations should go straight to the Senate floor.

"The system's kind of broken. Nominees now, Democrat and Republican nominees, come before the United States Congress and resolve not to let the people know what they think about the important issues.

"Just go to the Senate floor and debate the nominee's statements, instead of this game," Biden said.

Let's do it, by golly. The Framers would be pleased. But sorry, Senator, the committee confirmation process isn't broken because of the nominees. It's broken because of gents like, well, Joe Biden and Teddy Kennedy.

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Kennedy huffed and puffed and reduced himself to wheezing when he couldn't blow Alito's house down. So he grabbed some straws in the martini cloakroom and resorted to the worst kind of smear imaginable over Alito's "troubling" affiliation with that horrid -- HORRID! -- Princeton alumni club. Mr. Kennedy brought Alito's wife to tears.

You're a big man, Teddy, in more ways than one. How was that swim?

But I digress, drowned for a moment by the fat opportunity to fire a cheap shot at the Senate's most prolific (if not profligate) make-a-woman-cry cheap shooter.

My Comments:
Heh.

I'll refrain from posting the "Swimmer" pic on this one, as it might detract from this editorial's awsome rejoinder to Teddy's disgraceful conduct during the Alito hearings.