I’m not going to live-blog the bloviations from Ted Kennedy in great detail, but I have to add something about Kennedy’s pulling out sentences from magazines and newspapers and demanding to know if Alito had ever read them. Isn’t this the same kind of treatment that Democrats complain that the PATRIOT Act would do to Americans — hold them responsible for their reading material? None of this has anything to do with Alito’s record as a judge, but because he mentioned the Prospect and National Review as magazines he may have read, now he’s being held responsible for every word they have ever published. I read the New York Times, and I hardly agree with anything they write.