So the Roberts hearings have started. I have them on in the background, but can't really pay attention. There are LOTS of lawyers in the blogosphere who will parse every word, but I can't be bothered. All I can say so far is that Specter seems to have a bug up his butt about a case in which the Court seems to have suggested that Congress is incompetent to legislate and Leahy is giving a stump speech about the horrors of Katrina and the incompetence of Bush, and Orrin Hatch doesn't think that Roberts needs to answer anything, and Kennedy is shocked that inequality exists in America. I can't listen any more.
If anything important happens I'll start paying attention again.
UPDATE:
Well, the opening statements are over. What seems to have impressed the commentators is the fact that while the Senators read their speeches, Roberts needed no notes, didn't stumble in his delivery, spoke in complex and grammatical sentences, and made his points clearly and concisely. In other words, he's better at what they do than the infoguys and gals are.
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