Been awhile

If there's anyone actually reading this then I apologize for taking so long ;)

I'm sitting here listening to the confirmation hearings of Judge Alito and I'm thinking to myself that either
A) These people are horrible at debate or,
B) The Democrats really and truly have come to this with quasi open minds...

The reason I say that is that they are not approaching their questioning at all as you would expect given their characterization as vehement opponents of Judge Alito. Were they truly out to sink this nomination they would be asking leading questions that could build on eachother to guide Judge Alito to a final statement that would be damaging. Forming chains of logic like this is a well known and used debate tactic and you would expect them to be using it.

Instead, virtually all of the Democrats accuse him of doing something idiotic in a particular case and then they let him correct them. When you're listening, you hear something egregious and horrible and then you hear a perfectly logical explanation. Even if you disagree with Alito you would still be placated by his logic.