I never really appreciated Edward Kennedy when I was growing up. He always seemed so small and feeble; dwarfed, perhaps, by the almost godlike popularity of his charismatic siblings. But in recent years, the Massachusetts Senator has come out of his shell and expanded enormously, becoming the patriarch of the Kennedy clan and in many ways the personification of the Democrat Party itself.
That’s why I took such great pleasure in seeing the ol’ Bear tear into the Chimp’s SCOTUS pick, blasting the trembling Alito for his questionable commitment to women’s rights, and for his unblinking hypocrisy.
Quite frankly I was surprised that Alito even showed up for the hearings. Far tougher men and a great deal of women have turned and fled from Ted Kennedy, and wisely so. When a supreme court nominee or Bush cabinet pick first becomes the target of his relentless barrage of well-aimed stutters and stammers, they may believe Kennedy is nothing more than a fat, belligerent drunk. After an hour of questioning, they’re certain of it. It isn’t until they get home and read the New York Times that they learn they’ve been bested by the most brilliant statesman in American history.
Should the unthinkable happen and Alito is confirmed to the Supreme Court, he’ll be required to work along side Senator Kennedy and other democrats in Congress, writing new laws and unearthing new Constitutional rights. If he and Eva Von Sniffles can’t take a little heat, then maybe they should just hop on the next bus back to Bigotopia.




I don't remember Ruth Bader Ginsberg's wife weeping at his hearings.
Posted by: brainsample | January 12, 2006 at 07:52 PM
The right wing media has twisted this story. Craig Crawford on MSNBC told it like it is:
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She started crying when Senator Lindsey said Alito is not a bigot but that seemed to make her cry, I guess she thought she may have married a bigot. It was surprising to her to hear that he wasn’t a bigot.
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So she was crying because she married a bigot and here he was denying his true, woman-hating, black-(not Jew)-exterminating self!
Posted by: Dork | January 12, 2006 at 08:04 PM
I was so proud of our progressyve senators who clearly made an impact on even Samuel Alito's wife by engaging in the very effective tactics of the politics of personal destruction. Independent and fair-minded Americans will remember this Waterloo for a long time. I still think the court could use a good centrist like George Soros or Al Franken.
Posted by: libmeister | January 12, 2006 at 08:23 PM
Chimpy wants Mrs. Alito to cry enough tears to drown all the Negroes.
Posted by: Sen. Durbin | January 12, 2006 at 08:27 PM
You'd be crying too if you were looking forward to a pair of black eyes and a fat lip from a big ol' NeoKKKon, anti-womyn, fetus-obsessed tool of Bu$Hitler "working through" his frustration at having his reactionary plots cunningly unmasked by great Progressyves like Ted "Where's My Date?" Kennedy and Chuck "Dumpster Diver" Schumer.
Posted by: SPQR2006 | January 12, 2006 at 09:50 PM
LibLarry:
"It isn’t until they get home and read the New York Times that they learn they’ve been bested by the most brilliant statesman in American history."
Crocodile tears, Chom-steen!
Mrs. MussAlito was thinking how much more humane this would have been:
http://rubtsov.penza.com.ru/calendar/pict/mussolini-dead.jpg
rather than having to sit and hear the Judiciary committee bloviate for endless hours...
Regards;
Posted by: Bilgeman | January 12, 2006 at 09:57 PM
Bu-shaitan is using Ms. Alitititito's tears to rain on Seattle!
Posted by: Bubblehead | January 12, 2006 at 10:38 PM
I'm not sure who that was posting above, but it sure wasn't me. I've been too busy to comment, because of my outrage at the way the Christo-fascist news media keeps forcing their heteronormative crown of thorns down on everyone's head by continually publicizing that ScAlito has a "wife" who he's a "husband" to. Don't they realize how that makes the oppressed members of the GLBTAT community feel? Conformist jerks! Bush = Hitler
Posted by: Bubblehead | January 12, 2006 at 11:23 PM
Of course, Der Chimp's lapdog media portrays the Democrats as the mean people, without mentioning how mean it truly is to deny a womyn her Right to Choose. How many womyn will cry once they're forced into having a back-alley, coat hanger abortion? But will the reich-wing press report those tears? Of course not. The only tears that count to these fascists are the scripted tears of some Nazi's Stepford wife.
Posted by: Sen. Durbin | January 12, 2006 at 11:50 PM
When a supreme court nominee... first becomes the target of his relentless barrage of well-aimed stutters and stammers, they may believe Kennedy is nothing more than a fat, belligerent drunk. After an hour of questioning, they're certain of it. It isn't until they get home and read the New York Times that they learn they've been bested by the most brilliant statesman in American history. --Liberal Larry
Tequila Taxi Ted may be a fat, belligerent drunk. But, they sure don't call the New York Times the Crazy Gray Cocaine Lady for nothing. Snif.
Posted by: Talking Toaster | January 13, 2006 at 12:09 AM
Hey Larry,
Where'd you find that picture of Tootsie?
If, in real life, back alley Alito is married to Dustin Hoffman then by all means he must be appointed to the SCOTUS.
Posted by: Queen of PETA | January 13, 2006 at 01:53 AM
She was crying because some mean Re-Thug-li-KKKan bastard told her that Ted Kennedy would be giving her a ride home.
Hours of fun with The Kennedy Clan
Posted by: Bush4Ever | January 13, 2006 at 02:54 AM
I live in fear that we will soon have a White-Supremesist Court!
Did you see what I did there? I made a play on words! I took Supreme Court and White Supremesist and made it into the White Supremesist Court! I even used HTML tags and everything! HA HA HA!
You should have to pay me for my wit and talent! And to think I give it away for free!
Posted by: Skippy Dingwhistle-Wit at large | January 13, 2006 at 03:08 AM
This alone disqualifies Alito for a position writing laws on the Supreme Court. The committee, for three days, has invited Alito into a bit of collegial banter, but the man's a cold fish who doesn't respond to human kindness. So struck by the warmth and good humor of the progressyve Senators, Ms. Alito was reduced to tears because she has never beheld such open hearts and kinship from within the shackles of her arranged marriage. Instead, Il Duce Alito has given physical and emotional abuse. For once, Ms. Alito saw the progressyve land of milk and honey. But, like Moses, she will never enter the promised land of weekends at the Kennedy compound and intellecutal encounters with stimulating politicos in the backs of their limousines. I weep for her and for all women who are trapped in the loveless sham called marriage and who soldier forth under the private oppression Alito wishes to impose on us all.
Posted by: Moonchild | January 13, 2006 at 04:48 AM
Nice touch at historical revisionism too, Lar, seeing that Hilter was never at the Nuremberg trials. Maybe your progressyve hystory will get into public school textbooks and be applauded by progressyves everywhere!
Posted by: libmeister | January 13, 2006 at 05:05 AM
Moonchild,
...and we informed progressyves all know that marriage is a reich-wing, fascist institution that amounts to nothing more than legalized rape.
Posted by: libmeister | January 13, 2006 at 05:06 AM
"I live in fear that we will soon have a White-Supremesist Court!
Did you see what I did there? I made a play on words! I took Supreme Court and White Supremesist and made it into the White Supremesist Court! I even used HTML tags and everything! HA HA HA!"
VERY clever. I don't know if you've noticed this but, on Lyberal, I mean, Progressyve, web sites like DailyKos and Democratic Underground, they use Nazi-like terms, like "Hitler", when referring to President George W. Bush. And they also, like you, VERY cleverly, throw in triple Ks wherever they can when referring to a Republican or some other Evil Non-Lyberal, I mean, Progressyve, Sub-thing. For example: KKKondi Rice. That is to infer that the Republican Party and not the Democratic party was, and is, the backbone of the Ku Klux Klan while the exact opposite is true. So, keep up the great work. I like your new term and...and...and...annnnnnnnnndddddddddd....ARRRGGGHHH! Der ChimpensReichFuhrer Herr SCOTUS-SELECTED CHIMPFACE SMIRKY DUMBYA BU$HITLER HAS KKKOMMANDED KKKARL ROVE TO ATTACKKK ME!!! BASTARD!!! BASTARD!!! GODDAMN THE KKKHRISTIAN KKKONSERVATIVES THAT PUT THIS REICH-WING KKKILLING MACHINE INTO POWER!!!
Posted by: Bush4Ever | January 13, 2006 at 05:15 AM
Woo-Hoo! Kennedy is driving Alito off the nomination bridge into the water below.
Posted by: Menstrual Rainbow | January 13, 2006 at 05:19 AM
"...in recent years, the Massachusetts Senator has come out of his shell and expanded enormously, becoming the patriarch of the Kennedy clan and in many ways the personification of the Democrat Party itself."
Boy, you said a mouthful there...
Posted by: camojack | January 13, 2006 at 05:56 AM
I cried too, when I read this. My throat ululated with
sounds unheard of in La Chez Engineer, followed by copious amounts of liquid oozing out of my tear ducts and rolling down my cheeks.
I buried my head, unsure if I would ever be able to lift it again, and at the thought it might happen, and my status as vyctym would be forever gone, I howled again.
Brilliant, Lar.
Posted by: PTPFP | January 13, 2006 at 07:01 AM
Good ol' Teddy Kennedy made Alioto look positively
Chapiquidiculous!!
Posted by: Arbiter | January 13, 2006 at 07:09 AM
She was crying because she knows in her dark, fascist,hatefilled heart that she'll never have a man the likes of Kennedy to mount her and show her the way to bliss.
( and for all you " they shot the wrong kennendy" haters out there, He swam to get help, not to get away)
Posted by: dave | January 13, 2006 at 07:49 AM
Made the bitch cry, did he?
Back in the good old days in Nam, there was this whore we called Monster, because she had a monster appetite... if you know what I mean.
Nothing could make that girl cry.
Just like Sen. John Kerry said, we did a Ghengis Khan on her village, killing, maiming and pillaging... and Monster didn't shed a tear. She just asked us for another tab of acid and a clean pair of US issue panties.
The boys made a bet: First one to make Monster cry got the right to light the match on the next village. We even invited Sen. Kerry to take pictures. Wimp Ivy League son-of-a-bitch was too scared.
You guessed it... I won. I was 15th in line at the gang bang. Just as I was about to take the plunge, wham!
Hundred bucks says you wuss liberal fairies can't guess what I did.
Posted by: Sarge | January 13, 2006 at 08:58 AM
Showed her your breasts were bigger than hers?
Posted by: Dodger | January 13, 2006 at 09:13 AM
Tell her she had to fuck Ted Kennedy?
Posted by: Neocon-pincher | January 13, 2006 at 09:14 AM