Leahy, Biden,Schumer, and Feinstein, the Senate Dems 'Brain Trust'! God save the Nation!
Posted on 01/12/2006 11:00:41 AM PST by NormsRevenge
I heard a little of today's hearings. The bar assn. panel gave him a glowing review, which is the dim's "gold standard". The dims will vote against him, but they won't dare block this outstanding nominee!
Leahy, Biden,Schumer, and Feinstein, the Senate Dems 'Brain Trust'! God save the Nation!
The Swimmer, in his dotage, bears a startling resemblance to the late Tip O'Neill.
Aaarggh - the odious Kate Michelman :-((
My long-standing prediction is 57 votes in favor of confirmation, no filibuster.
"President Bush tapped Alito to replace O'Connor, who has provided a decisive vote on issues such as abortion.."
If I had a dollar for every time that abortion was the first "issue" mentioned in an article about judges or the Constitution....
Thanks, I just read that article by Slate: it actually made me feel better about Alito (some of the glowing reviews by a few liberals have me wondering).
I like how the writer explains that if Alito had ruled in favor of minorities or criminals "most of the time" he wouldn't have conservative credentials. Which seems to me a statement that it doesn't matter what the facts of a case are, just the number of minorities and criminals he ruled against. I would personally still consider a judge conservative if they mostly ruled in favor of minorities and criminals...IF in each and every case the judge relied soley on the FACTS of the case which bore out their side.
The writer believes a conservative is essentially a bigot.
"Why do grown men let their hair curl up in the back like Senator Kohl?? We know there's a Capitol barber. For God's sake, make a visit!"
Biden's hair usually looks too long in the back.
The overall grooming of Republicans exceeds democrats. This televised committee activity shows Republicans as younger, more polite of demeanor, etc.
Considering that Alito was born in 1950, he would have been of confirmation age (at the time usually between ages 9 and 12)before the start of Vatican II, in which case, he would have received the Sacrament on his knees. The picture you posted is not accurate, unless his confirmation was delayed until he was in his late teens/early twenties. Not to mention, the one doing the Confirmation appears to be a priest, rather the usual bishop.
That being said, I get the humor...but I feel I needed to clarify the inaccuracies of the picture you posted.
"So the Philistines were subdued, and they did not come anymore into the territory of Israel. And the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel." 1 Samuel 7:13
A jurist is not there to "tear up the rule book," or provide novel theories that can be broadly applied to create a new, heretofore nonexistent class of rights.
He or she is there to interpret the law as it's written, and to give each party to a case a fair, impartial hearing.
The problem with people like Bazelan, and Lithwick, and the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, is that they think we would be a better-perhaps more just-nation if we replaced equality of opportunity with equality of results.
When the truth is that this would not make society more fair-as has been demonstrated by the disastrous results of racial quotas-but less.
How does a judge determine who the "little guy" is?
Is it the petitioner asking for redress because of a discriminatory admissions policy to law school that prevented her from being admitted because she is white?
Or is it the law school defending that policy?
Well, liberals would see the law school as the "little guy," or in this case, little institution, even though their policy benefits upper middle-class African-Americans and other relatively upwardly mobile minorities, while discriminating against non-minority applicants who may in fact come from much more humble backgrounds, as was the case in Grutter.
That's why justice has to be blind, because these sorts of determinations are entirely subjective, and once you start creating ad hoc standards that predetermine which party is right and which party is wrong-before the they even present their briefs-you create an inherently unfair system of jurisprudence.
The overall grooming of Republicans exceeds democrats. This televised committee activity shows Republicans as younger, more polite of demeanor, etc.
The same holds true for the rank and file of the two parties. Younger, well-groomed vs. older, dishevelled.
True, that picture is merely and example of Confirmation and that is not him.
What if that is a tall guy and he IS on his knees?
poll lower right of page
http://www.news-journalonline.com/
I voted... the first two choices shoulda/coulda been one..RBA
thanks for the thread Norm.. this was the first type of hearing like this I have ever followed. Give people a LOT of credit to do this day in /day out
Hi DollyCali. Hope all is well with you
Hi there.. haven't seen you since the hurricane threads... hope you & yours are well..
That pic looks a bit more like he's getting an imposition of ashes on Ash Wednesday rather than being confirmed.
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