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Scroll down for updates/liveblogging of hearing…2:45pm Eastern. I’m adding some of the key slides Gen. Petraeus used in his testimony (thanks to Jack Holt). Click to enlarge:

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Testimony starts at 9:30am. You can get the C-SPAN livestream here.
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As Gen. David Petraeus [...]

And look who has front-row media seats.

Er, um.

No-no.

Cold air.

The Windbag from Massachusetts wins hands down today. John Hinderaker at Power Line nails him:
The Democrats evidently aren’t happy with the release of the “key judgments” of the National Intelligence Estimate on global terrorism, because now they’ve demanded that the White House release the entire report.
That will get them what they’re looking for, i.e., headlines [...]

Ted Kennedy opens his mouth…
Allah sez:
Go, watch, laugh, and try to follow his logic when he comes out strongly in favor of a virtual fence — which, if it turns out to be a successful deterrent, logically should result in just as many immigrant deaths as the non-virtual version.

This morning’s MSM suck-up watch spotlights Reuters’ rehabilitation of Teddy Kennedy. Here’s the headline of reporter (term used loosely) Thomas Ferraro’s slobbery piece:
At 74, U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy still roars
Let the obsequiousness begin:
At 74, Edward Kennedy still roars as one of America’s leading liberal voices, longest serving U.S. senators and most polarizing political figures.
While most [...]

Vote: 58-42.
“Without objection, so ordered.”
Breitbart/AP:
The former U.S. appeals court judge will quickly be sworn in at the Supreme Court before his expected appearance at Bush’s annual State of the Union speech Tuesday evening with the White House’s other new Supreme Court judge, Chief Justice John Roberts. Alito will be ceremonially sworn in a second [...]

We’re an hour and a half into the hearings and I need to hear no more. It’s all about the Dems beating dead horses. Over and over again. Unitary executive. CAP. Vanguard. Vanguard. Vanguard.
John Podhoretz marvels: “A Kennedy who has never known a moment’s worry about money is now grilling a lifelong middle-class public servant [...]

Why is this woman crying?

The Political Teen has the video of Judge Alito’s wife breaking down as Sen. Lindsey Graham offers an apology for the past three days of relentless smear attacks by the Dems.
I’ve isolated video of Sen. Graham’s apology:

Download the video (.wmv file). 3.5MB.
I have many differences with Sen. Graham, but [...]

To save you the trouble of sitting through the Democrats’ unrelenting condescension, arrogance, and Category 5 windbagginess, I bring you a video clip of today’s Alito confirmation hearings that epitomizes the Left’s desperation.
You’ve read by now of Teddy Kennedy’s ridiculous call to subpoena the papers of William Rusher, former National Review publisher who helped found [...]

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Robert Bluey at Human Events Online has the results of yesterday’s AlitoBlog poll: Which Democratic senator was the biggest windbag at the Judiciary Committee’s round of opening statements about Judge Samuel Alito?
With 500 votes cast, Kennedy received 69.6% of the vote — far outpacing his nearest rival, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.), who [...]