Another Lost Opportunity (New York Times Whines and Cries About Alito Nomination)

New York Times ^ | November 1, 2005 | The Editors

[goldstategop]

They never offer any principled arguments for opposing Alito. Just the same tired old playbook cliches. And the DU Dummies are not exactly big on ideas...

("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")

[goldstategop]

Hardly extreme. After all the purpose of the provision to give a husband a say in the life of his child. Its not just the wife's baby. It takes TWO people to conceive a child. A fact that seems to be lost on the Left.

("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")

[CFC__VRWC]

"The nominee should be given a serious hearing." fair trial, followed by a first class hanging."

What the NYT really wanted to say.

[GOPJ]

Did the Times advocate replacing Harry Blackmun, Republican nominated by Nixon, with a conservative or were they happy when Clinton replaced him with Democrat Breyer?

I'm going to go out on a limb here, but my guess is they were happy with the dem...

[Edgerunner]

My sister is a committed NY leftist, and never fails to read the Times. She always has a rough time during family gatherings - she gets the Times every morning and the rest of us sit and read the NY Post. This kills her. We are so uncouth.

uncouth=properly informed?

[rightinthemiddle]

The Gray Lady has fallen and she can't get up.

[Eddie01]

The Editors:

Schummer, Kennedy, Reid, Feinstein...

[MadIvan]

When liberals cry, one knows one is on the right track.

Regards, Ivan

[jw777]

"The solution to almost every problem seems to be either to rely on a close personal associate or to pander to his right wing."

Why would he rely on anyone but his close personal associates? I don't recall Clinton relying on anyone but close, personal associates or pandering to anything other than the left!

And for the record, NYT's: Bush pandered plenty to you leftist pigs. It got him nowhere!

[airborne]

They long for the Miers era!

[Steve_Seattle]

"What a choice of words. Oh, yeah, and it's outrageous that a woman has to notify her husband before trying to murder his unborn kid."

As usual, the NYT attempts to find a prohibition of bad law (assuming, for the sake of argument, that the husband-notification provision was bad law) in the text of the Constitution. The Constitution leaves most matters to the discretion of the state legislatures, and obviously says nothing about abortion, explicitly or implicitly. But the NYT believes that any law that they find objectionable must somehow be unconstitutional, so "penumbras and emanations" must be discovered to strike down the offensive laws. It is typical anti-democratic, Leftist arrogance.

[Steve_Seattle]

Bush needs to say something like this: "The portrayal by the Democrats of any moral opposition to abortion, or of efforts to regulate abortion by law, as "extremism" are an insult to the millions of Americans of all faiths and no faith who find abortion a morally troubling issue. Up until Roe v. Wade, most states restricted abortion in some manner or other, and these laws were not manifestations of extremism, but of the mainstream reverence for nascent human life that is the hallmark of a civilized society. Of course, in a democracy, opinions will vary even on the most profound moral issues, and people will at different times and places respond to those issues according to their best judgment. And these judgments are best expressed by the people's elected representatives, not dictated once and for all by judicial fiat. In our system of government, the Supreme Court was never intended as the final arbiter of all moral issues, but only of those matters explicitly addressed by the Constitution."

[Cautor]

Bush has put old Pinch in a pinch. And the Slimes is going down too...what fun.

[jw777]

Nice. I just don't understand how the Dem party can literally run on that one item, every single cycle. If you took abortion away from the debate, they'd have no constituents!

[devolve]

 AN OFFER YOU CAN'T REFUSE 

[Wil H]

They never offer any principled arguments for opposing Alito

Well they wouldn't, would they? - There aren't any !

[Grampa Dave]

The real lost opportunity is anyone who has invested in NY Slimes stock the last year. The stock of this lying spinning wing of the DNC is falling like it is a Dying Duck with bird flu.

[Grampa Dave]

"Bush has put old Pinch in a pinch. And the Slimes is going down too...what fun."


Company news from MSNBC and the wires
• New York Times earnings drop by more than half
• N.Y. Times Earnings Fall in Third Quarter
• NYT reports steep drop in earnings
• New York Times cutting 500 workers

The above lists the real lost opportunities for workers for the NY Slimes and investors in the NY Slimes.

[Cautor]

Thanks Grampa. The demise of the MSM rags can't happen soon enough to suit me. And it's coming.