Thoughts On Alito & Noonan

I have to confess that, as much of a Supreme Court afficionado as I am, I really haven’t watched any of the hearings for then-Judge Roberts and now-Judge Alito. I mean, I have a job, and I don’t watch TV news (I get my news on the Internet), and–although I tried to watch a bit of the Alito hearings on web video–I had technical problems.

I have, though, been following Internet press accounts of the Alito hearings, as well as commentary on them from the blogosphere and the pundits.

I have to say that the performance of the Democratic members of the Judiciary Committee has been shocking to me, even without seeing it on TV.

The pictures alone tell an amazing story, and I wonder how much the Dems on the JC realize how horrible they’re looking to the public. I mean, they’re coming across as a bunch of self-important, disingenuous, hyprocritical, McCarthyite blowhards.

Y’know: Just plain Evil.

I know they’ve got to phone in a performance for their base, but this just makes them look horrible to the public. There’s an election later this year. Do the Dems really want John Q. Public going into the voting booth with memories of the jackbooted thugs of their party trampling all over that nice, quiet Mr. Alito and making his poor wife cry?

I know, I know, public memories are short, but the more you confirm a negative stereotype of you that is out there, the worse off you are.

And the performance is especially phony this time because, as I predicted long before the hearings began, there simply will not be a filibuster this time–barring an act of truly jaw-dropping, preternatural stupidity on somebody’s part (either Alito’s or a Democratic senator’s)–because to filibuster Alito would (unless he is the one who was stupid) result in the exercise of the constitutional option meaning that the filibuster WON’T BE AVAILABLE FOR JUDICIAL NOMINEEES when the next justice retires and there is a new nominee.

That new nominee will be the fifth vote to overturn Roe (assuming that Roberts and Alito join Scalia and Thomas in opposing Roe–as the Forces of Babykilling must presume they will), and so the Forces of Babykilling need to preserve the filibuster for next time AT ALL COSTS.

So what’s going on up on the Hill right now is just a hypocritical dog and pony show with hypocritical dogs and hypocritical ponies.

Barring something massively unexpected, Alito will be confirmed, and the thuggish performance by the Thugocrats on the Judiciary Committee is just an empty ritual being enacted for the benefit of their Moonbat base.

And all America–including the Moonbat base–knows it. The Moonbats–many of whom have already recognized the inevitability of Alito’s confirmation–simply want their Blood Sport first.

So those are some thoughts I’ve been having about the Alito confirmation.

Now. . . .

The occasion for me presenting them is that I want to point you to an exceptionally well-written column by Peggy Noonan.

Mickey Kaus has a little thing at the bottom of his blog in which he links and comments on various other folks in the blogosphere, and his remark on Peggy Noonan is "gold in every column."

Quite so.

And Kaus is well qualified to say so, as he’s a very good writer himself.

But Peggy’s most recent column doesn’t just have gold in it. It’s CHOCK-FULL of gold in terms of how well it’s written.

I mean, you may have thought that last week’s piece with the STEAMROLLER METAPHOR was outstandingly written, but in terms of style this week’s column totally rocks! Agree with her politics or not, Noonan is just a darn good writer.

GET THE STORY.