Senators in Need of a Spine (NYT Pushes For Filibuster)

NYT ^ | 1-26-06 | NYT

[PSUAdam]

These liberals make me gag. I can't WAIT for the vote!

[Vaquero]

D*ucheAlert.

The old gray ho of the dims, at it again.

[frankjr]

NYT is just pissed because they know that in the near future their managing editor and publisher will be serving jail time for releasing national security secrets. As they are hauled off, I can't wait to see their "crying gag" when then meet their new cellmates.

[Pikachu_Dad]

But views on the 'expansive powers of the Supreme Court' would be okay?

[Thom Pain]

The Times is one big pus sac.

[Modok]

Well now cheese has chlorestol which is bad for you and we should pass a law no one can ever have cheese again. Alcohol from the wine is very bad for you as well and should be outlawed. There now, what was it you were saying.

[madmominct]

"...expansive powers of the presidency and the limited role of Congress..." = (In a 2-year-old's voice): Waaaaaah! It's not fair! We want power too, even though we can't win elections! George Bush is a big bully! (Kicking and screaming on the floor)

[newzjunkey]

Is this from The Onion? It reads like those "End of the World is Near" doomsday signs.

There are many things that trouble me about SCOTUS. A Justice named Samuel Alito is *not* among them.

[Palpatine]

the Dem view on the courts: the super legislature

that's why they are so p*ss*d because of Alito, their super legislature might not do what they want anymore...

[mtbopfuyn]

Alito is a shoe in. A filibuster will do nothing but waste time and tax dollars.

[RexFamilia]

Be nice! the old gray lady is going thru a change of life; just ignore the old rag and pretend it doesn't exist anymore

[newzjunkey]

A filibuster will do nothing but waste time and tax dollars.

That's what they're best at.

[Blueflag]

" ... the judge — who long maintained that Roe v. Wade should be overturned "

I believe he has long held (correctly) that abortion is not a Constitutional right. He also believes, as I understand it, that, as a strict reader of the Constitution, Roe V Wade was bad jurisprudence, representing SCOTUS activism and legislating from the bench -- versus doing their job as JUSTICES.

Roe V Wade, constitutionally, as I understand it, was decided on an interpreted Constitutional meaning of a right to privacy, meaning the govt cannot not interfere in a woman's privacy re: any surgical procedure, including abortion; and this escalated into "Reproductive Rights" and "a constitutional guarantee/right to abortion on demand."

Overturning Roe V Wade will not make it instantly illegal to have an abortion. It simply removes the Federal ruling and returns the matter to the legislatures of the 50 states.

Gee, then elected representatives of our democratic government can enact LAWS for the Executive branches to enforce. Courts simply decide if the laws are legal laws.

[ladtx]

"Judge Samuel Alito Jr., whose entire history suggests that he holds extreme views...

Extreme views. The left throws this term out there in almost every sound bite and op-ed piece, but I have yet to hear them give an example of one. They are relying on the old propaganda maxim of repeat a lie long enough and it becomes truth, expecially to those who are too lazy to question it.

[ladtx]

expecially???

Yeah, it's kinda like especially, only different.

[johnny7]

D*ucheAlert.

Turpentine or broken-glass?

[PSUAdam]

I was reading through DailyKos last night. The mood is as somber as could be (even for them). Having managed to not bang my head off the wall after reading those outlandish posts, I've come across the following...

- Mary "Cute Little Baby Fat" Landrieu (D-LA) will not support a filibuster. She issued a press release saying so.

- Ken "Raging Moderate" Salazar (D-CO) apparantly won't either.

- We already know that DiFi won't support one.

- Ben Nelson (D-NE) is favoring Alito.

That's 59 votes for cloture. We need one more. I think we'll find it

[Jazzman1]

is this the SAME paper who's being sued for $5 billion by Trump? The same one who's earnings DROPPED last quarter by 60%? This POS is imploding on its own fellow FReepers!

[goldstategop]

They're single-issue one-note Senators. Abortion on demand is not a burning issue for most Americans.

(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.")

[Jazzman1]

THAT will never happen . BUT these morons might be walking if their shareholders have ANY SENSE! This POS paper is bleeding ads and revenue like a stuck LIB.