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

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[kcvl]

Per Fox News...

[PatriotGirl827]

"I don't think you're being honest if you deny that abortion is the big issue here too."

It is a big issue here, but at least most of us are on the side of life, along with the President.

[TheForceOfOne]

Agreed, if this was a game of "hot potato" the Republican Senators just caught the potato.

I hope this separates the men from the boys and makes it clear to all why the president nor I feel like we have the majority in Congress as it appears on paper.

Careers will be on the line if this choice fails.

[Callahan]

Insiders are saying this guy was always a Bush favorite, but he went with somebody outside the "monastary" with Miers.

I think Miers straight up told Bush she would follow Scalia on the court.

[carlr]

Are there 50 senators today who are ready to support the Constitution?
We shall see,but today is starting off as a GREAT day.

[tiredoflaundry]

[meowmeow]

Still a few problems remain, Alito would potentially replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. O’Connor was often the swing-vote on ethical issues making it a 5-4 win for the left side but with Alito as replacement this would swing the votes entirely the other way.

I don't see that as a problem.

[SpringheelJack]

Going to be hard to do that when he was one of the Senators that voted to confirm him to his existing Judgeship.

"I cast my vote for him in hope, and it distresses me to see that those hopes were dashed."

See? Easy.

[msnimje]

Thank goodness it isn't a woman, or a southerner or and Evangelical from a third rate school. /sarcasm

Nice choice Mr. President, nice choice indeed.

[crz]

This country truly is F%^Ked up and the whoring polititions have made it that way.

Although I am pleased to see this man put forth for the court, I am disgusted how the parties are now using even the court system for political gain and how the judges themselves have thrown all nuetrality aside and now rule from the bench as pawns for the political parties.
SIMPLY AMAZING! Separation of powers? HA, thats a laugh!

[TSchmereL]

I don't recall the MSM ever using the word pander when referring to a decision by a Liberal Democrat.

[mewzilla]

Great pick BUMP from Jersey

LOL. Apropos for today :)

[mathluv]

One thing we can all do is write/e-mail/call our congress critters, and remind them THEY work for US.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

"It's high time we had it out in this venue with the liberals; the base (myself included) is spoiling for a good fight along these lines. I look forward to it."

Some body builders make lousy boxers. They have the muscle, but they don't know how to use those muscles. I hope the GOP is learning on its feet. Then again, there are many in DC who really only use conservatives as an election tool. On the one hand, they will placate us publicly. And behind closed doors, they'll try to work out subtle ways to undermine true conservatives.

[tapatio]

This is what Lindsey Graham had to say to Schumer on Face the Nation yesterday about the Supreme Court pick.

GRAHAM: Well, number one, we're not going to let Senator Schumer define mainstream conservatism. He's my friend, but that's not going to happen. Here's why I was part of the Gang of the 14, and I'm going to lay it all out on the table for you on a Sunday morning. I'm not for filibustering. I think when you start ideologically driven filibusters that are partisan, you erode the people who want to serve over time in the judiciary because it becomes reprisal politics. `We're going to pay back the Democrats.' So partisan filibusters based on judicial philosophy or ideology erode the judiciary, weaken the presidency and hurt the Senate. So I wanted to stop that and we did. We had a chance to start over. But here's what you're going to get, Chuck. You're going to get a solid conservative. He ran on the idea that `I like Scalia and I like Thomas and I'm going to send a conservative up.' He is not going to pick someone in the mold of Sandra Day O'Connor because we tell him he has to. There's no ideological swap test here. He's going to do what he said he did in his campaign. Roberts was in that kind of mode. Alito, Luttig, all these people are solid conservatives, and if they're filibustered based on ideology and philosophy, that's setting aside an election and the filibuster will not stand.

[Moonman62]

The 55-year-old jurist was Bush's favorite choice of the judges in the last set of deliberations but he settled instead on someone outside what he calls the "judicial monastery,"

Laura never should have had a pick.

[gobucks]

Catholics move to the center of the {SCOTUS} bench.

Pretty good summary of the rise of Catholic Control of SCOTUS.

Miers Withdrawl: An omen of things to come.

Everything I predicted in this has come true but for one thing: he is not even a 'nominal' Southerner.

It is now formal: Conservative Protestant Southerners are VERBOTEN on SCOTUS.

[mainepatsfan]

The question is will the Dems force their hand by using the filibuster. If I were a moonbat I'd be demanding it.

[newzjunkey]

A CNN reporter just said that in one case, "Alito took an anti-abortion stance."

This epitomizes the liberal mindset on the role of the judiciary. They are completely results-oriented.

Amazing, isn't it? There's never acknowledgment of the facts that overturning Roe returns the question of abortion to the states. What little I've heard about it, Alito was correct in saying the law in Casey was constitutional. It didn't require permission, only notification and only if the husband was the father. That's the very least one should do.

[Right_in_Virginia]

I believe the word they prefer is "nuanced" ;-)

[LRS]

Hennican asserted the case was husband consent, but it really was husband notification. The DEMs will lie, twist and misdirect.

It will be presented as a rape and a forced pregnancy before too long...