Posted on 10/31/2005 2:27:05 PM PST by NewMediaFan
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean today issued the following statement on the nomination of Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court:
"President Bush shouldn't try to use the nomination of an extreme conservative to distract from the ethical problems his White House is facing. Three days after a top White House official was indicted, President Bush continued his troubling pattern of playing to his right-wing political base in times of political trouble. In an indication of his weakened political position, Bush has nominated Samuel Alito, a conservative activist judge, to replace Justice O'Connor, who has been a voice of moderation on the Court for a generation.
"A lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States is too important to be sacrificed on the altar of short-term political gain. President Bush's nomination of Alito is not leadership, it is capitulation.
"Alito's record suggests an activist judicial philosophy bent on rolling back the rights and freedoms that all Americans value. Alito has sought to limit the rights of women and people with disabilities in discrimination cases, demonstrated an open hostility to women's privacy rights even in basic reproductive health matters, has a record of hostility toward immigrants, and tried to immunize employers from employment discrimination cases. It is particularly troubling that President Bush would nominate a judge who would reverse American progress and make the Supreme Court look less like America on the same day that most Americans are honoring the life and legacy of Rosa Parks.
"Now, as Alito goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he must demonstrate that he will be a Supreme Court Justice who uses his position on the highest court in the land to protect and advance the fundamental rights and personal freedoms of all Americans. Alito must prove that he is not a captive of the radical right-wing, and the White House must provide the Senate with all the information it needs to thoroughly evaluate Alito's nomination."
Means we hit a homerun when dean is already crying and blabbering yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Bush's Reply: Shut up lunatic or you would be sleeping with the Fishes.
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thank God you posted this, I have been worried sick over what he might think
AAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH
Senate with all the information it needs to thoroughly evaluate Alito's nomination."
evaluate = destroy
Howard Dean. WHEN WILL YOU RELEASE YOUR GUBENATORIAL RECORDS FOR REVIEW?????????????
WHEN, O' PIOUS ONE?
"It is particularly troubling that President Bush would nominate a judge who would reverse American progress and make the Supreme Court look less like America on the same day that most Americans are honoring the life and legacy of Rosa Parks."
Hey, Howie. America "does not" look like Rosa Parks!!!
... extreme conservative ... ethical problems ... indicted ... right-wing political base ... political trouble ... weakened ... conservative activist ... short-term political gain ... limit the rights of women and people with disabilities ... women's privacy rights ... basic reproductive health ... hostility toward immigrants ... Rosa Parks ... radical right-wing ...He left out "consensus"
Does any one (even his own party) really care what this lunatic is saying?
Didn't O'Conner vote in favor of Bush in the 2000 election supreme court case Gore v Bush?
He's just "stroking" us.
Further confirms what a home run Scalito really was.
I guess Italian-Americans aren't part of America.
Keep talking, Howard, keep talking.
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