They've never gotten over it. And it's driven them around the bend thinking about what might have been.
The Left is absolutely obsessed with hatred from 2000.
Has any SCOTUS nominee ever been accused of lying even before he has had a chance to speaK?
I wish they would, I'd love to hear Alito say: Florida Dem's pet judges broke the law when they approved selective recounts. What should have happened is that Harris should have ARRESTED them, rather than defer the issue to the SC.
Semper Fi
All the Supreme Court did was FORCE the Florida supreme court to FOLLOW THIER OWN LAW REGARDING RECOUNTS!!!! And since it was a 7-0 decision, what in the world does this question have to do with Alito? Or the price of milk at Wal-mart, for that matter.....
I would advise the Senators to ask the questions they think are important. If they are not satisfied with the response, their recourse is to vote against confirming the nominee.
Very simple process..
This fool is claiming that Justices should prejudice themselves before they sit down to decide a case. If that's the kind of Justices he wants -- public bigots -- thank God his side hasn't won any presidential elections in recent memory.
Congressman Billybob
Latest column on Newsbusters.org: "AP Poll Biased: Anti-Bush, Anti-Republican"
An obvious and bare faced slander of a good and honorable man, who is eminently qualified to sit on the bench of the USSC. The democrats are desperate and realize they have nothing more to offer but obstruction, so they're doing their level best to invent something, anything, to embarrass Bush and subvert the will of the American people. The Democrat Party has become a cesspool of partisan corruption, but let's hope the confirmation process has not become so utterly and hopelessly corrupted thereby that this ploy is allowed to succeed.
The author of this article, John Nichols, is in distress from the 2000 elections. Would you be kind enough to tell him Bush won, and if he can't get over that, to please leave and go to France or Canada, or just leave. Also, tell him to STFU, and go away already, I'm sick of these clowns and their bullsh**. Give me a break.
I pray that the Lord make an end of the communist slandering by what once was called the free press. They deserve to go bankrupt, the sooner the better.
That is so an election behind. Instead they could ask him if Kerry spent Xmas in Cambodia or if Teresa is named Heinz-Kerry or just Heinz.
But, their Favorite Justice O'Connor ruled with the Majority in Bush v. Gore.
Tsk. Can't make up their minds.
I'd rather hear what he thinks about the Florida Courts surpassing the Legislatures of Florida.
Wow, when are the Dementiacrats going to get over Bush vs. Gore? Let's face it, this is what drives the Democratic reflexive and knee jerk opposition to EVERYTHING Bush does, especially Iraq. If Gore had gone into Iraq, or Clinton, Democrats would be demanding the Noble Peace Prize for them. But because they can't get over Florida 2000, the Dems just attack, attack, attack on everything Bush does because they're so emotionally stunted they can't get over it.
So what is the Nation envisioning with this? A scenario along these lines?
Wacko Dem. Obstructionist Senator: "Judge Alito, would you have allowed Florida law to be thwarted all in an attempt by the Gore campaign to fabricate enough votes to take an election in which they were NEVER ahead in Florida once all the votes were in?"
Judge Alito: "No, the Supreme Court was right to defer to Florida state election law and the principle of equal protection as a means to ending an empasse in the 2000 election."
Wacko Dem. obstructionist Senator: "So you're saying you wouldn't have allowed non-stop recounting and devining of over-votes, under-votes and no-votes to discern they were meant for Gore until enough were found to give Gore the presidency even if it was 5 years later?? You're filibusted buddy!"
And I thought it was a state issue as to how Florida was going to vote for its electors. The Federal issue would have been if electors tied, or flipped, or were bribed when voting in the Electoral College. Otherwise, it was a State issue.
-PJ
That was a 9-0 decision, wasn't it?
These people are loons. (With apologies to the loons with wings)
How far down the Judicial food chain are we allowed to go? Is The Nation worried that Bob Butterworth, the Florida State Attorney General, was the Florida chairman of the Gore/Lieberman 2000 Committee? At least Katherine Harris was not a part of the Bush election team, it only fell to her to certify the election according to Florida law. They made a big deal out of Harris following Florida law, but had no problem with the highest elected prosecutor heading the Gore team.
-PJ
These people are so petty and small minded. It would not surprise me, if the swimmer asks him to reveal whether he wears boxers or briefs.
I don't think "Sould" is a word. Doesn't anybody at the Nation poofread anymore?