Alito's Defenders Speak With Forked Tongue

Ok, this is a short post...because I have to go run and bind my head in an Ace Bandage before it explodes...All I want to do is ask the "good" senators on the Judiciary Committee (like Sen. Graham, for example) how they can point a finger at Democrats and accuse them of playing "party politics" with this nomination, with destroying the fabric of civility, with dragging the nomination process to new lows by using it to prepare for the NEXT election....and in the SAME speech also admonish the Democrats for being surprised by Alito's nomination when the President had promised in his presidential campaign to nominate judges exactly like Alito to the Supreme Court.

Huh?

The Democrats are politicizing the process and playing election politics over Alito but a conservative, right leaning, Executive powers supporting nomination like Alito was a CAMPAIGN PROMISE?

What are you people smoking?

Have you forgotten how back in October it was CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS who kept Harriet Myers from even HAVING HEARINGS because you felt that she did not represent a fulfilment of your PRESIDENT'S PROMISE? And you have the unmitigated gall to accuse DEMOCRATS of playing politics with this process?

The PRESIDENT ran on CHANGING THE COURT. If you want to admonish someone for playing politics with the nomination process, start there.

You want judges who won't be activists and yet you owe your golden child in office to the activism of conservative Justices who decided the outcome of the 2000 election. You don't want activist judges but you will do whatever you can get get someone on the Supreme Court who will limit freedoms, disregard precedent, and invest unprecedented power in the Executive Branch.

And Arlen Spector...you are a coward. I watched you throughout this process, and I've seen your grave concerns about this nomination. I know in your heart that you understand that you are chairing a process which will fundamentally and forever change what America is, and what it can ever be. This is your legacy, Senator. You, more than any other person in this country are responsible for this sea change.

It was the Supreme Court, and the Rhenquist Five who began this process, and you have codified it. It is no good to, like Pilate, wash your hands and send it to the Senate to vote on it. You could have stopped it here, and you did not.

Sen. Feinstein stated today that the world, and our nation, is different than it was when Justice Ginsberg was confirmed. She was roundly criticized for saying that. How many times have Republicans claimed that September 11th changed everything, and that nothing in the pre-September 11th world continued to apply?

While not invoking the Republican's favorite justification for extreme changes to the very fabric of our nation, September 11th, that is a very real truth here. September 11th and the unending War on Terror will be a very large part of cases which will appear on the Supreme Court's docket.

The President says that the terrorists hate us because of our freedoms, our rights, and our way of life. How can the Republicans claim to defend those rights and freedoms, that way of life, while working far more effectively than the terrorists to remove them?

They can't...unless they lie...and that's the truth.