Mike, at Cold Fury sums it up for us, less than delicately:
Murdering lush Ted Kennedy really ought to try harder to keep the moral outrage out of his voice when he attacks Sam Alito’s character, not least because it makes his jowls quiver unappealingly, and that looks just horrible on CSpan. But there are other reasons:
TED KENNEDY is deeply troubled by the ethics of the Supreme Court nominee. Between 2001 and 2006, Samuel Alito, who is currently an appeals court judge, accepted $7,684,423 in “donations” from special interests who perhaps wanted the law tweaked in their favour. That included $28,000 from defence contractors, $42,200 from drug firms and a whopping $745,373 from lawyers and law firms.
No, wait. Those are Senator Kennedy’s conflicts of interest — or, rather, a brief excerpt from a long list compiled by the Centre for Responsive Politics. The lapse for which the senator berated Mr Alito was considerably less clear-cut.
Well, it would be, wouldn’t it? After all, everybody who knows anything about Jabba the Senator (D-Ginmill) — even Democrats who can’t afford to admit it publicly — knows he has no moral standing whatever from which to wax judgmental of others.
Which, as one of the Democrats’ leading lights, has never stopped him from doing it, of course.
Of course... and it won't stop him in the future.
I mean, this didn't stop him in the past.
It's just incredible.
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