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Irrelevant Arlen, the Wonder Senator

Posted by Byron September 13, 2005 at 4:43 pm
Filed Under Conservative/Libertarian Politics | 1 Comment |

The questioning of Judge Roberts has commenced.

Right out of the box, our dear…ahem…our esteemed…cough, cough…Senator Arlen Specter wanted to get onto the subject of abortion, and just what the good Judge thought about it. He said,

“People have ordered their thinking and living around Roe,” Specter said. “For two decades of economic and social developments, people have organized intimate relationships in reliance on the availability of abortion.”

“Would you agree with that,” Specter asked?

Aside from the good Senator’s inability to count to three, might we tweak his wording just a tad, in order to make a point?

“People have ordered their thinking and living around Plessy,” Specter said. “For two decades of economic and social developments, people have organized intimate relationships in reliance on the availability of good, cheap Negro labor.”

“Would you agree with that,” Specter asked?

Well, yeah, s’pose we’d have to agree with that, but, ummm…your point, Senator Specter? Fact is, Senator, your “point” misses the point entirely. Entirely. Bad precedent ought not to be upheld, irrespective of the inconveniences that it might cause folk. Thank you for your consistent irrelevance, Mr. Senator.

And thank you, Mr. Roberts for not taking the bait. Hopefully, you can now deflect some of the questioning of Senate Dems by saying, “I think I’ve already covered that in my answer to Senator Specter.”