September 12, 2005
JUDGE ROBERTS' CHALLENGE: KEEPING A STRAIGHT FACE
Today, the first day of hearings on whether Judge Roberts has the judicial temperament to be the Chief Justice, he demonstrated, without doubt, that capacity. Today—the day which may yet turn out to be the most challenging of the entire process, he was required to listen to eighteen senators telling him the same thing over and over as they preened and blathered on and on about their worries that he will not answer enough of their questions or too many of their questions. Each senator oozed his or her special brand of charm as they read the scripts that their staffs had prepared for each of them.
Throughout the three straight hours of bloviating (with one ten minute bathroom break) Judge Roberts managed to stay awake, alert, and to appear interested in the blah-blahing. This in itself earned him Horsefeathers’ vote for a high level of judicial temperament.
Furthermore, he did not go bonkers in the face of Teddy Kennedy’s hypocrisy, nor he did shrink from Joe Biden’s demented grin full of implanted teeth as he spouted paranoid fantasies, he did not yawn during Senator Grassley’s terminally boring pronouncements, and he remained tactfully attentive throughout Diane Feinstein’s word-salad thought processes, nodding graciously, as though she made sense.
Today Judge Roberts won his judicial spurs and Horsefeathers’ admiration.
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. . . Nor did Judge Roberts raise an eyebrow when Chuckie Schumer asked him about being "in the mainstream."
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at September 13, 2005 03:03 PM
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