The Roberts confirmation hearings began today pretty much as expected, with grandstanding from the left and... well, a little grandstanding from the right, too, to be honest. I thought that Tom Coburn, the pro-life Republican Senator from Oklahoma, spoke particularly well... and Evan Bayh, a Democrat on the senate from Indiana who introduced Roberts, impressed me more than any other Democrat I heard today.

Bayh has a reputation as a somewhat conservative Democrat, at least by today's standards. If his party has any intentions of winning the White House in '08, they'll team him up with Joe Lieberman as their ticket. They won't, though, and they'll lose again. And that's probably for the best. God knows we can't afford another eight crippling years like the Clinton '90's.

Being a sometime political junkie, I suppose the speeches and grandstanding during the hearing weren't enough for me, so I continued watching the speeches and grandstanding that took place after the hearing, and that's when the biggest distraction of the day infiltrated my television screen.

Did anyone else watch the post-hearing press pandering?

If so, can ANYONE name that wrinkled old hag who stood behind each of the senators and attempted to steal the spotlight?

I don't know who she was, but that dried-up old biddy really got on my nerves, standing back there, nodding and mumbling under her breath, making grand gestures of support for those she agreed with and mocking those she disagreed with.

I think I'd have been as annoyed by this moth-eaten troll even if she hadn't been mocking the conservatives and nodding vigorously for the pinkos... but, of course, she was doing exactly that. Can't someone at C-Span or the networks ask these idiots to move along, rather than let them trash the coverage?

Since it got on my nerves so much, I decided to share the old buzzard with you...


Click the picture above to watch the old hag agreeing enthusiastically with Ted Kennedy, even mouthing the word "Absolutely."

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You can click this pick to watch her do the Durbin Head Bob.

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In this last clip, Republican Jeff Sessions remarks that he thought that Judge Roberts' remarks were so eloquent, he was almost moved to tears. Click the pic to watch the hag shaking her head and, in disgust, mouthing "Puh-LEASE."

Whoever this prune is, I hope they're able to keep her from wandering back in front of the cameras in the future.