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."
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This is so interesting. I wonder why the democrats UNANIMOUSLY voted to confirm Alito to his current position on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. That was back when they controlled the senate, so they didn't even have to filibuster. If this guy is such a right-wing extremist, why did not even one single democrat vote against him then?
And some more conservative democrats have had their fill and leave the democrat party. You just know that's what happens everytime dean opens his mouth.
Thanks, Howie! I think you have virtually ensured his confirmation.
Howie, wasn't it at the then Democrat South where Rosa refused to get up from her seat.
See, things have changed in the South while you're stuck throwing mud.
Hilliary laying low lately while Dean and Kerry and Gore are playing to the wacko base
Just think. Children are starving all over the world because Dean is eating food that could be theirs....
Children starve because of Dean....I like it.
I love Dean..
He is he poster child for the Democrat's base of feckless imbeciles.
I didn't hear all this concern for "extremists", when they put that loony Marxist ACLU bitch Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the bench..
In fact - I STILL haven't forgiven the Republicans for letting that happen...
Leftist's heads exploding!!!!
We must have the right candidate, now...
Semper Fi
Arrrrreeaaaaeeeegggararrrg!!!
It's beginning to look like we have the right candidate now!
The leftist's heads are already exploding..
Semper Fi
Abortion is losing favor with Americans, and Dean knows it. On Hardball today Chrissy tried a half dozen times to get Dean to say dems were pro choice, with no success. He said it was a privacy issue. The more the public sees of these monsters, the more repulsed they are.
The leftist's heads are already exploding..
Hmmm, I like the term "imploding" more. Kinda like the image of squeezing pimples that result in flatulence as it exits the opposite end ;O)
I know you know the answer but I'll say it just the same. It is all about creating angst and grabbing headlines and has nil to do with this nominee's qualifications or his stance on anything. They have nothing to put forward so yelling and stomping around is what they are reduced to. Dean is perfectly suited to this role as are almost all of the Dem leadership.
Howard Dean being loud and dumb at the same time -- he's got it down pat.
If Howard Dean had a brain, he would run his finger up his nose and pick it out and play with it, same as he does with his bigger boogers.
Since you mentioned flatulence.
I believe it's true, that most comments coming from the Democrat "leadership" are simply Brain Farts --- to be laughed at and ignored.
Semper Fi
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