Bush Nominates Samuel Alito
This morning President Bush nominated Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. to be the next Associate Justice to the Supreme Court.
This is an outstanding choice, and we congratulate the President on his choice. He has kept his promise to appoint justices in the mold of Scalia and Thomas. His nominee deserves an up or down vote by the Senate, and the nominee deserves to be treated with the respect he has earned.
The extreme left has already begun their attack. The best way to insure that Judge Alito is confirmed quickly and decisively is to insure that a Democrat filibuster never see the light of day.
The following is the contact information for the Republican members of the gang of fourteen:
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Senator McCain E-mail Contact
(202) 224-2235
Senator Warner E-Mail Contact
(202) 224-2023
Senator DeWine Senator DeWine’s Website
(202) 224-2315
Senator Chafee E-Mail Contact
(202) 224-2921
Senator Snowe’s E-Mail address is olympia@snowe.senate.gov
(202) 224-5344
Senator Collins E-Mail Contact
(202) 224-2523
Senator Hagel E-Mail Contact
(202) 224-4224
Senator Graham has already given his opinion on Face The Nation. Here is his statement from yesterday’s show, (transcript is here, HT to Hugh Hewitt ):
“Well, number one, we’re not going to let Senator Schumer define mainstream conservatism. He’s my friend, but that’s not going to happen.
Here’s why I was part of the Gang of the 14, and I’m going to lay it all out on the table for you on a Sunday morning. I’m not for filibustering. I think when you start ideologically driven filibusters that are partisan, you erode the people who want to serve over time in the judiciary because it becomes reprisal politics. `We’re going to pay back the Democrats.’ So partisan filibusters based on judicial philosophy or ideology erode the judiciary, weaken the presidency and hurt the Senate. So I wanted to stop that and we did. We had a chance to start over.
But here’s what you’re going to get, Chuck. You’re going to get a solid conservative. He ran on the idea that `I like Scalia and I like Thomas and I’m going to send a conservative up.’ He is not going to pick someone in the mold of Sandra Day O’Connor because we tell him he has to. There’s no ideological swap test here. He’s going to do what he said he did in his campaign. Roberts was in that kind of mode. Alito, Luttig, all these people are solid conservatives, and if they’re filibustered based on ideology and philosophy, that’s setting aside an election and the filibuster will not stand.”
We have included Senate Judiciary Committe Chairman Arlen Specter who needs to be reminded now and again who it was who helped get him elected.
Senator Specter E-Mail Contact
(202) 224-4254
Contact these Senators to help insure that a Democrat filibuster is avoided, and that we get a quick up or down vote on this great nominee.
