Ted the Hutt

Ok, this will hopefully be the limit of my complaints about Teddy-the-Tick. This is from Professor Bainbridge and just got me laughing.

After catching up on the first day of the Alito hearings, one conclusion seems inescapable; namely, that Alito is more machine now than man; twisted and evil. He yearns to take liberals, women, minorities, gays, small children, and puppies to the Dune Sea, and cast them into the pit of Carkoon, the nesting place of the all-powerful Sarlaac, in whose belly they will find a new definition of pain and suffering as they are slowly digested over a thousand years. (Or maybe it's the slavering maw of Cthulhu the Great. I zoned out for awhile during Durbin's opening remarks.)

Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen. Schumer and Leahy's feeble skills are no match for the power of the Dark Side. As for that that slimy piece of worm-ridden filth, Ted the Hutt, he'll get no pleasure from these hearings. You can either profit by this or be destroyed. The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am.

Couldn't help laughing on that one.

And the Washington Times points out that Teddy may be more than a bit of a hypocrite with his stand that Alito's involvement with CAP.

"Monarchical tyranny" might find a friend in Judge Alito, Mr. Kennedy speculated last week. An "unfettered, unlimited power of the executive" is what Judge Alito supposedly wants, per Mr. Kennedy. In a torrid and rambling Op-EdSaturday in The Washington Post, Mr. Kennedy then did his worst. He backhandedly accused Judge Alito of racism and sexism because he reportedly belonged in the 1970s and 1980s to Concerned Alumni of Princeton, a now-defunct conservative group. The group certainly sounds rearguard and retrograde. But Judge Alito cannot possibly be held responsible for the actions over many years of other people who happened to be members, at least one of whom has published racist statements. The guilt-by-association logic shouldn't fool anyone. Such logic takes the worst examples of other peoples' behavior 30 years ago and applies them to Judge Alito as if "six degrees of separation" were the rule. The guilt-by-association logic is always a dangerous one. If Mr. Kennedy were the nominee, perhaps a muckracker would happen upon his onetime membership in the Fox Club, one of Harvard's so-called "final clubs," which in the 1950s were havens for white, wealthy sons of privilege like Mr. Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy's name was scrubbed years ago from the alumni list, according to club members. Perhaps that's because at least a few racists or sexists must have been members -- it was an old boys' club in the 1950s. But no reasonable person can hold Mr. Kennedy responsible for the association.

Imagine that.

Here's a link to the hearing yesterday. Kennedy's demented prattling is on the first page.