Sep
22
2005

catching the photo bug

In today’s “Washington Sketch,” the Post’s Dana Milbank describes how senators Orrin Hatch and Joe Biden futzed with their cameraphones during boring moments in the Roberts confirmation hearings. I don’t know if this is a statement about the photo-taking senators’ dedication to their day jobs, or a statement about the hearings themselves. (“At Roberts Hearings, Bored Senators Become Photojournalists” - 09/22/05)

It happened for the first time shortly after Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) observed that the “hearings were dignified.” Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) whipped out his camera phone and snapped a photo of Leahy.

Admiring the result of his amateur photography, Hatch went on to compose a digital photo album of Orrin’s Excellent Adventure during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation vote for John G. Roberts Jr.’s nomination to the Supreme Court.

I wish that photo album was online somewhere. I don’t see anything on Hatch’s Web site.

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Posted at 4:36 PM in photos, politics & bureaucracy

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