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

Posted on 10/31/2005 3:12:28 AM PST by kcvl

Per Fox News...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: alito; antoninscalia; billofrights; bush; catholic; civilrights; constitution; courts; judge; judges; judicialrestraint; justice; miers; newjersey; originalintent; presidentbush; rights; scalito; scotus; supremecourt; uusconstitution; whiningdems
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To: Mr. Mojo

Thanks. 8)


1,381 posted on 10/31/2005 8:02:13 AM PST by Allen H (Remember 9-11,God bless our military,Bush,& the USA! A sad ACLU, for a better America!!!)
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To: FreeReign

Conservatives are part of the GOP grassroots movement and time to take that movement into your states and rally other conservative members of the grassroots to get out, get active, and vote to send more Dr. Coburn's to the Senate.


1,382 posted on 10/31/2005 8:02:19 AM PST by PhiKapMom (AOII MOM -- Istook for OK Governor in 2006! Allen in 2008!)
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To: XR7

45% yes, 46% no. LOL!


1,383 posted on 10/31/2005 8:02:20 AM PST by mosquitobite (What we permit; we promote. ~ Mark Sanford for President!)
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To: FreeReign
Cut them some slack.

I'd be delighted to do so if they cut the President so many of them revile some slack.

1,384 posted on 10/31/2005 8:02:39 AM PST by Wolfstar (Happy first birthday, Miss Beasley. Happy Anniversary President and Mrs. Bush.)
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To: Allen H

Okay, I've just e-mailed DeWine, McCain, and Ken Salazar (ratbag Senator and gang-of-14 member from my own state). I'll e-mail others later today. Go Alito!


1,385 posted on 10/31/2005 8:03:00 AM PST by American Quilter (Why doesn't the government have to pay taxes on its income?)
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To: kcvl

I am 2-for-2 in my picks: Roberts and Alito. Way to go Bushie. Woohoo!


1,386 posted on 10/31/2005 8:03:16 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: STARWISE; B Knotts
I've been thinking exactly the same thing ... W could've definitely been "gaming" with this, and Miers is a close enough an associate that she would've played her scripted part to bring out all the rattlesnakes and skunks to show their stripes...

If Bush and Miers were playing a game, I think the game would have been to rally the troops to take on the red state RINO's and Democrats in the senate.

What red state Demo and RINO is not shaking in their boots after seeing what just happened?

1,387 posted on 10/31/2005 8:04:09 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: AFPhys

"The electorate may be more conservative than this, and I truly believe it is, but it is still a decade away from being able to overcome the huge Senate "moderate Republican" deficit."

Addendum:
...not even addressing the super-liberal STRAIGHT "F" Demodog problem.


1,388 posted on 10/31/2005 8:04:21 AM PST by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: PhiKapMom

Why can't we stop "Could a woman be picked?" non-sense... What's about the best person for the job? Conservative will WIN anytime when we put the best person for the job. The fly-over country is not dumbed.


1,389 posted on 10/31/2005 8:04:59 AM PST by Toidylop
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To: adam_az

"There is 0 evidence to support that kind of theory - in fact, all reports were that he was very dissapointed and surprised about Miers."

And you would expect evidence of this, how?


1,390 posted on 10/31/2005 8:05:07 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Liberal Talking Point - Bush = Hitler ... Republican Talking Point - Let the Liberals Talk)
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To: GarySpFc

John Jay's opinion should count for more than something, it should be of paramount importance when considering anything to do with the SC. He is one of the most underappreciated great founding persons in the history of the United States, and ALL SC nominees should be just like John Jay or as close as possible. A SC loaded with like minded people to John Jay would give us a SC that the founding fathers intended us to always have, and would 100% guarnatee that ALL of the stupid rulings given us by ginsbueg, stevens, breyer, souter, and most by o'conner would never have happened.


1,391 posted on 10/31/2005 8:05:26 AM PST by Allen H (Remember 9-11,God bless our military,Bush,& the USA! A sad ACLU, for a better America!!!)
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To: PeskyOne
Has Lindsey Graham commented yet?

Mr. [Harry] Reid had already said he would object to the selection of Judge Luttig or Judge Owen. And on Sunday, he did not rule out the possibility that Democrats would try to block a nominee by a filibuster or refusing to close debate and vote. "We are going to do everything we can" to see that the president names "somebody that's really good," Mr. Reid said.

But Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, fired back Sunday, saying that if the Democrats staged a filibuster against Judge Alito or Judge Luttig because of their conservatism, "the filibuster will not stand."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/31/politics/politicsspecial1/31confirm.html


Other conservatives yesterday also embraced Alito, in particular. "Alito, Luttig -- all these people are solid conservatives," Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said on CBS's "Face the Nation." On CNN's "Late Edition," Gary L. Bauer, president of the conservative group American Values, described his criteria for a Supreme Court justice and added, "Certainly, Judge Alito fits those characterizations."

Allies on Right Are Consulted on Conservative Judges | WaPo | Oct 31, 2005 | Page A01


1,392 posted on 10/31/2005 8:05:56 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: You Dirty Rats
It is your prerogative to focus on the hole instead of the dough-nut, but a step in the right direction is worth celebrating, IMHO.
1,393 posted on 10/31/2005 8:06:49 AM PST by RetSignman
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To: RebelBanker
I sincerely hope that I was wrong and that a solid conservative like Judge Alito can make it to the high court.

Me too.

1,394 posted on 10/31/2005 8:06:53 AM PST by EternalHope (Boycott everything French forever. Including their vassal nations.)
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To: GarySpFc
I'm not seeing it. It was coincidental that a bad pick like Miers was an Evangelical. Like jwalsh07, I am Catholic, and am happy with the Alito pick. But I'm not happy because he's Catholic; I'm happy because he's a "strict constructionist in the style of a Thomas or a Scalia."

I was rooting for JRB, who is not a Catholic. She belongs to "Church of Christ" or something like that. Dunno if that falls under Evangelical.

1,395 posted on 10/31/2005 8:08:02 AM PST by B Knotts
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To: Bird Jenkins
Can we count on the RINOs among us when the chips are down?

That's the big question isn't it? Will the RINOs vote to confirm or side with the Democrats?

My guess is that at least a couple of RINOs will vote with the Democrats and that no Democrats will vote with the Republicans. Not even Democrats up for election next year in solidly Republican states will be given a pass on this vote by Moveon and the other left wing groups that control most of the Democrats' funding.

1,396 posted on 10/31/2005 8:08:39 AM PST by kennedy ("Why would I listen to losers?")
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To: AFPhys

EXCELLENT POST! I agree totally. The Senate is the biggest major obstical to conservatism being put into practice legislatively. Much of the conservative agenda that the Senate has accomplished is ONLY because the DeLay led firm conservative majority keeps passing conservative good legislation and forces the Senate into action instead of sitting around picking their noses fo rmonths at a time which they would do if the House wasn't putting the onus on them to "pee or get off the pot" as it were. The Senate must be dealt with.


1,397 posted on 10/31/2005 8:08:43 AM PST by Allen H (Remember 9-11,God bless our military,Bush,& the USA! A sad ACLU, for a better America!!!)
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To: All

Boy Rush's show will be good today. 8)


1,398 posted on 10/31/2005 8:09:05 AM PST by Allen H (Remember 9-11,God bless our military,Bush,& the USA! A sad ACLU, for a better America!!!)
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Il dio benedice il giudice Alito e presidente Bush. Maggio i liberali ed il RINOs hanno stasera sogni difettosi.


1,399 posted on 10/31/2005 8:09:29 AM PST by wardaddy (It's Manana Again in America!)
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To: AFPhys
Two "conservative" Senators on the Judiciary Committee TOLD the White House that they would NOT vote Miers out of Committee if Miers' work-related documents were not released to the Senate. These two knew the Constitutional problems with that, and clearly made the play to deny Miers her vote.

Though there are other similar articles, see Krauthammer's article: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1506622/posts

By the way, I also believe it is unConstitutional for the Judiciary Committee itself to stop a vote for the nominee by its ability to deny sending the nominee to the Senate.

You're ignorant of Senate practices. For SCOTUS nominees, even a candidate who is opposed by a majority of the judiciary committee still gets a vote on the floor of the Senate. They are said to be sent to the Senate with a 'negative recommendation' by the committee. Bork received such a designation when he was nominated, and was rejected by the Senate. Thomas was forwarded to the Senate "without recommendation" -- i.e., with neither approval nor disapproval by the committee -- and obviously went on to be confirmed by the whole Senate.

Miers CHOSE not to be voted on by the entire Senate.

1,400 posted on 10/31/2005 8:10:17 AM PST by Sloth (You being wrong & me being closed-minded are not the same thing, nor are they mutually exclusive.)
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