Too funny:
Yesterday’s opening of the John Roberts confirmation hearings was a time for historic firsts.
Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) made 49 first-person references in a 10-minute statement that was, ostensibly, not about himself.
Heh. This is amusing, too:
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) showed exceptional emotional versatility, working a crossword puzzle during the hearing and then choking back a sob while making a prosaic statement about partisanship.
Kind of amusing from the guy who is still waving Terri Schiavo’s corpse around for partisan gain.
Stormy70
Popinjays.
Krista
Now THAT is a word that you just don’t hear anymore. Delightful.
Stormy70
I try. :)
Jay
I love this part:
“THE BUSHIES DID IT AGAIN!!! THEY PLANNED IT THAT WAY SO THAT LOWLIFE RACIST ROBERTS COULDN’T BE EXPOSED FOR THE RADICAL ANTI-CHOICE MISOGYNIST BIGOT THAT HE IS!!!”
Krista
If only that was an isolated incident. I bet a lot of these people deciding the fate of countries are just phoning it in on a regular basis.
DougJ
I think Coburn is in fact mentally ill. So I don’t find this funny, just sad.
As for Schumer, show me someone from New York City who doesn’t talk about themselve constantly and I’ll show you a recent immigrant.
docG
4 of 6 responses include first person statements. I would never do that ;-)
rayabacus
Coburn is not only an embarressment to the Republican Party, he is also an embarressment to the Senate (and you have to go some to get there) but also an embarressment to the Human Race.
Maybe he is so Pro-Life because he is a walking, talking, living advertisment for birth control and, that failing, abortion.
Otto Man
Normally, a state will content itself with just one insane senator, countered by a competent one. But it’s good to see that Oklahoma doubled-down on the crazies. Coburn’s a loon, but the distinguished senior senator Inhofe isn’t much better.
Mike S
Coburn’s puzzle was titled “Lesbians in the Classroom.” 6 down was a 6 letter word, starting with C and ending with rn, for “raving lunatic.”
goonie bird
More from senator chucky(blowhard)shcumer whats this demacratic twit want anyway?
DougJ
More from senator chucky(blowhard)shcumer whats this demacratic twit want anyway?
Steve S
One thing is nice about Tom Coburn.
Ted Kennedy is now off the hook for the butt of Senator jokes. :-)
skip
Tom Coburn, the Junior Senator from the Olduvai Gorge, is a one-man ethnic group.
He was weeping for want of frontal lobes, and an opposed thumb to better manage his Farmer’s Almanac crossword puzzles.
Sarah
Wow…….makes me wish I hadn’t worked so hard volunteering with the Coburn campaign. Sometimes, I want to kick myself over all the time I spent working for them and the rest of the Oklahoma Republican party.
Sarah
Hey, don’t let this reflect on Oklahoma though. We aren’t all that crazy. Well not most of us anyway.