Losing interest but gaining votes?

Dahlia Lithwick of Slate explains how Samuel Alito may bore his way to the bench: “Anyone can manage to be boring on boring subjects; Alito has seemingly perfected the art of being boring on controversial ones. Executive power in wartime? Boring. His deeply felt passion for Robert Bork? Boring. His incendiary job application from 1985? So boring that he’s actually forgotten it. His resistance to the constitutional principle of one man, one vote? It was based on some stuff his dad told him. He doesn’t fight to defend these ideas, he just slumps even lower in his chair and looks more earnest.”
Posted by Melissa Cooley

13 Comments

  1. Rage
    Posted January 12, 2006 at 1:54 pm | Permalink

    I knew Lithwick was a moron before even reading this post. Merely confirms it.

  2. Heckler
    Posted January 12, 2006 at 2:29 pm | Permalink

    The base of Liberal power for the past 70 years is slip, slip, slipping away. Just drives you crazy doesnt it Melissa.

  3. Marty Venick
    Posted January 12, 2006 at 3:34 pm | Permalink

    That is the most slanted report I’ve seen yet. Once again, the libs just can’t get past themselves enough to report the facts. I’ve watched the coverage and he has been forthright in answering honestly. They want his answers on abortion and abortion only, although no nominee has ever done so. Why arent they holding Kennedy & Biden to the fire? And I once again, must ask why the Eagle prints this stuff when there is real fact based and balanced info out there. Must not meet with their agenda! Maybe that’s why Fox News has the highest ratings.

  4. Galahad
    Posted January 12, 2006 at 3:40 pm | Permalink

    I like the way the conservatives staged the weepy wife running out of the chamber.

    Oh, boo hoo, the little woman can’t take the heat–must be all that estrogen.

    http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002645.html

  5. CF
    Posted January 12, 2006 at 4:05 pm | Permalink

    Marty Venick,

    That’s a pretty slanted claim about slanted reporting. I listened to pretty all three days of testimony, including John Cornyn jumping the shark yesterday to discredit a witness who never actually testified. The real issues pertained to unitary executive theory, commerce clause, and equal protection. Don’t try spinning here, pal.

    Alito weaselled, the Repukes enabled, and the Democrats frittered away.

    Barring a live boy or a dead girl being found in Alito’s bed, I’d say he gets confirmed and all the rest of us get screwed by a White House that has demolished the final check on its claims to total executive power.

    229 years; America sure was nice while it lasted. Congrats to all you Repukes: you’ve managed to shrink American democracy down to a size convenient for bathtub drowning. Hope you’re happy. After the Administration is done with the likes of me, they’ll come after you.

    Don’t think they won’t.

  6. Heckler
    Posted January 12, 2006 at 5:14 pm | Permalink

    CF

    Don’t choke on it, you’d be missed around here.

  7. CF
    Posted January 12, 2006 at 7:36 pm | Permalink

    Awwww, Heckler, that’s so nice!

    When the Einsatzgruppe shows up at my liberal front door, you’ll vouch for me, won’t you?

  8. Heckler
    Posted January 12, 2006 at 7:47 pm | Permalink

    CF

    Absolutely, I’ll bring my arsenal over and we’ll go out in a blaze of glory.

  9. Marty Venick
    Posted January 12, 2006 at 7:53 pm | Permalink

    CF

    How can you hate Bush so much. His Medicare drug plan must be saving you money on Prozac.

  10. CF
    Posted January 12, 2006 at 8:51 pm | Permalink

    Marty,

    I’m too young for Medicare. So, how are you spending all the money it’s saving you on Viagra?

  11. k
    Posted January 12, 2006 at 9:05 pm | Permalink

    Galahad, that was a nice touch by the neocons wasn’t it? Kind of funny they had to have her start blubbering and make an emotionaly dash for the door to drum up sympathy for the jerk.

  12. Rage
    Posted January 12, 2006 at 11:06 pm | Permalink

    Hope I can get a job in Canada. . .

  13. CF
    Posted January 13, 2006 at 12:25 am | Permalink

    Now, at 12:18 AM, I’m not sure about how this vote is going to go.

    If the obvious fact that Alito will vote to overturn Roe–which he WILL, all RepubliSpin aside–gets sufficient play, I think those moderate, pro-choice northeastern Republicans will begin to get cold feet. Because if they vote for him, they sign their own death warrants. Because if Roe dies, it takes down the moderate Republican senators who will have voted for Alito.

    This is attested to by the fact that the Repukes have spent the week denying the undeniable-namely, that Alito’s confirmation will move the SCOTUS to the right. If that happens, and Roe is toast, so also will be lots of folks who voted for Alito.

    Pro-life folks, here’s the dirty little secret the GOP doesn’t want you to figure out: they want to keep abortion legal so that it remains a wedge issue that’s useful for keeping y’all on their side. Once it becomes illegal, momentum shifts leftward, and the GOP’s sails deflate.

    The GOP faces the awful possibility of actually achieving what the most important part of its constituency wants. And if this group gets what it wants, it instantly loses the main reason for going with the GOP in the first place. And without the Christian Right’s energy, the GOP risks going back into the wilderness as the minority party, since legal abortion, with all of its problems, is the majority’s preference.

    While I certainly don’t want to see Alito confirmed, and think that Democrats should go all the way to stop it, including a filibuster and partisan warfare in the Senate, the GOP has some very compelling reasons for not wanting to see this confirmation happen, either. The probable split that would follow the outlawing of Roe definitely threatens to sink Karl Rove’s dream of a 30 years of GOP domination of all branches of government.

    Be careful what you wish for, folks on the right. Be very careful.