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September 14, 2005

I Didn't Intend To Write About This Today

John Roberts is reminding me of Joe Pitt, the Mormon who is Roy Cohn's law clerk in Kushner's Angels in America. Maybe it's the Reagan connection. Maybe it's the scrubbed, wholesome personna he projects. Maybe it's the utter obliviousness to the moral and ethical consequences of his decisions. Everytime he is asked about a memo he authored he insists that he was acting as the administration's yes-man. I keep thinking of the scene in Angels where Louis confronts Joe about being Roy Cohn's butt-boy. Louis is aghast at the memos and briefs Joe wrote in support of rulings that were anti-gay or otherwise unfair and nasty, and Joe keeps repeating that he was 1. just doing his job and 2. not responsible for the merits of a law only for upholding it. Or something like that.

After listening to creepy pro-life, religous, mysoginistic Senators on the commute to work, I was so, so glad when I got back to my desk after lunch and tuned in just as Chuck Schumer was taking the floor.
just say, sir, in all due respect -- and I respect your intelligence and your career and your family -- this process is getting a little more absurd the further we move.

SCHUMER: You agree we should be finding out your philosophy and method of legal reasoning, modesty, stability, but when we try to find out what modesty and stability mean, what your philosophy means, we don't get any answers.

It's as if I asked you: What kind of movies do you like? Tell me two or three good movies. And you say, I like movies with good acting. I like movies with good directing. I like movies with good cinematography.

And I ask you, No, give me an example of a good movie. You don't name one. I say, Give me an example of a bad movie.

SCHUMER: You won't name one. Then I ask you if you like

Casablanca, and you respond by saying, Lots of people like 'Casablanca.'

(LAUGHTER)

You tell me it's widely settled that Casablanca is one of the great movies.

Damn that Schumer made me proud to be a New Yorker.

Diane Feinstein was no slump either. Oh, and watch how his eyes positively glow with evil as he writes off his snide remark about how it is not a good idea for homemakers to become lawyers as just a an old (boys' club) lawyer joke.

Posted by hissycat at September 14, 2005 12:01 PM

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