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September 13, 2005

Cryin' Coburn

Yesterday at the first day of John Roberts' confirmation hearing, when Sen. Coburn wasn't working on a crossword puzzle (guess he hasn't been bitten by the sudoku bug) he was crying:

A television camera behind Coburn caught the senator working a crossword puzzle. But Coburn went from detachment to emotional overdrive when it was his turn to talk; seconds after asserting that "a super-legislator body is not what the court was intended to be," he paused and wept.

Colleagues looked alarmed. One GOP committee aide put his hand to his mouth. It was the biggest Senate choke-up since Sen. George V. Voinovich (R-Ohio) cried while opposing the nomination of the ambassador to the United Nations -- and Coburn has to get through three more days of hearings.

The future of the Supreme Court is important, but the man needs to relax.

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Posted by Sean Hackbarth in Law at 10:19 AM | Comments (0)

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