Scalito = Done Deal
January 27th, 2006 at 12:47 pm by Preston Taylor HolmesIt finally looks like we’re nearing the end of the confirmation process for Judge Scalito. Even better, it’s finally starting to look like you can write this one down in Sharpie™ Brand Permanent Marker.
“It is time to establish an end point” in the debate over President Bush’s selection to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., said he and other Democrats had refused to agree to a timetable for ending debate. “There’s some division in our caucus,” he conceded.
Democratic leader Harry Reid signaled as much in remarks on the Senate floor. He offered no support for Kennedy, John Kerry and others who are trying to block the vote with a filibuster in a last stand against Alito’s confirmation.
“There’s been adequate time for people to debate,” Reid said.
Alito, 55 and a 15-year veteran of the federal appeals court, has well over 50 votes for confirmation. He gained the support of Democrats Tim Johnson of South Dakota and Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia during the day, and has the backing of at least 52 of the Senate’s 55 Republicans.
When Long-Face Lurch phoned in a faux push for filibuster from a ski-lift in the Swiss alps, with the exception of the drunk-driving date-drowner from Massachusetts, even his own party wouldn’t accept the charges.
Kennedy said Alito, 55, “does not share the values of equality and justice that make this country strong. He does not deserve a place on the highest court of the land.”
Fortunately for Long-Face, he doesn’t have to worry about Scalito’s impact on the court, because, as a French citizen, U.S. laws do not apply to him nor his manic-depressive wife. Neither will Scalito’s appointment have any impact on Jabba-the-Hut Kennedy, because anyone who can get away with submerging his date in an automobile operates well above any known U.S. law.
I will say that I was fully expecting a bigger fight over Scalito – and likely a defection from the Sellout Seven group of turncoat GOP Senators who spend so much time tonguing John McCain’s dumper that they can barely make time to campaign for their own re-elections. I had assumed that the Gang of 14 had surrendered on Judge Roberts so that they could save their bullets for preserving the “O’Connor Seat”. I assumed wrong.
It’s heartening to know that something that started out like such a nightmare – the ghastly Harriet Miers nomination and the Gang of 14 – has ended with such good results.
This rare moment of optimism was brought to you by Xanax™.
January 27th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
Now that it appears he’s confirmed, can we drop the usage of Scalito?
I believe that Justice-select Alito is his own man, thank you.
January 27th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
He better not be his own man. I expect him to vote exactly how Scalia tells him to. If not, we’re going to have problems.
He can play it any way he wants. If he wants to go down Hard Ass Avenue, we can go that way.
January 27th, 2006 at 3:03 pm
Senate begins final debate on Alito
Senate Democrats charged Wednesday that Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito would be too deferential
January 27th, 2006 at 6:14 pm
The Alito confirmation has brought a lot of things in perspective. For one, in the unlikely event that a Democrap ever gets in the White House again, all future Supreme Court nominees will get judged based purely on politics alone. Or we will filibuster it unless you have a super majority.
No more Souters. No more 99-0 Ginsbergs. No more 96-0 Breyers. The days of playing nice are over. With the exception of some red-state Dems, they all hung together for a St. Martin Lucifer’s Day Massacre mob hit on Alito. They called him a murderous, woman hating, bigoted, child molester on national tv for 3 weeks.
They’ve let their party be hijacked by the Head Alcoholic, the Living Dead and a Clamlapping, smelly Codfish. For as far gone as they are, we should seek nothing short of the complete destruction of the Democratic Party. They are not worth saving and many Democrats would agree.
January 27th, 2006 at 6:15 pm
And thanks again Xanax.