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

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[kcvl]

Per Fox News...

[mosquitobite]

I'm already tired of hearing that argument. They have no clue! I love this analysis:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1512509/posts

[bella1]

see post #24

[bella1]

see post #24

[russesjunjee]

The left will have an apoplexy.

The big question is do the Repubs have the backbone to fight for this nominee? If the GOP has a spine its kept it well hidden thus far.

[Siena Dreaming]

That is why she has no business commenting on public policy

Bunch of junk. Laura Bush can go out and speak on her husband's policies in the War every day and she should be applauded for helping the cause. She will reach audiences that her husband can't.

Your saying she cannot speak on important issues indicates serious issues with women.

Like a said, you've got problems.

[not_apathetic_anymore]

When I read on the links, I'm still not seeing articles saying she had Breast CA...I must just not be choosing the right articles, Oh well. Guess I'll just keep looking.

[AFPhys]

Anyone who claims that the conservative (not originalist) Senators' maneuvering was not designed to deter and even deny a vote by the Senate on the floor is being intelectually dishonest, and you know it. Krauthammer's whole article specifically described how to conduct that operation so as to deny Miers such a vote, why it would work, and why doing that would be a great thing. Brownback and others had already embarked on such a vendetta, as Krauthammer described.

It worked.

Miers didn't get a vote because of the intentionally and duplicitously engineered "separation of powers" questions rather than the vote she ought to have had on the floor based on Senators' decisions about her qualifications for the post.

The "conservatives" won. The Originalists lost, and that little sparrow will come back to roost sometime in the future - I suspect in the near future - to the detriment of those who believe themselves "conservative".

[ohioWfan]

Why are you obsessed with denying Laura Bush's rights?

What a curious problem you have.......

[rwfromkansas]

Just as I suspected, some of you will criticize anybody Bush nominates.

This guy probably will be BETTER than Scalia based on his commonsense approach to the Constitution, yet you still find fault.

Grow up.

[mlc9852]

I wouldn't criticize anyone he nominates. I was happy with Miers. I just think he could have found a qualified woman or at least a qualified Southerner. But since the dems are so up in arms, I guess it's a good enough choice. And for the record, I love Bush and usually agree with his decisions. Just tired of Ivy Leaguers.

[DarthVader]

I found this article on a breast cancer site. RBG was diagnosed at the age of 28. She has had a mryiad of health problems in her life:

Sharsheret
(www.sharsheret.org)
Provides culturally sensitive support to young Jewish women who are newly diagnosed with breast cancer, as well as to those facing the risk of developing breast cancer, and offers related resources for Jewish communities and health care organizations. Sharsheret, Hebrew for "chain," was founded in 2001 by Rochelle Shoretz, a former Law Clerk to United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who recognized the need for such an organization after her own diagnosis at age 28. They can be contacted toll-free at 1-866-474-2774.

[BushMeister]

Yes, Specter can bottle up this nomination by himself in committee with a 9-to-9 vote.

No, he can't. The Judiciary committee cannot keep a Supreme Court nomination from being voted on by the full Senate. If the Committe disapproves of a nominee, it can only send the nomination to the full Senate with a negative recommendation.

[Siena Dreaming]

Just tired of Ivy Leaguers

Me too. I would have preferred someone from the heartland.

I hope Alito works out. But I would like him better if he wasn't from the NE.

[BushMeister]

I think Catholics constitute around 25% of the American population.

[ex-Texan]

Already the MSM reporters are starting to grumble and moan. CNN leads the pack. But Rush Limbaugh was doing his best this morning to say that Alito is a great pick for Bush to make. Nobody in the media has suggested yet that the Harriet Miers pick was a set-up by Bush to test the waters. But that is how it appears to me. Miers was a set-up by Bush. He picked a non-judge with excellent credentials and liberals were fulminating while conservatives were grumbling. Bush nows knows who is supporting him and who is critical. Having tested the waters, he now picks a judge with a 15 year conservative track record.

It's a bit like watching football, folks. Bush faked a sweep around the left side and handed off to a power runner up the middle.

More Alito Reports Here

[EQAndyBuzz]

"What would Goldwater be considered today? Probably a moderate."

John F. Kennedy would be a RINO. His brother Robert would be a Conservative and Teddy is still a Marxist.

[ElPatriota]

...Agreed :) I think it's worth noting, though, the valuable role that "right-wing" anger played in all this. Without it...

:) hey and by the way,

I am a proud "Right wing member!" or "Right winger" if you will.. like just as much! :) - RIGTH IS RIGHT, and THE LEFT is wrong!!

[Revel]

Still waiting to hear all the details on this guy. But so far he sounds good.

[nicmarlo]

Personally, I don't believe that the President would ever have put forth a nominee about whom he had no intention of wanting on SCOTUS. I don't see that he's the kind of person who hangs someone out to dry, or puts forth to be castigated by any group, simply because he wishes to "test the waters." That kind of thing would be done, imho, by someone who lacks character; whatever my disagreements are, and have been, with him concerning certain of his domestic policies, I cannot say any apply to his character.

[jwalsh07]

I post to this to nip in the bud any negative commentray sent Alito's way vis a vis Partial Birth Abortion. In Planned Parenthood of Central New Jersey v Farmer Alito concurred with the finding of the court that because Stenberg v Carhart was precedential he had no choice to but to declare New Jersey's ban on the murder of later term unborn babies unconstitutional.

Now, I put it like that not to cast aspersions on Judge Alito but to cast aspersions on a SCOTUS that reads that killing into the constitution.

We can not expect appellate judges to become activist and then call for non activist courts. I actually feel sorry for the man, being put in a position where he has to affirm the some nefarious constitutional right of women to tear their near full term babies limb from limb.