Random thoughts : Alito

Just some random thoughts on the current stuff going on related to Alito

Ted Kennedy (a.k.a. the fat-drunk-murderer)

I am just wondering if anybody from the Democrap party realizes how the rest of the country responds when this idiot gets on the air. I mean, if the Republicans wanted to sweep every election in the country with the possible exception of the most blue-ist of the blue areas (which are few and far between), all they have to do is run 15 second spots with pictures of Teddy-boy.

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! Sorry about that ... I just got a visual and I came this close to losing it!

Then in his opening comments, hiccup-Teddy pulls a "Bork" ... just pulls some of the most unbelievable stuff out of his butt (which is one in the same with MoveOn.org) ... Bush is spying on citizens, Bush is torturing and murdering, Bush is the ultimate evil in the world ...

Oh wait ... I think that was the communique from Osama bin Laden ... or was it? Nope, I guess it was Kennedy ... sheez, it sure is hard to tell them apart, isn't it?

The problem with the "Bork" approach, is that it happened ... you know, what 20+ years ago? ... back when Bork was a nominee? I realize Kennedy (and most Democrats) are too stupid to realize this, but the Republicans have been kicking their (democrat) butts all over the place, and they have been doing so because Republicans have learned the lessons from the past. The "Bork" attack was effective in its time because NOBODY would have expected it was coming ... that was a time when (generally) the Senate acted in a distinguished manner, and held each other to high standards. Now, however, nobody expects anything BUT the lowest, slimiest and most disgusting behavior from the likes of Kennedy and Schlumer ... so their tactics are anticipated and therefore ineffective.

Lindsey Graham

I think the reference is correct, maybe I am wrong. One of the Senators commented that at least 22 of the Democraps have no intention of voting for Alito, regardless of the hearings. That should send shockwaves through the American public, and should give the Republicans great pause. What it should do is resonate to the American public that the Courts really are the hammer that liberals intend to use to shove their deranged ideology down our throats. What it should say to Republicans is that we really need to re-think our policy of treating leftie liberal nominees ... like da Bader ... respectfully and with the only consideration for qualifications as a justice (vs an out-of-touch ideology and the willingness to rewrite the Constitution).

In the immortal words of Sly Stallone (in the movie "Cobra") : "as long as we have to play by the rules and they don't, we're gonna lose".

Chuck Schumer (a.k.a. "Chuckie")

Note: I heard the audio of the excerpt I am discussing on the radio ... not live nor transcript. I would guess it is mostly accurate. I really, really could not believe what I was hearing ... I mean the radio announcer set this up as being "funny" ... but I was just so blown away.

For those of you that did not catch it ... Chuckie literally walked Alito down this path that ... boy, how do I put this??? ... let me just repeat what was discussed (and this is a paraphrase):

Chuckie ... does the Constitution protect "free speech"
Alito ... duh (OK, not really, but wait ...). "Free speech is literally articulated in the Bill of Rights"
Chuckie ... so along those same lines, is abortion a right guaranteed by the Constitution?

People, I am not making this up ... I am not that clever. This moron literally led an argument down the path that compared the right to freedom of speech ... something that is spelled out word-for-word in the original document amendments by the original authors of the document ... to the "right" of abortion ... a ruling that is not even based upon anything remotely tied to a Constitutional specification, but an abstract (WAAAAYYYYY out there) extension of an implied right ("privacy") which in itself is a stretch of other abstractions.

If you were on trial, would you want this clown as your attorney?

I could even see some Democrats turn away from their lunatic assertions that abortion is somehow a "right" that is somehow protected. Schumer's line of questioning was the perfect Constitutional case AGAINST abortion ... freedom of speech is articulated and therefore protected, nothing about abortion is remotely tied to anything that appears in the Constitution, and it is therefore subject to legislation (i.e. the voters can choose to create whatever boundaries around it they want).

There are two explanations of this "approach" ... either Schumer is so steeped in his ideology that he doesn't realize how deranged this line of questioning is (for a person that supports abortion), or else he thought he was setting a trap for Alito ("free speach is obviously a right, abortion is not necessarily a right"). Either way, Schumer walks away humiliated, as Alito dealt with this brilliantly.

Finally, Alito himself

Your first instinct would be to simply grant Alito massive kudos for his near perfect performance. Then again, perhaps not.

For a competitor to be judged in his excellence, he would actually have to come up against worthy competition. In the case of the Senate judiciary committee, particularly those on the Democrat side ... it is like an NFL team playing all out against a pee-wee league roster, with the NFL team having the complete playbook the pee-wee coach is using. Think about this folks, both Roberts AND Alito require absolutely no notes ... their biggest challenge is to actually try to look serious when the comedy team of Biden, Kennedy and Schumer start talking.

I will give him credit for that ... for literally keeping a perfectly stoic face knowing that the press is desperate to get any kind of picture that they can use to make him look bad. Again, think about that one folks ... could you imagine hours upon hours of this sludge, and you have to be *perfect* or else that one slip up is on the front page of a thousand newspapers??? Oy!