“Awesome Alito”? Who are these people?

During his “discussion” with Cavuto, Schlatter asked Cavuto if he noticed that, “about 15 minutes before she started to cry, an aide came in and moved him [Samuel Alito] slightly to the right because he was covering her, and ten minutes later she started to cry. So, fortunately, he’d moved enough so we could see it.”

And so it goes. Do you remember those creeps who broke in and smeared holy water into all the seats in the hearing room? Well, God has worked his magic. Sam Alito’s wife has shed holy-water tears. Right in view of the camera. As Alito’s coach, Lindsey Graham, smirks on. Welcome to the post-modernist age of television politics. The irony is that this isn’t for the voting populace (not even that swarm of sign-waving supporters, and most everybody else is not even paying attention) as it is for the pundit class, who decided from the out-set that the script ends with Sam Alito’s confirmation anyway, so with that conclusion as the starting-point, everything they will have to say ties into that frame. They are all busy just entertaining themselves.

Make no mistake. Sam Alito is as bad as Robert Bork was. And Robert Bork — literally a neo-conservative by the definition of old leftist who moved the other way, and there is nothing worse than a Recovering Anything — was worse than Robert Bork looked at his confirmation hearings (have you ever actually read Slouching Toward Gommorah?). But I guess everyone moderates themselves at these things.

So what was bad in 1987 is good enough in 2006. I weep for the future of the nation. The Unitary Executive shall be firmly enshrined, particularly during Republican Administrations. And glory to the Police State!

He’s on record in a memo as believing that to shoot an eighth grader, known not to be armed, who was trying to climb over a fence in escape, is a proper use of deadly force by a policeman. In a discussion of immigration cases that have been regularly occasioning inexcusable, vile, un-American heartbreak on people who missed obscure deadlines or violated arcane requirements, all he could say was that the courts get bad transcripts and it was hard to find translators for some of the plaintiffs, but that was a problem for Congress.

I google for an Alito image. I find this:

I scratch my head. What does that even mean, and what are they talking about? As I said, welcome to the age of Post-Modernist politics. Say anything. Anything at all. Make stuff up if you have to, because who the heck cares?

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