Saturday, August 23, 2008

Biden! Oy!

I love Kaus.
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5 comments:

Tecumseh said...

NR: This logorrhea has made him a constant fount of gaffes and self-parodic monologues. There is a charm under the rhetorical bloat, but people could be forgiven for missing it. His self-confidence, together with his lack of verbal self-control, could dangerously boost Obama’s already high arrogance and gassiness quotients. You don't say. This is going to be mannah for Taranto.

8/24/2008 7:53 AM
Tecumseh said...

Peggy Noonan: 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.

When Mr. Biden says things like, "Try to follow me, Judge Alito," as he goes on one of his long, sterile journeys, I wonder if Judge Alito has to control himself with an act of will. I wonder if he has an inner Regis Philbin, and wants to throw out his arms and say, "Follow you? If I follow you, we'll both wind up lost!" When Mr. Biden says, "Now this is a somewhat subtle point," I wonder if Judge Alito wants to say, "Joe, if it were a subtle point you wouldn't be making it!"

8/24/2008 7:59 AM
Mr roT said...

Peggy on fire? I never thought I would say that!

8/24/2008 11:07 AM
Tecumseh said...

Hmmm... That column is from a couple of years back (from the Alito confirmation hearings). She's been steadily declining since (and even from before that), but she can still muster some of those old Reagan cadences when she gets hot.

8/24/2008 7:37 PM
Mr roT said...

That is strong stuff. Better than Dowd and on the right side. Maybe I was too rough on the old bag.

8/24/2008 8:40 PM

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