BATTLE ON!!
Posted on 11/01/2005 1:21:45 AM PST by Jim Robinson
With yesterday's nomination of Sam Alito to the Supreme Court, President Bush reached into his John Roberts playbook to name a judicial conservative with impeccable credentials. The nominee deserves to be confirmed easily and soon, and he likely will be--though not without a tougher fight and probably with a smaller margin of Democratic support.
Like Chief Justice Roberts, Judge Alito is one of the leading jurists on the federal bench, having been appointed to the Third Circuit by the first President Bush and confirmed unanimously by a Democratic-controlled Senate. Before that he served as an assistant solicitor general in the Reagan Administration, arguing 12 cases before the Supreme Court; as U.S. Attorney for New Jersey; and as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel. No one can say he isn't qualified.
However, Judge Alito has put in 15 years on the federal bench, compared with Mr. Roberts's two, and produced a far longer list of judicial opinions that are now being scrutinized for evidence of what kind of Justice he would make. The left is already attacking his rulings, which we agree are notable, but less for their outcomes than for their legal reasoning. Judge Alito shows every sign of being a careful constitutionalist with a deep respect for precedent.
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Strategery.
Reid is going to have a tough time keeping the Dems together on this one.
There was going to be a fight regardless. With Alito we at least have a nominee worth fighting for.
Excellent article. It's right on.
"Anyone else wonder if that whole Miers thing wasn't "laying smoke" for what may turn into the mother of all battles with the 'Rats..."
Wonder, yes, but I don't think that was the plan. The Miers nomination was too badly botched; I think that President Bush wanted Ms. Miers, he simply overplayed his hand with conservatives. And I also think that the nomination dragged on too long for it to be a decoy.
Good recovery after the fumble, though.
(I have to admit that this all makes you wonder if President Bush has been keeping a copy of "The Discourses" under his pillow.)
You might be on to something, as Friday's news sure did not make the splash the lying corrupt liberals had hoped for, and wow, not even that tea sipping super sleuth of the century got much tube face time.
Graham and Dewine have said that the nomination of Alito to Associate Justice postion of SCOTUS is not "extraordinary circumstances."
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
Gang-of-14 member Senator Mike DeWine (R-OH): "I can't believe anyone would believe this is a nominee that could be filibustered or that it would rise to the level of `extraordinary circumstances. If someone would filibuster, though, I would be prepared to vote to change the rules."
i suggested something similar as a joke a few days ago...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1510376/posts?page=61#61
"Reid is going to have a tough time keeping the Dems together on this one."
I don't like to count chickens before they're hatched, but this is probably going to be a win for the President. The key is not so much the Democrats, but the so-called "moderate" Republicans.
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Its' that Famous "Right Jab/Left Hook" combination again, from the Gulf War I.
"Thumbnail" Definition of Stupid: Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.
...kinda like the African American Voters voting for the 'Rats' political candidates (basing their votes on unrealized promises made) and expecting a different outcome, not realizing they're on "a Liberal Plantation" :(
...or GOP taking some Voters' beliefs for granted...until recently...(hope...I don't get banned.) Thanks, JimRob :D
Doesn't that just say it all. Good article, worth the registration.
..very, very efficient.
Sen. Reid's/Botox "Nancy" Pelosi's/"Swimmer / RAdm. Green Oldsmobile" (HIC!) Kennedy (his Congressional Staffs' comments. :) for me.
As long as our Republican Senators are up to the fight, I'm all for it. It's long past time that the country get an education in the tactics of the left and just whether or not legal abortion is going to be permitted to stand.
Sadly, however, our Republican Senators have shown little willingness to engage in the battle.
Even if he doesn't, the Liberals character assassins will be sure to manufacture some, ala Clarence Thomas, or totally vicious slander, ala Robert Bork.
This will be one nasty fight for Judge Alito. IMHO, we will win it and the one for the next vacancy will be even nastier, if possible. Stalinists don't go easily into the dark night!
I don't think Rove is that Machiavellian. I think, rather, when given a lemon (lack of conservative and Senate support), they put together some excellent lemonade. Turned a minus into a plus--and when you do that well, it looks planned.
I hope the libs think that's what happened. They'll be wild with rage...
Just so, but the imaginary ones are much easier to fight than the real ones. Just ask Bernard Kerrick.
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