Posted on 01/11/2006 6:02:49 AM PST by prairiebreeze
(CNSNews.com) -- "Judge Alito Proves a Powerful Match for Senate Questioners," read the headline of a "news analysis" piece in Wednesday's New York Times.
The report described Alito as an "elusive target" for Senate Democrats who are determined to paint him as an extremist. "For nearly eight hours, Judge Alito was placid, monochromatic and, it seemed, mostly untouchable," the New York Times opined.
The Los Angeles Times on Wednesday compared Democrats on the Judiciary Committee to a "guerilla army searching for a weak point in a heavily guarded fortress...as they challenged Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. at his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing."
The L.A. Times described Alito as "contained and controlled...never seeming to anger and only rarely displaying flashes of humor," and the newspaper admitted, "He demonstrated an encyclopedic knowledge of the cases he had decided on the 3rd Circuit, fielding detailed questions on dozens of them without referring to notes."
The Associated Press reported that "Democrats appeared unable to stop the nomination, and seemed increasingly unlikely to mount a filibuster in the full Senate."
A Washington Post's news analysis described Alito as "low key" but "short on specifics." His replies didn't rock the status quo, the headline announced.
USA Today said Judge Alito "was effective and did not hit any bumps as he headed toward confirmation to succeed the retiring Sandra Day O'Connor."
Even a blog on the Planned Parenthood of America website wondered, "Where, oh, where is the drama in these hearings? Except for Dianne Feinstein's rally late today, it's like watching a tetherball tournament. Between the speech-making, his artful dodging, and the questions that not even Clarence Thomas could have messed up, I don't know how we're going to learn what he really thinks," the Planned Parenthood blogger wrote.
The Democratic National Committee posed the question, "Can We Trust Judge Sam Alito?" The DNC website said, "Judge Alito almost gives the impression of a man who will say anything he can in a job interview to get that job."
Likewise, the liberal interest group, Alliance for Justice, wondered, '"What won't Judge Alito say when he's trying to get a job?" Alliance for Justice President Nan Aron described Alito as "evasive," waffling, and said the American people "deserve a fuller, more forthright discussion of Judge Alito's record and views."
But Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, a Republican supporter of Judge Alito, commented, ''There's a growing sense of inevitability that he will, in fact, be voted favorably out of the committee and confirmed."
I was agreeing with most of your observations about Miers until you said this. That statement doesn't fit this President on many issues. You acknowlege in a later post that Presidents make mistakes and Bush made a mistake with Miers. I'll agree with that, but the other is nonsense.
Well the Dems made up the new rules with Bork and now they find that the Pubbies are playing by those rules and are winning. That would be a little discouraging wouldn't it?
He's not losing his cool in front of the retard Dems on Senate Judiciary Committee. Kennedy, Leahy, Biden, etc. are just making fools of themselves.
"Does anyone seriously believe that Miers performance would have been as steady, serious and unflappable as our man Alito?
Thank goodness that the President saw the light and got her out and Alito in! And thank goodness for the scores who stood up and said no to Miers....including all those who did so here at FR!"
Agreed. I waited it out, hoping that this was going to be another President Bush "rope a dope." So far, so good. :)
Well, it's my opinion. I could be wrong. I think the problem arose when his advisor on nominees became the nominee. I said it rather perjoratively, but the truth is, most executives are helpless without advisors. The make decisions, they set overall strategy, but without experts around to help, they are useless.
Republicans have had their ducks in a row and Alito is going to be hard to defeat; it must be killing the leftists.
VERY big grin
Sucks to be them.
Ugh...
Somehow, the Democrats don't have a problem with this concept when it is applied by their own Presidential candidates. ;)
PS: And most are becomming sick of the sight and sound of that cage of peacocks in the congress.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
What we needed and wanted was either an open philosophical war as a venue to prove the superioirty of conservativism over liberalism (which we did not get in this case) or another public demonstration of Democrat inanities, ineptitude, and sophomoric partisonship (which we DID get in this case, in spades).
It really is amazing how stupid the Democrat senators sound. Biden talked about everything except his favorite lawn fertilizer. I heard that Yale now offers a course in "Stupidity". From what I have seen, these guys must have received PHD's in same. It's just toop bad that the Islamists and the rest of our adversaries get to witness this nonsense on TV. I'm sure they go right out and sharpen their knives when the show is over.
Agreed. It was a nice tough when that fat drunk Kennedy accused Judge Alito of being on the government payroll his entire life. Except for the fact that the statement was a LIE. It is Kennedy, in fact, who has been on the government payroll his entire (useless) life.
LOL! Great!
Knowledge plus cool common sense vs naive hysterical theatrics. Hmmmmm, wonder who will win?
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