Oh please
I had to debate with myself a bit whether Martha-Ann Alito's contrived crying jag was worthy of comment even on an obscure website like this one, but the New York Times and most of the major media -- unlike normal, decent human beings -- believed that this nauseating stunt was an occasion for introspection. Or at least the self-referential, self-pitying kind of introspection that typifies the Cesspool on the Potomac: Sheryl Gay Stolberg of the Times says that the female Alito is "a gregarious former law librarian who has become, for some, a symbol of all that is wrong with Washington politics and the toll that it takes on families."
Oh really? Meanwhile, the families of a dozen dead West Virginia miners are not symbols of "Washington politics and the toll that it takes on families," even though they died because of twenty-five years of systematic attempts by the Reaganites and their political heirs to make workplace safety inspections less effective. At least 1,300 people -- and likely a lot more than that -- died in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast because their wretchedly racist government could not organize a proper evacuation from a hurricane, but they're not "symbols" of the "toll" that Washington politics takes. It is crystal-clear from his record and his comments that Alito will contribute to making all of this worse for the rest of us, but by all means, let's instead talk about how Russ Feingold may have made poor little Martha-Ann cry.
I will answer the moronic Lindsey Graham's softball question, by the way: no, Samuel Alito is not a "closet bigot." He is on the record against affirmative action. There is nothing at all closeted about his bigotry and racism.