Alito Day 1

I did not watch the Alito hearings. I did hear a chunk of it on NPR radio. So far, Alito had a good day.

The Democrats are desperately trying to turn a Judiciary Committee hearing into a national referendum on abortion. They can't win elections but they can make a lot of noise.

Frankly, bring it on.

Let Sen. Kennedy be the face of the Democrats. I want Kennedy and Schumer to be the faces of the liberal party.

As for Sen. Schumer, he ran into a little problem at Meet the Press this weekend: (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/blog/2006/01/russert_nails_schumer.html)

"Yesterday on Meet the Press Tim Russert nailed the major weakness for the Democrats when it comes to defeating Alito:

MR. RUSSERT: But here’s the situation, as many people see it. When Ruth Bader Ginsburg was put forward by Bill Clinton, she had been general counsel for the ACLU. Steven Breyer has worked for Ted Kennedy, and yet they were overwhelmingly confirmed because they had competence and temperament, as you say. And even though they had a more liberal, judicial philosophy than many members of the Senate, it was a Democratic president who had the right to make that nomination. If, in fact, Republicans supported Ginsburg and Breyer, why shouldn’t Democrats support Alito, who has been rated well qualified, the gold standard of the ABA, and whose philosophy may be conservative, but is no more conservative than Ginsburg and Breyer were liberal?"

Sen. Kennedy went even further. He attacked Judge Alito over the weekend.
(Read "Teddy Kennedy's Incredible Attack on Alito" by Ed Whelan http://bench.nationalreview.com/archives/086247.asp)

The left is making a big mistake. They are going to regret turning the Supreme Court nomination process into a Bork circus. It worked in '87. It won't work in 2006!

Liberals caught the conservatives flat footed in the Bork hearings. Not anymore. We are ready to hit back and we will.