Alito vs. the Democrats

I think we all know who's winning. Let's get a quick roundup, though:

Alito thinks that looking to foreign law to interpret the Constitution is "inappropriate." Since the Supreme Court has already stooped that low, this is an excellent development.

Senator Hatch reports to Powerline about the Democrats' attempts to paint Alito as a racist: "It's all bush league stuff. If we did it, we'd be nailed by the media."

However, the winner of the biggest loser award goes to none other than Joseph Biden, who contradicted himself royally in a number of ways during these hearings. As reported in the Daily Princetonian, Biden claimed in the hearings that he didn't like Princeton and didn't want his own children to go to Ivy League schools. However, in a speech he gave at Princeton in 2004 he said both that he liked Princeton, wished that he had gone there, and told his children to apply there:

Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), who grilled Samuel Alito '72 about his CAP membership, also said that he "wasn't a big Princeton fan."

"I didn't even like Princeton," he said, to laughter from the gallery. "I mean, I really didn't like Princeton. I was an Irish Catholic kid who thought it had not changed like you concluded it had," referring to Alito's earlier statement that Princeton had changed its traditional ways before he enrolled.

But Biden had nothing but praise for the University in a 2004 speech at the Wilson School. "It's an honor to be here," he told the audience. "It would have been an even greater honor to have come here."

Biden also said yesterday: "One of my real dilemmas is I have two kids who went to Ivy League schools. I'm not sure my Grandfather Finnegan will ever forgive me for allowing that to happen."

But in his speech at Princeton, he said, "I have three children who have mercifully all finally completed undergraduate and graduate school. And I tried to get all three of them to apply here."

Joe Biden is either a liar or an idiot.

Or both...