Brit Hume vs. Bob Schieffer Re: Alito

[TheFarseer]

The way these two handled the Alito debate was in stark contrast to one another. Schieffer tried to tie it to wire-tapping and Brit Hume tied to SOLELY to abortion. Back to basics for hyper-conservative Hume. Culture war is the ONLY thing they have left and they are attempting to play it for all it's worth. There are so many other questions facing this country. Wire-tapping, political corruption, workers rights, consumer's rights and all they want to talk about is abortion because they know they are wrong on everything else. Brit had help though. Diane Feinstein got baited about as bad as anyone I've ever seen. She never brought up any of the concerns I spoke of earlier. It was all about abortion for her too. How many other countries do you suppose still debate questions that were settled 32 years ago? I'm so sick of this debate and I'm sick of them baiting democrats and democrats allowing themselves to be baited. It lets them frame the debate exactly how they want. It's got to stop if we ever want to get congress back.

Also, Brit Hume is an asshole.

[ixion]

1. yeah, well, they're wrong on abortion, too

so I guess that pretty much scraps the last of the talking points. :evilgrin:

[tishaLA]

2. In Fairness to Feinstein

--and God help me for saying that--she did talk at length about congressional power and its effects on the Alito nomination (i.e., the commerce clause and gun control issues) and about executive power. She didn't ONLY talk about abortion, which, for many of us, is still an important issue 32 years after the question was "settled." Why? Because it's still not settled.

[TheFarseer]

4. I was watching and yelling at the TV with someone

so I might have missed it, but everytime I was really watching they were talking about abortion. I wonder if Roe v Wade comes before the SCOTUS and they still can't get it overturned even with the packed court if this will finally be over?

[tularetom]

3. Well; I have a suggestion for them

Bring it on. That's right, if they want to make the 2006 election a referendum on abortion and only that, then I think the Dems should jump on it. Because I believe the majority of Amurcans support the right to reproductive choice. If the election is fair, the anti abortion forces would lose by a sizeable margin. And the more they whine about it and the more their pals threaten or terrorize abortion providers the more voters will come down on the side of choice.

And another thing - Dems should stop referring to anti abortion politicians as "pro life" because they aren't. They pubs have coopted this term and most of the wussy dems fall right into the trap, allowing the implication to stand that supporters of choice are somehow "anti life".

[BlueManDude]

5. culture war keeps working for them - why stop?

blacks, gays, flags, arabs, terrorists, libs, aclu, "new yorkers"(jews), lawyers, new york times, media elite, immigrants...lots of boogimen out there to be exploited.

[sallyseven]

6. The worse thing that could happen to the repukes

is that abortion is overturned. There goes their bogey man. Same with the gay situation. Lose that and they are dead. Must keep it before the people. I always say to freepers. They could have changed the dynamic but chose not to. They have all the house, senate and exec. branch. They are frauds. It keeps the freeple busy while they steel the country from them.