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Originally posted by junglejake
JSO, I disagree that it is the representative to represent all the people in the country. First, it is that politicians responsibility to represent their district or state's wishes primarily. Then, it is the people's responsibility to remove that representative from power through the vote if that person is not doing a good job. The fact that Ted Kennedy is still a senator says one of two things:
1. More than half the population of Massachusetts are not doing their civic duty, or
2. The people in that state like pork and like to waste time.
More than half the population of Massachusetts are not doing their civic duty
Originally posted by marg6043
A man has every right to have a say in the life of his prospective child. It wasn't conceived in secret, unless the wife was an adulterous whore. Enough said.
I can believe that in this time an age you can said something like that without knowing the problems that the women may find herself before becoming pregnant with another man child, Jsobecky.
Who are you, Alitos or anybody to dictate, tag and name calling a women as an adulterous whore.
Judging a women base of personal opinions because you may feel in power to do that is bias against women.
Originally posted by dbates
If Congress wishes to pass a law making abortion legal, then fine.
The way this really should be done is to just let each state vote on making it legal as the people of the state see fit.
Roe v Wade eventually could be overturned. The Supreme court isn't perfect you know.
Originally posted by jsobecky
Originally posted by marg6043
The man has a bad record and that alone is going to bite him in the butt.
Please, tell us more about this "bad record". I'd like to hear it.
I'm surprised that this thread doesn't have a hundred responses. I watched part of the hearings, and the sub-story of the despicable display put on by the Democratic senators was almost a headline unto itself. The display put on by Kennedy was shameful; he should be censured. And he should check into a clinic immediately; his alcoholism is a disgrace to the American Senate. He does not deserve to be a Senator.
Originally posted by dbates
O sure. You mean like the Catholic religion does today?
They consider contraceptives to be immoral. Saying that the government will rule contraceptives to be illegal is just non-sense and extremism.
Sounds like Judge Alito is going to institute Muslim law right here in the United States. I don't know how you expect anyone to buy that story.
Skipping over the issue of abortion being right or wrong, it's wrong for the Supreme court to create new laws based on their rulings.
If Congress wishes to pass a law making abortion legal, then fine.
The way this really should be done is to just let each state vote on making it legal as the people of the state see fit. This is the way out country should be run, and is the way that Judge Alito thinks.
Roe v Wade eventually could be overturned.The Supreme court isn't perfect you know.
Originally posted by jsobecky
We will never, ever agree on this marg, so I'll drop it for now. But I will say this - there are no "problems" that while supposedly bad enough to force a woman into another man's bed, will be enough to base national law on.
Originally posted by junglejake
The senators try to get the person to make rulings without hearing the evidence of a case challenging said ruling (I.E. How will you rule about x asked by a senator), and they don't answer because they, as a judge, shouldn't. Ruth Bader Ginsburg stated this most eloquently, but it is typical of successful judges not to answer specific questions like that.
Why should Alito be different?
Originally posted by Bout Time
Honestly, knowing your politics, do you feel that the GOP Senators are doing any sort of service to the country by swallowing whole horse this candidate, without asking anything even remotely of consequence?
Secondly, Bidens 12 minute questions et al: does the opposition party have any recourse once sycophant mode is enacted by team GOP, or vica versa if the roles were switched? Does the minority even get bullets, much less a gun, when the majority is rubber stamping?