Bush: Judge Samuel Alito is new choice for Supreme Court nominee

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[Allen H]

100% Correct! The more democrats that start sounding like reid, the better for the chances of adding a few REAL conservatives to the Senate next year. And maybe even replacing some of the RINOs with real Republicans. Not the gutless RINO 7, though Lindsey Grahm sure seems pretty conservative. Is he really a RINO? If so, he sure talks a good game. 8)

[duckln]

'gang of 14' IMO should be 'gang of 7'.

The McCain and Linsey gang is 7 strong and independent, and have their own leaders, McCain and Linsey. They have accomplished a coup by permitting the 'filibuster'. The 7 on the Democrat side are 'surrogates' and the are not a gang. In that their leader is their caucus. Referring to a gang of 14 dilutes the complicity of the 7.

It's a slick senate Democrat trick to provide cover for acting president McCain and vice president Linsey.

[Mo1]

John McCain: Wait and See on Alito
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1512522/posts

[blazneyez]

http://www.darkharbor.com/snoopydance/

[AFPhys]

So you concede that Miers met all the requirements set by the Constitution?

[maica]

I did not subscribe to the argument that a strong conservative could not be confirmed. I am always waiting and hoping for the Rs in congress to act like strong advocates for conservatism.

I think today is no longer the time to rehash the merits of the Miers nomination. So I will refrain from making any other points. Please allow me to just add that I was not referring to you, in particular, when I commented about the lack of hue and cry about "legislating from the bench." I was referring to the weeks of anti-Miers punditry.

[MikefromOhio]

Now we will see if George Bush has the balls to do what we elected him to do.

Bush has done his part already. Now it's up to the Senate.

[PMCarey]

Sounds like Bush hit a home run with this one after an infield fly with Miers.

An excellent analogy. And with the Infield Fly Rule in effect, Miers was out while the ball was still in the air.

[Cboldt]

Laura Ingraham calls this nomination "fantastic on every level." Another good sign.

I believe ALL of the "out of favor" pundits will strongly support this nomination. IT'll be interesting if that returns them to "in favor" status, or further entrenches the people who were emotionally invested in the Miers nomination.

[OXENinFLA]

Brit is up after the break..

[Denver Ditdat]

The news of the indictment of Scooby Lewis, chief of staff of Vice-President Cheney did not fall well and is just another speck in a streak of bad news.

[Rodney King]

when they were filibustering Brown, Owens and Pryor, and just as unConstitutional with that behavior.

I can't believe that you possibly equate a Senate rule that tries to create a 60-vote super majority with people posting their thoughts on a message board. More likley, I think you are just being a sore loser about Meirs.

[blazneyez]

http://www.darkharbor.com/snoopydance/

[Allen H]

Now come on, Bush has done a LOT to help the military. Increase funding across the board, and instead of closing bases that the military still wanted, they're consolidating ones that are not major, allowing more funding. And Bush has allowed for things the military needed for years with clinton and couldn't get. I no longer hear stories of Carriers at sea out of spare parts and having to jury rig something, for lack of funding for parts, and things like that, and I ALWAYS heard that kind of story from my military family and friends during the clinton years. The military is MUCH better and larger and more dangerous now than when clinton left office.

[Rodney King]

So you concede that Miers met all the requirements set by the Constitution?

Of course, as is Pee Wee Herman.

[Alberta's Child]

"Hail to the Italian-Americans" ping. LOL.

[maica]

Hopefully, Corzine will present him to the Committee after he has been defeated for Governor of NJ!

[Uncledave]

She (Ginsberg) may die before then, she is fighting cancer.

Do you have a source for this?

[jec41]

All those who wanted the "nuclear option" now have it. But has anyone thought we might lose. Nuclear war is painful--even the knuckle dragging, Neanderthals from the Red states know that.

The nuclear option means that Senators must vote to give up some of their individual power. Some Senators that are for the nominee will not vote to resend their own filibuster power if he is filibustered. The Republicans must win this fight or any nominee can be filibustered. it is far from a sure thing and why the nuclear option was not used before. The Republicans did not have the votes. What has changed?

[AFPhys]

You "were demanding an originalist scholar" by denying the importance of an originalist reading of the Constitution.

That is the crux of the problem and the precedent set up by the defeat of Miers by the "conservatives" who no longer are originalists themselves.