From Deseret News archives:
Inquisition of poor Judge Alito seemed un-American
That's what the first two days of nationally televised hearings of President Bush's nominee were about. The Democrats had one issue in mind above all others abortion and they wanted Alito to say something extreme enough to justify their pre-ordained opposition to him.
If you do what Alito did, if you do not give the Democrats something on the order of a confession that, deep down, you don't think women have any rights, you know what to expect. Pretty soon you will have Sen. Ted Kennedy in your face, doing his superb imitation of one of the louts sitting on the House Committee on un-American Activities during its three-decade run beginning in the 1930s.
Those were the days when some congressmen were ruining lives by trying to show that their victims were once members of this or that group that just may have had an association with the Communist Party. They often exhibited a coarseness of manner equaled by a lack of brilliance. An illuminating moment came when a historically confused representative asked whether the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe was a commie, accounts of the committee tell us.
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