Alito: A Rumble Supreme

Looks  like the U.S. Senate must get ready to rumble. Bush's previous Supreme Court nominee, a personal assistant named Harriet Miers, intrigued many liberals and dismayed many conservatives who saw her as a born-again lightweight. The Moderate Voice (not "conservative") in an extensive round-up points out how under-qualified she was.

 

Some wondered if Bush would "wimp out," under seige by low poll ratings, not to mention a pit-bull prosecutor in the Plame case, a case which may or may not be part of a CIA anti-Bush set-up,  Would his next nominee, after the Miers withdrawal,  put another smile on the face of Democrat Senate leader Harry Reid?

 

The answer is in: a resounding no, Reid already says that Bush's new pick, veteran judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr., may be "too radical." (This is the same "radical" Alito who was voted to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals by unanimous consent of a Democrat-controled Senate. That was 100-0.)

 

NY Dem Senator Schumer, yet again finding a camera and a microphone, believes Alito may be "out of the mainstream."  (The ACLU's seat on the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who favors legalized prostitution and lowering age of consent to 12, is presumably an American Idol.)

 

Legal scholar Professor Bainbridge shows other reasons for liberal concern: Alito may be a friend of business. The Belgravia Dispatch has extensive Alito commentary, unusually in-depth.)

 

Shaping up: a national battle between "left extremists" and "right extremists"?

 

Liberal objections are mounting. Talking points are jumping. Alito is a male, not a female (a white male, at that!). "Extremist." "Radical." "Out of the mainstream." Bush has dared to ignore  the Democrats and listen instead to the conservative base that put him in the White House. NARAL and Planned Parenhood and other fund-raisers call Alito an enemy of "woman's right to choose." (There are still  a majority of SC votes for Roe vs. Wade, but even if it were overturned, any State can legislate for abortion if this "mainstream" wants it, like NY and NJ and CA certainly would, becoming Foetal Graveyards of choice. States' rights, you know. A bedrock of the Constitution.)

 

It could get nasty. Left ideologues and right ideologues are calling each other "ideologues."

 

Might it also get---wonder of wonders---enlightening?  A national debate on--would you believe it?--principles, instead of just the usual name calling, personal attack, obfuscation, dumbed-down sound-bites and  "gotcha" journalism.

 

Can the Republic stand it? Battle lines are being drawn already.

 

Dem Senator Harry Reid doesn't rule out a filibuster.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, warns that "the filibuster will not stand."

 

Liberal Republican Senator Arlen Specter, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, admits "There's a lot of anxiety."

 

One thing seems clear. Conservatives are suddenly rallying behind Bush and see backbones sprouting in certain spines. Liberals have  cause for concern. This time here is no backing down in sight.

 

Let the battle begin.

 

 

 

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