Kennedy, Kerry and Assorted Kooks Against Alito     1/27/2006
By Jan LaRue

The Massachusetts twinkies respond to string-pulling New York Times in feeble filibuster fantasy.

What do Democrat Sens. Ted (I once swam in the mainstream) Kennedy and John (reporting for Times duty) Kerry have in common with seven former and current judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals, the American Bar Association, 200 former judges, appellate lawyers, law professors, former Alito law clerks, former Solicitors General of the United States, the editorial boards of scores of major newspapers, and the majority of Americans?

Absolutely nothing. The latter heartily endorse Samuel Alito’s confirmation as the next Supreme Court Justice.

Kennedy and Kerry are proposing a filibuster to defeat Alito as urged by a New York Times editorial on January 26, “Senators in Need of a Spine”:

Senate Democrats, who presented a united front against the nomination of Judge Alito in the Judiciary Committee, seem unwilling to risk the public criticism that might come with a filibuster -- particularly since there is very little chance it would work. Judge Alito’s supporters would almost certainly be able to muster the 60 senators necessary to put the nomination to a final vote.

A filibuster is a radical tool. It's easy to see why Democrats are frightened of it. But from our perspective, there are some things far more frightening. One of them is Samuel Alito on the Supreme Court.

Not one to avoid desperation politics, Sen. Harry (it's not my great brain) Reid (D-Nevada), just announced that despite the fact that he thinks it will fail, he will support a filibuster attempt: “The Nevada Democrat said, however, he would vote for such a measure to at least send a message of opposition to the nominee.” (“Reid Admits U.S. Democrats Can’t Block Alito,” Reuters, 1/27/06)

After submitting to a “spine” X-ray by the senile “Old Gray Lady,” the twinkies find themselves in the company of some notable knuckleheads.

For example:

There’s Lyndon LaRouche, who is described by critics as an “anti-semite,” “fascist,” “cultist,” “conspiracy theorist” and “unrepentant Marxist-Leninist.” A New York Supreme Court ruled in a defamation suit brought by LaRouche that it is “fair comment” to describe him as an anti-Semite. The serial candidate for President of the United States has run as a Democrat in every election from 1980 to 1992. In 1988, a federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia, convicted LaRouche and six associates of conspiracy, tax fraud and mail fraud based on his group’s solicitation of $34 million in loans since 1983.

LaRouche’s organization, “Executive Intelligence Review,” began airing an ad on WTOP radio in Washington, D.C. on January 23, 2006, attacking Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito.

Here’s the text:

[Announcer:] Here’s Lyndon LaRouche, commenting on the Sam Alito nomination:

[Lyndon LaRouche:] Sam Alito: The man's a liar. He's a member of the Federalist Society, which now controls four of the nine Justices of the Supreme Court—and a fifth member is about to be confirmed.

Carl Schmitt lived in this country, and influenced the formation of the Federalist Society. Carl Schmitt crafted the Adolf Hitler administration—and you would have five out of nine Supreme Court Justices prepared to endorse a fascist government in the United States! And you have Senators who should have more guts, who are waffling or being weak, in dealing with this fact.

There is no honest debate, about bringing Adolf Hitler and his tradition into the government of the United States! [Italics in original.]

Then there’s the self-styled communists on the “Steering Committee” of World Can’t Wait.” They contribute the following:

Dear Signer of the World Can’t Wait Call, endorser of the State of the Union Protests to demand: Bush Step Down and Take Your Program with You. This is an appeal to fill an urgent need. … If we do not, the Bush Regime will bludgeon their way through, survive this moment, and “emerge stronger.” Alito, the unitary executive, torture and war, the whole package solidified as the “will of the people,” the opposition met and defeated. This we cannot, we must not, allow.

Desperation politics has reached a new low.

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