ARLEN HEARTS ALITO
SPECTER TALKS THE TALK but doesn’t walk the choice walk. Arlen hearts Alito. And the Democrats fight to keep America from stepping back into the Nineteenth Century just got a lot tougher [story]Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., sent strong signals Monday that he would use all his clout to help federal appeals court judge Samuel Alito win confirmation to the Supreme Court.
Time and again Specter used his Monday afternoon press conference to defend President Bush’s nominee to the high court and to justify some of his controversial rulings.
“I think he’ll be an excellent witness,” Specter predicted. Drawing an implicit contrast with ex-nominee Harriet Miers, who withdrew last week after getting a tepid reception from the Senate, Specter said “he’s a real legal scholar beyond any question.”
KEY REPUBLICAN MODERATES will need to come round for Democrats to win on this nominee. And for the country not to lose.Specter did not say he'd vote for Alito, but all his other comments were positive. . . . Specter seemed to go out of his way to try to persuade abortion rights supporters, of whom he is one, that Alito is not beyond the pale . . . . Specter on Monday said he did not think a filibuster would be warranted in Alito’s case. And as in the cases of Bush's conservative appeals court nominees such as Janice Rogers Brown, whom Specter helped shepherd to Senate approval last May, the senior senator from Pennsylvania appears to be giving the Right no cause for complaint.
ARLEN OF PENNSYLVANIA here seems a pale specter of a supporter of women’s right to choose. Alito opposes that and more.
Uh-oh.
Posted by: bitchphd | October 31, 2005 at 07:52 PM
If Alito is not beyond the pale I'm a ham sandwich.
Posted by: Echidne | October 31, 2005 at 07:59 PM
Ugh....damn it.
Posted by: Pseudo-Adrienne | October 31, 2005 at 09:03 PM
UFF DA!! Double Plus Ungood - in spades, and other expressions of profound dismay & disgust.
Posted by: Denim Blue | October 31, 2005 at 10:12 PM
This is the scariest halloween ever.
Posted by: media girl | October 31, 2005 at 10:22 PM
I agree with you that moderate Republicans are the key here. But regarding Specter, read the comments to this DKos post for a tiny bit of hope.
Posted by: Matt | October 31, 2005 at 10:42 PM
Happy Halloween...
http://pansifiles.blogspot.com/2005/10/still-from-our-halloween-show.html
Posted by: jillian | October 31, 2005 at 10:51 PM
One's health can often be gaged by the nature of the breath...sweet to foul indicating an imbalance...a putrification of the interior. In italian the word for root word for bad breath/halitosis is ALITO...and so the gases continue to waft under our noses...
Posted by: mia | November 01, 2005 at 05:26 AM
The baddest of the bad. Forget the moderate Republicans. They are scared of the "King" & the old "Prince" This is a shoo-in!!
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