2035 Republicans may disagree

but I think it is time to get the TV cameras out of the judicial hearing rooms. Yes, I know you love to see Democrats making fools of themselves, but it is an embarrassment for all of us. That Kennedy/Biden dog and pony show. Yuk. Would any of that have happened without the opportunity for camera face time? Supporters of the candidate (of either party) posture and preen and try to make him/her look like God's gift to our Constitution, and the opposition refuses to look at his/her record and instead drone on about the nanny's grandmother's history and high school fraternities. Somewhere I read that only 14% of the nation watched--I think that is a stretch unless you're counting click throughs.

Peggy Noonan actually found Biden endearing! "The great thing about Joe Biden during the Alito hearings, the reason he is, to me, actually endearing, is that as he speaks, as he goes on and on and spins his long statements, hypotheticals, and free associations--as he demonstrates yet again, as he did in the Roberts hearings and even the Thomas hearings, that he is incapable of staying on the river of a thought, and is constantly lured down tributaries from which he can never quite work his way back--you can see him batting the little paddles of his mind against the weeds, trying desperately to return to the river but not remembering where it is, or where it was going. I love him. He's human, like a garrulous uncle after a drink."

Sounds like she's looking for a paddle on the same river of thought.