Comments on: Alito’s Tactical Assault on Roe

By: carot

carot — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Good riddance to Roe anyway. There isn’t another developed country in the world that bans abortion and they do it without any Supreme Court decisions.
The fact is there is no such thing as an American except Native Americans. Everyone else is immigrants from countries that allow abortion. There is nothing genetic in Americans to be against abortion. If left to voters the result will be the same over time as it is everywhere else.
All Roe does is allow Republicans to pretend to part of their base that they are battling the forces of evil. All it gets the Dems is losing the religious vote which pushes the political landscape to the right of Genghis Khan and the Dems trying to appear to the centre left of Genghis Khan.

By: SuzzieQ,

SuzzieQ, — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

There was a question on Jeopardy! recently that said because of the Paula Jones/Clinton case, a President can be sued. See, TV is educational!

Perhaps one of our lawyer commentators could elaborate on this.

Why can’t a class action suit against Bush be filed….wouldn’t it be ironic that the Paula Jones lawsuit comes back to bite the Republican elves and all their ilk.

PS I like the idea that the NSA may be tapping and taping Bush, Cheney and Rove in order to protect themselves….remember the famous comments of Bush and Cheney over the NYT reporter, calling him an a*****e.

By: tedb

tedb — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I love Fried’s comment re one of the Alito strategy memos: “”I need hardly say how sensitive this material is, and ask that it have no wider circulation,” Fried wrote.”
Ooops…. -:)

By: jhouston

jhouston — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Several people here have speculated about whether Bush appointed Alito in an attempt to “pack the court” with members favorable to his view of the imperial presidency. I seem to remember similar speculation even before the announcement of Roberts’ appoiontment. I also read somewhere very recently that Arlen Spector was extremely put out by these new internal spying revelations because of the inconvenience of scheduling hearings in January while he was trying to get the Alito hearings going.

Spector should do the spying hearings first, particularly concentrating on the issue of WHO were the targets of these warrantless wiretaps. The information arising from those hearings might very well scuttle any later Alito hearings altogether.

My two senators are both Confederates, thus useless, but if anyone out there is in a state with a Democratic senator on the Judiciary committee, please advise them:

Spying hearings first, Alito second. This might very well save the Republic.

By: isis2

isis2 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

when i first read the story about cheney monopolizing the outlet for his iPod my first thought was he just being a dick, in every sense of the word, and showing reporters who’s king of AF2.

i think of cheney as a ‘pulls the wings off of flies’ kind of guy. the iPod story struck me as wing pulling. or at least, that was a bonus for old dick in addition to any other reasons he might have had.

By: isis2

isis2 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

GSD:
your ‘conservatives do not have a past, only democrats do’ is a thing of beauty. impressive, as always. i so enjoy reading what you have to say.

By: ReddHedd

ReddHedd — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Let’s hope so, Terri. It’s tough to find someone to the right of Roberts, but I think the Preznit may have succeeded.

By: TERRI IN S. FL

TERRI IN S. FL — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Dems have been rather silent on Alito so far, but “my sources” tell me that this will be a bloody fight to the end, the Dems putting up strong and vocal objection to Alito en masse. Some Cons may join in the fight under the guise of his views on other privacy issues, like, um I dunno, maybe WIRETAPPING AMERICAN CITIZENS. In any event, Boosh is the lamest of ducks and this duck won’t float.

By: John Casper

John Casper — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

new thread: “Cracking Open the Mighty Wurlitzer.”

By: Lymond

Lymond — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is exactly why Shrub has been carrying on about getting Alito confirmed in January. He’s going to need the vote that Sandra Day O’C will not give him.

Alito going down has got to happen, but not necessarily too quickly. Let’s have those Judicial hearings on the NSA first.