Amy Coney Barrett demonstrated her honed intellect, her vast knowledge of the law, and her humane and optimistic spirit. Most of the Senators demonstrated that they might be able, on a good day, to spell l-a-w. Churchill, it is alleged, once quipped that the best argument against democracy was a five minute chat with an average voter. I would say that the members of Congress, most of them, demonstrate that while elected representation is grand in theory, in practice it works about as well as a bicycle that has been run over by a steam roller
What a look in her eyes as she hold up that notepad.
God bless her for putting up with what she’s had to put up with.
This is a woman of Faith.
The dogma indeed is coursing through her veins.
Her intellect and heart are nourished by her Faith in God and love of neighbor.
The prayers for her surrounded her.
Grace.
They see her faith and her good will and her competence— and many of them hate her for having things they do not.
It’s as if she wasn’t holding up a blank paper but a mirror, and in it those hostile senators see themselves for the shabby little hacks they are.
Perhaps, Clinton; I certainly hope so.
This is the inevitable result of the professional political class having taken over what the Founders intended to be a legislature of citizens serving temporarily before going back to real lives. Maybe their dream was never possible anyway, I don’t know.
This is the inevitable result of the professional political class having taken over what the Founders intended to be a legislature of citizens serving temporarily before going back to real lives. Maybe their dream was never possible anyway, I don’t know.
True. Though Harry Truman was (after age 39) a professional politician. We aren’t the people we used to be.
Ronald Reagan didn’t leave behind acting and public relations until he was 54 years old. Jimmy Carter’s time as a f/t politician lasted a little over 10 years, and his avocational life since (while episodically irritating), has been rather more edifying than knocking about collecting speaking fees. Mitt Romney has spent more time in business than he did in public office. It doesn’t have to be the way it’s been.
Note, for all that they’re f/t year in and year out legislators, they stink at their jobs. They cannot even do what was bog standard prior to 1980 and what state legislatures commonly do – put together a proper set of appropriations bills each year. They also have a notable deficit of skill in any other venue of life. Nancy Pelosi was an elementary schoolteacher for a year or two, fifty-odd years ago; she was slated as Chairman of the California Democratic Party and then landed in in Congress as the protege of Sala Burton; she’s actually fought two competitive elections in the last 45 years, one of which she lost. Richard Durbin was a lawyer, more or less, for about a dozen years; there was hardly a day during that time when he didn’t have a government salary or contract (though never in the civil service). upChuck Schumer worked for Kaplan intermittently; he never actually practiced law.