Alito to get smeared?

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Well after weeks of speculation that all the Dems planned to do before approving Alito was delay the committee vote for a week, we have this... Hyperventillation from Drudge

DEMOCRATS PLAN TO DESTROY ALITO
Fri Jan 06 2005 17:30:54 ET

**Exclusive**

Senate Democrats have put into place a plan that includes one last push to take down the nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito as he heads into his confirmation hearing next week, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

Senate Democrats intend to zero in on Alito?s alleged enthusiastic membership to an organization, they will charge, that was sexist and racist!

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Democrats hope to tie Alito to Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP).

Alito will testify that he joined CAP as a protest over Princeton policy that would not allow the ROTC on campus.

THE DRUDGE REPORT has obtained a Summer 1982 article from CAP?s PROSPECT magazine titled ?Smearing The Class Of 1957? that key Senate Democrats believe could thwart his nomination!

In the article written by then PROSPECT editor Frederick Foote, Foote writes: ?The facts show that, for whatever reasons, whites today are more intelligent than blacks.?

Senate Democrats expect excerpts like this written by other Princeton graduates will be enough to torpedo the Alito nomination.

One Democrat Hill staffer involved in their strategy declared, ?Put a fork in Scalito. It doesn?t matter that Alito didn?t write it, it doesn?t matter that Alito wasn?t that active in the group, Foote wrote it in CAP?s magazine and we are going to make Alito own it.?

However, a Republican insider contacted about the situation said, ?It?s the dumbest thing I?ve ever heard. The reason CAP was formed was to protest against people like Drujack who think killing chickens is similar to what happened at Auschwitz. I don?t understand how what a guy named Foote wrote in some magazine has anything to do with Alito.?

The final witness on the Senate Democrats newly unveiled witness list for Alito?s hearing is freelance journalist Stephen Dujack.

Dujack is a ?76 Princeton graduate and a longtime critic of CAP.

Dujack was the author of a highly critical 1986 op-ed in the PRINCETON ALUMNI WEEKLY titled ?The Contradictions Of CAP.? Dujack slammed the group for its policies opposing Princeton's decision to admit women and minorities.

Dujack now says: "Judge Alito will have to explain to the Senate Judiciary Committee why he paid dues to an outfit... that was overtly racist and sexist for its entire 14-year existence ? at times passionately so, too."

Dujack adds: "There is no way for Alito's backers to claim his association with the organization does not imply endorsement of its views, for opposition to women and minorities at Princeton was as central to CAP as opposition to drunken driving is to MADD."

However, THE DRUDGE REPORT has learned the Democrats? star witness comes with baggage of his own. Dujack penned an op-ed in 2003 that compared farm animals to Holocaust victims and gave money to the Kerry presidential campaign.

In the April 21, 2003 LOS ANGELES TIMES, Dujack wrote: ?Like the victims of the Holocaust, animals are rounded up, trucked hundreds of miles to the kill floor and slaughtered.? Dujack went on, ?To those who defend the modern-day Holocaust on animals by saying that animals are slaughtered for food and give us sustenance, I ask: if the victims of the Holocaust had been eaten, would that have justified the abuse and murder??

THE DRUDGE REPORT has also uncovered a purported $2,000 donation Dujack made to John Kerry?s presidential campaign in 2004.

Developing....

Ahhh confirmation hearings... Crack for political junkies. Already have my beer on ice.

 

[Rainsford]

Wouldn't it be nice if confirmation hearings were a time for each side to forget their differences and have a logical, reasonable debate over the fitness of the candidate? Personally I'd like it if SC candidates were nominated by the existing Supreme Court members, perhaps that would remove some of the partisan issues...but I doubt it.

 

[Todd33]

"One Democrat Hill staffer" Wow, that's confirmed!.

 

[sandorski]

Alito to be smeared or Pre-emptive smear?

 

[zendari]

Originally posted by: Rainsford
Wouldn't it be nice if confirmation hearings were a time for each side to forget their differences and have a logical, reasonable debate over the fitness of the candidate? Personally I'd like it if SC candidates were nominated by the existing Supreme Court members, perhaps that would remove some of the partisan issues...but I doubt it.

Of course, for that the democrats cant delay the hearing.

 

[CaptnKirk]

Sure would be nice if the confirmation process was for who is the best man for the American Citizen,
instead of a win or a loss for a political agenda.
Be nice to have someone who was looking out for the people in the country instead of a 'Good Old Boy' network,
a religious agenda, or a power play for the corporations - like it's supposed to be under the antiquated Constitution.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

According to FoxNews, Dujack has been removed from the Dems witness list.

Another Drudge exclusive bites the dust. Wow... only took a half hour.

Link

 

[herkulease]

Originally posted by: Rainsford
Wouldn't it be nice if confirmation hearings were a time for each side to forget their differences and have a logical, reasonable debate over the fitness of the candidate? Personally I'd like it if SC candidates were nominated by the existing Supreme Court members, perhaps that would remove some of the partisan issues...but I doubt it.

but that's a perfect world. heck I'd wish they throw out the usual 1 day of confirmation hearings and get straight to questions. the nominee has to sit there for 4+ hours and hear each and every senator talk about themselves and utter non sense that has nothing to do with the nominee.

 

[jlmadyson]

If this is the best they got well they might as well call it a day.

 

[MAW1082]

Originally posted by: Rainsford
Wouldn't it be nice if confirmation hearings were a time for each side to forget their differences and have a logical, reasonable debate over the fitness of the candidate? Personally I'd like it if SC candidates were nominated by the existing Supreme Court members, perhaps that would remove some of the partisan issues...but I doubt it.

That doesn't make much sense. The supreme court would become extremely one sided. Think about it for a second or two . . .

 

[arsbanned]

Originally posted by: zendari

Originally posted by: Rainsford
Wouldn't it be nice if confirmation hearings were a time for each side to forget their differences and have a logical, reasonable debate over the fitness of the candidate? Personally I'd like it if SC candidates were nominated by the existing Supreme Court members, perhaps that would remove some of the partisan issues...but I doubt it.

Of course, for that the democrats cant delay the hearing.

Just keep in mind that when the Republicans pull their Fascist stunts in the Senate (like stripping the ability of the minority to filibuster) they will be in the minority again some day, and perhaps soon. Don't think the Dems are going reinstate the rules once they become the majority. Maybe Frist should just go ahead and pull the trigger, since he's such a tough guy. He likes to threaten, maybe he shold just follow through instead of pussing out all the time. It's going to be fun watching the Republicans twist once sanity is restored to the government.

 

[Red Dawn]

Who takes that moron seriously?

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: arsbanned

Originally posted by: zendari

Originally posted by: Rainsford
Wouldn't it be nice if confirmation hearings were a time for each side to forget their differences and have a logical, reasonable debate over the fitness of the candidate? Personally I'd like it if SC candidates were nominated by the existing Supreme Court members, perhaps that would remove some of the partisan issues...but I doubt it.

Of course, for that the democrats cant delay the hearing.

Just keep in mind that when the Republicans pull their Fascist stunts in the Senate (like stripping the ability of the minority to filibuster) they will be in the minority again some day, and perhaps soon. Don't think the Dems are going reinstate the rules once they become the majority. Maybe Frist should just go ahead and pull the trigger, since he's such a tough guy. He likes to threaten, maybe he shold just follow through instead of pussing out all the time. It's going to be fun watching the Republicans twist once sanity is restored to the government.

It's a moot point. Alito won't be filibustered. The Dems will grill him hard but they would have to find something VERY surprising from his past to pull out the filibuster.

 

[jlmadyson]

CAP critic dropped from Alito witness list

An alumnus tapped by Democrats to testify in next week's Senate hearings on Samuel Alito '72 will no longer appear, removing the only witness slated to speak specifically about a controversial conservative alumni group of which Alito was a member.

Well there goes the star witness.

If this is the best they got well they might as well call it a day.

 

[zendari]

Alito's getting ready to pwn the Democrats on the Judiciary committee.

 

[dahunan]

this is a pre-emptive smear of the possible smear?

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: zendari
Alito's getting ready to pwn the Democrats on the Judiciary committee.

I don't see this as a "pwnage" situation (assuming I understand your 7337-speak). You'll see senators on both sides of the aisle bloviating for the next few days. I see Alito as a bright guy, but he's no John Roberts, and he simply doesn't have Roberts' ability to make the senators look and sound dumb.

 

[Shuxclams]

Originally posted by: arsbanned

Originally posted by: zendari

Originally posted by: Rainsford
Wouldn't it be nice if confirmation hearings were a time for each side to forget their differences and have a logical, reasonable debate over the fitness of the candidate? Personally I'd like it if SC candidates were nominated by the existing Supreme Court members, perhaps that would remove some of the partisan issues...but I doubt it.

Of course, for that the democrats cant delay the hearing.

Just keep in mind that when the Republicans pull their Fascist stunts in the Senate (like stripping the ability of the minority to filibuster) they will be in the minority again some day, and perhaps soon. Don't think the Dems are going reinstate the rules once they become the majority. Maybe Frist should just go ahead and pull the trigger, since he's such a tough guy. He likes to threaten, maybe he shold just follow through instead of pussing out all the time. It's going to be fun watching the Republicans twist once sanity is restored to the government.

 

[Genx87]

Originally posted by: arsbanned

Originally posted by: zendari

Originally posted by: Rainsford
Wouldn't it be nice if confirmation hearings were a time for each side to forget their differences and have a logical, reasonable debate over the fitness of the candidate? Personally I'd like it if SC candidates were nominated by the existing Supreme Court members, perhaps that would remove some of the partisan issues...but I doubt it.

Of course, for that the democrats cant delay the hearing.

Just keep in mind that when the Republicans pull their Fascist stunts in the Senate (like stripping the ability of the minority to filibuster) they will be in the minority again some day, and perhaps soon. Don't think the Dems are going reinstate the rules once they become the majority. Maybe Frist should just go ahead and pull the trigger, since he's such a tough guy. He likes to threaten, maybe he shold just follow through instead of pussing out all the time. It's going to be fun watching the Republicans twist once sanity is restored to the government.

Filibusters are a joke now anyways. The point of a filibuster is to shut down congress. Instead democrats changed the law long ago that allowed for other bills to be passed while a filibuster is in process. In other words the teeth of the filibuster is gone and is nothing but an annoyance factor now.

You get what you got last August and appointees, the executive branch just waits for a vacation and appoints people without a vote.

Which reminds me, has the 7th circle of hell decended on the UN since Bolton was appointed? I could have sworn that was a promise by democrats if he was put into the UN.

 

[DVK916]

Alito is a Catholic, and we don't need another God Believer in the Supreme Court.

 

[daniel49]

Originally posted by: DVK916
Alito is a Catholic, and we don't need another God Believer in the Supreme Court.

Your disqualifying a candidate based upon thier faith?
Isn't that amazing?
Why stop there?
Lets also disqualify them for thier race, thier gender,
exceeding iq parameters, and the color of thier toothbrushes.

Crawl back under your rock,

 

[Genx87]

Originally posted by: daniel49

Originally posted by: DVK916
Alito is a Catholic, and we don't need another God Believer in the Supreme Court.

Your disqualifying a candidate based upon thier faith?
Isn't that amazing?
Why stop there?
Lets also disqualify them for thier race, thier gender,
exceeding iq parameters, and the color of thier toothbrushes.

Crawl back under your rock,

But he wants to erect a single world govt where everthing is peaceful. Of course that is after he wipes out everybody who believes in a religion. Tolerance is only accepted on his terms.

 

[Harvey]

If you take Drudge seriously, you've got too much time on your hands or not enough grey matter in your skull. :roll:

 

[dahunan]

Originally posted by: daniel49

Originally posted by: DVK916
Alito is a Catholic, and we don't need another God Believer in the Supreme Court.

Your disqualifying a candidate based upon thier faith?
Isn't that amazing?
Why stop there?
Lets also disqualify them for thier race, thier gender,
exceeding iq parameters, and the color of thier toothbrushes.

Crawl back under your rock,

I can prove their

race
gender
color of their toothbrush

Can YOU prove their invisible leader exists?

 

[dahunan]

Originally posted by: Genx87

Originally posted by: daniel49

Originally posted by: DVK916
Alito is a Catholic, and we don't need another God Believer in the Supreme Court.

Your disqualifying a candidate based upon thier faith?
Isn't that amazing?
Why stop there?
Lets also disqualify them for thier race, thier gender,
exceeding iq parameters, and the color of thier toothbrushes.

Crawl back under your rock,

But he wants to erect a single world govt where everthing is peaceful. Of course that is after he wipes out everybody who believes in a religion. Tolerance is only accepted on his terms.

Yes, religious people are known to be the pillars of tolerance :laugh: