The Chief Justice brought his notes so he wouldn't screw the oath up again. I'd hate it if Peter Boyles had another pissant issue to latch onto for the next four years.
Democrats better find a backbone, the kind that Howard Dean so generously transplanted back in '04, hang on to it, leave these whiny, anti-democratic, obstructionist Republicans in the dust and start to lead and exert the will of the people. Not the will of Grover Norquist and Mitch McConnell and Pete Peterson.