Friday, January 27, 2006

Stop It Scott, Stop It

More tripe from Scotty offered up as evidence as to how misleading he can be. Is he outright lying here or is it so grey an area that he slips his Rovian comment right up our asses with so much KY slapped on his lips that we cannot feel it?
Q Can I also ask you, on Senator Kerry's comments, what is your reaction to the filibuster call by Senator Kerry, on Judge Alito?

MR. McCLELLAN: On his call yesterday? It was a pretty historic day. This was the first time ever that a Senator has called for a filibuster from the slopes of Davos, Switzerland. I think even for a Senator, it takes some pretty serious yodeling to call for a filibuster from a five-star ski resort in the Swiss Alps. (Laughter.)

Q But you know he's not there skiing.
Good point. Why is Kerry in the Alps? Anyone know out there? I couldn't find it on his web location, but did manage to see Kerry was in the Chambers today delivering his rationale for not supporting Alito:
Judge Alito's record envisions an America where police may shoot and kill an unarmed boy to stop him from running away with a stolen purse; where federal agents may point guns at ordinary citizens during a raid, even after no sign of resistance; where the FBI may install a camera where you sleep on the promise that they won't turn it on unless an informant is in the room; where a black man may be sentenced to death by an all-white jury for killing a white man, absent a multiple regression analysis showing discrimination; and where police may search what a warrant permits, and then some. This is not the America we know. Nor is it the America we aspire to be.
And here's why Kerry says its time to fillabuster:
Judge Alito will take America backward, especially when it comes to civil rights and discrimination laws. His record speaks for itself. Rather than live up to the promise of ‘equal justice under the law,’ Judge Alito has consistently made it harder for Americans to have their day in court. He routinely defers to the power of the government, no matter how extreme. And he doesn’t believe women have a right to privacy that’s protected by the Constitution.

1 comment:

SheaNC said...

It's too bad the message has to be delivered by Kerry, with whom I have lost all trust. But, I agree with the message wholeheartedly.