Joe Biden

Peggy Noonan likes his spirit. She muses, and this went through my mind too, that Sam Alito's ability to remain placid whilst listening to bull dookey was impressive. Roberts, too. How do they do it? And, is the ability to remain absolutely neutral in the face of complete dull-wittedness the new threshold for judicial greatness?

While Ms. Alito and some of Sam's underlings chafed at the personal invective (and shed tears too), I wish they could have had a more wide-angled view with a very long telephoto lense, like from where I sit. From this perspective, Sam Alito looked like a normal guy just trying to do his job and maintain his sense of humor while facing questioners who possess a fraction of his I.Q. and were therefore unworthy of parlay.