That’s the title of my new Confirmation Tales post, which also includes a link to a famous scene in Animal House as well as John Kerry’s generous shout-out to me on the Senate floor. Here’s an excerpt:
John Kerry couldn’t bother to hang around D.C. for the Senate debate on the Alito nomination. As the New York Times reported, he “was in Davos, Switzerland, mingling with international business and political leaders at the World Economic Forum.” What better way for the plutocrat-by-marriage to confront the challenge of climate change than to be flown in his private plane across the Atlantic to hobnob with the cosmopolitan elites?
Kerry, who had lost the presidential race to Bush in 2004, had hopes of winning the Democratic nomination again in 2008 and was eager to curry favor with the party’s liberal activists. From Davos (per same NYT article), Kerry “began calling fellow Democratic senators in a quixotic, last-minute effort for a filibuster to stop the nomination”: “Democrats cringed and Republicans jeered at the awkwardness of his gesture, which almost no one in the Senate expects to succeed.”
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