http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060113-112412-8553r.htm
Democrats look to delay Alito vote
By Charles Hurt
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
http://bench.nationalreview.com/
Frist on Alito Floor Action
[Ed Whelan 01/13 09:37 PM]
All of what follows is from a press release from Senate majority leader Frist’s office:
“With the continued uncertainty over whether the minority will keep to a timeframe of voting, up or down, on Judge Alito on Friday, January 20, Senator Frist today made the following announcements to his Senate Republican colleagues on an afternoon conference call:
· Whenever the Judiciary Committee reports out the Alito nomination, the full Senate will begin work on the nominee the next business day.
· If Democrats delay final action past January 20th, he will cancel the recess for the week of January 23rd which he had previously scheduled with the knowledge of Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV).
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I suspect the Dems haven't a clue...this is just posturing..
The subject is the CAP article that Kennedy used to rail against Alito, and used in an attempt to tar Alito as associating with a bigoted group, the CAP.
Yesterday, we wondered about the article from the Concerned Alumni of Princeton's magazine, Prospect, that Ted Kennedy used to discredit that organization. It sounded suspiciously like a humor piece. ...Oh my - it should have been obvious without hindsight, given the comments by those where WERE members of CAP who discussed it's function and purposes. But in open Senate hearings, Kennedy used a piece of writing that he couldn't recognize as satire, morphs it into a serious piece of bigotry and attempts to tar Alito by association.
"People nowadays just don't seem to know their place. Everywhere one turns, blacks and Hispanics are demanding jobs simply because they're black and Hispanic. The physically handicapped are trying to gain equal representation in professional sports. And homosexuals are demanding the government vouchsafe them the right to bear children."... You can read the full Prospect article on Kennedy's site. Its subject is a lawsuit by a female Princeton student who wanted to be admitted to an all-male eating club at the university. As the title suggests, it argues more broadly that elitism isn't a bad thing. The article is written in an arch style that doesn't do much for me, and I don't think it's very good. But there isn't anything especially offensive or even controversial in it.
Dinesh D'Souza was the editor of Prospect at the time, and he confirms that the article, by H. W. Crocker III, now an editor for Regnery Books, was a satire ...
Oh please please please, I hope the fact that this was satire gets into the public psyche. Pretty please?
Excellent...I'd like to see Frist cancel all days off until Alito is confirmed, week-ends included.