Poker Face
Oct 31st, 2005 at 2:45 pm by Susie
That Harry Reid fella is a lot sharper than I thought. He got the Republicans to open the door on ideology with Harriet Miers, and now he gets to waltz right on through:
The nomination of Judge Alito requires an especially long hard look by the Senate because of what happened last week to Harriet Miers. Conservative activists forced Miers to withdraw from consideration for this same Supreme Court seat because she was not radical enough for them. Now the Senate needs to find out if the man replacing Miers is too radical for the American people.
I am disappointed in this choice for several reasons. First, unlike previous nominations, this one was not the product of consultation with Senate Democrats. Last Friday, Senator Leahy and I wrote to President Bush urging him to work with us to find a consensus nominee. The President has rejected that approach. […]
I look forward to meeting Judge Alito and learning why those who want to pack the Court with judicial activists are so much more enthusiastic about him than they were about Harriet Miers.
Kevin Drum is over on Political Animal being all scaredy-pants about this. “Oooh, what should we do? We can’t, you know, mention the “A” word, that might offend, and we can’t fight back…” (sorry, I’m paraphrasing here.)
I say we fight up front on this guy. Take away those precious code-words and tell it for what it is: these people want to subjugate women and deny them their right to self-determination. Oh, and throw in the bit about him ok-ing that strip search on a ten-year-old girl. I’m feeling hungry today, and I’m tired of being told what we can and can’t win.
Harry Reid is playing games we haven’t even thought of yet.