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shawa
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 Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 1:04 pm Post subject: SAM ALITO IS THE NOMINEE |
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His nickname is "scalito", Scalia's MINI-ME!
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GM Strong
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Bravo! Let's go for it. If Dingy Harry, Schmucky Schumer and the other UltraLib Ilk want a fight, by gosh, take it to them. Nukem too.
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GM Strong
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Latest is that John McCain (R-Media) alias Capt. McQueeg is waffling looking for a way to get some advantage here. The ingrate talks to whacko Don Imawus. From Newsmax:
John McCain: Wait and See on Alito
Gang of 14 leader, Sen. John McCain declined to offer unqualified support Monday morning for President Bush's new Supreme Court pick, Sam Alito - saying he wanted to wait for confirmation hearings before fully endorsing the conservative judge.
"I've always been favorably disposed towards a president's nominee," McCain told radio host Don Imus. "I voted for Justice Ginsburg and Justice Breyer because I think elections have consequences. I didn't share their judicial philosophy."
However, asked directly if he would support Alito, McCain told Imus: "Well, I'm favorably disposed but I'd like to see what happens in the hearings."
"That's why we have hearings," McCain reminded. "We go through all the examination of people's records. I hope that we can get this thing done and get it behind us."
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Me#1You#10
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Any bets on how long it will take a Demo member of the Gang of 14 to apply an "extremist" label on Alito? Not long I'd venture...nuclear option here we come...and the sooner the better. (emphasis mine)
| Quote: | Parties Set Stage for Showdown on Court Choice
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
New York Times
October 31, 2005
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 - With the announcement of a new Supreme Court nominee expected as early as today, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, warned President Bush on Sunday not to pick one of the candidates said to be on the president's short list, Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr.
"I think it would create a lot of problems," Mr. Reid said on "Late Edition" on CNN.
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But Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, fired back Sunday, saying that if the Democrats staged a filibuster against Judge Alito or Judge Luttig because of their conservatism, "the filibuster will not stand."
Mr. Graham's warning was significant because he played a crucial role earlier this year in helping block a Republican effort to change the Senate rules - known as the nuclear option - so that Democrats could not filibuster judicial nominees. His comments on Sunday indicated that this time, he would support that rule change; Democrats have threatened to retaliate with a battle that could snarl Senate business for months.
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Good to see Lindsey Graham getting in front of this.... |
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GM Strong
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I think Graham had an epiphany of sorts after the gang of 14 debacle. He was apparently so swamped with letters and e-mails from all over(mine among them)from Republicans chiding him for his actions that it made him notice something. Hopefully, it stuck. Dewine and Voinovich got it worse. I hope they paid attention. McCain is another story, somebody needs to take that so-and-so to the woodshed. The Moonbats from Maine and the RI RINO will follow the leader.
As for the 7 Dems, I have to believe Joe Lieberman will be an honest man. KKK Byrd approved this man to the Apellate court and is in deep doo-doo for his re-election bid. Dems in Red states are doing a CYA. The rest is a guess.
I think the McCain Caucus or the Gang of 14, if you will, is about to evaporate.
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margie
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| on the anklebitingpundits.com site they are asking people to email or call the "gang of 14" re this . I hear that they are going to meet this Friday about the new judge. |
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becca1223
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http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/welcome.cgi
DEMOCRATS STICK FORK IN OWN HEADS
by Ann Coulter
November 2, 2005
What a difference a week makes! Last week, liberals were expecting big things. They were counting on special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and the White House to do their work for them.
On Friday, Fitzgerald was supposed to indict Karl Rove. Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld were going to be named unindicted co-conspirators. Maybe Condoleezza Rice too. Who knew maybe even Clarence Thomas. There was even talk of a posthumous indictment for Nixon.
It was going to be Fitzmas Day! (Which is much like Christmas except instead of having her baby in a manger, the woman has a late-term abortion.) Oh, it was hard to fall asleep on Fitzmas Eve!
But Friday came, and only Irve Lewis Libby was accused of committing any crimes. They were all crimes like perjury and obstruction of justice, personal to Libby, unrelated to the administration.
Fitzmas sucked. Instead of GI Joe and Mr. Machine, all Democrats got was a lousy cardigan sweater.
With the Democrats still reeling from Friday's sad news, Bush gave them a right-hook by nominating the stunningly qualified Judge Sam Alito on Monday. (So I guess not all qualified candidates for the Supreme Court turned Bush down before he nominated Miers.)
Not only is Alito qualified, but he also does not consider membership in the Federalist Society comparable to joining the Klan. In other words, this was just the sort of judicial nominee that would have terrified the White House a month ago.
Judge Alito's dear 90-year-old mother who evidently had not yet been briefed by White House political consultants to avoid stating positions popular with Americans immediately said of her son, "Of course he's against abortion."
As a judge on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, Alito voted to uphold a Pennsylvania statute passed by the legislature and signed into law by the governor that required women to notify their husbands before getting an abortion. (This was later deemed an "undue burden" by liberals' favorite Supreme Court justice, Sandra Day O'Connor.)
There is no question about Alito's qualifications. Democrats can only oppose him for his record, which will alarm a narrow segment of lunatics commonly known as "the Democratic Party base."
Now that timid Republicans are forced to face their fears, it turns out that liberal America was always a paper tiger. Americans are not rising in anger at a judicial nominee who would uphold a state law requiring husbands to be notified of their wives' abortions.
The only people attacking Alito for his abortion ruling are the usual nuts Planned Parenthood, NARAL, People for the American Way and senators from New York and California (or what CBS thinks of as "the American heartland").
So confident are the Democrats about the popularity of their stance on abortion that the day after Alito's nomination, Senate Democrats shut down the Senate so they wouldn't be forced to talk about Alito.
Minority Leader Harry Reid dramatically invoked an obscure Senate rule to close the Senate for two hours, putatively in order to rehash old arguments about the Iraq war in closed session. In other words, Reid demanded more transparency in government by shutting the doors, throwing out the public, dimming the lights, and turning off the TV cameras in the chambers of the U.S. Senate.
That night, the cable news shows were fixated on Reid's weird stunt and Senate Democrats narrowly avoided having to talk about Alito's abortion ruling for one more day.
If this is not a coincidence, let's see how long it takes Harry Reid to go on TV and state his position on a wife having to notify her husband before getting an abortion. Heck, I'd settle for seeing Harry Reid definitively adopt any position on legalized abortion.
The nuts are perplexed. Why aren't Senate Democrats screaming from rooftops: "This is a judge who would force women to tell their husbands before they have an abortion! Are you people listening?"
Maybe the Democrats aren't running from their base. Maybe they're trying to help NARAL by preventing anyone from finding out about their agenda. If only Democrats could get the American people to believe that a group with the words "abortion" and "rights" in its name is some kind of benevolent little charity that holds bake sales.
Believe me, you don't want the Democrats out there reminding the American people that it's a constitutional right to abort a baby five minutes before birth. I understand that People for the American Way thinks it is "the American way" for wives not to tell their husbands about an abortion. But that's because they need to get out more.
In a 2003 Gallup poll, 72 percent of respondents favored a law requiring the husband of a woman to be notified if she decides to have an abortion. To put it another way, only 28 percent of Americans hold the position that married men have absolutely no reproductive rights whatsoever (but a lot of responsibilities!).
Upward of 60 percent of self-described "liberals" and "Democrats" favored husbands being notified of their wives' abortions. This is consistent with polls going back a decade.
If these poll results don't sound right to you, try crossing Central Park sometime. You'll find another part of Manhattan that's not the Upper West Side. Or do something wild and visit Queens or Staten Island. You won't even have to leave New York City! See how normal people react to the idea of a woman being required to tell her husband that she's having an abortion.
In the past few years, the Democrats have had to run from big government, gun control, welfare, criminal rights and gay marriage. With the Alito nomination, it looks like the Democrats are going to have to renounce the NARAL ladies or prepare for another sad day after the 2006 elections.
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