Bush: Judge Samuel Alito is new choice for Supreme Court nominee

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[kcvl]

Per Fox News...

[Wolfstar]

Ekwd, first let me say I agree with you so there isn't a misunderstanding when I say the following: These days, the main difference between the uber Right and the uber Left is that the latter at least waits more than four days before starting their attempts to revise history.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Forget Ginsburg, Stevens is 85. Wonder if Bush is preparing for JRB in 2006.

[Allen H]

That's the first thing I though too, that the media and the libs would be having kittens over Alito not being a woman. The liberals panties are in such a twit about Alito bein so conservative and a Christian, it might be days before they really get to the fact that he is a he and not a she. 8)

[Deo et Patria]

Looks great! Any way to keep the outline of the gavel but cloud it in shadow?

[1Old Pro]

Stevens is 85.

Now that's a good seat for Luttig.

[McGavin999]

Actually, I think you will find Kennedy becoming more consistant in his rulings in the coming years.

I think Stevens will retire next year (at the end of the court year).

[Rodney King]

The consitutional requirements of a nominee lie only in ther advice and consent of the Senate. Pee Wee Herman cannot meet this requirement. The only reason Miers withdrew is because it was becoming apparent, without support of the R Senators, that she was "unqualified" also.

Ok, we are in full agreement. It is APPhys who is arguing that one cannot call Meirs unqualified.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

I think that the WH needs to pressure ASpecter to act as a Committee Chairman and not a committee door-mat!

As chairman, he is allowed to frame the hearings. He may install standing rules according to RRoO. (He can disallow certain lines of inquiry.)

Again, the 7 RINOs and Specter need to be pushed HARD by the WH, by the new media (us!) and by their constituents to make sure the Constitution is not amended by minority fiat!

[B Knotts]

I'm not entirely sure about Luttig, but OK...as long as we get to replace Ginsberg with JRB.

[Allen H]

"I believe that Ginsburg fought off the cancer several years ago and is cancer free now."

Still, I think she should retire just to be safe. There are lots of 12 year old girls she needs to advocate are old enough to have sex. Who will they turn to for advice if she is not around anymore. **blech** socialist radical liberal POS.

[AFPhys]

Why were YOU not asking that Miers have an up-or-down vote in the Senate?

THAT is the ONLY Constitutional course of action for the Senate.

The "Conservatives" who defeated Miers have abandoned the principle claim that an "originalist" reading of the Constitution is desired above all else.

I would not have had any problem with a defeat of Miers by a vote on the floor of the Senate. I don't have any problem with withdrawing her nomination after it became clear that she didn't have sufficient support to pass muster in the full Senate. It is the unConstitutional process of denying her that vote by the Judiciary Committee conservatives maneuvering, and their demand that the executive branch release privileged documents, that I have a problem with.

I can't understand why people in the conservative movement abandoned the principle that an originalist interpretation of The Constitution was important, ironically during a battle "to install an originalist".

[puroresu]

If only Stevens would retire and we could appoint Brown to fill the vacancy!

[B Knotts]

I read somewhere in the numerous Miers threads, that Specter likes Alito.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Bet the next Rat president to make a nomination does just that.

[ConsentofGoverned]

"I watch Imus because he gives plenty of airtime to conservatives, and actually lets them finish a sentence. "
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Has Imus come out with an explanation of the ranch for kids reverting back to his ownership,, or where the money for it goes?? He is until proves different an grifter and
con man who I will not support with viewer ship.

[olde north church]

Is it also possible Mr. Herman is unqualified because of felony convictions?

[NeoCaveman]

Actually, I think you will find Kennedy becoming more consistant in his rulings in the coming years.

I agree. The pull of the Alito/Roberts/Scalia/Thomas block will be too much for "flipper" Kennedy to resist.

[MNJohnnie]

Happy Alitomus!

[Petronski]

Bitter much?