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Wednesday, January 11, 2006
The Alito Hearings:
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XOFF News. We're very pleased to be broadcasting the Alito confirmation hearings live from the U.S. Senate, and we'd like to provide an equally excellent stream of commentary on the proceedings, just like you're getting from other networks and the smarter bloggers. Unfortunately, our most qualified and talkative pundits are currently unavailable. One of them is picking up his Prozac prescription refill at the RiteAid, and the other is at the laundromat. That leaves us, and frankly, we're at a loss. We keep watching, but nothing seems to be happening. Does it make us look stupid to say that?
Okay, then, in that case, we won't say anything till the big guns get back to the studio -- if they get back to the studio -- and we'll just remind you that XOFF News and our crack political analysts have been all over this story and the key players in it for months. It was XOFF News that scooped the announcements of the last two SCOTUS nominations (here and here). It was our analysts who foresaw the kinds of issues, principles, and atmosphere that would shape the confirmation process. And it was the same crew who gave you the straight skinny about Senators Biden, Schumer, Durbin, Leahy, and Kennedy long before they opened their foodholes in this particular girlfight. If you want proof, check out these entries:
BIDEN: Miscellaneous Madness (scroll down to subhead Diamond State Dimwit)
SCHUMER: Portrait of a Statesman
DURBIN: Disturbin' Durbin
LEAHY: Mysteries (scroll down to boldfaced term What He Said)
KENNEDY: The Wages of Liberalism
Maybe by the time you're done reading, the first team will be back on the job.
POSTSCRIPT. Oh. One more thing. Our editor reminded us that ace commentator Neal Boortz had an entry in his blog yesterday about the abortion angle in the hearings. Turns out it was pretty much what he said in his blog back on November 1, 2005, including one paragraph that was word-for-word the same. Here's what we said about that paragraph then. Sorry it's not new. Nothing new is going on here. Same idiots. Same platitudes. Same song-and-dance. It takes truly brilliant analysis to turn all that into something interesting. And we already told you about us. You know. We're just killing time here. Till something happens that convinces our smart guys to show up. Right.
