Meet the Press funny:
MR. RUSSERT: Do you believe your Republican colleagues will support 40-percent reduction for retirees who make $90,000?
SEN. ALLEN: I haven’t done a wimp check. I don’t know. All I can do is speak for myself. And if we could work…
Heh. I have run a quick check, and turned up with one from the Tennessee delegation. Should be whip; a Freudian slip in the transcript.
But here’s some intentional humor:
MR. RUSSERT: Let me turn to federal judges. Court of Appeals: Bill Clinton nominated 51 people to the Court of Appeals. Thirty-five were confirmed. Sixteen were blocked by the Republicans by not giving hearings or not allowed out of committee. George Bush nominated 52. Thirty-five were confirmed because the Democrats threatened filibuster. They don’t run the committees, so they can’t block it in committee. What’s the difference?
SEN. ALLEN: I think you’ll find on the Circuit Court judges that President Bush has the lowest percentage of Circuit Court judges…
MR. RUSSERT: I just gave you the numbers. Clinton nominated 51; 35 were confirmed. Bush nominated 52; 35 were confirmed. Those are the numbers.
SEN. ALLEN: Well, I have different numbers than that. The reality is that some of President Clinton’s nominees were blocked in committee. They did not–and a lot of them were also brought up at the very end of his term.
End of his term? That justifies it?
It was pretty comical watching Allen squirm in the face of his own hypocrisy.