Bye Bye Right to Privacy
Well, if you want the truth, just ask mommy:
"Alito's mother shed some light. 'Of course, he's against abortion,' 90-year-old Rose Alito said of her son, a Catholic."
Pandagon has more on the gleeful reaction in Wingnuttia.
tags: supreme court samuel alito
I find this truly amazing. We have quotes from Alito's mother and the only Dem who speaks today is Reid.
Where are all the other Democrats???
Posted by: Night Bird | October 31, 2005 at 12:39 PM
Ted Kennedy spoke a little...and Shumer (sp) from NY..Durbin...they were calm and rational and said they want to examine his record etc etc...They were just not as rabidy enthusiastic as the right....
Posted by: enigma | October 31, 2005 at 12:50 PM
Kerry issued some sort of statement, I believe ...
Posted by: blogenfreude | October 31, 2005 at 12:57 PM
He'll be confirmed
Posted by: agi t. prop | October 31, 2005 at 01:03 PM
He'll be confirmed
Defeatist!
Posted by: blogenfreude | October 31, 2005 at 01:10 PM
I know, but I'm being serious. He'll be confirmed, narrowly. Lieberman and the DINOs will vote for him. And if the Gang of 14 fails then Frist will bust out the nookyooler option. Even a pubic hair on a coke can won't stop Scalito...
Posted by: agi t. prop | October 31, 2005 at 01:14 PM
...unless he's as crazy as Bork
Posted by: agi t. prop | October 31, 2005 at 01:19 PM
depends on whose pubic hair ...
Posted by: blogenfreude | October 31, 2005 at 01:19 PM
Not to worry. Wealthy women, and their teenage daughters, will still be able to get safe abortions, courtesy of their discreet and well-paid physicians. Only non-wealthy women and girls will end up dying from perforated uteruses or overdoses of purported abortifacients.
Posted by: Kathy | October 31, 2005 at 01:45 PM
Wealthy women, and their teenage daughters, will still be able to get safe abortions ... Exactly, or they'll do it like they did it pre-Roe: a flight to Sweden, or Israel, two places it can be easily taken care of ...
Posted by: blogenfreude | October 31, 2005 at 01:56 PM
It's just part of the liberal plot to take over America. The rich will abort, the poor won't be able to fly to Sweden to get one, and thus the ranks of the poor will grow! They're just breeding more revolutionaries! Thanks, Far Right! "We're coming to take you away, ha-ha! We're coming to take you away, ha-ha!"
Posted by: Neil Shakespeare | October 31, 2005 at 02:55 PM
Oh great! Another Nazi!
Posted by: Grandpa Eddie | October 31, 2005 at 03:00 PM
unless the dems all vote lock step and are joined by a bunch of moderate republicans who realize they will continue to be held hostage by the fundamentalists, agit's right he'll be confirmed.
I very much fear that he will rule according to his personal views and disregard court precedents.
I don't care what his personal views about abortion are; I care that he respect that we have precedent and settled law that are not consistent with his personal ones and that he was nominated just to do what the christian orthodoxy demands.
Posted by: ol cranky | October 31, 2005 at 05:08 PM
"dems all vote lock step," they were 22-22 on Roberts. I hear Brazil is nice this time of year.
Posted by: Fred | October 31, 2005 at 06:02 PM
What these GOP thugs need to explain is WHY they didn't nominate this Nazi to begin with, instead of Miers.
Actually, I'm pretty sure why, I just want W to explain it to Joe Six Pack.
Posted by: Sonic Nurse | November 01, 2005 at 06:18 AM
No surprise here, but this morning's WSJ was like 18 pages of conservative porn in support of Bushlito. Sometimes (ok most every morning) that paper really pisses me off!
Love the "week after" plan from Bush so far.
TODO-10/31-Next Vacation
-Nominate candidate for SCOTUS that's guaranteed to get me back in the good graces of religious right and beyond
-Release some prisoners from Abu Ghraib
-Announce Bird Flu plan
-Give extra candy to trick or treaters
-Attend that "black lady's" thing on the hill
What's next? Switching party affiliation?
Posted by: Brian | November 01, 2005 at 07:50 AM
Attend that "black lady's" thing on the hill
Yeah, her name is Rosa PARK, according to Chimp.
Posted by: Sonic Nurse | November 01, 2005 at 09:06 AM