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2 Samuel 10:5
When they told [it] unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and [then] return.
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Posted by: JG on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 01:22 PM
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Has Sen. Edward Kennedy ended the Kennedy myth today over his hatred for Judge Alito. Please Pray
Even if some of us were Republicans we still grew up in the Camelot era. We wanted to like Ted because of what he has gone through. Did that end today when he attacked Alito over letters to the editor in a magazine from a group he was a member of.
Has Kennedy decided to throw out justice and fairness and go on the attack just to get his own way. His preoccupation and concern about potential Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's apparent affiliation with a conservative, all-male organization while he attended Princeton, even though Kennedy belonged to a club just like it at Harvard.
It looked to be a second boring day in the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court pick Samuel Alito. Then, just before lunch, the Kennedy roared.
Actually, it started as a growl. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy put up a poster saying Alito was a raciest. He read quotations from the letters to the editor published by a conservative Princeton group to which Alito belonged, Now please understand Alito did not work for CAP he just joined the group. The letter Kennedy read was a letter to the editor protesting that blacks, Hispanics and women 'don't know their place' and suggesting medical experiments for gay Princeton students.
Kennedy Ignored the CAP Disclaimer: "The Appearance Of An Article In Prospect Does Not Necessarily Represent An Endorsement Of The Author's Beliefs By The Concerned Alumni Of Princeton. CAP Has Never Taken A Formal Stand On Coeducation, At Princeton Or Elsewhere." ("Letters To The Editor," Prospect, Spring-Summer 1980)
The Democrat Senator yelled to Alito "Are you a bigot? Are you a raciest?" All this over a letter to the editor 25 years ago Alito had no knowledge of.
 Kennedy ignored the fact that records support U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s testimony that he was not an active member in a Princeton University alumni group that drew fire from Democrats, said the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
A search of papers at the Library of Congress donated by group co-founder William A. Rusher turned up no evidence that Alito attended meetings, wrote articles for its magazine or wrote letters to Princeton publications on the group's behalf, said panel chairman Arlen Specter. The Pennsylvania Republican is presiding at Alito's confirmation hearings in Washington.
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Rusher, retired publisher of the National Review, allowed Senate staffers to review four boxes of records after Democrats challenged Alito's testimony that he was not active in the group, Concerned Alumni of Princeton. Alito had listed membership in the organization in a 1985 application for a political job in President Ronald Reagan's administration.
``Alito's name never appeared in any document,'' Specter said, quoting from a staff memorandum. ``His name does not appear anywhere in dozens of letters to CAP or from CAP.''
 Ken Mehlman said: "I think that this bringing up of this Concerned Alumni of Princeton and its associated prospect magazine is wrong. Here's a guy that was a member of the ROTC, was concerned when Princeton decided to throw the ROTC off campus, at the same time concerned that, as I would be I have to tell you, when a survey of students finds that Mao Zedong, the greatest murderer in the 20th Century has a higher favorable rating of Princeton students than either Dwight Eisenhower or Harry Truman. That's when this organization was set up. (Alito) Joins a group, has no association with the group. Then, statements made by a magazine associated with the group are somehow ascribed to him. I think that's outrageous. I think that's out of line, and entirely in appropriate and unfair."
Alito has said he has no recollection of his membership in the Princeton group despite highlighting his involvement on a Reagan-era job application 21 years ago.
Yet, the irony is that most of the media failed to inform the public is that Kennedy himself was a member of an all-male social club when he attended Harvard. As reported by the Washington Times (hat tip to the Drudge Report):
The eight-term senator belonged to an all-male social club -- the Owl -- at Harvard University. Kennedy's own group The Owl refused to admit women until it was forced to do so during the 1980s, according to records kept by the Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper.
A Kennedy spokeswoman said it was an entirely different matter. "No one should question Senator Kennedy's commitment to equality, justice and civil rights," said Laura Capps. "What he was part of was a social club, this is totally different" Besides Senator Kennedy is not running for the Supreme Court.
"Having failed to distort Judge Alito's distinguished record on the bench, today Senator Kennedy tried to smear Sam Alito's character. Throughout his career, Samuel Alito has proven his commitment to the highest ethical principles and a fair and just America. This good man does not need a lecture from Ted Kennedy." -- Ken Mehlman,
The wife of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito left his confirmation hearings in tears Wednesday.
Martha-Ann Alito reacts during the third day of the confirmation hearings for her husband Judge Samuel Alito as Associate Justice on the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2006. Mrs. Alito reacted to the apology by Republican Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. for the contentious nature of questioning during the hearing.
"Judge Alito, I am sorry that you've had to go through this. I am sorry that your family has had to sit here and listen to this," said Graham.
Moments earlier, Kennedy had asked Alito, "Are you really a closet bigot?"
Graham's exchange with the nominee came after
withering questions from several Judiciary Committee Democrats.
Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah suggested that Alito's wife was upset with the comments of Democrats. "She's sick and tired of the mistreatment of her husband," Hatch said. She returned to the hearing room after a committee break, smiling and holding her husband's hand.
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