The Senatorial Sideshow

As loyal reader RB noted, former Senate aide Manuel Miranda has been doing terrific work at the Journal with his columns on the nomination hearings for Judge Roberts. We particularly loved this line in yesterday's column about Joe Biden...

Mr. Biden has a lot to gain or lose from his role. He will ask Mr. Roberts about the commerce clause of the Constitution and be downright angry that the Supreme Court has dared to strike down some laws he has sponsored. Mr. Biden graduated near the bottom of his law school class, and he will show it in two ways: He will spend more time posing his questions than listening to the answers, and he will mention terms like "constitution in exile" as if he were a scholar.

Hey, that's still better than Chuck Schumer's gratuitous references to himself...

Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) made 49 first-person references in a 10-minute statement that was, ostensibly, not about himself.

(hat tip: Best of the Web) Hey, he had a camera on him -- that's unusual for Chuckles.