Idiots On Parade, Part II...

Daniel Drezner has a contest going and he is looking for the single dumbest thing said by a Senator during the conformation hearings of Judge Samuel Alito.  Here are my two entries so far:

Senator Diane Feinstein

ALITO: What I said in the opinion and what I will reiterate this afternoon is that it would have been a very different case for me. I don't think I can express an opinion on how I would have decided a hypothetical case.

FEINSTEIN: It's not hypothetical. I'm just asking you, if there were findings as you said, you might have sustained the law.

Not knowing the meaning of the word hypothetical should get you thrown out of the Senate immediately.

And from the right comes Senator Arlin Specter:

And the court has made these decisions on all of the important subjects. The court decided who would be president of the United States in Bush v. Gore. The court decides who lives on a woman's right to choose, who dies on the right to die, on the death penalty, on every critical decision.

With friends like this...

***UPDATE***  If you have come here by way of the contest, thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out the rest of my little corner of the web.