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The Democratic Party, fighting for your rights (offer not valid if you’re female)

• Praised by Democrats when confirmed for a Philadelphia-based appeals court 15 years ago, Alito has staked out positions supporting restrictions on abortion, such as parental and spousal notification.

• Kent Conrad of North Dakota said he was impressed by Alito's intellectual firepower and that barring any unexpected disclosures he would not support a Democratic attempt to filibuster

• The jurist from New Jersey favors more restrictions on abortion rights than either the Supreme Court has allowed or O’Connor has supported, based on a 1992 case in which he supported spousal notification.

• Alito, a federal appellate judge, should get a simple up-or-down majority vote on his appointment, Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

• “Of course, he’s against abortion,”

• A centrist Democratic senator complimented Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito Wednesday as a moderate jurist who won't "hammer away and chisel away" existing law.

• "I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion."

Various polls show that between 50 and 70% of the electorate are pro-choice, that over 60% do not want an anti-choice bagman on the supreme court, and that as things stand today, more voters feel that the Democratic Party is closer to their views on abortions than the Evil Party. So why are all of these dimwitted Senators leaping up to proudly state that they'll saw off and abandon women at the first opportunity?

—orc Mon Nov 14 15:20:44 2005