"...May Mean A Bitter Fight In The Senate..."

BUSH NOMINATED Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, calling him "one of the most accomplished and respected judges in America." His conservative credentials may mean a bitter fight in the Senate.

"May mean"? Aw c'mon now. The conservative paper of record can do better than that. Can't it? I mean, ever since the wussy Miers nomination we've all been itching for a fight with those baby-killin', sodomizin' lefties.

If Harry Reid Doesn't Like Him You KNOW He Must Be Good...

WSJ.com - The Morning Brief

"...The 55-year-old jurist was Mr. Bush's favorite choice of the judges in the last set of deliberations but he settled instead on someone outside what he calls the "judicial monastery," the officials said. Mr. Bush believes that Mr. Alito has not only the right experience and conservative ideology for the job, but he also has a temperament suited to building consensus on the court.

Judge Alito, a former prosecutor and soft-spoken conservative who has served on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals since 1990, has enjoyed a boomlet of support among activists and commentators on the right, The Wall Street Journal says. Mr. Alito has been so consistently conservative that he has been dubbed "Scalito" or "Scalia-lite" by some lawyers because his judicial philosophy invites comparisons to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. But while Mr. Scalia is outspoken and is known to badger lawyers, Mr. Alito is polite, reserved and even-tempered, the AP says. At the same time, he has years of court rulings that liberals could use against him, the Washington Post notes.

And Sen. Minority Leader Harry M. Reid said yesterday that he has already warned the White House that nominating Mr. Alito would "create a lot of problems."

Good deal then. Trust Harry once and shame on him, trust Harry twice and shame on you, George. Let Reid and the gang bring it and we'll at least see who has the cha-cha's to dig in and finally fight these cretins. Let the American people see the hystrionics of Biden and Schumer and Feinstein and drunken old Teddy as they expose their total lack of understanding about what the constitution is all about. Just like when they tried to take on Roberts and skulked away with their collective tails between their legs.

Bring it on.