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The past two days, Judge Samuel Alito has been forced to listen to pompous Democrats blister about race, homosexuals, and Senator Feinstein’s favorite word: abortion. Their unabashed aim has been to give mini-stump speeches about the liberal issues important and dear to their hearts–in order to placate the radical liberals at MoveOn.org and Daily Kos–then attempt to brandish Alito as racist, homophobic, and anti-abortion. During the Roberts hearings, Republicans and Democrats, behaved in a professional manner. The Alito hearings, however, as evinced by Alito’s wife tears, have been full of hate-filled hyperbole, mean-spirited, and bigoted yelling by the Democrats baldly (and in Biden’s case very baldly) accusing Alito after he repeatedly denies their absurd and demonstrably insane charges.

To his credit, Judge Alito has shown poise and professionalism during the hearings. It must be tiresome for him to have to repeatedly deny that he is a racist, sexist, etc. Alito comes across very credible and seems to possess a very independent mind when examining each case the comes before him. Coupled with his independence, his methods of statutory interpretation “I usually begin at the text of the statute and end up at the text” and constitutional interpretation “Foreign law is not helpful” should give conservatives confidence that he is the type of judge who takes his job very seriously and who decides cases based upon the law and not upon his own personal policy preferences. As a sidenote, I particularly admire him for his willingness to defend his views at Princeton regarding the ROTC and how he was upset that the Princeton administration had the nerve to kick them off campus.

The hearings should have been shortened to two rounds of questioning, particularly when the Democratic Senators take up all their time bloviating about themselves–or their how Bush is wiretapping innocent supporters of Al Qaeda–and not questioning the nominee. Furthermore, Senator Specter should have denied Senator Kennedy’s leprechaun hunt to find the Alito’s magic pot within the papers of the Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP), which evidently does not exist.

Alito has shown great class under fire.  He will be confirmed and the Democratic tirades, while filling their campaign coffers, won’t prevent Judge Alito from becoming Justice Alito who, along with Chief Justice Roberts, will help the Court return to its proper constitutional role.

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