Alito describes 'out of body experience' of court appointment

[kskiska]

How does Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito describe the last year, when he endured a bruising confirmation fight in the Senate to land a seat on the nation's highest court?

"I sometimes feel as if I had an out of body experience," he said.

Speaking Tuesday to a capacity crowd at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Alito described the highs and lows that came with being plucked from the relative quiet of a seat on the federal bench in New Jersey and landing in the spotlight of Washington politics.

It was, he said, "certainly quite a change."

Hounded by a pack of reporters and photographers at the Capitol, he said he thought of himself as the character Quasimodo from the movie "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."

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[Wilms]

1. Calling Swamp Rat!

LOL!

[Lautremont]

2. "You down there! Confirm me!"

[fooj]

3. Yep. It's been the same for us- you freak!

[ShortnFiery]

10. Yeah, his old lady sheds a few phony tears, the democrats cower

with fear, and WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE are stuck with the nutcase Right Wing Judge, for LIFE. Damn the Democratic Senators who would NOT allow a filibuster! :grr:

Now we have SCALITO (Scalia and Alito = Twins of the Right-Wing Nutball Supreme Court Judiciary. :crazy:

[Erika]

4. What a nutcase

The hunch back? W certainly knows how to pick them.

[Canuckistanian]

5. Normally, an extremist like him would stay in obscurity

He certainly didn't earn any respect for his jurisprudence. Almost all of his major judgments were overturned by OTHER conservative judges. He's sort of a wingnut's wingnut.

So, what does the BFEE do when they encounter someone like him, an irrational, mean-spirited partisan?

Why, promote him, of course.

[Demeter]

6. That Could Be Arranged

The ultimate vacation--an Out of Body Experience--we'll get you away from it all, for good!

[katsy]

7. well, it may have been

an out of body experience when he was confirmed... but now we all have to live with alito as just plain old out of his mind experience.

[Solly Mack]

8. so he is emotionally detached and sees himself as a tragic figure

Is there a doctor in the house?

[goclark]

9. I had an "out of body" experience when I heard he was "appointed"

by the RepubliCON Crooks.


:puke:

[Javaman]

11. He may have had an out of body experience, but the rest of us had...

an out of democracy experience.