January 5, 2006
FLATTERY WILL GET YOU NOWHERE:
The Case Against Alito (The Nation, 1/05/06)
With Judge Samuel Alito, the Senate Judiciary Committee faces its most consequential Supreme Court confirmation hearing in a generation. Not since Robert Bork has the Senate encountered a nominee whose long record and fully articulated views so consistently challenge decades of progress on privacy, civil rights and control of corporations. [...]Far from being a mainstream conservative, Judge Alito represents a malignant future; his entire biography suggests he will swing the Supreme Court toward a right-wing authoritarianism that's out of step with the public and the Constitution.
The awkward truth the Nation and company have to face is that Judge Alito is smack-dab in the mainstream and about to become Justice Alito. Posted by Orrin Judd at January 5, 2006 4:58 PM
Too late, Tovarischii. You've been snookered so badly by the way the Alito nomination was set up that all you can do now is make yourselves look crazier.
We read the above issue of The Nation today. They are sputtering like Donald Duck about Alito, probably because they understand how totally effed they are.
Another prediction: some of the MSM, having decided that they don't need a weatherman to see which way the wind is blowing, are going to be refreshingly honest and fair with Alito.
Posted by: Lou Gots at January 5, 2006 8:43 PMSince when has the Nation been against authoritarianism?
Posted by: GER at January 6, 2006 12:26 AMVia Comcast:
WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats are considering a plan that could delay a committee vote on Samuel Alito's Supreme Court nomination for at least a week, slowing what could have been a quick confirmation for President Bush's pick to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor...
Posted by: Sandy P at January 6, 2006 12:38 AMGER:
It all depends. The authoritarian must be anti-American and at least have facial hair and a foreign name.
Posted by: Matt Murphy at January 6, 2006 9:38 PM