Yesterday's crying jag by Mrs. Alito may have been the highlight of the hearings, but the truth is that Sen. Lindsay Graham was not only trying to rehabilitate Judge Alito from his delicate four-way position straddle on CAP.
- He doesn't remember joining the organization, except maybe he does - but that was because of the ROTC at Princeton, although that issue had been resolved 12 years previously - and he just might have been trying to impress Ed Meese with his references and would never support any of the anti-female, anti-minority, anti-handicapped positions of CAP, but then again he would never lie just to get a job, except for that one time with the Vanguard recusal thingy...
Sure, we all know Graham was attempting to shout "Bigot - bigot - bigot" in a crowded hearing chamber, make poor Mrs Alito cry and just hope every Democrat would run away screamming - but he was also up to something else.
Providing the Republicans political cover for the Jack Abramoff scandal, but will it work or will it backfire?
Transcript Courtesy of Michelle Malkin (thank's much Bitchy-poo)
GRAHAM: ...Are you really a closet bigot?
ALITO: I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.
Yeah, that's right - as if any kind of half-way intelligent bigot is going to admit it in public, let alone under oath in a Senate hearing chamber and subject himself to possible criminal prosecution under U.S.C Title 18 § 242. Um, not so much.
GRAHAM: No, sir, you're not.
Gee, Lindsay - so nice of you to concur, but if you already knew that - why'd you ask the question and then answer it yourself?
And you know why I believe that? Not because you just said it -- but that's a good enough reason,
And I'm sure Mr Senator and former Prosecutor and JAG Officer Graham has always thought "No Sir, I didn't chop down the cherry tree, honest" - was a good enough reason, too.
because you seem to be a decent, honorable man. I have got reams of quotes from people who have worked with you, African American judges -- I've lost my quotes.
And your marbles, but that's a diary for another time...
Judge Higginbotham -- I don't know where they're at. But glowing quotes about who you are, the way you've lived your life; law clerks, men and women, black and white, your colleagues who say that Sam Alito, whether I agree with him or not, is a really good man.
You know why I believe you when you say that you disavow those quotes? Because the way you have lived your life and the way you and your wife are raising your children.
Yeah, well - the Aryan Nations really do have a great youth outreach program, maybe we should just let them slide too?
Anyway, it's at this point that Lindsey finally starts to bring it home.
Let me tell you this: Guilt by association(DING!) is going to drive good men and women away from wanting to sit where you're sitting. And we're going to go through a bit of this ourselves as congressmen and senators.
You are? Do tell.
People are going to take a fact that we got a campaign donation from somebody who's found out to be a little different than we thought they were -- and our political opponent's going to say, "Aha, I got you!"
A little different than you thought they were? You mean like a mean-spirited ("little monkeys") two-timing scum-bag convicted felon with delusions of God-hood like say - Jack Abramoff?
And we're going to say, "Wait a minute. I didn't know that. I didn't take the money for that reason."
No, you took it because you needed to buy some shit. Like "Duke" Cunningham who really needed to have that yatch. (Ok, technically Cunnigham owned the slip, and a Defense Contractor owned the Yatch, but you get my point)
And you know what? I'm going to believe these senators and congressmen for the most part, because that's the way we do our business. We meet people here every day. We have photos taken with people -- and sometimes you wish you didn't have your photo taken.
But that doesn't mean that you're a bad person because of that association.
Yeah, it's a good thing that Tom Delay didn't take tons of photos with Jack... oops. Well, at least they don't have them together on Video or something, that might not look good.
Judge Alito, I am sorry that you've had to go through this. I am sorry that your family has had to sit here and listen to this.
And I'm sorry most of the country had to listen to you -- but then again, I quite afraid that most of them probably didn't pay attention and realize that Graham just admitted that the GOP Talking point about Democrats receiving money from Abramoff clients (who must be just as guilty as Abramoff himself right?) should be completely let off the hook for the association - just like Sam Alito had nothing to with CAP (except of coursse, for saying on his job application that he did).
That's right, we can all rest easy that Judge Sam Alito is "no kind of bigot" -- he's a weasling little kiss-ass suck-up toad, but he's not a bigot.
And all that Democrats (and a few Republicans here and there) who didn't take bribes from Jack Abramoff or Defense Contractors - have to do is recite Graham's own defense against "guilt by association" and they have nothing to worry about.
Vyan
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