Eleanor Clift On Samuel Alito

I was interested to see an article by liberal screech owl Eleanor Clift arguing that Democrats should NOT attempt to use the filibuster in an attempt to block Samuel Alito’s nomination to the Supreme Court.

And she’s right–from the perspective of Evil.

If they use the filibuster to block what seems to be a clearly qualified and non-extremist nominee (no matter how Teddyboy and his associates try to paint him) then the Gang of 14 will allow the constitutional option to be exercised and the Democrats will lost the ability to filibuster judges altogether.

Personally, I hope they DO filibuster Alito so that they DO lose the ability to filibuster future judges–and lose it NOW.

Why now?

Because even if Roberts and Alito turn out to be willing to overturn The Evil Decision, that’s still only four votes to overturn it (counting Thomas and Scalia). There still needs to be one more vote.

That vote is most likely to be gained following the retirement of John Paul Stevens or Ruther Bader Ginsburg sometime in the next three years.

I’d LOVE for the advocates of abortion NOT to have a filibuster in their hip pocket when it comes time to replace one of those two pro-Roe justices.

Eleanor, of course, would like to see them still have it, and so she argues that Alito should not be filibustered.

She seems grimly resigned, though, to the fact that the Supreme Court will be dramatically reshaped as a result of the second Bush term and that the kind of democracy-thwarting jurisprudence that she loves so dearly will be severely curtailed.

I’d just like to see it get curtailed even more by knocking out the filibuster for judicial nominees right now.

C’mon, abortion advocates, MAKE MY DAY!

In the meantime,

LISTEN TO THE CRY OF THE LIBERAL SCREECH OWL.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live." View all posts by Jimmy Akin