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This cartoon was inspired by a funny front page article by Elisabeth Bumiller in Wednesday's New York Times. It was about the way the Judiciary Committee hammed it up in front of 50 + cameras in the hearing room. Senator Biden had the highest words per question vs words per answer ratio at nearly 4-1. The ratios for all the senators were presented in a spiffy graphic. Senator Hatch, meanwhile, acted like he was Alito's lawyer. Schumer responded by having a chart held near Hatch's head showing all the times Roe v Wade had been upheld.
I hit the cartoon daily double around 2pm when I checked the Washington Post site and saw that Kennedy had demanded that the committee subpoena records of Alito's membership in the Concerned Alumni of Princeton University. Specter stood up to the bullying by saying that Kennedy was making the request for the first time in public in front of the cameras. Kennedy claimed Specter had a request in writing that he had mailed December 22. Specter told Kennedy he didn't know what he was talking about and that he was chairman, not Kennedy.
The New York Times pointed out today that it had reviewed those records in a November story and that Alito wasn't active in the group and wasn't a major donor. Kennedy must be partly responsible for declining circulation since he evidently doesn't read the paper.