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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: MrLucky who wrote (8811)1/12/2006 10:44:23 AM
From: mph  Read Replies (2) of 541555
 
These hearings are hugely a joke, IMHO.
The senators are more interested in making speeches
than eliciting answers.

Of course, that's what happens during any kind
of public testimony before a senatorial or congressional
panel.

I don't know about anyone else, but I personally have
a very short attention span when it comes to listening
to the hot air spewed by politicians of whatever stripe.

Particularly those who are not very organized thinkers
or good "speechifiers"....lol.

Having argued to many juries, and having presented both
direct and cross-examination, it really makes me
giggle to hear the so called "questions" posed by the politicos.

A jury's collective eyes would glaze over with
that kind of nonsense! The public should be no different.

Of course, the proponents of the opposition to Alito
are probably viewing the hearings much like a wrestling match.
Although they know it is largely fake ( i.e., in terms
of sincerely seeking an answer to a real question), they
love the "color" of having their hero(s) espouse
their POV.

Let me amend that to refer to the proponents of both
sides of the equation re: Alito....
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