Kerfuffles

President George Bush gives his State of the Union speech tonight, but it is the confirmation of Justice Samuel Alito which will really make not only his day, but will make his legacy. Justices Samuel Alito and John Roberts are the crowning glories of the presidency of George W. Bush. President Bush, if he were to do nothing more for the next three plus years, has extended his presidency’s influence far into the future of this nation with these two outstanding choices. Of Samuel Alito who was confirmed today, President George W. Bush said, “America is fortunate that this good and humble man is willing to serve.”

From Our Loving Friends - The Gay self-Haters.

According to James Joyner at “Outside the Beltway”, “Michael Rogers at BlogActive, which bills itself as ‘Real Truth, Direct Action, threatened last night to ‘out’ a married Republican Senator as homosexual if he voted to confirm Judge Alito.”

Joyner writes that the “BlogActive” site published this warning to the unnamed Senator: “Tomorrow you will decide if your political position is worth more than doing what is right for others like you. … Your fake marriage, by the way, will NOT protect you from the truth being told on this blog.”

Therefore, expect today to hear the name of a married Republican Senator slandered as a “homosexual”. What if no Republican Senator is outed today? Was Michael Rogers’ threat naught but idle bombast, not worth the spittle required to utter it? Or was it because Senator Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island was the only Republican to vote No?

The real question is … who is truly more sick, demented and repugnant; a closeted homosexual, or a liberal Democrat self-hating gay? The legal question is … is blackmail of a United States Senator legal? If so, perhaps “BlogActive” will be getting a not so friendly visit from the FBI.

“And THAT is MY Opinion…” has the most descriptive blog posting of the Dems’ dilemma: It Must Really Suck To Be A Democrat. HA! There is a picture of this snickering dog, appropriately named, “Laughing at Lefties”, and the reasons for laughing are:

• Senate to Decide on Ending Alito Debate
• Efforts to Block Alito Vote Not Gaining Steam
• Republican-led Senate defeats bid to stop Alito
• Discussion at Democratic Underground -
  http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/

DU is on Def Con 5, they are imploding… They aren’t letting *lurkers* in to watch the slaughter, so much for Liberal *openness*…

No one has threatened suicide, yet, but many are threatening to leave the Dem party, register as Independents or, just not vote…

The following “great advice” is from Pat Cleary at Manufacturers’ Blog:

Senate Judiciary Committee To Vote on Alito Nomination

Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote on the nomination of Judge Alito to the US Supreme Court. Here’s a link to the full Judiciary Committee. Please phone, fax, or e-mail them and urge them to support his nomination.

Beginning tomorrow, his nomination should go to the floor of the Senate and debate will begin. For most of the past hundred Justices or so, debate is brief and more of a pro-forma exercise. Please click here to urge your Senators to have a quick up-or-down vote on Judge Alito. Even if they don’t support him, they ought to vote their conscience and move on. Delay is a way to postpone the inevitable, and is unfair to Judge Alito and the Constitutional process (anybody remember the Constitution….?) In fact, the latest poll shows that support for Judge Alito actually increased after his hearings, and his supporters now outnumber is opponents by almost 2-to-1.

This is the home stretch. If you care about legal reform, it begins at the top.

Does he love Princeton or does he hate it, as he has said in the past? Well, he was wearing a Princeton baseball cap, whatever that meant. “Bitter, Bruised and Broken” is how Flora McDonald at “United Conservatives of Virginia” describes Delaware’s Senator Joseph Biden after the Senate’s Judiciary hearings for Judge Samuel Alito. There is even proof in this funny picture (Joe Biden Offering Free Brain Transplant), posted at “End Clintonism Now.”

Biden was funny - much too funny to ever become “Mr. President”, but Uncle Teddy was a mean ole grouch. “Stop this donkey-&-elephant show” writes Colin McNickle in today’s “PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW“:

(Senator Ted) Kennedy huffed and puffed and reduced himself to wheezing when he couldn’t blow Alito’s house down. So he grabbed some straws in the martini cloakroom and resorted to the worst kind of smear imaginable over Alito’s “troubling” affiliation with that horrid — HORRID! — Princeton alumni club. Mr. Kennedy brought Alito’s wife to tears. You’re a big man, Teddy, in more ways than one.

Don’t laugh as Diane Feinstein Grills Alito on Rulings in Key Environmental Cases. You would hide your face in shame too, if you were a Democrat member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, having failed in your party’s proclaimed mission to destroy Judge Samuel Alito.

Enshrining Justice Harry Blackmun’s Legacy to His Nation

At “Choose Life” I encountered the following quotes from the Left’s legal scholars:

• “This Court’s abortion decisions have already worked a major distortion in the Court’s constitutional jurisprudence….no legal rule or doctrine is safe from ad hoc nullification by this Court…in a case involving state regulations of abortion.” ~~Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
• “Roe v. Wade…ventured too far in the change it ordered and presented an incomplete justification for its action.” ~~Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, North Carolina Law Review
• “One of the most curious things about Roe is that, behind its own verbal smokescreen, the substantive judgment on which it rests is nowhere to be found.” ~~Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law Professor, Harvard Law Review
• Roe v. Wade is “a very bad decision…because it is not constitutional law and gives almost no sense of an obligation to try to be.” ~~John Hart Ely, Yale Law Professor, Yale Law Journal
• “As a matter of constitutional interpretation and judicial method, Roe borders on the indefensible…[it is] one of the most intellectually suspect constitutional decisions of the modern era.” ~~Edward Lazarus, former clerk to Justice Harry Blackmun (Author of Roe), FindLaw’s Writ
• “Since its inception Roe has had a deep legitimacy problem, stemming from its weakness as a legal opinion.” ~~Benjamin Wittes, Washington Post Legal Affairs Editorial Writer, The Atlantic Monthly

Somehow, Kerfuffles has found herself upon the Democrats’ mailing list. Yes, it’s true that Barney Frank’s sister, Anne Lewis, has been spamming Kerfuffles in the hopes of receiving donations to beat back those “wascally wepublicans”. Here’s the latest about Justice Sunday and that extremist Senator, Rick Santorum:

Ed at Captain’s Quarters was there, blogging the event. (more…)

Article III Groupie is Back Underneath Their Robes, Gavel Gazing.

Ms. Article III Groupie was outed and found to be a “Him” and a federal prosecutor. Oh, the shame of it all! He was outed by Jeffrey Toobin of “The New Yorker”:

In real life, A3G is a thirty-year-old Newark-based assistant U.S. attorney named David Lat. “The blog really reflects two aspects of my personality,” he said over lunch recently. “I am very interested in serious legal issues as well as in fun and frivolous and gossipy issues. I can go from the Harvard Law Review to Us Weekly very quickly.” Lat, who has a boyish face, lives in Manhattan and commutes to New Jersey, and he writes his blog entries in his spare time. Like A3G, he graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School, and he worked briefly at a big New York law firm. Although his current job as a prosecutor has required him to pare back his life style, he says, “I still hoard toiletries from luxury hotels all over the world.” Lat interviewed for a Supreme Court clerkship, with Justice Antonin Scalia, but he didn’t get it.

“Yale treats certain judges like celebrities,” he said. “And I’ve always had a certain status anxiety about not having clerked on the Supreme Court.” (A3G often refers to Supreme Court clerks as “the Elect.”) “My interest in celebrity has kind of metastasized from the judges to the clerks,” he added.

Too bad for A3G that she (or he) did not read Kerfuffles’ posts about “Blogging For Dissidents” and “Blogging Anonymously”.

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