You know, because a week will make a big difference
Senate Democrats are considering a plan that could delay a committee vote on Samuel Alito’s Supreme Court nomination for at least a week, slowing what could have been a quick confirmation for President Bush’s pick to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
Senate leadership aides said Thursday that Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., that Democrats will invoke their right to hold the Alito committee vote over for one week. The aides spoke on condition of anonymity because the move had not been announced yet.
Democrats insisted that a final decision has not been made. "We want to see how the hearing goes, procedurally and substantially, before allowing them to accelerate the vote for a week," said Sen. Charles Schumer (news, bio, voting record), D-N.Y., a member of the Judiciary Committee. "That’s what we’ve always said."
Just petty little Party politics, much like Reid’s little closed door session on Iraq. This move will allow leftist groups like MoveOn.org and ACT and extra week to smear Alito in a personal manner, and allow the Senate Democrats to do the same, hoping that the Exempt Media will perform one of their "unbiased" polls which would show low ratings for Alito. You have to love a Party that lives by poll numbers conducted with less then 1,000 respondents, rather then by doing what is right.
Actually, I’ve always found that more time for deliberations means more time for spin to be exposed and countered, raw emotions to dissipate, and the detailed and dispassionate truth to come out. Your opposition to giving Alito more time, implies that you’re really not that confident that the truth is on your guy’s side.
What are you afraid will come out? What rap are you trying to beat? Generally it’s the con-artist who tries to close the deal fastest, before the mark can figure out the scam.