Posted on 01/11/2006 5:01:17 AM PST by OXENinFLA
Whoo Hoo Coburn is on!
And you don't ever want to be one. We did it years ago and with 6 of us in the house all changing the channels constantly, it was a joke.
WTH happened? Mrs. Alito was in tears?
1000+ posts) Wed Jan-11-06 05:40 PM Original message
Alito should withdraw to tend to his unstable wife and spare future trauma
Imagine what will happen if Alito is on the court and gets criticized in papers and on TV for various controversial rulings. His wife will be miserable and to continue on this course endangers her mental health. He should do the responsible thing and withdraw.
UGH! We tried to be a Nielsen family, waaaaay too much to write on paper.
profound bon mots ...
---Mr D's alchemy is not helping him today, in his changing this heavy weight into his mush gold.
Also, it seems that the D's are trying to take advantage with end of the day questions as though they think, maybe he'll slip up if he gets tired..
Have you no decency, Senator Schumer?
ZOT!
Time for another call ... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060111/ap_on_go_su_co/alito_wife_1
6 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The wife of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito left his confirmation hearings in tears Wednesday.
Martha-Ann Bomgardner, who had sat behind her husband for hours of questioning over several days, left as her husband was being questioned by Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (news, bio, voting record) of South Carolina.
"Are you really a closet bigot?" Graham asked Alito. The nominee said no, and Graham said, "No sir, you're not."
Graham's questions came after withering questions from several Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats.
Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch (news, bio, voting record) of Utah suggested that she was upset with the questioning from Democrats. "She's sick and tired of the mistreatment of her husband," Hatch said. He also said that she was suffering from a migraine headache.
She returned to the hearing room after a committee break, smiling and holding her husband's hand.
GO Tom!!!
Well well well, AP has seen the light. See #3234.
They're stupid. They don't give a $&!* about his wife. They just want him to leave.
I have to make dinner before I post one more thing. But, I will read the rest of the thread. (Can't help myself. It's addictive.) Before I cook. My son keeps saying, "What time is it?"
Just think if Miers had been the nominee...she would have been getting it from both sides!!!
Just as it always is a person can stand their ground and stay strong when being attacked, but when someone offers words of comfort and thoughtfulness, it can get a person misty eyed.
Lindsey Graham apologized for the garbage going on in these hearings. He got emotional and so did she. She had to get up and leave for a short while.
WTF? ME? Don't think so.
they will never apologize. This is all part of the game for them. I worked with these people, they'll all go out tonight and look at this as being a victory of sorts.
Hell, Ted killed someone and he has yet to apologize.
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