Alito Headed For Confirmation

Chalk another one up for the conservatives.

With talk that Bush is "stacking the court" I wonder if most of these libs out there remember Clinton's TWO choices, and the people HE put on the court. Ginsberg, one of the biggest left-wingers that ever warmed a Supreme Court bench, and Stephen Breyer, her likewise-left-leaning counterpart. Was Clinton accused of stacking the court? No, conservatives recognized he put people on that he agreed with, and no one said a word. Now that GWB has put people on who are constructionalists/originalists, he's accused of "stacking the court." Sounds like old-fashioned whining coming from our liberal members of society.

I think Sam Alito will support the constitution of the United States, and to be perfectly honest, that's all a Supreme Court Justice should do. There should be no activism for any view other than that dervied from the Constitution of the United States. Period.

Given that, I am at a loss as to why many Democrats and liberals are against this nominee. My guess is that since liberal-Democratic appointees lean left and are activist for their cause, the liberals will assume that any judge appointed by a republican will automatically be an activist for the right. The problem with this sort of logic is, that since a conservative judge would judge by the Constitution and NOT any political agenda, they could not by that definition make any decision based upon their personal political beliefs. Unfortunately, in the mindset of most liberals, everything is doom and gloom, there are no good people, everyone is a crook or a liar or has a hidden agenda, and the only way something good will ever come out of all this mess is to have "our people" in charge so that our hidden agendas and political beliefs can be promulgated instead.

Well, when you win elections, you get to have things your way. Plain and simple. Clinton did it (although with a "bit" of opposition from Newt) and now W gets to make some choices. I'm sorry that some don't agree with that choice, but that's what happens when you win elections.