On Friday night Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, evidently not realizing that his words might be reported, bragged to Party activists that U.S. Supreme Court Alito was the “worst nightmare of liberal Democrats.” He was giving them a private tour of the Senate chamber, not in session at the time.
No comment from Frist himself.
When questioned, his spokeman (doesn’t anyone speak for themselves anymore?) Bob Stevenson said that Alito “is a thoughtful mainstream conservative jurist who is well respected by his peers, by Democrats and Republicans alike.”
(thanks to Smirking Chimp for catching this “rare moment of candor“)
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9:43 am on January 22nd, 2006 1
Why does this suprise you? Washington is extremely partisan and I seriously doubt that will ever change. After all the Democrats don’t care if Alito would do his job as an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court, all they care about is predetermining how they think the court will rule on Roe v. Wade and the balance of Executive Power.
11:16 am on January 22nd, 2006 2
Au contraire - it doesn’t surprise me at all. It’s simply an acknowledgement of Alito’s true nature.
Your second comment is incoherent. Those two issues, and many others, speak directly to how he would perform as Supreme Court Justice. “All they care about”? Intellectually dishonest projection.
8:11 pm on January 23rd, 2006 3
We don’t know how he will vote on issues that are brough before the court. I wan’t a court that decides cases before the court based on appropriate Constitutional Law and not how the feel personally on the case before them. It seems to me that the Democrats and liberals are more interested in stacking the court with justices that they know won’t over turn Roe v. Wade no matter what and who will vote to limit the power of the Execuitve Branch unless a Democrat is in power in the White House. Why else are they so fixated on how he would vote on Roe v. Wade and the Power of the Executive Branch?
10:23 pm on January 23rd, 2006 4
The point is that Alito has already decided what he will decide, just as Bush decided he was going to go to war.
If you still don’t get the idea of checks and balances in our democratic system, I just don’t know what to say. We have a President, not a dictator or a king.
If this was a Democratic president, you can’t tell me that you would be arguing any of this for one second. So none of it means anything. If you define your logic and your values by a party line, then that’s all you are - discussion isn’t your intent in the first place.
I have really tried to engage you in honest conversation. You have every right to disagree, but we’ve been covering the same basic points over and over. You aren’t discussing, you’re defending, parroting, whatever. You have your ideology, and that’s your right - of course. If nothing counts but the Party, then there’s not much point in discussion. It’s like trying to discuss God with a religious fanatic.
I’m not really interested in continuing to host comments coming from blind party loyalty. The fact is that I don’t get paid for this and my time and energy are limited.
So enough already - take it elsewhere. No hard feelings, but we’re done.