Senate Judiciary Committee (refresher):

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Ben Cardin
These are the Senators who will be questioning Ricci the firefighter at Sotomayor's hearing:

Dick Durbin
Russ Feingold
Dianne Feinstein
Al Franken
Ed Kaufman
Amy Klobuchar
Herb Kohl
Pat Leahy
Chuck Schumer
Arlen Specter
Sheldon Whitehouse (yesssssss)

Oh... these are the (R) members:
Tom Coburn
John Cornyn
Lindsey Graham
Chuck Grassley
Orrin Hatch
Jon Kyl
Jeff Sessions

[cali]

1. you forgot someone- and why will Al Franken not

be able to participate?

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2. Oops (Leahy) - Fixed. As I understand, Franken won't be able to actively participate until

the "mark-ups" are completed. That's what Harry Reid said.

[cali]

3. Thanks. I'm still confused about Al, though

and just for the record, Pat Leahy is the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and the person who control the Hearing process.

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4. You're right, Cali. This only applies to the HELP committee. Thanks again, I fixed it.

[cali]

5. Thanks. I'm looking forward to seeing Al participate in the

confirmation hearing process.

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6. What're the odds that Ricci slips and says something racialist?

I'm guessing very low, as I'm not sure he's a racialist (just wanted a promotion/money), and he's gonna be coached to death by GOP to avoid anything like that.

Of course, the GOP are the geniuses who brought us such winners as Sarah the Ex-Governor and Joe the Plumber. Maybe Frank the Fireman will be the next "great icon to save the Republican Party" / children's book character.

Nothing would make me happier than to see another one of these "regular folks" blow up in their face.

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7. All the coaching in the world won't protect him from Whitehouse.

[cali]

8. yeah, but Whitehouse won't stop the pukes from elevating him to

Joe the Plumber repuke idol status.