Posted on 01/31/2006 5:48:48 AM PST by ken5050
Edited on 01/31/2006 5:55:34 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Good morning, all.
Join us today for the final victory lap, the vote to "confirm Samuel Alito, of New Jersey, to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court."
It's all over except the final vote tally.
Lots of surprises yesterday at the HUGE vote to impose cloture, so perhaps there are still some surprise votes to come?
Viva Alito!
I live in Upstate New York. Best news I've heard.
Welcome to the Supreme Court Samuel Alito.
You must have me confused with someone else. Or you're not reading my posts as I intended.
What time?? I thought it was 9:00 P.M. but my hubby heard it would be earlier.
I hate their default thread presentation, but luckily they have a "FReeper-friendly format", I mean printer-friendly format.
9:00 PM Eastern
Gypsy (L), a 50-year-old orangutan, draws a picture with crayons as her grandson Poppy watches during a Sunday afternoon drawing session at Tama Zoo Park in suburban Tokyo January 29, 2006. Three female orangutans at the zoo have taken up drawing with crayons since last December and Gypsy has completed about fifteen drawings using a combination of different colours, especially with her favourites blue and yellow, zoo officials said. Picture taken January 29, 2006. REUTERS/Noboru Hashimoto
Sadly, I have been rethinking whether Chaffee will lose to Laffey. While I would love to make him pay for voting the wrong way, I am less confident that the conservatives will turn him out now that Alito is appointed.
But at least the penniless nephew of the Forbes empire who by the way also served in Vietnam and who later became a gigolo in the Senate can ask the telling question "What about me?"
http://corner.nationalreview.com/06_01_29_corner-archive.asp#088730
I've read that less than a third-if that-Republicans in that state support him.
In fact, it says on Laffey's website that more Republicans support Jake Reed, which doesn't surprise me in the least.
How can he possibly win a GOP primary against a popular, conservative Republican mayor?
I absolutely want Laffey to win.
But IIRC not only Republicans can participate in the primary. If you are a registered voter but not identified as any party, you can select the primary in which you vote and then unenroll again after you've cast your primary vote.
:(
I still can't envision a sampling from any group supporting this nitwit Chaffee after having voted against Alito.
I mean, think of all the Italo-Americans in that state!
I never understood why so many Italians voted for Democrats like Sal Albanese and Frank Barbaro, but I can't see them voting for a bleeding-heart liberal, aloof, half-witted WASP who despises them.
Maybe I'm investing too much hope in Rhode Islanders.
I am hoping for the best. But I am thinking that if Chaffee wanted to keep his seat, that he would have done some serious polling before he did announce his vote.
It's an Italian state, Laffey is popular, but who knows what turnout in the primaries will be like?
Unenrolled is nearly as big a percentage as R.
I also know some self described conservative Catholics who adore Roe v. Wade, which is flabbergasting.
Too frustrating. Let's hope for the best.
"They are imploding...."
details? Please?
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Update, PatriotGirl827. See
Peggy Noonan
'I Hope She Drowns' The implosion of the Democratic Party.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1570058/posts
Thank you for that link!
You are most welcome.
Was Senator Sessions a judge once who got blackballed for a promotion when the Democrats were in charge of the Senate? I remember him during the hearings on Janice Rogers Brown-- a real polite gentleman who brings out the best in people.
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