Could this have been the sweater [this really is Hayt!]
Posted on 10/31/2005 4:34:41 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
October 31, 2005 - 08:01.
When Bill Clinton nominated ACLU general counsel Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court, what are the odds that, in the very first sentence of its report, the Today show described Ginsburg as "liberal"? Roughly the same as the Saints winning this year's Super Bowl, perhaps?
Yet this is how Katie Couric opened Today this morning: "Breaking news: President Bush is nominating conservative judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court."
Matt Lauer got into the spirit, adding Alito "is so consistently conservative he has been called 'Scalito,'" i.e., in the mold of Justice Antonin Scalia.
Tim Russert then weighed in, expressing skepticism that Alito could get 60-65 Senate votes. Russert did acknowledge that Ted Kennedy praised Alito when he was nominated to the Appeals Court, but explained that that was 15 years ago and Kennedy will will make a distinction now that Alito is being nominated to the Supreme Court.
Couric then interviewed law prof Jonathan Turley, with Katie describing Turley as having been "absolutely brutal" in his initial comments on Harriet Miers' nomination, having called her "an amazingly bad choice."
Turley predicted a melee over Alito: "I think it's going to get pretty sporty around here. There's a lot in Alito's background that is going to coalesce Democratic groups."
Turley foresaw Alito as being to join the Court's "hard right. There will be no one to the right of Sam Alito on this court," he observed.
"Not even Scalia?" asked a shocked Couric.
"So no smooth sailing for the confirmation hearings?" asked Katie. "I think the Democrats are going to come out of the dugout on this one," predicted Turley
Katie inquired whether in picking Alito "ideology trumped gender?"
"No one on the conservative base can be unhappy with Alito. The question is whether they can weather this storm," answered Turley.
So you tell us. ROFL!!!!
See post 18. That was a 15 year old quote.
See post # 18.
Did anyone catch the story on high gas prices and profits? They interviewed a Dim who said, basically, "They're making too much money. So we should tax the crap out of them."
Yes, amid high gas prices, the Dim solution is to tax more.
Every time I hear someone recommend increasing taxes on oil companies because prices are too high, I wonder to myself if they realize that doing so will only increase prices?!
Gotcha - no prob.
Scary.
I'm not a Catholic, but would call that some pretty ugly anti-Catholic bigotry.
So you believe that Scalia has been taking his orders from the Pope? Care to cite examples thereof?
In other perky news ...
GIRL ON GIRL
DESPITE appearances, Katie Couric probably isn't hot for New York Times fashion writer Elizabeth Hayt. When Hayt appeared on the "Today" show to promote her sexually explicit memoir, "I'm No Saint: A Nasty Little Memoir of Love and Leaving," Couric told Hayt that she was so gorgeous, if she were a guy, she would date her. But an insider tells us that when Hayt arrived wearing a gray, low-cut Valentino sweater, the prim Couric grabbed the front and tried to pull it up over her cleavage, saying, 'This is middle America!' "
http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix_u.htm
Could this have been the sweater [this really is Hayt!]
LOL
The important thing is: will this give the Left the opportunity to spin the nomination to their advantage, getting plenty of air time on TV and raido, will elitist CINOs now get the "fight" they wanted and "deserved" over a nominee who meets their high standards?
no problem... let's find all the positive quotes by dems about Alito and get radio/tv to proclaim them. it doesn't matter when they were said.
thanks for info Lautenberg endorsing Alito. I get the state loyalty thing, but I don't think Lautenberg would have been so quickly "out there" if he thought his vote would be deciding. Let us know what Corizone has to say, and how long he waits to say it.
It was a joke. I am a catholic.
EXACTLY!
kateeee is in that same old stale, musty, old hat category of the teddeeee, dashill, biden, leahy, boxer and pelosi and any others I can't think of right now. katteee has lost her perky cute littlw whatever it was people saw in her. She's got tougher competition out there now so she's got to get even worse than she ever was. Don't watch her or any network news. Have better things to do with my life. I'll wait for Rush Limbaugh whom I love and trust.
Sorry - humor somtimes gets lost in the cyberspace translation.
There was another poster on this thread very seriously complaining about W's failure to appoint a Protestant.
No Problemo. I should have added the /saracsm tag.
Conservative, originalist ones are not.
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