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With an assist for ABC News.

Fafblog interviews Samuel Alito.

Gilliard writes about the wankosphere.

Threads aren't just cute like everybody supposes.

Why do people keep coming to these threads because it's not the snacks.

When the apocalypse comes... thread me.

I think this thread is mostly filler.

When the apocalypse comes... thread me.

Looks like my bff Bob Ney is going to lose his committee chair. Hastert has asked him to resign.

Chile's pension system is a disaster if by pension system you mean "system which provides people with pensions.

The Washington Post ombudsman continues to be awful.

Post says Roy Blunt's wife doesn't lobby for Philip Morris. Altria's lobbying report disagrees.

Facts are so confusing.

Senator Brownback brought up Korematsu as a wrongly decided Supreme Court decision, in stark opposition the the numerous wingnuts who have lately been referring to it as justification for Bush's Dictatorial Powers.

I'd like Alito's opinion on Korematsu.


...info on Korematsu here.

In 2004 he said he'd be a good judiciary chair because he "would bring centrist judges to the bench."

Ask his office if helping to confirm Alito makes him a bad judiciary chair.

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It really was a illustrative moment about Washington pres corps culture when they all fell all over themselves to "out" Richard Clarke as a background briefer as soon as the Bush adminstration told them to. The fact that Fitz picked up on this shows he's a bit more clever than your average bear, which we already knew, but aside from its relevance to this particular case it is something which spoke volumes about the culture of Timmeh and the Gang.

It had nothing to do with high-minded journalistic principles for people like Timmeh. He was willing to throw out the confidential source promise as soon as Rove told him to. It was about maintaining favor with his sources - that is, the Bush administration.

Alito refused to say Roe was settled law. This is a big deal because he could say it was "settled law" as Roberts did and still vote to overturn it. His unwillingness to even go there pretty much settles it.

Of course, we already knew that but we're playing by the rules of this ridiculous dance set up by the senators and the media where the senators pretend to ask questions, Alito pretends to answer them, and the media pretends they don't know what the answers mean.


Call the office of Arlen Specter. Ask them if the senator plans on his legacy being the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

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Watching the bobblehead coverage of the Alito hearings - and, frankly, just about everything else they cover - one comes away think that to them it just doesn't really matter. Court decisions don't matter. Policy doesn't matter. None of this stuff matters. It's just a game played between rival high school football teams and they're just happy to go to the homecoming dance.

It's frustrating.

That destructive affirmative action Mickey Kaus keeps telling me about doesn't seem to be working too well.

There's something gross about wrapping yourself in the military to cover up the fact that you didn't want women and minorities at your university when you only joined it to avoid going to war.

None of these people have any shame. bad, unethical, corrupt.