1)Scalito to the Scrapheap
2)Join John Jr. Introduce Impeachmemt
3)Demand Downing Street Investigation
4)Pelosi Get A Spine, Stand and Speak
The Walls are Crumbling
Let's Tear'em DOWN
Hit'em HARD
Hit'em where it HURTS.
No Retreat. No Surrender.

Bravo! Bravo! Scalito's pedigree is meaningless. His skill at artfully crafted judicial activism for the extreme right is dangerous. He was nominated because he is an ideologue that would make the Robertts court more reactionary than Rehnquist's. He should be attacked on his ideology and shown for how outside American values it is. Republican counteracts will look hypocritical compared with what they did to Miers. Besides, it's only a recent "rule" that the Senate has to rubber stamp the president's nominee's if they've got the right pedigree. What possible difference does it make to the American people what law school a justice graduated from if he issues unjust verdicts?

Meirs had no experience but I guess it doesn't make much difference since the President decides all issues.

We don't have a government run by the three branches of government. Bush rules. Congress gave their duties to him. So did the Supreme Court.

Roberts was one of those who stopped the vote in Florida. He should have been tried and arrested for voter fraud and criminal activity. Instead he gets promoted. This is the game is it not?

RWers don't make up much of the country or even the Republican party. They are a minority in charge because they give Bush a blank check over our country.

Bush has no mandate...period. He took and abused power.

They want nu-ku-lar option?

If that's the way they want it... Let'em have it! Democrat Congresspeople, I want you to stop, slow, impede these illegitimate fascist repugnicans at every turn. This is your sworn oath and duty to the Constitution to defend it against all enemies, foreign or domestic.

If you fail to recognize that these are domestic enemies of, at a minimum, the Bill of Rights... then you are in the wrong business being a so-called democrat.

It is also your political duty... you fail to do this, and the democratic party's liberal base implodes and the whole ceases to be a viable political entity, thus you become the fascists' enablers.

I read the commentary on "Scalito" from People for the American Way. It is frightening to think of this guy sitting on the Supreme Court. IMO if Scalito should get confirmed it would be a dark day for America. (One of several we've already experienced under the BA).
Bob is absolutely right, Bush does not care if the majority of Americans do not want Roe v Wade overturned. What he cares about is fullfilling certain promises made to his right-wing conservative supporters. It begins and ends with that. So,
surely no one seriously thought Bush would compromise and choose a moderate. That is not a concept he believes in (or probably even understands).
Dems must NOT let this man Scalito through.

Please allow me to speak out on this non-issue of racism that's appeared as a headline on Drudge.

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash9.htm

Democrats - do not take the bait! Laugh it off. Do not apologize. Do not hazard the question. We're calling the guy Scalito, not Mussolito. If he had a mind of his own, he'd be respected.

When it comes down to cases, as an Italian-American, I must be straight with myself and make a thorough confession.

We Italian-Americans do indeed look alike. Justice Scalia, Mr. Alito and I are best described in this unintended Hobbes manner: nasty, brutish and short. Twenty years ago when Scalia was nominated, our
resemblance was the first thing noted by a co-worker.

We Italian-Americans have given this Country only a few gifts: the radio, gangsterism and golden-horns.

We Italian-American resist full assimilation by the maintenance of peasant habits and a peon mentality.

We Italian-Americans have moved quickly up the economic ladder
and pulled the ladder up behind us just as quickly, stranding everybody else who are only shades darker.

We Italian-Americans are our own worst enemies.

Mr. Francis Zuccarello

these shores, a great love of great music, art, and much else that is good. Most have assimilated easily and contributed to the growth of Americq...more so than other ethnic groups.

As to the mob part of the equation, all immigrant groups have their own cultural 'mob' types...try and name one group that has not.

Power, after all, abhors a vacumn.

Miers was a plan by Ried to show the people what Bush truly cares about. Corporations It was a brillant plan. I am surprised I didn't figure it out sooner. I do wish that he would be tougher on his moderates like Nelson from Mebraska and Lieberman. People like this are a real weakness to the democratic party.

Scalia and Thomas are originalists-they believe that the Constitution should be interpreted the way it would have been in 1789. That makes them judicial activists who would overturn a lot of the jurisprudence since FDR. Another term for this is strict constuctionists--such as Scalito. The organization leading the charge is the Federalist Society:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-federalists11nov11,...

On his January 1985 job application to a job in the Raygun administration, Scalito listed his membership in the Concerned Alumni of Princetown. The organization had it's own magazine which lamented allowing women and minorities into Princetown and decried the abortion operations done in the Princetown health clinic.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/politics/politicsspecial1/27alito.html...

The government made 470 pages of Alito documents from the Reagon Administration for 180 minutes. One memo would be in complete conformity to Bush's position on Gitmo. The rest apparently showed that he always backed prosecutors and the expansion of presidential power.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/28/AR200511...

Scalito's church/state rulings usually follow the right-wing take:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-religion26nov26,0,5...

And here's a look at what Scalito's America will be like:

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/31/samuel-alitos-america

The 3 hour review of 470 pages of Scalito documents revealed a devotion to police power:

SUPREME COURT -- ALITO PUSHED EXPANSIVE VIEW OF POLICE POWERS: New documents show that as a Reagan administration lawyer, Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito "took an expansive view of government law-enforcement powers in numerous cases in which he was called upon to balance the prerogatives of police and prosecutors with the rights of individuals." According to the Los Angeles Times, he "advised the FBI that it had broad power to investigate government employees as security threats, even if they had no involvement in national security matters," and "told the Internal Revenue Service that its lawyers could secretly record conversations with taxpayers, despite an American Bar Assn. opinion forbidding lawyers from secretly recording any conversation." Additionally, the Boston Globe reports, while working in the Office of Legal Counsel from 1985 to 1987, Alito "raised concerns about a proposed ethics rule that would have barred prosecutors from investigating an individual without a ''good-faith" belief that the person had committed a crime."

American Progress Action Fund e-mail dated 11/29/05

A 1985 Memo by Alito suggests he wants to destroy Rowe v. Wade by a thousand cuts rather than overturning it outright:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/01/politics/politicsspecial1/01confirm.ht...

In a 1984 memo in Raygun's time, Scalito decided it was Constitutional to shoot dead an unarmed fleeing 15 year old who had stolen $10 in the back of the head. The Supreme Court disagreed as did the guidelines the FBI and other agencies had on the ue of deadly force.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-alito3dec03,1,89832...