Predictable Senators

The Senate Judiciary Committee is stuffed with 18 of the most ideological clowns in that entire body. On the democrat's side, the liberals have had over a month to dig into Robert's background to uncover something which can be used to derail his nomination. They haven't found anything and can't even manufacture something. So they have one last chance to block Judge Roberts. They have to come up with questions in these hearings which trap him into saying something which they can use to parlay into a denial of confirmation. This would be difficult in the best of circumstances since he is smarter than any of them, but the way they procede when the camera is on is almost comical. Each Senator has 30 minutes. Instead of giving Roberts a lot of short questions to answer in the time allotted them, they can't resist long, rambling, self-congratulatory statements with numerous first person references which allows Roberts to just sit there listening to their drivel. You gotta love it.