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The left-wing moonbats have been pounding their keyboards and telephone buttons since around January 27th in a fevered attempt to block the Alito confirmation. They’re pulling out all the stops, and their hair, in the effort. Their emotional roller coaster ride include fear, hatred, conspiracy paranoia, and fatalism. What do you do when your world is closing in around you and you’re gasping for air? Here are the DU moonbats in their own words: Onlooker (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-26-06 08:33 PM>br> Original messageSeems to me we desperately need something new about Alito For those Senators who have announced that they...

WASHINGTON - Sen. Rick Santorum's leading Democratic challenger, Pennsylvania Treasurer Bob Casey, announced Tuesday that he endorses Judge Samuel Alito's confirmation to the Supreme Court.For weeks, Republicans have called Casey "Silent Bob" and pressed him to say whether he supports Alito's confirmation. Casey and Alito have a family connection because Alito, who serves on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based in Philadelphia, sided with Casey's father, the late Gov. Bob Casey, in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The case challenged a state law requiring women seeking abortions to notify their spouses."I do not agree with everything that Judge Samuel...

Old blowhards don’t fade away, we learned again last week, they just serve as Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee. It was almost two decades ago that Sen. Joe Biden (D.-Del.) chaired the confirmation hearings that gave America a new verb: to Bork. When President Reagan nominated U.S. Appeals Court Judge Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, it was Biden who led his Democratic committee colleagues Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts and Patrick Leahy of Vermont in what was then the unprecedented trashing of a nominee of unquestioned professional qualifications and unblemished character. In 1991, in a committee still chaired by...

With confirmation hearings underway for Judge Samuel Alito, many conservative Christians are focusing on the abortion issue. In fact, many pro-life activists are hailing Alito as the man who would overturn legalized abortion in America. However, as is usually the case, most conservative Christians cannot see beyond the abortion debate to look at the bigger picture. Then again, myopia seems to be a permanent disorder affecting a majority of conservative Christians today, so why should things suddenly change now? For the record, Judge Alito probably finds abortion personally repugnant. It is certainly safe to say that Alito's opinions on abortion...

I’m sure many of you are too young, and the rest of you probably don’t remember the moment when Senator McCarthy’s putrid career came to an end. I remember it as if it were yesterday; I was a college student at Northeastern University, a cooperative college where you work at a course-related job for several weeks and then go to school for several weeks. I happened to be working at my co-op job at Dennison Manufacturing Company in Framingham, Massachusetts, where the company maintained a recreation area for their employees. We were at lunch watching the Army-McCarthy hearings on TV...

A pro-choice Republican who spoke with NEWSWEEK but didn't want her name used said she is more worried about Alito after hearing him testify, and wishes the Democrats would spend their time finding a candidate to beat Hillary Clinton in the primaries "or we're going to get four more years of judges like this." [snip] "Any activist will tell you they'd rather have the issue out there than to have it resolved," says this pro-choice Republican, who has worked on the Hill and for various Republican interest groups. "If Roe were overturned, we'd be electing Democrats as far as the...

Sen. Dick Durbin (D.-Ill.) made news Thursday when he told the Associated Press he didn't know if Democrats had the numbers to sustain a filibuster of Samuel Alito confirmation. "When you consider the numbers involved, it is unlikely," Durbin said. But how unlikely is it really? You can cast your vote in today's AlitoBlog.com poll. At least one moderate Democrat, Sen. Bill Nelson (D.-Fla.), and at least one Republican, Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R.-R.I.), said publicly Thursday they had not yet made up their minds on Alito. In Nelson's case, he'll decide after meeting with Alito. Chafee simply remains unsure how...

Mark Steyn on Joe Biden, the undisciplined lounge act, and his Democratic friends on the Judiciary Committee. HH: I'm joined by Mark Steyn, columnist to the world. You can read everything he has to say at Steynonline.com. Mark, I've got lots to ask you about the Alito hearings. But let's start with your general impression of the almost four days of blathering that's been going on in the Senate Judiciary Committee by Democratic Senators, and the resolute responses of Judge Alito. MS: Uh, sorry Hugh, I think you'll have to make that question a lot longer. After listening to Joe...

WASHINGTON -- Judge Samuel Alito emerged largely unscathed Thursday from three days of tough questioning by Senate Democrats and appeared poised for confirmation as the nation's 110th Supreme Court justice, with the future direction of the court in the balance. Alito, who would replace key moderate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, withstood days of pointed questions by Senate Democrats focused on issues related to abortion, presidential power and civil rights. If confirmed, he could hold the critical vote in those areas, but he did not reveal how he would decide such cases. Democrats had researched 15 years of Alito's decisions as...

Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans on Thursday charged their Democratic colleagues with trying to smear Samuel Alito's reputation and character because they haven't been able to find anything legally wrong with confirming him to the Supreme Court. Democrats argue that their questions are appropriate and they should delve into all aspects of a nominee for the highest court of the land, including the reasoning behind some of the his actions. "I know the judge probably thinks he's doing nothing here but being on the hot seat but we're talking about a lifetime appointment," the committee's ranking Democrat, Sen. Patrick Leahy of...