The Expanded Drinking Game
The transcript of the Alito hearing yesterday is available. Here are Part I, Part II, and Part III.
Chuckie S.’s questions come in Part III, and the word “extreme” didn’t pop up once, making my proposed drinking game something of a bust. But I agree with commenter JVW that a more wide-ranging game is appropriate. Here are his suggestions:
Drink everytime:
- Schumer says “extreme” (or a variant)
- Schumer says “I” or “me”
- Biden calls Alito “buddy” or “pal”
- Biden says “I’m not following you” or otherwise betrays his total ignorance of the law
- Kennedy gets lost in the middle of a harangue
- Someone asks Alito how he would rule on Roe, knowing full well he won’t answer [Patterico sez: this is the one that'll get you]
- Any Democrat claims to be “concerned”
- Any mention of Guantanamo Bay [Patterico adds: or FISA, wiretapping, or strip-searching a 10-year-old girl]
- Feinstein says something that alludes to her being the token woman on the committee
This could kill you.
Quickly.
Comment by Dana — 1/11/2006 @ 8:44 am
Don’t try this at home kids!
Comment by Dwilkers — 1/11/2006 @ 8:58 am
You forgot “troubled.” That came up plenty.
Comment by SAZMD — 1/11/2006 @ 9:01 am
Was anybody else just watching Kennedy?
He just had a hissy fit demanding that Specter go into executive session to vote on a motion to subpoena copies of a magazine from the library of congress. It was fairly (here comes that word again) weird.
What’s going on with these guys? Are they drunk, or stupid…or crazy? Or are they just desperate?
Comment by Dwilkers — 1/11/2006 @ 9:44 am
Dwilkers asks:
You’re talking about the distinguished gentleman from Massachusetts, and you have to ask if he’s drunk?
Comment by Dana — 1/11/2006 @ 10:46 am
if you really want to get zapped try drinking every time Biden says, “uh”, or “um”, or “puzzled”
Comment by Specter — 1/11/2006 @ 12:01 pm
Specter wrote:
Now I know this is really Arlen Specter!
Comment by Dana — 1/11/2006 @ 12:05 pm
I’m hammered. Not as hammered as Teddy, but blotto nonetheless.
Killer rules.
How ’bout we get to drink every time we silently think to ourselves that a Senator is an idiot?
Hic
Comment by Old Dad — 1/11/2006 @ 1:41 pm
Alito ‘The Untouchable’
Alito seems to be significantly more forthcoming than Roberts, and he is offering solid defenses of his prior decisions…Now Senator Kennedy wants to subpoena the records of CAP. Someone needs to explain to Kennedy that
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Comment by Alexandra — 1/11/2006 @ 4:00 pm
The Alito hearings: Driving you to drink
… so you might as well play The Chuckie S. Drinking Game. Heh. Tip of the Fedora to my Pajamahadeen-sters.
Trackback by Brutally Honest — 1/11/2006 @ 4:26 pm
I’m baaaack.
The Senate has confirmed Judge Sam Alito to the Supreme Court. No – wait – they haven’t? I read Monday’s and Tuesday’s transcripts of the confirmation hearings and the senators on the Judiciary Committee were doing so much bloviating and self-congrt…
Trackback by Mark in Mexico — 1/11/2006 @ 7:27 pm
You forgot “troubled.”
You beat me to it–I was going to say “troubling.”
Thanks for the drinking game, Patterico. These hearings are so maddening, I have a headache that I fear ONLY a drinking game will cure. (Or at least a light-hearted post ABOUT a drinking game.)
Comment by Beth — 1/11/2006 @ 9:12 pm