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Nomination Hearing

I agree about the boring and often partisan senators' statements. Once I figured out that these statements were going to last a small eternity I took off. I was watching on C-span online and noticed they had a constantly changing 'number of viewers' at the bottom of the screen. When I first started watching, the number of viewers was somewhere around 7000; later before Sotomayor spoke, around 8000. I guess lots of people had the good sense to wait until tomorrow when possibly something of interest will be said by someone. Still 7000-8000 viewers? That's the size of one small town. Hmmm....

I had not read your remarks when I wrote mine, honest!

But I had almost exactly the same thought: dispense with opening statements and start asking questions, already!

What was the context for his

What was the context for his citing Aristotle, I wonder. It's a safe bet that whatever that context was, he got Aristotle wrong; but still I'm curious.

At least get rid of opening statements

Seriously, I don't see why you couldn't just take those ten minutes apiece, give them to each senator for questions, and call it good. Or, better yet, have the parties select interrogators with experience to do the job.

Hahahahahahahaha! Senators are never going to give up any national TV time. At least it's related to a relevant issue instead of steroid testing in sports, for example.

Sheldon Whitehouse

exploded the Republican argument about judicial activism, restraint, etc. right in their faces.