I didn't watch a whole much of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearings with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on the NSA surveillance program, but I read several of the wire stories and I've watched a couple of the cable news reports in addition to the usual blogging suspects. Having said that, I think there's a bit […]
John McCain has written a scathing letter to freshman Illinois Sen. Barack Obama that he's going to remember for a long time. I would like to apologize to you for assuming that your private assurances to me regarding your desire to cooperate in our efforts to negotiate bipartisan lobbying reform legislation were sincere. When you […]
Or maybe Ted "I left my car in the drink ... along with my date" Kennedy just gets his demagoguery wrong. The day after his elevation to the high court, Justice Samuel Alito sided with the court's liberal block to block the execution of a convicted murderer. For those of you wary of Souter Part […]
I'm just getting to watching yesterday's State of the Union speech and I must confess that one moment struck me as ... odd. It is said that prior to the attacks of September the 11th, our government failed to connect the dots of the conspiracy. We now know that two of the hijackers in the […]
Massachusetts' junior senator, John Kerry, has come out urging a filibuster of Judge Samuel Alito. It's going to be interesting to see how the New York Times editorial page characterizes Kerry's move, since by their definition a filibuster is occuring right now. And if the Times changes their definition to fit the political calculus of […]
The Senate isn't really debating the qualifications of Sam Alito to sit on the Supreme Court so much as they are speechifying. I watched a couple hours of the Senate yesterday and have C-SPAN2 on now and I think everything that can be said about Alito has been said -- it's just that everyone hasn't […]
California's "moderate" senator, Dianne Feinstein, had this to say today on the 10-8 party-line vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee on future Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., said things are different from when the Senate considered Breyer and Ginsburg, who were confirmed 87-9 and 96-3 respectively. "There […]
Three Republicans voted against Ruth Bader Ginsburg for the Supreme Court. Nine Republicans voted against Stephen Breyer for the Supreme Court. Twenty-two Democrats (50 percent of Dems in the Senate) voted against Chief Justice John Roberts for the Supreme Court. Between 30 and 40-some Democrats will likely vote against Justice Sam Alito. On Fox News, […]
Tom Daschle, formerly minority leader of the Senate, is considering a run for president. Of the United States. No, not the local Elks Lodge. President. Yes. Of the United States. Yes, he lost his re-election bid in 2004. Yes, he was minority leader at the time. Yes, he's lost his mind.
Probably the best article I've read on former Vice President Al Gore's speech yesterday comes from National Review's Byron York entitled "Al Gore's Mad Message." I stopped taking Al Gore seriously more than a decade ago, but the incredibly laughable part of Gore's speech -- and what convinced me that it really wasn't worth fisking […]