. <--- Typical dimocRAT kook-fringe base voter
Posted on 11/03/2005 9:18:49 AM PST by kingattax
DEMOCRATS are getting cold feet about starting an abortion fight over Supreme Court nominee Sam Alito — because if they do, they could lose big-time in the court of public opinion. Alito backed a law requiring a woman to notify her husband before an abortion. The Supreme Court disagreed.
But Americans — by a nearly 3-1 majority — agree with Alito, so the fact that he might shift the court could be a plus.
In all, 72 percent of Americans favor spousal-notification laws, according to a 2003 Gallup Poll, and an equally lopsided margin thinks teens under 18 should have to tell their parents before an abortion.
Most Americans want legal abortion, but they want it more restricted. If the abortion debate centers on whether to tell parents or a husband, it's a loser for pro-choice Dems.
So some Dems want to blast Alito on machine guns — he opposed a federal law barring private ownership.
But it was a narrow ruling, and the truth is, Dems seem privately resigned that Alito will be confirmed.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
They can't win so why fight? They'd just look like babbling fools.............But that never stopped them before.........
2-0 in the SCOTUS game.
It was amazing how Bush worked so hard to avoid a fight with the Dems in making a Supreme Court pick, and when Bush finally comes around and appoints a paper trail conservative, all the Democratic threats seem to disappear. I guess rats do not like the light of day being shined on them.
Like, Duh. But they're telling the wrong "truth". They don't want to set a precedence and have it jammed down their throats when they do have the Whitehouse. It would make them look like "jerks" twice.
I like the second part of your link:
" Some Republicans point to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as they question why special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald felt a need to bring perjury charges against ex-White House aide "Scooter" Libby in the CIA leak case.
They note that independent counsel Robert Ray (he replaced Ken Starr) concluded that then-First Lady Clinton made "factually false" statements under oath about her role in Travelgate, but didn't charge her.
In fact, Ray claimed that Clinton had eight chats with top White House aides that contradict her claims of no Travelgate role.
Fitzgerald cites the exact same number of accounts that conflict with Libby's.
There was no basic crime in Travelgate — the Clintons had a right to fire travel staffers.
And Libby isn't charged with illegally outing CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, nor does the indictment even claim that she was a covert agent. "
ROTF! The Dems' kook-fringe base isn't gonna like that....
2-0 in the SCOTUS game.
Don't forget Miers...I was a Miers supporter but even I will agree that W "walked" a few DIM batters with that one...Fortunately the other side did not score...W returned with the high heat with Alito pick...
you all need to read this post on a lib website I just came across. Put a smile on my face from ear to ear...
Dems MUST Filibuster
Senators Reid, Durbin, Dorgan, Leahy, Schumer, Nelson, Pryor, and Landrieu,
The decisions that are made in the next five to seven days will determine the future of jurisprudence in this country for the next 30 years. Do not let Bush, Rove, and Boyden Gray tactically out maneuver you by playing Alito up in the press as a moderate thinker. The progressive half of this country and the U.S. Senate Democratic Caucus must not allow a president who was installed into office by a 5 to 4 party line Supreme Court vote, to pack the U.S. Supreme Court for the next several generations with an extreme right wing ideologue at the very moment when the country is mourning (from Hurricane Katrina) the death and maiming of the very disadvantaged people who have been thrown away and abandoned by radical right-wing, government-is-always-the-problem economic policies. If Bush, Boyden Gray, Ed Meese, and other right-wing thinkers succeed in packing the Supreme Court this year with a clear Constitution-in-Exile adherent, at the very moment that no holds barred classist and racist extreme-capitalism has been shown to be an ideology that works to forsake the least among us, then something about America and what is good in humanity will indeed have been forsaken forever. Hurricane Katrina happened just a few weeks ago, and conservatives have already completely dismissed it, and moved onto to their ideological dream of taking over the Supreme Court. Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, David Brooks, and a small handful of other inside the Beltway ideologues do not own this entire country.
Every major opinion poll that has been released in the last six months shows that 70% of Americans think that the Democratic Party should fight Bush much more than they currently are. Bush and the GOP have been majorly bloodied by Miers, Libby, Iraq, and gas prices. As Mark Tushnet, Jeffrey Rosen, and other leading progressive legal scholars have made clear on TV and on the internet, Alito is to the right of Scalia and Thomas. THIS NOMINATION IS the battle that will decide the future of the Supreme Court for 20 to 30 years into the future. All of the filibusters for the Appeals courts seats that took place earlier this year will mean nothing if Alito gets on the court. His seat means more than all the Appeals court seats combined. Dems must wage this fight by filibustering. Even if the GOP pulls the nuclear trigger option, Dems will still win the fight, because Alito's authenticity as a validly seated judge will always be questioned because it was done via the nuclear option. A counterfeit nuclear option justice will undermine the extreme right wing's never abating designs on important Warren Court precedents, that should remain part of the American legal system. Dems MUST FILIBUSTER. There is no point in saving the filibuster for a rainy day. The GOP could pull the nuclear trigger at anytime anyway. If not now, when? If not this, what? There will be no better time to take Bush on than now.
And leftist politicians and interest groups have indulged in so much hyperbole over the years that their frenzied denunciations of a Republican president’s Supreme Court nominees has become little more than white noise for the normal American.
Sums it up nicely....the DEMS have railed for so long on so many issues....the public has tuned them right out.
He will be difficult to oppose without sounding like a nut, although that won't stop the left from trying.
. <--- Typical dimocRAT kook-fringe base voter
They are more apt to go all out when a true left leaning justice is being replaced with a more conservative leaning nominee. The current replacements won't change the court nor the leanings that much I don't believe.
What law banning private ownership? There isn't one that I know of.
The Miers pick is making less and less sense. Bush got some very bad advice from somebody on that one.
That is odd logic. A judges descion can not be questioned. It is not subject to popular opinion. It is not like his vote is going to count less. The Dems would actually be stupid to filibuster simply because it will give the GOP a tool to use against the next Democratic President to stop their SC appointments. The GOP are in position to nuke the filibuster, the Dems probably would not be.
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