According to this “Yahoo News”‘s compilation of AP “scoreboard” reporters, the winners of the Kabuki Dance Supreme Court nomination hearing performancees are Sonia Sotomayer, Jeff Sessions, and Lindsey Graham.  And the losers are Sotomayer, Sessions, and Graham.

How Sessions looks particularly good in these hearings, I cannot tell you.  Jeff Sessions as the Republican chair of the committee is one line of evidence that maybe the former head, Arlen Specter, was quite sincere in his partisan switch and aiding his new party.  (Gist for the Specter — Sestack war of partisan loyalties, I suppose — though, this would be too obscure a point.)

The “Winners and Losers” is a pointless way to dissemble the news coverage.  It may or may not be worth mentioning that the Google Associated Press link for this story shows that yahoo edited it down.  And it’s worth mentioning that that here Tom Coburn’s reference to Ricky Ricardo is brushed away from Tom Coburn, the better not to make a judgement call on Senator Coburn.

At the bottom of the pile, after a mass of career lawyers, Al Franken spoke.  He refuses to say anything funny.  Drudge threw this link to Wes Pruden, a little ironic because of this.   One of these days, Al Franken will slip up and make a gaffe by saying something not earnest and identifiably humourous. 

 The front page of the local paper reads Sotomayer:  We Are Not Robots.  A fascinating statement.  A google news search for the phrase shows 14,760 results with those words, headed — oddly enough — by a favorable item from a Communist news source.  “We are not robots”, a response to the problems held against “empathy” (“Empathize on my behind”).  So she supplied at least have one mildly amusing phrase.

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