Posted on 01/10/2006 4:14:05 AM PST by OXENinFLA
ALITO CONFIRMATION HEARINGS
Questioning Begins Today
Each of the eighteen senators on the Judiciary Cmte. will have 30 minutes to question Supreme Court nominee Samual Alito today during round one. Sen. Arlen Specter, as chairman, will begin, then they will alternate by party in order of individual seniority. Round two starts on Wednesday.
lol
it's good to lol
basically, yes
cafeteria catholics pick and choose what they want to believe in
We heard that and laughed hysterically. I think Alito's put himself into a catatonic state so that he doesn't show anything. If he did, what he showed on his face about his true feelings could lose him votes.
"Good grief--Biden just insulted Princeton--and is trying to say that Alito has to be an O'Connor clone. Is trying to make Alito out to be "subtly" prejudiced!"
He's just a nut, anyway. He asked Alito a question(and thought he was so clever with his insinuations) and wasn't even interested in the answer. Spent his time looking over his evil documents. Anyway, they all are trying to see what will stick where a prejudice is concerned-the dumbos. But, Biden may now have Princeton University up-in-arms for his comment!!!
But BIDEN STILL DOESN'T GET IT- it's not about what is fair vs unfair...it's about what the LAW was.
OMG..Biden is appalling..there are no words..
Yep. This is a speech by Biden...not a question. Shut up Joe and file to run for Prez in '08, then your fan club will be the only ones who have to listen to your vanities...
LOL!!!
Your # 1,040 has me LOL!
i am having trouble watching and hunting and pecking on the keyboard with one hand
missing a lot i know
LOL! Good thing he didn't say that he wanted her hair!
. . . this should be fun . . .
obviously not! Look who she married!
I handled LOTS of discrimination cases for the Fed Gov: personality conflicts are NOT prima facia cases of discrimination. Most people are well-glazed over by Biden right now! What a BLOVIATOR!
Joe has more important things to do, like fighting wars and the such.....
"I only have 2 1/2 min left...let me drone on some more..."
Salutations, Levin has his own blog on NRO: First post:
The Race-Card Fallback Position
We knew it was coming; that is, the attempt to impugn Sam Alito by using the race card against him. You see, it’s a given in Washington, New York, Hollywood, and other liberal enclaves that conservatives are, by nature and philosophy, racist. And conservative presidents, as a matter of course, nominate racists to the bench — Bob Bork, Clarence Thomas (even though he is black, but that didn’t matter), Charles Pickering, Bill Pryor, and, now, Sam Alito. They’ve all been targeted this way.
Ironically, the party that defended slavery in the 19th century and segregation for much of the 20th century is the Democrat party. The governors who stood in schoolhouse doorways were all Democrats. The segregationist senators who filibustered the 1964 and 1965 Civil Rights Acts were all Democrats. The party that elected former Klansman Bob Byrd as its leader in the Senate for a decade was the Democrat party.
These are just some of the highlights of the Democrat party’s embrace of racism. That’s certainly not to say that every Democrat is a racist, or every Democrat during these periods was a racist. Indeed, many fought their own party. Many were involved in championing abolition and civil rights. But that’s not the point. The argument proffered by Patrick Leahy and Ted Kennedy, among others, makes no such distinction
During today’s Alito hearings, Leahy’s smear went something like this: Alito’s membership in a college group, in which an individual member wrote an absurd article about blacks, taints Alito as a racist. This is contemptible demagoguery, no matter how many times the Democrats use it against Republican judicial nominees.
For example, Ted Kennedy’s father was sympathetic to Adolf Hitler while he served as Franklin Roosevelt’s ambassador to Britain. Joseph Kennedy opened back-channels to the Third Reich. He was openly anti-Semitic. FDR had to recall him from his post. Now, what does that say about Ted Kennedy? Nothing — unless, of course, we adopt the smear by association tactics used against Alito. Indeed, Kennedy, Leahy, and every Senate Democrat who voted repeatedly for Bob Byrd to serve as their leader — a post he held for 12 years — is what, a pro-KKK racist? That’s absurd and offensive.
It’s hard to believe that the party that so abused race in the past is doing so again today. It’s also sad that the major media carry this message as if it has some legitimacy. To my knowledge, not a single mainstream journalist has shown the courage to condemn this disgraceful farce. Where’s Edward R. Murrow when you need him? [ 01/10/2006 12:41 PM ]
Biden says that the law is Alito's day job and that they (senators) have other things like war and foreign policy to deal with. Does not give Alito a chance to respond to his assertions.
Should have written
O'Connor used the same standard as Alito when a similar case went to the Supreme Court.
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