Alito is more conservative than Scalia.
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and so sayeth the flock… God help us all…
November 2nd, 2005 at 10:36 amYeah!!!!!
November 2nd, 2005 at 10:38 amDoes Alito hunt ducks?
November 2nd, 2005 at 10:39 amGOOD
November 2nd, 2005 at 11:08 amThis is the part of the story in which the Right takes for itself the very rope upon which it will eventually be hanged.
The U.S. is a predominantly pro-choice place on a whole host of issues. Should the Right accidentally provide the real product used as bait to curry favor with their base (a repeal of Roe v Wade), rather than the “switch” – more gimmes for big business, less regulation, while no meaningful progress is ever made on the hot-button issues for social conservatives – the country will demonstrate its good common sense and swing back away from the hard right radical agenda.
Remember, “red” states have more abortions and out-of-wedlock & teen pregnancies than “blue.” Repealing RvW will leave abortion legal on the coasts. Who gets hurt? The theoretical conservative Bush supporters themselves.
Read What’s The Matter With Kansas?, last year’s insightful and funny book by T. Frank, to find out more about the bait and switch. One thing he makes clear is this: the last thing the Republicans want is a SCJ who will repeal RvW.
November 2nd, 2005 at 11:17 amhttp://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1102/p01s04-usju.html
In 3 of 4 cases, Supreme Court nominee Alito voted on the side of abortion rights.
This most mean that Scalia would have voted pro-choice on 4 out of the 4 cases, if Alito is in fact more conservative than Scalia.
November 2nd, 2005 at 11:18 amSo maybe instead of calling him Scalioto we should be calling him Aliolia or some such concoction?
I’m still gonna go with Scalioto cause it rolls off the tongue better.
November 2nd, 2005 at 11:18 am#4 “GOOD”
“In each of those cases, Alito adopted the view most supportive of the government’s position. Alito would have upheld the strip searches of an innocent 10-year-old girl, dissenting from the opinion by the well-known civil libertarian Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.”
Sounds like an extremist to me.
The courts are there to protect individual liberties, to provide a check on the other branches, NOT to slavishly uphold government action in the face of constitutional challenges by citizens.
I don’t know how turning back the clock on civil liberties is good unless you are a puritan.
November 2nd, 2005 at 11:19 am#3 Jay, I think he does and he uses an ak47 or larger caliber with huge clips. Think maybe he got the fire arms when he awarded the big gun case, Ha Ha , just kidding….Blessings
November 2nd, 2005 at 11:27 amI agree with #8 on the conservatives — What is it about civil rights and civil liberties that so gets their short in a twist? Are they so obsessed with having total power over someone else, making the rules, forcing their viewpoints on everyone — yes, they are authoritarian and puritanical.
November 2nd, 2005 at 11:30 amI wonder what people ever did to Alito? He likes the entity of government much more than he likes us humans.
November 2nd, 2005 at 11:30 am“Scalioto”
This is sounding more and more like a gyno exam. Hmmmm.
November 2nd, 2005 at 11:36 amIs this what Bush was talking about when he wanted obgyns to “SHARE THEIR LOVE”?
Okay Folks.
We are closing in on the Scoundrels Fast.
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Time waits for no name.
Lets get up to Neo-Con Straussian Thunk and how it construed a ‘Noble Lie’ and what a Noble Lie is really contrued with or by.
Hang on. Tight.
Its a DooZy.
Counterpunch.org
http://www.counterpunch.org/walsh11022005.html
In Short:
The Philosophy of Mendacity
By JOHN WALSH
All governments lie as I. F. Stone famously observed, but some governments lie more than others. And the neocon Bush regime serves up whoppers as standard fare every day. Why this propensity to lie? There are many reasons, but it is not widely appreciated that the neocons believe in lying on principle. It is the “noble” thing for the elite to do, for the “vulgar” masses, the “herd” will become ungovernable without such lies. This is the idea of the “noble lie” practiced with such success and boldness by Scooter Libby and his co-conspirators and concocted by the political “philosopher” Leo Strauss whose teachings lie at the core of the neoconservative outlook and agenda, so much so that they are sometimes called “Leocons.”
November 2nd, 2005 at 11:47 amMarie,
Authoritarian – many of them, yes. Puritan? ha ha.
November 2nd, 2005 at 11:51 amThe Puritans would have removed most modern Republican Politicians from office and from society long before now.
I agree with you Thom. I think from all the evidence to date they are liers, thieves, druggies, drunks and closet pedafiles and rapests. They have been raping America and the world after all, then many are murderers, case in point the camander in chief and first lady…We of the world need all the Blessings we can get untill we remove the entire bunch from all offices.
November 2nd, 2005 at 12:32 pmThe NeoCons and Federalist Society (Alito is a member) are all extremists and freaks. They don’t represent american or even civilized barbarians. They’re heartless and brainless judeo/christo fascists.
November 2nd, 2005 at 1:07 pmRyan, didn’t someone post that the now judge Roberts is also a Federalest.? Think I read that in a couple of sites. Yikes!……Blessings
November 2nd, 2005 at 1:13 pmSharon,
Yes. Although Roberts was more ‘coy’ about it.
November 2nd, 2005 at 2:50 pm“The NeoCons and Federalist Society (Alito is a member) are all extremists and freaks. They don’t represent american or even civilized barbarians. They’re heartless and brainless judeo/christo fascists.”
The foaming bleeding heart nuvo-libs (Lyan is a member) trying to smear Alito are synaptically challenged blethering morons so far to the extreme left of mainstream America as to be off the scale. You vituperative twits don’t even bother to read the man’s decisions – you just take your marching orders from Michael Moore, Kos, Al Franken and your off and running in lockstep, hysterically bleating paranoid lies like good little useful idiots.
On the first day of Fitzmas, my true love gave to me – Scalito!
LMAO!
November 2nd, 2005 at 6:48 pmRepublican propagandists always bring up ‘judicial activism’, but that’s because they are compulsive liars – they can’t help themselves. They’re hysterical and psychotic by nature, it’s their childish way.
justices vary widely in their inclination to strike down Congressional laws. Justice Clarence Thomas, appointed by President George H. W. Bush, was the most inclined, voting to invalidate 65.63 percent of those laws; Justice Stephen Breyer, appointed by President Bill Clinton, was the least, voting to invalidate 28.13 percent. The tally for all the justices appears below.
Thomas 65.63 %
November 3rd, 2005 at 12:06 amKennedy 64.06 %
Scalia 56.25 %
Rehnquist 46.88 %
O’Connor 46.77 %
Souter 42.19 %
Stevens 39.34 %
Ginsburg 39.06 %
Breyer 28.13 %
If being a member of the Federalist Society is “bad”, than so is being a member of the ACLU. All they are, are legal institutions.
Get over it.
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April 9th, 2008 at 2:08 pm