Letters to the Editor
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Shoulda Been A No Brainer
Alito should have been shit-canned long ago, but the Democrats continue to play bean-bag. Why should Alito have been derailed?
Two (2) Reasons:
1. He's a liar. He lied to the Senate the last time he appeared before them. He promised he would recuse himself from certain cases if the Senate confirmed him. They did. He didn't keep his part of the bargain. Where I grew up we called that lying. The Democrats should have pounded him unmercifully for that.
2. His deference to presidential power is pathological. The Framers of the Constitution, having just kicked out a King, were anxious not to create another one, and so they placed with Congress the supreme authority of the people.
Alito virtually invented the totally bogus concept of "presidential commentary", the idea that a dissent by the president, penned as he signs legislation into law, should be given the same deference as "legislative intent" is more than just absurd. The Framers made plain that in legislative matters, Congress rules. Congress can pass a law, the president can veto it. Then Congress may, with a super-majority, override the Presidential veto and compel the President. If the President doesn't like a law and refuses to enforce it, Congress may, at its pleasure, remove the President. The president has no such power over Congress.
Either Alito does not understand this - in which case he's too freaking stupid to be on the Supreme Court, or he DOES understand, and he is so intellectually dishonest that he can argue Presidential findings are equal to legislative intent, all the while knowing it's a lie.
The American people could understand this argument. The Democrats were too stupid or lazy to cogently and compellingly lay it out for the public. Of course, even if they had the major media would have continued to focus on missing teens in Aruba or hijacked cruise ships, while Bush turns back the clock to 1648.