Thursday, September 15, 2005
Baseball analogies
I have to say that I'm amused by the fuss about the baseball analogies and metaphors during John Roberts' confirmation hearing. I used to work for someone who thought baseball was tantamount to blessedness so he must be torn between delight at Roberts' introducing the concept, wariness at his assertion that judges should ideally be umpires since umpires are his least favorite baseball personnel, and utter horror at liking anything said by a conservative, even if it is about baseball.

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Anonymous Anonymous — at 2:12 PM, September 15, 2005:
I sort of liked the umpire metaphor. It makes sense. There are good umpires and bad ones but nobody likes when they rule against your team and the same goes for judges. Now if they would only work on trying to determine whether Roberts is a good judge or a bad one instead of trying to figure out ahead of time which team he's going to rule in favor of.
 

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Blogger jau — at 3:13 PM, September 15, 2005:
Thank you!! I'd been trying to figure out why the questioning was annoying me so much. Aside from the foolishness of most of the diatribe-questions, that is. (Did you catch Schumer's demanding to know his favorite movies?!) Lynn, you hit it right on the head - the questions have had nothing to do his judge-worthiness. Of course, they decided he was ok when he was appointed last time so maybe there are no real questions about that.
 

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