Posted on 02/07/2006 2:42:37 PM PST by new yorker 77
The phony drama of Judge Samuel Alito's confirmation has at last staggered to its foregone conclusion. Judge Alito is now Justice Alito. What are we to make of it?
First, as they almost always have done for the past 26 years, Republicans have again outmaneuvered the Democrats. And that is what is really important to both sides, not whether the judge deserves the position.
Using his tried-and-true playbook, President Bush first controlled the process, then set the criteria for approval, and then controlled the semantics. The latter was accomplished, as always, at the start, when Judge Alito was described as a ''conservative.'' The media immediately bought the word and the Democrats were boxed into opposing a conservative judge. Ask anyone for his or her idea of a judge and you are almost certain to get the word ''conservative'' in the first sentence of the definition. ''As sober as a judge,'' the old saying goes.
Judge Alito may have a fine record, but it is not conservative. His whole legal career has been about advocating radical change in established precedents and accepted legal philosophies.
The Senate confirmation process was under White House control from the start. That control was so complete that it was possible to forget that this process was about the Senate using its constitutional power to confirm or reject a nominee. The Senate vote is the only vote we, the people, get on who is a Supreme Court justice.
The White House even set up a ''Murder Board,'' according to the National Law Journal. The board's function was to ''polish'' the nominee so as to make sure no substance came through during the hearings.
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But then, they would to a man, vote to confirm Justice Alito. And they wouldn't be DemoRats as well.
Just that statement. No examples, no explanation. And Liberals wonder why we don't find them persuasive????
It's hard to ask pertinent questions when you are both illiterate and a fool.
Pretending the above is true (the senate is the people's house!?), then "we, the people" voted to confirm.
And drunk.
Justice Judge Bork disagrees with that statement.
Step 2. Find a eminently qualified judge so that neither right nor left can complain about his skills.
Step 3. Train that judge on how to keep cool under fire from idiots (insert 80s movie training montage here).
Step 4. Let Fat Ted mumble in opposition and John Kerry yodel a call for filibuster.
Step 5. Rent a spine for the Republicans in the senate.
(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.")
That means he doesn't go along with current fads like citing Zimbabwe or Haiti precedents for suporting something the Constitution does not support.
He is a witless evil genius.
Is Bush a witless moron or an evil genius?
Don't know, but he is being opposed by evil morons or a witless genius?
That's funny, I seem to remember voting in a Presidential election last year.
Elections have consequences.
Perhaps the greatest talent liberals have is the ability to hold two completely contradictory opinions at the same time.
Yes, that 'playbook' would be the US Constitution, which empowers the President to employ all of these tools in the process.
The latter was accomplished, as always, at the start, when Judge Alito was described as a ''conservative.'' The media immediately bought the word and the Democrats were boxed into opposing a conservative judge.
Is it our fault that Dems are just plain dumb and have no long term rationale other than to simply oppose everything termed 'conservative'? Huh, Malcolm ???
Ask anyone for his or her idea of a judge and you are almost certain to get the word ''conservative'' in the first sentence of the definition. ''As sober as a judge,'' the old saying goes.
Finally said something useful, ehh ?
LOL Perfect.
And the dems are witty good dunces.
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