[lbo-talk] Alito & disability

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 14 17:54:23 PST 2006


perhaps JKS is looking at the issue from the Dem's point of view, while Dennis and Carroll are looking at their objective impact?

On 1/14/06, JKS:
> Though I actually I disagree with you guys. I think
> the Dems do not believe that it is OK to confirm
> qualified right wing judges, or they'd nominate them
> when they had the executive. Or at least nominate
> judges in a political random way. They don't do that.
>
> Which suggests that they really are just spineless.
> They want to reserve their "nuclear option' without
> ever using it, not seeing it that now's the time if
> there ever was a time. So the GOP strips them of the
> ability to filibuster -- if it can. ....

-- Jim Devine "The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." -- James Baldwin



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