Political Humor | Nothing Unexpected

Well another day has wound down, and the blog O’sphere is abuzz with reports and commentary on the Alito confirmation hearings.

*Yawn!*

Stop the ACLU reports:

After enduring accusation after accusation of her husband being a racist, bigot, and woman hater, Alito’s wife broke down in tears after hearing the apology. It is quite pitiful the tactics the democrats stoop to in order to smear this man.

Getting… Sleepy…

Captain’s Quarters

Senator Arlen Spector just announced that the William Rusher papers will now be made available to the committee voluntarily by Rusher himself, removing the need for the subpoena that Ted Kennedy demanded.

Eyes… Getting… Heavy…

Did I say the blog O’sphere is abuzz? I meant to say the blog O’sphere is a BORE with the Alito hearings.

I don’t mean to imply that the appointment of a Supreme Court justice is not an important event, but the little dog and pony show of the confirmation hearings is the sort of thing that makes regular folk think “BORING!” When a person asks what interests you, and you reply that politics interests you, this is the sort of thing that make them look blankly back and say, “Oh.” Which translates to, “You sound like an unbearably uninteresting person.”

Politics can be interesting, but not when you over-analyze every detail and all it’s minutiae. So wake me up when the predictable grandstanding, and posturing ends and something truly interesting happens. Like, Sen. Joe Biden says, “You’ll be confirmed over my dead body!” Pulls out a 45 and eats it. That would be remarkable. That would be interesting.

The usual suspects and the usual rhetoric about how were going to roll back civil rights to the 13th Century is not interesting. It’s the same s**t, different day. We hear all the same crap all the time, hearings or not. So Ted Kennedy makes an ass of himself. SO! He does that Every. Single. Day. Of his pointless, pathetic life.

So, a Republican appointee hates minorities and wants all women to stay in the home wearing burkhas. The Democrats say that every day, about everyone further to the right than Unky Ted. So. What.

Like I said, wake me up when something interesting and unpredictable happens.

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