Posted on 10/28/2005 8:33:00 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
Multiple sources are telling RedState that Samuel A. Alito, Jr. of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals will be named by the President at the next associate justice of the United States Supreme Court as early as Monday.
“The situation is still in flux,” says one source, “but not very much.” Says another, “The White House Counsel’s Office is not doing too good at keeping this a secret.”
Still another source says, “Luttig and Alito were the fall backs to Miers. They have both been vetted. Alito seems more palatable. There is no need to drag this out, he’s been vetted a million times.”
And yet another source tells me that he is convinced Alito is the nominee barring some last minute unforeseen issue. All signs are pointing to Judge Alito right now. Things could change, but as the weekend draws closer it seems more and more likely that Judge Alito will be the nominee and conservatives will have a fight on their hands in the Senate — a very winnable fight.
I was rooting for JRB, but Alito would be just fine.
True. I think I've read one too many conspiratorial, 'master plan' posts and got sucked in!
Your intellect underwhelms me. Do you have any points to make, or like a little girl, do you want to just name call?
To my understanding, they even lost Dobson after that '93 speech. By Wednesday the half of the Christian community, it was never united on this to begin with, were the only ones still holding on hesitantly. The WAPO story withdrew that last leg of support. Only one or two seem bitter at this point, names escaping me. But Dobson has joined Perkins and the others against this last nomination.
Are you advocating that the President nominate an O'Connor clone?
Agreed. Assuming she wasn't in on it, that is. That would be a heck of a "head fake."
I made as many points in my post as you have in yours.
Well, if Ginsberg or Stevens go tango uniform, W will get one possibly two more picks.
OK, you mentioned Ann Coulter, and we have rules around here about that sort of thing...
Worth the gamble. Hurts the GOP for the next elections? Sorry, this WAS the point of the previous election.
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This rejection of incremental victory on the part of FR is just bizarre.
Are you advocating that the President nominate an O'Connor clone?
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That would be a draw. Not a victory. Incremental victory is a nominee slightly rightward of O'Connor and confirmable.
Defeat, and loss of the Senate, is a nominee very much rightward of O'Connor who is rejected and generates a DNC fundraising party of unprecedented proportions.
Scalito? Good!
no no no - you are an OOOOOOOOber-con.
If you're against Miers, you're against Christ, didn't cha know?
1-3. Yes. He doesn't have the nickname "Scalito" for no reason.
I ask these questions as one who was not opposed to Miers until I heard of her libertoonian musings to some feminist group in Dallas in 1993 (which came out the night before she withdrew) to the effect that "social issues" (presumably abortion and homoperversity) might be better determined by the individual. Like most here, I think NOT!
Can you spell LITMUS TESTS. How was Miers on guns, taxes, and other critical issues? Presumably the nominee will be better than she is.
All: Feel free to add policy questions of analogous implications.
We have seen President Bush gracefully accept a fait accompli and act accordingly, usually as a result of pressure from the left. Some examples are the Department of Homeland Security, the Intelligence Caesar (Czar), the Flamegate Special Prosecutor, and this late SC nomination. If he bows to us and nominates Alito, we owe it to him, to the nominee, and to the country to scrap like junkyard dogs to get him through the process. I shall purchase a new roll of stamps that day for pressure letters. Be sure the left will be sending out fake conservative letters of their own.
Great tag line!
What is his nationality?
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