Senator Kennedy: Thanks, Ted, We Owe You One
There is almost universal agreement (see, for example, Byron York) on the Republican side that Ted Kennedy basically gave the game away with his grandstanding. Also of interest is this tidbit from York:
Republicans believe that Sen. Kennedy, in his desire to spark a confrontation and bring the hearings to life, made a tactical blunder by confronting Chairman Arlen Specter and demanding a subpoena for the Rusher papers. But the real key to Kennedy’s embarrassment, aides say, is Rusher himself. Republicans were not inclined to agree to a subpoena for the papers, which could have allowed Democrats a period of time to charge that Alito and GOP were hiding something. But Rusher’s quick agreement to make the papers available — they are being copied and examined now, apparently — called Kennedy’s bluff and will likely put an end to the whole thing. “It’s over,” says one Republican aide.
Of course, the crowd Kennedy is playing to is ecstatic:
Kennedy just smacked the SH** out of Specter, rhetorically speaking. And before that, he pretty much called Alito . . . with regard to Alito’s BRAGGING in the 80s about his membership in CAP (Concerned Princeton Alumni, a group devoted to, basically, stopping the influx of, oh, blacks, Jews, women, you name the non-male, non-white group).
Haa, haaaaaa, haaaa, ha! I tell you, I don’t know what I’d do with a little dose of the Kos Kidz now and then…
Ted Kennedy’s Warrantless Surveillance For Partisan Reasons
I seriously doubt Ted Kennedy and his Senate Democrat co-conspirators realize what a bone head move they just made regarding the CAP subpoena for dirt on Alito. While Congress has the power of subpoena, it is clear this planned invasion of privacy of…
If I understand this issue correctly (a big if — it’s all new to me today) then it’s worth noting also what this will do, in the intermediate term, to Democratic attempts to claim the moral high ground on privacy issues.
Here, a Democratic Senator has used a judicial confirmation to force a very peripherally related but semi-prominent conservative (a co-founder of The National Review??) to release to, if not the public, at least to the senators among the opposing party, his private diaries and personal papers which he had deeded to the Library of Congress for historical purposes, on the condition that they be held private until some much later time, to avoid embarrassing those mentioned. It is difficult to imagine a weaker excuse for a subpoena than this one: that his personal papers might shed light on what role the nominee might have played in an organization they both belonged to more than twenty years ago.
Ted Kennedy has moved from being a joke to being a national disgrace. Shame!
Clint, you’re not the first to notice this: see my next post shortly…
And he can add Martha Alito to the list of women he has made cry. It’s just disgusting. Can he be given some sort of permanent honorary jackass status?
Maybe Uncle Ted was just trying to boost his book sales. Ha-Ha
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I know most of what is happening is rhetoric and pandering to those on the far left but the Rats are showing the country their “scorched earth” philosophy. I hope the voters are paying attention to Rats rantings and making notes of their behavior. I my opinion, this type of behavior will work against the Rats. Correct me if I am wrong but I do not remember the Repubs being this nasty during the conformation hearings of the Clinton nominees. The true nature of the far left is now being exposed for all to see. They are witnessing the courts being slowly taken out of their hands and they are not very “happy campers”.
[...] Now, as it happens, William Rusher has agreed to cough up the documents (via Decision ‘08) without a subpoena being issued, so Kennedy’s hot air will go out of this bubble as quickly as it filled up. But that does not make Kennedy’s attempt to grab the CAP documents any less offensive to the speech and associational rights protected by First Amendment. [...]
This would truly bury them:
List people and orgs consulted in prep for Alito hearings Dems!
American Thinker poses great challenge to Sen. Feingold:
Sen. Feingold’s Excellent Adventure
I have always found sanctimony from Sen. Feingold particulalry unappealing since he was instrumental in engineering the first significant curbing of free political speech in this country since its founding (yes, he had help, but that does not change the main point). One of these days, the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of Congress making a law abridging freedom of speech will go down with other titanic travesties such as Dred Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson. But here we are now. And Sen. Feingold now wants Judge Alito to provide a list of everyone with whom he spoke in preparing for his hearings. Funny. I thought the point of the hearings was for Senators to ask questions of the nominee. But if we are now going to document the provenance of the proceedings, then balance certainly requires that each Senator submit a list of those people and organizations with whom he or she consulted in preparing for the hearings. Those lists would make most interesting reading. And they have the advantage of being equally insulting, as their provision implies that the Senators are doing the bidding of third parties, not representing the interests of their constituents, just as asking Judge Alito to provide his list of advisors is meant to imply that he is being manipulated by them, not speaking for himself.I hope that one of the Republican senators makes this request tomorrow when Judge Alito provides his list.Let’s put them all on the web.Greg Richards 1 12 06
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