Supreme Court Nomination Triumph: Alito Confirmed By Senate!
As predicted here recently, the Senate has confirmed Judge Alito’s appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States.
This is a sweet, sweet moment. Decades of hard work has paid off with the appointment of Justice Roberts and now Justice Alito. The former is particularly satisfying as Alito is a more openly conservative fellow than Roberts, and also because his confirmation vindicates all of us who bitterly opposed that unfortunate nomination last year, the details of which we do not need to recount here.
President George W. Bush deserves a big helping of praise today. He could have drifted even further left after last year’s failed nomination, but instead he gave conservatives a chance to fight for one of their own.
It’s a good day. It’s a very, very good day.
Will update with links throughout the day.
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Michelle Malkin
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Professor Bainbridge
January 31st, 2006 at 7:06 pm
In the Reuter report linked by Michelle Malkin in “Alito’s confirmation” at the bottom of the page-Judge Alito sworn in (If I were computer savvy,I’d link it for you,sorry), you can damn near hear the Reuter “reporter” kickin’ a trash can across the office floor into the wall. It being a short story is your first clue. The last eleven words in the opening paragraph could’ve been left out (no pun intended) and are the second clue. The following five paragraphs remain untainted as the report isn’t from the NYT, so the quotes presumably were just that. Finally the trash can sails! The closing paragraph/statement could’ve been written by “the swimmer” on one of his good days, if he’s ever had one since floating to the top of the river, due to the empty bottles in his pockets and the cavernous void twixt’is ears!
Why can’t the facts just be reported as they are, without the obvious overtones and overbearing embellishments of clueless reporters who can never resist attempting to teach us their version of the truth?
January 31st, 2006 at 8:09 pm
Five overgrown altar boys on the supreme court - I reckon this is as close as Bainbridge has come to a wet dream in a very long time.