Posted on 11/03/2005 2:20:13 PM PST by smokeman
Alito hearings not to begin until January 9 at noon, according to Specter. Floor vote on 20th, the chairman hopes.
This still sucks!
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can't have enough time to dig dirt on Judge Alito!!!
Specter looks in terrible health.
One wonders what dealmaking went on behind the scenes to come up with this date?
A slap at the pres who wanted confirmation by years end? RINO's who agree to such silliness? Well, maybe they made a deal for no filibuster if the hearings were delayed until after O'Conner could vote on more cases. (yeah, right...the dems would make such a deal or live up to it.)
I just wonder what makes the majority party act so wimpy.
Have them November 9, dammit, and get the business of the people MOVING--let him have an up or down vote.
GW might invoke executive privilige here... he has tha tright you know... just like the libs had a right to hold a closed door meeting
Specter cited the many cases that Alito has participated in as one of the reasons for a delay. That is phony. He has been on the A list for a long time and they have fully studied his record. Their briefing books are already compiled. There was some brief mention of "other documents" (Leahy stuck a note in front of Specter to remind him). I thinks we will hear more about that since the judicial decisions are already out there and are pretty much a dead end for the dems since Alito is such a straight arrow in that regard.
The DIMs and RINOs, particular Specter, number ONE issue is abortion. They think with time, they'll garner enough opposition to mount an attack on Judge Alito since they CAN'T come up with anything against him.
One good thing is, however, they're on the WRONG side on this issue and the whole country won't buy into their stupid argument.
RECESS APPOINTMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Old Arlen was ready to rush Miers through, now he is dragging his feet on Alito.
Frist and other Republicans need to light a fire under Specters @ss.
"Specter looks in terrible health.
I thought he looked a bit better than he did about a month ago.
Chemo/Cancer can really kick you down a few notches.
"Why can't they just get the show on the road"
There is a case dealing with abortion coming up before the Supreme Court this month, so they wanted to drag it out for awhile. I am sure some other important cases are around the corner as well.
Plus, dirt digging is time consuming work.
Recess appointment time...just like Bolton
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