Friday, January 13, 2006

Verbosity Index

I thought this was interesting and thanks to the Nihilist? Here are the final numbers for the Senators during the questioning of Samuel Alito:

The percentage is, the percent of the words spoken by the Senator.

Kennedy (D-MA) ..... 8083 ... 66.5%2.
Biden (D-DE) ....... 7535 ... 70.8%3.
Schumer (D-NY) ..... 7231 ... 72.1%4.
Feingold (D-WI) .... 6593 ... 53.6%5.
Leahy (D-VT) ....... 6475 ... 54.6%6.
Hatch (R-UT) ....... 5762 ... 62.6%7.
Sessions (R-AL) .... 5609 ... 65.7%8.
Cornyn (R-TX) ...... 5594 ... 79.8%9.
Grassley (R-IA) .... 5413 ... 63.4%10.
Durbin (D-IL) ..... 5401 ... 49.8%11.
Graham (R-SC) ..... 5019 ... 71.3%12.
DeWine (R-OH) ..... 4901 ... 62.1%13.
Kyl (R-AZ) ........ 4386 ... 61.2%14.
Feinstein (D-CA) .. 4382 ... 44.8%15.
Kohl (D-WI) ....... 4357 ... 40.9%16.
Specter (R-PA) .... 4061 ... 57.4%17.
Coburn (R-OK) ..... 3416 ... 64.0%18.
Brownback (R-KS) .. 3319 ... 68.1%

Kind of puts an interesting statistical aspect as to which Senator actually wanted to hear answers and which ones wanted to pontificate....So the top five Senators that were more interested in what they wanted to say than Alito?

Cornyn (R-TX), Schumer (D-NY), Graham (R-SC), Biden (D-DE), Brownback (R-KS)

Who let Alito talk the most? Kohl (D-WI)
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6 comments:

Unknown said...

I'd say both, they think they are better than us so they think they can get away with the pompus blathering. Some of these "experts" that are testifying today are almost as amusing. Like the one professor who only looked at 50 of Alito's cases and made a determination from there. Hell I'm not a law professor and I've read more than 50 of his opinions. Maybe I should get to testify next time - lol

11:47 AM
Unknown said...

I heard the word "Scurrilous" alot.

:-)

2:40 PM
Scott G said...

I did enjoy listening to Cornyn. I think he has a crush on Judge Alito or something. He was up there, "And Judge Alito looks so good in his robe with his big bicepses and everything."

What was that about.

9:20 PM
Unknown said...

lmao - another failed tatic to make Alito nervous..

:-)

9:36 PM
Anonymous said...

Hey, Kohl did something right?!? Wow, now that really IS news!
--says the conservative in Wisconsin who never hears anything about Kohl unless A) he's in trouble, or B) is doing an unimpressive publicity stunt.

Now, taking that into consideration, I guess I should be glad that I rarely hear anything about Kohl then, huh?

5:20 AM
Hooda Thunkit (Dave Zawodny) said...

Lisa,

So, the hero and the culprits were split across party lines 3 - 3.

Does that mean that the "hearings" are fair and balanced...?




I didn't think so... ;-)

8:48 PM

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