So it’s finally trouser removal day for Buttercheeks. It may not stop at trousers, either. I suspect it’s going to get obscene unless he goes to Capitol Hill wearing multiple pairs of long underwear.

FDL is liveblogging.

*** Update 1, 7:27 am ***

I’m not pretending to live-blog, but I’ll add in my 2c worth from time to time through the day.

What a jerk! After all the weight training. After all the running up and down the steps with his pick of the finest trainers and coaches in the land, the finest that GOP/WH money can buy, he starts looking like a total jerk in the first 30 minutes. That’s unbelievable beyond belief.

Asked by Sen. Leahy roughly how much time absentee landlord Acting Associate Attorney General William Mercer spends in Washington D.C., Alberto refused to answer (I have to check). Asked whether it was more like a week a year or several months a year, Alberto refused to answer. This is absurd, to start out being this shifty and evasive.

Alberto presumably thought he was being smart-alecky when he said he prepares for every hearing. Asked if he prepared for press conferences too, he once again went through his best “I refuse to answer because I am just a shifty bastard” impression.