Frist calls Alito Democrats' "nightmare"

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 1/20/06 | Richard Cowan

[RegulatorCountry]

" the same people who were whining that it was "stupid" to oppose Harriet Miers."

I was quite outspoken in opposition to Miers, and was called every name in the book for it. And Frist was not thinking today, to put it charitably.

[Jorge]

Get over it. It's good to show spine.

Right. Too bad he couldn't show "brains" and hold off on provoking the opposition until Alito is actually confirmed.

This isn't a done deal dude.

[Shortstop7]

There was no need to blurt this out just now. It's potentially counterproductive.

Blurt what out? Just voicing my opinion about the "whine if you do, whine if you don't" tone of a few.

Counterproductive? Go back and read your posts on this thread.

Sheesh...

[RegulatorCountry]

"Counterproductive? Go back and read your posts on this thread."

If we're really, really quiet about this on FR, nobody will notice the bone-headedness, right?

[A Citizen Reporter]

"What could be more fun!"

In all seriousness, it did used to be more fun.

About 15 years ago, I had very close friends who were very distant from me politically, but we were able to have good and educational arguments and discussions.

But that was the early 90's. And the clintons entered the picture. Their smear machine clouded the political climate so much, that political discourse became impossible.

Now, in polite company, we can't even bring up politics anymore. The best discussions are done anonymously. Thank the clinton administration for that.

And it's the clintonistas, (YES, I mean you Jonathan Turley) who beef about FISA. They are SO sure they've been eavesdropped on!

[GSHastings]

Am I the only one that thinks Frist is an idiot.

PERIOD!

[Canadian Outrage]

Durbin is a DRIP whether he's whip or not. These guys are the MOST UN-reasonable and unfortunately they are the leaders of the democrapic pack!! BEFORE the hearings they had NO intention of ever supporting Alito. His testimony and the bloviating was an exercise in futility. It was pre-arranged. IF these commie freaks try to institute a filibuster then I pray that Frist will lead in instituting the NUKE option. It's time for these arrogant aggressive mean and completely unreasonable arses were FINALLY put in their places.

[A Citizen Reporter]

When Durbin was an Illinois Rep, he was very Pro-Life. He had to flip his position to get the $$$$$$ from the National dems to run for Senate.

[Connservative]

this has always been about our side holding 50 votes for the rules change, and having Frist out there saying stuff like this just makes support from the RINOs, who we need to hold 50, more tenuous.

You understand that if we successfully nuke and then lose control of the senate, then the Dems will be able to appoint whoever they want.

As for what Frist said, maybe he knows that the Dems don't have a prayer and is as much saying so with his comments

[Lancey Howard]

You understand that if we successfully nuke and then lose control of the senate, then the Dems will be able to appoint whoever they want.

???
You joking? Like the Democrats won't go nuclear the first chance they get?

Remember, it was the rats who invented and refined the art of the smear now known colloquially as "Borking", and it was the rats who attempted the "high-tech lynching" of Clarence Thomas, and it was the rats who were first to routinely filibuster lower court nominees. Etc. (The Republicans thanked the Democrats for inventing "Borking" by overwhelmingly voting for activist liberal justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer.)

All along it has been the scumbag Democrats who have ratcheted the process down to the disgraceful lowpoint that we now see in judicial hearings, and they are not done by any means. WE must NEVER forget that THERE IS NO bottom of the sewer for the scumbag Democrats.

[Prodn2000]

Who do you think recommended Breyer and Ginsburg to Clinton in the first place?

Thinking that the 93 senators voting for Ginsburg were just being generous is naive.

[Balding_Eagle]

If Frists' comments were meant as an 'in your face' comment, I'm with you.

I didn't read it that way, I read it as a smug 'we're winning' comment.

I prefer that you are right.

[Blackyce]

"You understand that if we successfully nuke and then lose control of the senate, then the Dems will be able to appoint whoever they want."

That's garbage, the Dems would use the nuclear option at the first available opportunity, and nothing we do now is going to change that. You can't earn political brownie points with a group of people like that.

[oceanview]

so what, if the republicans were in the senate minority - they would not filibuster a judge. no justice can be further left then ruth bader ginsburg - she sailed in with massive republican support.

[oceanview]

you still have not told us your opinion - vote by vote, how do we get to 50 to support the nuclear option? which R senators are on the record, adding up to 50, to win that vote if it comes to it?

[RWCon]

They should post a picture of Mary Jo along with Teddy.

[CFC__VRWC]

Frist is showing me that he has the guts to laugh in the scumbags' faces rather than cower in a corner with his fingers crossed praying that Alito gets confirmed without too much animosity and dirty faces and stuff from those mean Democrats.

If Frist had said something to the effect of "If the democrats think they're going to filibuster Alito, they're in for a big fat nuclear surprise" then I would agree with you. That would have been projecting power in a good way.

Instead he makes this idiotic "he's their worst nightmare" comment that comes off (to me, anyway) as smarmy adolescent chest-beating, locker room smack talk that should have been left in the locker room. Totally inappropriate for public airing on the eve of preparing for a huge showdown.

That's my problem with Frist's comment.

[Peelod]

from WackoLand-


We must keep stopping Alito at the top of all pages!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think that the DU corps action alert should be kept at the TOP of the home page until this is over!!!! We have about four or five days to recruit as many people as possible to sign, fax, call, and show up at their Senators offices....demanding a filibuster. I realize most everyone here has done the action alerts, and will do more as the week progresses, but people just visiting the site could be drafted in our efforts - if we keep it front and center.

NOTHING, and I repeat, NOTHING is more important this week then stopping Alito. I think that all liberal blogs, all liberal talk shows, all liberal sites should make that the top story this week and pound out the message, RELENTLESSLY.

I am serious as a heart attack. Nothing else should be discussed on liberal talk shows this week. This is LITERALLY a constitutional crisis, we are facing. And, Alito will have the power to crown Bush 'King George'....This Unitary Executive Theory is SOOOOOOOO DANGEROUS.

So, everyone join together in making this priority ONE. Everything else we talk about hinges on this.....Keep focused.

Link to save the court with all the action alerts....

savethecourt.org

THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BATTLES OF OUR LIVES

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ALITO'S EXTREME VIEWS ARE OUT OF STEP WITH AMERICANS
Samuel Alito, if confirmed, could serve on the US Supreme Court for the rest of your life. At age 55, his life expectancy from now is an additional 28 years or, in other words, the equivalent of 7 presidential terms . Instead of occupying a centrist position, like Sandra Day O'Connor, he would move the court far to the right.

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor "provided the swing vote 77 percent of the time. If confirmed, Alito would tip the high court's delicate balance radically to the right. Nearly always favoring the government, corporations and universities, Alito has ruled against individual rights in 84 percent of his dissents." -- Marjorie Cohn, "Alito Sounds Death Knell for Individual Rights," t r u t h o u t, January 10, 2006, < http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011006I.shtml >

With Judge Samuel Alito, the Senate Judiciary Committee faces its most consequential Supreme Court confirmation hearing in a generation. Not since Robert Bork has the Senate encountered a nominee whose long record and fully articulated views so consistently challenge decades of progress on privacy, civil rights and control of corporations. And never in memory has a single nomination so threatened to redirect the Court as Alito's. fifteen years of rulings ... demonstrates that Alito is at odds with the interests of ordinary Americans. -- "The Case Against Alito," The Nation, editorial | posted January 5, 2006, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060123/editors

Constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe, in Senate Judiciary Committee testimony, places Alito to the right of Justice Roberts, and between Scalia and Clarence Thomas. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/12/politics/politicsspec ... < http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/12/politics/politicsspec... >

"After a careful study, University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein described Alito's record of appeals court dissents as 'stunning. Ninety-one percent of Alito's dissents take positions more conservative than his colleagues...including colleagues appointed by Presidents Bush and Reagan .'" -- "The Case Against Alito," The Nation, editorial | posted January 5, 2006, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060123/editors

"The debate over Judge Alito is generally presented as one between Republicans and Democrats. But his testimony should trouble moderate Republicans, especially those who favor abortion rights or are concerned about presidential excesses." -- Judge Alito, in His Own Words, NY Times Lead Editorial: January 12, 2006, < http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/12/opinion/12thur1.html?... >

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