Senators Try To Pin Gorsuch <br>As Confirmation Evolves <br>Into Elaborate Charade
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What a charade. The Senate confirmation hearing for President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee is liable to drive Americans nuts. There ought to be a way to suspend the senators’ pay for every hour one of them talks.
Or wheezes. I mean, I’m pushing 71 and it takes me an hour to answer the phone. But I’ve got nothing on Senator Patrick Leahy. In Vermont, they’ve got a horse-drawn plow that talks faster than he does.
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