Ever joyless Pat Leahy, with a daring necktie, here makes a House of Lords pompous statement re his meeting with Sonia Sotomayor and his summertime plans, as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, for hearings on her nomination. The centerpiece of the senator's toothless remarks were not the clever rhetoric about life experiences from the South Bronx, South Chicago and South Burlington, Vermont (nice mix and match) but rather the darts thrown at the close of this edited video at the "vicious attacks."  Leahy scored easy debating points when he focused on the unforced errors last week by the Noveau Demagogues to make reference to the Klan.   "...when you have vicious attacks by leading Republicans call her the equivalent of the head of the KKK, calling her a bigot .. totally false and outrageous charges...."   The White House has handed off Sotomayor to veteran bloviators on both sides of the aisle, all of whom have, on their better days, reinvigorated the words boor and hypocrite to make them into meritorious avocations.  The last remaining question -- nothwitstanding a thrilling Clarence Thomas/ Robert Bork scale event -- is how big the box office on the first day of the Sotomayor hearings when the judge can, in her opening remarks, determine if there are 95 or 99 votes for her confirmation.