Bob Geiger
30 Jan 06 We have watched in dismay over the
weekend as too many Democrats remained unwilling to heed Senator
John Kerry’s call to filibuster the Samuel Alito Supreme
Court nomination. And we know that such political cowardice
certainly can’t be the fear of going up against George W.
Bush and what the public-relations hit might be from doing
that.
A Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll released Friday shows Bush’s national approval rating still in the cellar at 43 percent and no amount of the president saying “war on terror” and “September 11” over and over seems to be changing that. Bush doesn’t look to me like someone the opposition party should be afraid to mess with. So I decided to look at some polling numbers on the Alito nomination and the Supreme Court, hoping that the exercise might shed some light on why many Democrats won’t show any spine in blocking Bush’s ultraconservative nominee. What I found left me even more perplexed and angry. Comment: We think a lot
of people are perplexed and angry, but is it really because
standing up for what is right is too damn much trouble? We don't
think so. We find it fascinating to note that even the venerable
Robert Byrd, total enemy of the Neocons, sold out at the last
minute.
Why? What could make such a staunch Constitutionalist as Byrd flop over the fence? Well, either they know something VERY serious that the rest of us don't know, or somebody knows something about THEM that the rest of us don't know, and they are all willing to toe the line to keep those secrets. |
By Gail Russell Chaddock
The Christian Science Monitor 1 Feb 06 WASHINGTON – Since 9/11, the Bush
White House has moved aggressively to expand presidential power in
wartime, at the expense of Congress. Until recently, the
Republican-controlled Congress went along.
Even bipartisan concern that Samuel Alito would too enthusiastically support broad presidential powers was not enough to block his confirmation to the Supreme Court Tuesday. But that deference may be ending. The Senate, especially, is gearing up to make the case that power between the executive and legislative branches is unbalanced. Next week, the Senate begins the first hearings on the president's authorization of eavesdropping without a warrant. |
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