Frist says Alito is nightmare

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Author Message   Foj Citizen Username: Foger Post Number: 918 Registered: 9-2004 Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 10:39 pm:        By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist told Republican Party activists on Friday night that U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito was the "worst nightmare of liberal Democrats." Frist, a Tennessee Republican, made the remark to fellow Republicans during a private tour he gave them of the Senate chamber when the Senate was not in session. Frist was not available for comment following his remarks. Asked about the senator's remark, Frist spokesman Bob Stevenson said that Alito "is a thoughtful mainstream conservative jurist who is well respected by his peers, by Democrats and Republicans alike." Stevenson added, "There are liberals, many of them represented by the outside groups, who will do anything to kill any nominee put forward by this administration." Democrats have expressed concerns the conservative Alito would push the nation's highest court to the right in areas such as abortion rights, civil rights and presidential powers. The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote on Tuesday on the Alito nomination and the full Senate intends to debate it next week. Three top Democrats announced this week they would vote against sending Alito to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. They are Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the senior Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Dick Durbin of Illinois. No Democrat so far has said he or she would try to block a Senate floor vote on Alito through a procedure known as a filibuster. The Republican National Committee was holding a winter meeting in Washington this week, and the 50 or so party activists from across the United States were invited by Frist to tour the Senate chamber. http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-01- 21T014312Z_01_N20118535_RTRUKOC_0_UK-COURT-ALITO.xml Nightmare- eh--that seems like exactly the reason he should be voted down. Gee It seemed like ALito played it cool during the hearings. NOW suddenly hes a nightmare?   tom Citizen Username: Tom Post Number: 4254 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 12:38 am:        I don't understand why these guys have to lie constantly. Did Ruth Bader Ginsberg have to lie about her stance on abortion? Of course not. Maybe I do understand why. But the important thing is, they are lying constantly about their position on the issue and they clearly have something that they're hiding from the public.