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mcnally
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response 12 of 186:
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Jan 12 20:56 UTC 2006 |
You're overly sensitive, alright. Better add another layer of tinfoil.
Here's a hypothetical for you: an official publication of some
organization publishes a piece that is not prefaced with a disclaimer
and is not afterwards repudiated by the organization in question.
What should one assume to be the overwhelmingly likely position of
that organization vis a vis the issue in question?
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mcnally
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response 13 of 186:
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Jan 12 21:03 UTC 2006 |
Here's the thing which really creeps me out about the Alito confirmation
hearings: I have absolutely no confidence that, asked to choose between
two judges, one of whom has publicly criticized abortion but who favors
protection of free speech rights, limitations on unlawful search and
seizure, limitations on "war powers" claimed by the executive branch,
and a host of other civil rights issues, and a second judge who promised
to let the Roe decision stand but supported the government's wiretap
programs, indefinite detention without trial for "unlawful combatants"
and select American citizens, virtually unlimited excutive powers,
the substitution of military "tribunals" for civilian courts, etc.,
that the majority of Democratic party officials would reject the second
judge.
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happyboy
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response 14 of 186:
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Jan 12 21:35 UTC 2006 |
/wonders if klg would join the kkk because he
likes their immigration policy.
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twenex
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response 15 of 186:
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Jan 12 21:51 UTC 2006 |
klg? oversensitive to OTHER people's needs?
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAA!
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bru
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response 16 of 186:
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Jan 12 23:36 UTC 2006 |
!party
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naftee
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response 17 of 186:
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Jan 13 00:21 UTC 2006 |
hi bru
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happyboy
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response 18 of 186:
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Jan 13 01:16 UTC 2006 |
hi naftee!
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naftee
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response 19 of 186:
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Jan 13 01:20 UTC 2006 |
hi happyboy !@
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klg
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response 20 of 186:
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Jan 13 11:55 UTC 2006 |
You know what they say about "assume."
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krj
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response 21 of 186:
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Jan 13 20:32 UTC 2006 |
I'm enjoying the spectacle of the Republicans trying to send out
contradictory messages on abortion. As Harriet Miers was shot down
from her own side for being an insufficiently reliable vote for
overturning Roe, I believe we are assured of how Alito will vote.
Other than that, the King has a divine right to appoint judges who
will support him in his absolute power, so we should all just
stop fighting Dear Leader.
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gull
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response 22 of 186:
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Jan 14 02:46 UTC 2006 |
Sen. Brownback and other Republicans made repeated references in the
hearings to Brown v. Board of Education, apparently to make the point
that starre decisis isn't all it's cracked up to be, and that sometimes
overturning precedents is a good thing. (I think these are winking
messages to reassure their base that Alito is the sort of guy who will
overturn Roe v. Wade.) The irony here is Brown really shouldn't have
been decided the way it was, if you follow the principles conservatives
claim judges should be following.
First, there's original intent. It seems highly unlikely that Congress
intended to end segregation when the 14th Amendment was passed, in
1866. In fact, the text of the Brown decision clearly states that it's
ignoring the conditions that existed when the amendment was passed.
Secondly, Brown was bucking the will of the people, in that it was
overturning a law established by the Kansas state legislature.
If there was ever an example of "judicial activism," the nemesis of
conservative legal minds, Brown v. Board of Education is it.
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tsty
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response 23 of 186:
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Jan 14 06:26 UTC 2006 |
it was fascinating to hear senator Chappaquiddick-alicious get audibly
prompted on reading out loud .. adn then forget to read (until prompted
yet again) the last line slurring women.
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rcurl
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response 24 of 186:
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Jan 14 07:19 UTC 2006 |
Maybe he was tired. Do you find tired people fascinating?
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happyboy
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response 25 of 186:
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Jan 14 09:05 UTC 2006 |
i found the ass kissing that the republo-corporatists
were engaging in entertaining.
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klg
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response 26 of 186:
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Jan 15 02:44 UTC 2006 |
Kenny and Brodbeck know how Alito will vote on abortion just as well as
NARAL knew how Breyer would.
Yeah. Kennedy's still tired from trying to rescue Mary Jo.
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tsty
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response 27 of 186:
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Jan 15 21:20 UTC 2006 |
...all that swimming did it???? or spinning?
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drew
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response 28 of 186:
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Jan 15 23:24 UTC 2006 |
That's all water under the bridge.
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bhelliom
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response 29 of 186:
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Jan 17 07:53 UTC 2006 |
Ouch!
I honestly believe Harriet Meier was not a serious nomination.
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richard
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response 30 of 186:
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Jan 18 03:15 UTC 2006 |
Alito is going to join with Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and new
Chief Justice John Roberts as the Four Musketeers of hardline
conservatism. Remember too that the court's most liberal justice,
Justice John Paul Stevens, turns 85 in April. Bush and co. know
Stevens won't live forever, or possibly be lucid enough to stay on the
court forever, and all they have to do is be able to replace him with
a "fifth musketeer", and they've won the battle. This court is VERY
close to being controlled by the right.
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richard
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response 31 of 186:
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Jan 18 03:18 UTC 2006 |
remember too that Justice Kennedy is turning 70 this year, Bader
Ginsberg is 73. All it takes is Bush being able to replace Stevens,
Ginsburg or Kennedy. Just one of them.
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mcnally
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response 32 of 186:
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Jan 18 04:42 UTC 2006 |
Maybe the prospect of a hostile judciary will finally motivate the
Democratic Party to get off their sorry asses and make a stab at
putting together a platform attractive enough for them to retake at
least one of the other two branches of government instead of sitting
back and relying on the courts to be the only guardians of our civil
liberties.
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bhelliom
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response 33 of 186:
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Jan 18 08:18 UTC 2006 |
Or maybe it will cause them to be more apathetic. Just my half-empty
response.
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klg
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response 34 of 186:
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Jan 18 12:00 UTC 2006 |
Richard you started my day off right. Thanks.
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bhelliom
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response 35 of 186:
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Jan 18 13:36 UTC 2006 |
KLG, so matter how many asses you kiss, you will not be the next
nominee.
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nharmon
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response 36 of 186:
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Jan 18 14:20 UTC 2006 |
The democrats are good at excluding people. I think the democratic party
needs to realize that Americans are not as liberal as other people in
the world. Americans do not want to be more like Europeans. Just because
Europe is more liberal than you, that does not make you centrist. The
Bush Administration through its screw-ups has handed the democrats the
next presidential election. Its the DNC's election to lose.
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