Goodnight Mary Jo

Teddy *hiccup* Kennedy has been a busy boy lately. Now he's going to be a children's author:

Meet the latest children's author, Sen. Ted Kennedy, and his Portuguese Water Dog, Splash, his co-protagonist in "My Senator and Me: A Dogs-Eye View of Washington, D.C."

Isn't it ironic enough that his dog's name is Splash? I was hoping he'd name the book Goodnight Mary Jo.

If the dog is going to realistically portray its master in the coming Kennedy tome, then it will go around half drunk, growl at all Republicans, and hike its leg and pee on Bush judicial nominees.

In other Teddy news, the bloviating Massachusetts senator will have a big role in the Alito hearings which began Monday. He seems to be suffering from a little confusion regarding past presidential elections.

"Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), hosting a morning roundtable with reporters, had nothing nice to say about Alito... Briefly, Kennedy rewrote the outcome of the 1964 election. 'This nominee was influenced by the Goldwater presidency,' he said. 'The Goldwater battles of those times were the battles against the civil rights laws.' Only then did Kennedy acknowledge that 'Judge Alito at that time was 14 years old'" -- Washington Post's Dana Milbank.

He was probably thinking about that 1980 race when he beat Jimmy Carter in the primaries. Oh wait, that didn't happen either.

And then there's this from today's Alito hearing (h/t Special Report):

In Monday's hearings, Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy expressed concern over an "academic study," which he said showed that Supreme Court Nominee Samuel Alito ruled against individual rights in 84 percent of his dissents — arguing that "average Americans have had a hard time getting a fair shake" in Alito's courtroom.

National Review reports, however, that Kennedy himself commissioned the study by liberal University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein. What Kennedy did not mention is that in addition to his statistical conclusions, Professor Sunstein also found that "Judge Alito's opinions are carefully reasoned, well-done, attentive to law, lawyerly, and unfailingly respectful to his colleagues," adding, "the law, fairly interpreted, could well be taken to support" Alito's view.

And finally, Teddy tried some outright lying in today's session. Hugh Hewitt even asked his far-left legal scholar guest about it:

Duke University Law Professor Erwin Chemerinsky, a legal scholar of the way left, was a guest on today's show, and I pressed him on Senator Kennedy's outrageous lie today in his opening statement, when Kennedy said "Judge Alito has not written one single opinion on the merits in favor of a person of color alleging race discrimination on the job. In fifteen years on the bench, not one."


HH: And so Erwin, I come back to you...You would also agree, though, that Ted Kennedy was just flat out wrong today.?

EC: I agree he way overstated...

HH: Wait, wait. That's not the same. Was he wrong?

EC: He was wrong. I'm not denying that.

I hope all the extra attention from the Alito hearings don't cause the senator to start drinking (before his usual 9am starting time).