January 25, 2006
Wingnut Alert: BDS mutates
Bush Derangement Syndrome has mutated into Alito Derangement Syndrome. At Kos the regrettable Atrios Armando picks up Senator Byrd's suggestion today that it's people like Samuel Alito whose insensitivity causes mining tragedies. If he had his way, there would be more mining tragedies! This is even more shameless than John Edwards' stem-cell pep rally last fall: "If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again."
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January 15, 2006
Alito and the way hip GOP
If you're still relying on fish wrappers and the nightly news for your fill of political news, you might not have heard about (or from) Blogger Row at the Alito hearings. CJ alum Flip Pidot was there, and so was Matt Margolis. With the Washington Post throwing in the towel on Alito, and some Dems threatening a delay, Pundit Review Radio will recap with Matt the hearings, and the GOP's hip strategy of using the blogosphere to counter the MSM's anti-Alito drivel. The show starts at 9:00.
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December 06, 2005
Alito strategy: I'm not disappointed
For a while I wasn't sure what to make of E.J. Dionne's latest column. He makes the good pointthat for all the conservative chest-pounding over Alito and the big confrontation we wanted, the strategy seems to be a little less bold. But Dionne quotes only a White House statement and Alito's own words in support of his theme that "conservatives" are backing off, which isn't a fair leap. Sure, the WH is playing tactical games - their job, and Alito's, is to secure confirmation. It's thematic of W's approach to shy away from confrontation, and to fall many steps short of real conservatism. That's been disappointing, but if Republicans learned anything from Robert Bork it might be precisely that confrontations with the Senate Judiciary Committee aren't worth the gamble.
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November 02, 2005
What is it good for, anyway?
John Podhoretz says there will be no "all-out political war" over Samuel Alito, just a lot of ugliness. Citing Alito's "complicated" record on abortion, Podhoretz says filibustering Alito won't be a viable option for Democratis since they'd stand to lose a lot more should the "nuclear option" be invoked. "Barring some shocking revelation," Podhoretz predicts, "Alito is in by Christmas."
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November 01, 2005
Opening volleys on Alito
Blanton at Red State reports that Democratic Senators may be backing off yesterday's bluster by Barbara Boxer et al. over a potential filbuster of Alito:
The Democrat strategy that is shaping up appears to be delay, stall, and pray for a silver bullet. The Democrats already realize a filibuster is not going to be successful and Alito will get confirmed without something very damaging coming out.
Meanwhile, the Associated Press breaks the following news: "Abortion emerged as a potential fault line," adding that Alito's mother "shed some light" [note: on what?] with this revelation: "'Of course, he's against abortion,' 90-year-old Rose Alito said of her son, a Catholic." So what? Hillary Clinton would say the same thing, and the abortion industry would claim to agree, too. Who on earth would admit to being "pro-"abortion? Margaret Sanger, perhaps?
One thing is assured as the battle ensues: the debate will sink to depths we'd rather not contemplate. With Ted Kennedy on the case, that much is a "metaphysical certitude," to borrow a phrase from John McLaughlin.
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