Posted on 01/10/2006 4:14:05 AM PST by OXENinFLA
Had to be away from the thread for a time. What "gratifying" images to see upon my return. Ha! This has turned into a real "nailbiter" for the Dems. LOL.
Tell Megyn that one on your date.
I think one guy was doing cross word puzzles.
He was razed on it for quite awhile.
no way! I disagree-- Alito is being thoughtful-- not jumping on the bandwagon-- It is PERFECT! Lindsey is nailing the heck out of the DEM monta over the BUSH BASHING and at the same time- Alito is NOT jumping on it and grinning.. he is being thoughtful...and careful.....PERFECT!
shows very well that Alito DOES take LAW and PRECEDENCE to be the most important-- not partisanship....
BRILLIANT!
Graham always looks that way. I think it got that way when McCain made him his bitch.
Every SCOTUS nominee gets tortured having to listen to the 'Rats bloviate all day. That's US Senate Policy. If there was a single member of the Lamestream Media concerned about torture, they'd bring that up.
Did you leave your sense of humor outside?
I don't mind the line of questioning. The reason if comes off badly is that Alito hasn't outlined how the branches interact in wartime/peacetime mix. IOW, Graham has free reign to assert his own sense of how things should be. And recall that Graham is ex-JAG< and is likely biased toward military tribunal. ALito's function will be to balance military wishes with civilian wishes, in light of Congressional edict.
Graham should know this too, because he is the one who proposed a statutoty amendment to overrisde SCOTUS holding that Gitmo detainees were entitled to habeas (access to civilian courts), period. COngress has the power to set the prmeters, until in bumps into "execution of war" detail decisions. That law is emerging wher we now have terror "war" on our own soil. The answers can't emerge from this hearing.
I do agree that Congress and Courts have roles, so Lindsey has at least one thing right. ANyway, like you, I am not liking this unfolding of line of question AT ALL; but I do think it could have been (and should have been) a place for Alito to shine.
LMAO!
I think Graham is showboating.
Showboating? I think he's addressing issues on ground where others fear to tread.
Actually- I think this is perfect. Graham is allowing Alito to appear thoughtful and measured.
I'm with you!
No. LOL Megyn Kendall told me she fools around. Some guy who calls himself beyond the sea or something?
LMAO
Except for Feingold's Vanguard questions, Alito has been untouchable. I do think Feingold got under his skin a bit. Obviously, it got under Sen. Hatch's skin too.
Booo!
;-)
LOL! Maybe-- but I have seen Kennedy do it enough, I am not too bothered.....relieved.
I have been sick and tired of the REPUBS NOT standing up.... not nailing this crapt spin from the left... and HE IS STANDING UP!
Graham wants to advance the proposition that, if he and McCain get their legislation, the President's hands are tied. I don't like what he is doing at all.
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