Look, for everybody who is working extra-hard to imagine a scenario in which Bush-nominated anti-choice nominee Samuel Alito might not vote to overturn Roe vs. Wade, read on.
It doesn’t get any clearer than this:
It has been an honor and source of personal satisfaction for me to serve in the office of the Solicitor General during President Reagan’s administration and to help advance legal positions in which I personally believe very strongly. I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.
Period. End of story. If the United States Senate confirms Samuel Alito, he will vote to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Any Senator who votes to confirm Samuel Alito votes against a woman’s right to control her own body.
And now that this is Samuel Alito’s presumed position, it is up to him, in public testimony, to affirm otherwise. Samuel Alito cannot say, as John Roberts did, that he believes petitioners to the Court need to believe he has no pre-set position on Roe vs. Wade. Clearly, the man does have a position. That cat is out of the bag. So any Senator on the Judiciary Committee who fails to use this and other material to grill Samuel Alito to the floor until he states his current specific position regarding Roe vs. Wade is grossly incompetent.
Spread the word. Write a letter to the editor. Don’t let this pass unmentioned. Samuel Alito’s own explicitly stated position: he believes women do not have the right to have an abortion.
The verse of an old song comes to mind:
So many politicians,
All flavored Red and Blue,
Who tke delight both day and night
To tell us what to do.
They’re spouting their dogmatic creeds
While we stand by and curse;
As soon as we get this lot out,
The next lot turns out worse.
Elequently put, there, Sarge…and, oh, so true.Seems that what exists in D.C. is what one of my more-far-to-the-Right-Wing associates refers to as “Republicrats”. He also says, to quote a former governor of Georgia, “There ain’t a dime’s worth o’ difference between the bunch of them.” And wasn’t it Pete Townsend of the Who who sang,”Meet the new boss…same as the old boss…”?
Also, Alito admits in this memo that the actions he took working for the Reagan Adminstration were actions he believed in personally. He cannot now play the John Roberts cop out of saying that maybe he was just representing his client.
But Mike, there is a dime’s worth of difference between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to Roe vs. Wade. That’s kind of the point: this is what you get when you vote Republican.
There is also more than a dime’s worth of difference between Democrats and Republicans on other important issues – like the environment and separation of church and state.
Now, a few Democrats act more like Republicans a lot of the time. These Democrats deserve to be kicked out of office. But seriously, would you kick Senator Kennedy and Senator Boxer out along with them? Think.
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