Posted on 11/03/2005 2:12:03 PM PST by smokeman
Edited on 11/03/2005 4:55:03 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
ALITO HEARINGS begin January 9 at noon, according to Specter. Floor vote on 20th, the chairman hopes.
Gives the Libs some time to create some dirt.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Confirmation hearings are to begin in January for Samuel Alito, President Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court seat now held by Sandra Day O'Connor, leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Thursday.When announcing Alito's nomination on Monday, President Bush called for a vote by the end of the year. The judiciary committee's chairman, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania, and ranking member, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, announced Thursday that the hearings would begin on January 9. ...
Republican Sens. Mike DeWine of Ohio, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Olympia Snowe of Maine have said they don't see Alito triggering the "extraordinary circumstances" standard the group had set that could initiate a filibuster.
Love, ya, Peach.
"That Spectre is just so "overworked". He truly is useless."
Worse than useless. The other day we got the lecture fromn him on the modernization of the elevator. (a la Montgomery Burns, no?) Today we are supposed to feel sorry for congretional staffers who "lost" their vacation time (the month of August).
They are so overworked (sarc)!
Lets hear a great big collective conservative "Oh, poor babies". My husband and I will be happy to take your jobs and your pensions and medical plans and we'll only take 2 weeks vacation like we do in private industry.
Have you ever seen anyone more impressed with himself.
These Rino's are more worried about the likes of Durbin and Leahy than they are the welfare of their country.
Is hanging acceptable under Scottish Law?
Bushes man, Frist, and the republican senators are a total waste.
I agree with that assessment.
The closer the hearings and confirmation vote are to the 2006 election season, the more the Rat base will demand a filibuster.
The Rat leadership will be unable to "call off the dogs" even if they tried. The Rat base ARE dogs. It's what they do.
The ultimate fate of the "nuclear" option will rest in the hands of McCain and one or two other RINOs.
Specter: Hearings Start Jan. 9WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republican-controlled Senate will begin hearings Jan. 9 on Judge Samuel Alito's appointment to the Supreme Court, spurning President Bush's call for a final confirmation vote by year's end.
"It's simply wasn't possible to accommodate the schedule that the White House wanted," said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He outlined a schedule that envisions five days of hearings, followed by a vote in committee on Jan. 17 and the full Senate on Jan. 20.
http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/campaignforthecourt/2005/11/specter_hearing.html
The Dems got their way. The Senate is useless.
C'mon, the Dems have muck to rake, smear campaigns to draw up, memos to forge... these things take time.
Feelings? They're sociopaths. The whole lot of them.
"And yes, there are important issues before the Court that frankly I don't want O'Connor voting on. Either a parental notification or an "assisted suicide" case, as I recall -- or both."
These cases will be argued, but not decided upon by mid-January. At worst, 8 justices will give the decision, as O'Connor will be gone and can't vote; at best, Alito, when he is officially on the court, can decide whether to study up and join in the decision, or not. Hopefully, he will join in and not recuse himself.
"I believe that if Alito is confirmed before the decision is handed down and it's a 4/4 tie, excluding O'Connor's vote due to her leaving the court, then the SC can rehear the case with the newly confirmed justice. However, I believe that the rehearing is optional."
I believe you are right. This has jogged my memory. I read what you are saying somewhere along the line. Thanks.
Real people don't get anywhere close to the vacation time they take. And take. And take.
This just doesn't bother me. I didn't expect the pampered elite to give up their vacations.
Nor do I believe a word Dems' or RINO's say. The Court is too important to let go without fight.
Brent Bozell warned about this the other day. Be expecting an Anita Hill, if they can find one. It's fine by me. If RINO's & Dems want to head into an election year and cause trouble? Hell will rain down on their heads on election day. It will just serve to fire conservatives up.
Their lies will not have the traction they did for Bork.
And, for the Dems' and RINO's pleasure, we have heavy hitters lined up ready to take Alito's place. We could theoretically make them take one out after another leading right up to Nov. 2nd. Sort of how we tell Dems, okay, you don't like Bush? How about Cheney? Don't like Alito, we have Luttig. Don't like Kuttig, we have Jones. Don't like Jones, we have Brown. Don't like Brown, we have Estrada.
Dems' are fighting on our turf, rallying our base, all good.
Snarlin' Arlen strikes again.
Anyone have a list of cases/issues the Court has to decide by then?
When the day comes where we decide to go Nucear, let's take Specter down as well. Much like in 'The GodfAther', where the Corleone family bluffs a weak hand, but in reality hatched a plan to take care of all their enemies - within and out of their family! That's what I'm talkin' bout.
I agree...we'll pull together...and get it done...the dems can act like cry babies all they want...in the end Alito will be confirmed...and will finally change the court toward what the majority of Americas stand for.
C'mon, the Dems have muck to rake, smear campaigns to draw up, memos to forge... these things take time.
Of which NO one will be interested in during the holiday/football bowl season!
I was thinking the same thing when I came across your post - Recess him and then by next year, elections over and no politicking for those losers and then they can have the hearings without the BS!
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