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January 14, 2006

Have the Democrats Gotten the Point?

In the aftermath of their useless and self demeaning performance in the Alito confirmation hearings the Democratic Party Newsletter is reporting that the Democrats might finally be coming to grips with what losing elections really means.

Disheartened by the administration's success with the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., Democratic leaders say that President Bush is putting an enduring conservative ideological imprint on the nation's judiciary, and that they see little hope of holding off the tide without winning back control of the Senate or the White House.

In interviews, Democrats said that the lesson of the Alito hearings was that this White House could put on the bench almost any qualified candidate, even one whom Democrats consider to be ideologically out of step with the country. (emphasis added)

Could it be that some members of the Democratic Party are beginning to emigrate from their reality based world back to actual reality?

Of course even though they seem to have made the intellectual connection that the party that wins the White House and the Senate can nominate the kind of judges they want, they don't seem to have made the leap of understanding that if one party wins the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives that party might not actually be "ideologically out of step with the country."

One day, and hopefully very soon, it will occur to them that the party that is out of the White House and in the minority of both houses of Congress is the party that is out of the mainstream. We need for them to do this because we need a strong Democratic party with strong relevant ideas to keep the Republicans in line. We need a competition of ideas that we have not had for some time.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 12:58 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment

1 Oh, I love this:
Mr. Fallon said: "As long as most of the public will settle for evasive or uninformative answers, maybe there was nothing that they could have done to get Alito to make a major error."
Alito said, as any judge should, that he wouldn't commit to voting a certain way on a case that might come before him. "Evasive and uninformative", that is!

"Oooo, we don't want our judges to be fair and impartial, we want them to tell us how they'll vote on any hypothetical case we choose to put before them."

When Rahm Emmanuel was a Clinton sock puppet I hated his guts. But, since he's been elected in his own right, he's actually kind of impressed me. Glad to see him say "George Bush won the election. If you don't like it then you'd better start winning elections.".

Oh! And, Lindsay Graham for President pro temp of the Senate for Life!

Posted by: Tuning Spork at January 14, 2006 02:06 PM (xUx37)

2 Actually the most outrageous statements in the whole article comes from Senator Kennedy (Drunk-Massachusettes). Such as when he said half of the congress and most of constituents don'tcomprehend the idea of the unitary presidency. Which pales beside his complaining that the confirmation process had become a political campaign.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at January 14, 2006 03:33 PM (DdRjH)

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