Bad Feeling in the Body Politic

[lvx35]

Tuesday, January 31, 2006; 6:00 PM

Minutes after yesterday's confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) rushed to the Senate television studio to declare it "a happy day for the United States Senate." But instead of happy faces, the Republican senators lined up behind McConnell wore the grave expressions of sore winners.

Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (Utah) said Alito had "been treated in a despicable fashion. . . . I think it's despicable." He added: "We should get rid of this really repugnant partisanship."


Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.) took off after Democratic "divisiveness" and their allegiance to "outside, activist, hard-left groups." ...

from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/31/AR2006013101195.html

Goes to show how the Republicans respond to capitulation and compromise, this is why we need to fight not give in

[donco6]

1. Fight? What's that?

We haven't learned that one yet. We only know "roll over" and "bark".

[Lone_Star_Dem]

8. That is so not fair

You completely left 'play dead' off of your list.


:cry:

[donco6]

12. Snort.

You're absolutely right. We've mastered that as well.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. That is actually frightening. They are sore winners.

They want to sodomize us and make sure we squeal like pigs while they're doing it.

[tularetom]

3. The Dems acted like pussies and still

get accused of being partisan. This would teach anybody with even a vestige of a spine not to give these pieces of shit one inch. This nomination should have been filibustered down to the last gasp, they would still be making the same accusations but at least the Dems would be able to feel like they actually stood for something. Now the dumshits out there in jesusland are gonna think they are partisan obstructionists when in fact they are invertebrate enablers for * and crew.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. But you missed the best part!

The Republicans aren't happy!!!! Exactly why would we want to make them happy? What did I miss?

[lvx35]

14. exactly

if your going to get attacked equally either way, then you should go after as much as you can get. Its basic strategy.

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. Oh, shit! Fritz must have been reading our posts:

"They don't have any of the convictions . . . you have a party with no principles and no convictions and no ideas."

He could have taken that out of one of my posts!

[liberalhistorian]

6. Will he still think it's

"despicable" when Alito, in concert with his fascist buddies on the court, begins to disallow legitimate challenges to Bush's presidential power overreaching, overriding the constitutional balance of powers and system of checks and balances, and the imperial presidency finally begins to emerge?

Wait a minute-never mind, don't answer that, this is Hatch we're talking about, after all.

[mcscajun]

7. "Outside, activist, hard-left"

Outside? OUTSIDE?

:grr:

[ThoughtCriminal]

9. Republicans are never happy

Fear and hate. Fear and hate. Fear and hate. Fear and hate.

If we were all their slaves they would complain about how much they have to feed us.

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. I think they're upset. And I think that all this righteous indignation is

the sign of a bully. And we all know that you have to hit the bully square in the nose to make them understand that they've gone too far. All this autocratic bullshit is the thing that abusive households are made of.

[lvx35]

13. yeah, there's something true in that

in them knowing they've gone too far...Its when they start accussing us of the things they do themselves more than anybody that it starts to shine through, the knots these guys have their heads in.

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. Running the Congress like a plantation, indeed.

Hillary, babe, you got that one right.

[undergroundpanther]

11. Full spectrum domination

Anything less is frightening to sociopath control freaks you know.
They need to make sure we are crushed in body mind heart and soul. They need us to be thier slaves and automatons with no will of ourt own and no way to refuse thier demands.

[AX10]

15. From the "land of the Klan", Jeff Sessions:

""Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.) took off after Democratic "divisiveness" and their allegiance to "outside, activist, hard-left groups.""

[karynnj]

17. Alito was treated in a despicable fashion?

What was the worse thing anyone said? That he belonged to a club that had discriminary views years ago? Because - he did. He had to listen to 20 minute Biden questions? small price to pay for a life time job.

I didn't hear all the speeches - but of those I heard - they were nothing compared to the character assignation they supported of various Democrats. Kerry's speeches were based entirely on his legal judgements - Kerry conceeded that he was a nice guy, intelligent and a competent lawyer. That he thought Alito's legal judgement was wrong and explained his objections beautifully is not despicable but what Kerry and all the Democrats were entitled to do. Kennedy spoke of traditions that would be changed - not despicable.