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Samuel Alito ~ Senate Judiciary Hearing [LIVE THREAD] (Day-5)
Senate Judiciary ^ | 1-12-06 | Senate Judiciary

Posted on 01/13/2006 5:38:54 AM PST by OXENinFLA

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To: Jrabbit

Evidently, losing one's mind and rambling on is contagious.


1,161 posted on 01/13/2006 10:27:54 AM PST by auboy
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To: Bahbah
Was it that, or that he would vote to bring him to the floor?

I think that he supports the nomination - the hearings being over and all. He is on a fairly long litany to justify his (Specter's) position with regard to the nominee in the final vote. He noted that some nominees he voted out of Committee and voted against on the floor. His talk now is not in that vein, it is supporting the judge, PERIOD.

1,162 posted on 01/13/2006 10:27:59 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Txsleuth

That is what he said...the BUT is that this will require Leahy and the rest of the Dimwits to uphold their end of what was essentially a "gentleman's agreement"


1,163 posted on 01/13/2006 10:28:07 AM PST by Kylie_04
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To: auboy
Leahy's still whining. Too bad Pat.


Hey Leaky, here's a quarter. Call someone who cares.

1,164 posted on 01/13/2006 10:28:09 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper ("Tucker Carlson could reveal himself as a castrated, lesbian, rodeo clown ...wouldn't surprise me")
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To: maggief

Let's call her Stinky


1,166 posted on 01/13/2006 10:28:19 AM PST by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake, Bushbot and a new member of Sam's Club)
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To: Howlin

Yes .. I read that also .. I'm thinking on NRO


1,167 posted on 01/13/2006 10:28:21 AM PST by Mo1 (Republicans protect Americans from Terrorists.. Democrats protect Terrorists from Americans)
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To: syriacus

:-) Thanks.


1,168 posted on 01/13/2006 10:28:36 AM PST by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake, Bushbot and a new member of Sam's Club)
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To: maggief

Some of us are eating lunch. We really didn't need to see that!


1,169 posted on 01/13/2006 10:28:36 AM PST by You Dirty Rats (I Love Free Republic!)
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To: syriacus

Specter says it was already used when the hearings were rescheduled from January 2nd to January 9th.

No, Specter agreed that they would begin a week later than's he'd intended (naively thinking that the democrats would be honest and concliliatory to him).

It is and has been obvious what the democrats were going to do. They're going to claim that Alito's answers have been "troubling" and that they need more time to read over the record further.

Translation: We want to get our game plan together to defeat this guy on the floor.


1,170 posted on 01/13/2006 10:28:38 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

I do not think Leaky speaks like Elmer Fudd. harummph

lol


1,171 posted on 01/13/2006 10:28:41 AM PST by Fudd Fan (God bless President Bush! (Water Bucket Brigade member - MOOSEMUSS!)
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To: saveliberty

Holding my breath on this one.It is all local for me-PA,NJ.I know some of the players.


1,172 posted on 01/13/2006 10:28:44 AM PST by fatima
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To: cotton1706

The best we can hope for is that the democrats realise that the announcement in November really binds them to some degree, that there really isn't anything extraordinary here, and that Leahy/Specter will work it out so the committee will vote on thursday instead of tuesday. Specter would agree with that because that's the way he is.

Then the democrats will hope that something, ANYTHING, comes up before thursday, so they can show up and apologetically announce that, because of the NEW information, they are holding for a week, which will push it out to the next THURSDAY instead of the next TUESDAY.

At some point Specter will get tired of being treated like trash, but I can't say when that will be.

When it is all over, the dems will then filibuster.

The only thing that can stop this is if the main stream media says that they are wrong to do so. Otherwise, there is no risk to the democrats. We all have the internet, but the average person still gets a sense of what is right and wrong from the big media, and it's only when the media tells the truth about democrats that the democrats become reasonable.

Like with Roberts, the media said he was great, so the democrats had to give in.


1,173 posted on 01/13/2006 10:29:13 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: maggief
Can you find a pic of Mr Wasserman-Schultz?
1,174 posted on 01/13/2006 10:29:35 AM PST by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: Jrabbit
WHAT are they doing? Why is Specter doing this now?

He is putting pressure on the DEMs to vote the nomination out of Committee. By taking a position on the floor vote, he moves the reader forward in time, past the Committee vote.

1,175 posted on 01/13/2006 10:29:36 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

Thanks, Cb. I was running around and didn't hear him clearly.


1,176 posted on 01/13/2006 10:29:41 AM PST by Bahbah (An admitted Snow Flake and a member of Sam's Club)
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To: fatima

Prayers up


1,177 posted on 01/13/2006 10:29:52 AM PST by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake, Bushbot and a new member of Sam's Club)
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To: Mo1; All
Reliably conservative:
Chief Justice William Rehnquist
Justice Antonin Scalia
Justice Clarence Thomas

Swing (= unpredictable) votes:
Justice Anthony Kennedy
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

Reliably liberal:
Justice Stephen Breyer
Justice John Paul Stevens
Justice David Souter
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg

Too soon to tell:
Chief Justice John Roberts (replaced Rehnquist)
Soon-to-be Justice Samuel Alito (will replace O'Connor)

As the above shows, if Roberts and Alito prove to be reliable conservative votes, we have a 4-4 court with one swing vote, an improvement on the 3-4 Rehnquist court with two swing votes, but not a slam dunk for conservative issues.

For those who view the court not in terms of liberal vs. conservative, but in terms of small vs. big government tendencies, nothing in the new court makeup suggests it will begin to roll back the excesses of federal growth and misuse of the Commerce clause we've seen since at least the 1930's.

1,178 posted on 01/13/2006 10:30:08 AM PST by Wolfstar ("We must...all hang together or...we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin)
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To: maggief

AAAAGGGGHHHH!!!


1,179 posted on 01/13/2006 10:30:14 AM PST by rwa265 (The Promises of the Lord, I Will Proclaim Forever)
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Leahy says he will just take a few moments to make a few comments.

Specter checks his watch.

Ha-ha-ha!!

1,180 posted on 01/13/2006 10:30:14 AM PST by syriacus (Independent counsel system has "been corrupted and no longer serves its intended purpose" Leahy,1998)
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