Confirmation Hearings: Day 2

Right now I am attempting to finish all the projects that people have got me started this summer. Things are rather hectic and sleep is not nearly as plentiful as it ought to be over summer, although it does not even compare against what a death week can be in college, anyways this is neither here nor there. I would round up the part of the confirmation hearings that I saw today but Dahlia Lithwick summed it up so well:

John Roberts is putting on a clinic.

He completely understands that he needs only to sit very quietly, head cocked to signal listening-ness, while senator after senator offers long discursive rambling speeches. Only when he's perfectly certain that a question has been asked does he offer a reply; usually cogent and spare. Here's a man long accustomed to answering really hard questions from extremely smart people, suddenly faced with the almost-harder task of answering obvious questions from less-smart people. He finds himself standing in a batting cage with the pitching machine set way too slow.

Democrats seemed like their impotent selves, many also wondered why Republicans even got time to question the guy when they were just going to kiss his ass. Little will change with the confirmation hearings but the increased level of judicial awareness has been great. I am enjoying it all.

-Mr. Alec