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Alito nomination to test 'Gang of 14'

Senate Republicans said yesterday they will use the "nuclear constitutional option" to ban judicial filibusters if Democrats try using the tactic to block the confirmation of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court. "Certainly, this does not rise to the level of extraordinary circumstances," said Sen. Mike DeWine, Ohio Republican. "Therefore, I would be prepared -- if a filibuster were tried -- to go to change the rules in the Senate to stop the filibuster."

Folks, short of something TRULY extraordinary, Judge Alito will become Justice Alito.

Yesterday, Judge Alito had five private meetings with senators on Capitol Hill, drawing praise from Republicans and at least qualified praise from Sen. Tim Johnson, a Democrat from conservative South Dakota. "From what I know at this point, it would appear that his 15 years on the federal bench, his experience, his legal skills are at a high level," said Mr. Johnson, who said he hasn't made up his mind about whether to support the nomination or seek a filibuster.

This is NOT to say that the Donks will quietly allow this to happen, but in spite of their caterwauling, weeping, wailing, and knashing of teeth, it'll happen.

No Democrat has called for a filibuster against Judge Alito, but several have declined pointedly to rule out such a tactic to keep him off the high court. Most Republicans have said they support using the "nuclear option" to break any new filibusters against judicial nominees such as Judge Alito. But for Republicans to ban judicial filibusters, they need the support of at least three Republicans in the Gang of 14. Four Republicans and two Democrats have found no "extraordinary circumstances" with the Alito nomination. Although that number is not enough to prevent Democrats from filibustering the nomination, it is enough to employ the nuclear constitutional option.

Personally, the Chief hoped that the Kennedy-Reid-Schumer axis tries a filibuster, just so it can get shoved back down their throats.

Arlen Specter today announced that confirmation hearings for Alito won't begin until January 9th, a date beyond the pre-Christmas conclusion that the President had been hoping for. In the long haul this is probably a pretty good trade. Republicans have...

From USAToday: Wayne Goldsberry was at his daughter's home when he heard glass breaking. He went back to check on the noise and found the deer. I was standing about like this peeking around the corner when the deer came...

From WorldNetDaily: Is Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton personally offended by a book poking fun at liberals? Comments from the New York Democrat's spokesman seem to indicate there might be a problem. Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed skewers...

I've had my head so buried in the Alito nomination that I hadn't really been following the riots in Paris very closely (or at all). What an incredible mess. Lately I've been turning on the news (CNNMSNBCFOX, what's the difference?)...

'Party trumps race' for Steele foes

Trying to comment on this is like starting to clean up a trailer park after a tornado - hard to know where to start there is such an abundance of disorder present - mental disorder in the case of the MD Donks. (As Michael Savage's book title states: Liberalism is a Mental Disorder.)

By way of background - the Donks are yammering about Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, who is running as an unashamedly conservative Republican. As if THAT isn't bad enough to them - he also happens to be black.

Lt.Gov. Steele

The response is even more rabid than the Chief would have expected, even from the Donks:

Black Democratic leaders in Maryland say that racially tinged attacks against Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele in his bid for the U.S. Senate are fair because he is a conservative Republican.

Ooops! There goes Dr. Kings dream! (The bit about judging on the basis of character, not skin color.)

Such attacks against the first black man to win a statewide election in Maryland include pelting him with Oreo cookies during a campaign appearance, calling him an "Uncle Tom" and depicting him as a black-faced minstrel on a liberal Web log.

State Sen. Lisa A. Gladden, a black Baltimore Democrat, said she does not expect her party to pull any punches, including racial jabs at Mr. Steele, in the race to replace retiring Democratic U.S. Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes. "Party trumps race, especially on the national level," she said. "If you are bold enough to run, you have to take whatever the voters are going to give you. It's democracy, perhaps at its worse, but it is democracy."

We have a new Donk standard for campaign behavior: "democracy at it's worst"! Oh, yeah - I suppose the only thing new about that is that it is now openly stated.

Delegate Salima Siler Marriott, a black Baltimore Democrat, said Mr. Steele invites comparisons to a slave who loves his cruel master or a cookie that is black on the outside and white inside because his conservative political philosophy is, in her view, anti-black. "Because he is a conservative, he is different than most public blacks, and he is different than most people in our community," she said. "His politics are not in the best interest of the masses of black people."

Hmmmm. One is not supposed to run for office if one is "different from most people" in the community? Then if the reciprocal of this is applied, then should blacks be banned from seeking office in white communities? Attention David Duke: you have some new allies!

That final bit is good too: "His politics are not in the best interest of the masses of black people." So then keeping the black people dependent on the bureaucracy of the welfare state for generation after generation IS in the "best interest of the masses of black people" Apparently so, especially as long as they are content not to get uppity and independent enough to leave the Democratic Party's political plantation.

Oh, lovely. Asking "Where are the good Jews" is awfully close to saying "There are no good Jews in the public eye", isn't it? Or perhaps that's just my neocon imagination....

South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson has this quote in today?s Argus Leader:It's my hope that both groups on the left and the right will take a deep breath and back off, Johnson said. Grenades from both the liberal and arch-conservative...

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