"I believe he is a man of his word and I intend to vote for him...."

[ScreamingMeemie]

Before or after you rip up your copy of the Constitution Sen Byrd.? :puke:

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Seriously!

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. And then he goes on to say that no one can tell what kind of justice

Alito will be....Does he think people are STUPID??? :grr:

[EFerrari]

5. He said who knows if there may be a 'transformation' .

Can you BELIEVE that? If Scalito is so qualified, why is a transformation to be desired?

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. I know! He's either for us or against us....transformation my ass.

:grr:

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Is Byrd hinting that Alito is another Souter?

[EFerrari]

14. He has no idea.

:mad:

[kurth]

10. Like hoping for a wifebeater to stop beating his wife...

Alito's record is clear. Byrd's naive optimism is seriously misplaced.

[SharonRB]

2. WTF?

As soon as I heard he was voting for him, I came out here to post, but you beat me to it. I'm really, really pissed. I always thought I could count on Sen. Byrd. I am so disappointed in him.

:puke: is right.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. I can't believe I just wasted 20 minutes of my life listening to him.

Democracy died a little bit more just now.

[gkhouston]

7. a man of his word...

Senator Byrd, were you napping during the questions about Vanguard?

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. He was busy being "apalled" at the grandstanding.

:puke:

[Neecy]

11. I wanted to vomit - literally

It was bad enough that he voted for this turd, but to chastise the Democrats on the Judiciary committee for DOING THEIR DAMN JOB was so beyond the pale I wanted to slap him.

And then he waaaaaves around the Constitution - the nerve! The fucking nerve!

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. That is what SICKENS me most...His talk of the Constitution....

:cry: How the hell could he do that? How the hell could he bring up Mrs Alito??? Not even the Repubs did that.

[ancient_nomad]

12. Parkinson's Dementia Setting In? n/t

[WilliamPitt]

15. Link for this?

[Wordie]

19. He just announced on the Senate Floor. C-Span2...

Profoundly disappointing. Do you think there is any hope of a filibuster w/o Byrd?

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. Will, this is a quote verbatim from CSPAN as I was watching.

CSPAN has him in the Yes column as well. :(

[marions ghost]

16. Et tu Brute?

:cry: :cry: :cry:

or maybe Judas

[Ksec]

17. his word? Hell, he dodged every question they threw at him..

How could you trust a guys word if he refuses to say anything about how he believes? (we all know how he believes) Byrd. You dik. You really disappoint me old man.

[ScreamingMeemie]

24. He did not EVEN SAY "Boo" at his hearing...

sigh...

[gumby]

18. Really, really sad.

It is dereliction of duty to believe Alito's lies rather than to believe Alito's extensive record.

[ScreamingMeemie]

23. I know....It was all right there....

:(

[kerry-is-my-prez]

20. Nowadays - all you need to do is "be a good or nice person" etc.

to get the top jobs - I guess.

[ScreamingMeemie]

22. Or a f*cking anti constitutional bastard.

[SharonRB]

26. At least Levin finally committed to a "no" vote

[ScreamingMeemie]

27. I know....Phew....

But, he always seems to come through when the chips are down. Now, I hope he sticks with Kerry on a filibuster. :hi:

[SharonRB]

28. I was worried when I kept seeing he hadn't said anything yet

He's speaking now. I sure hope he'll stick with Kerry. I'm just so afraid the nuclear option will happen and it will all backfire, though.

:hi:

[neverforget]

25. For a Senator who loves the Constitution as much as Byrd,he's

going to allow anti-Constitution justice onto the Supreme Court to overturn and rule against everything he loves.........WTF?:puke: :mad: :wtf: :argh: :hurts: :grr: :nuke: :shrug: :cry: :banghead:

[Disturbed]

29. Alito, a man of integrity. BS

. civilrights.org -- Kennedy Sends Letter to Alito on Vanguard and ...

"Alito's interest in 3 Vanguard-named funds was about $80000 when he was before ... He surely knew that the bulk of his money was in Vanguard Alito said he ..."
www.civilrights.org/issues/nominations/details.cfm?id=37717