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November 14, 2005

Alito: "Abortion Not a Right Protected By The US Constitution"

For all of those who defended Harriet Miers and urged us to support the President's judgment, without any evidence she was a genuine conservative and plenty of strong evidence she wasn't, I can only say you're welcome.

Okay, dick move. Sorry.

posted by Ace at 04:50 PM

Comments

So, are you blogging from the middle of the Atlantic or something? Or is my watch wrong...?

Posted by: Dave S on November 14, 2005 04:54 PM

It's another glitch, I guess.

Posted by: ace on November 14, 2005 04:59 PM

could be the server is still on EDT

Posted by: Dave in Texas on November 14, 2005 05:01 PM

Does anyone know if this revelation resulted in Hugh Hewitt swallowing his own head? 'Cause I would have loved to see something like that.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Posted by: Dave at Garfield Ridge on November 14, 2005 05:14 PM

I'd say this pretty much guarantees a Dem filibuster attempt. No way is the activist base (batshit-crazy Leftists, in other words) going to let this pass.

Posted by: Monty on November 14, 2005 05:18 PM

Maybe the moonbats can show us where the right to an abortion appears in the Constitution. My copy shows it in the tenth amendment. However, I don't have the version with the penumbra of an emanation. Is that version available to everyone, or only moonbats?

Posted by: Dale on November 14, 2005 05:36 PM

So, when I have to hear about Roe v. Wade for the rest of my fk'n natural life I will have you to thank, Ace?

Posted by: on November 14, 2005 06:39 PM

So, when Alito says it's not a right enumerated in the Constitution, that means it doesn't exist at all, right? WRONG!

What Alito was pointing out (that the Dems and moonbats conveniently don't point out) is that Roe v Wade is properly a question to be addressed by the states, not the federal government-is-god tribes. Roe instituted law, and that is not the Constitutional purvue of the judiciary. He was spot-on with his opinion, unlike Dingy Harry, Tubs Kennedy or any of the feminazi groups that wish to absolve any female of any responsibility for their own actions.

Posted by: Carlos on November 14, 2005 07:04 PM

. . . or any of the feminazi groups that wish to absolve any female of any responsibility for their own actions.

I assume you yourself have been neutered?

Posted by: on November 14, 2005 07:12 PM

"So, when I have to hear about Roe v. Wade for the rest of my fk'n natural life I will have you to thank, Ace?"

No, it means for the rest of your fk'n natural life you have to hear about how whatever case overturns Roe will clearly be the greatest tragedy in the entire history of humankind.

Posted by: Sobek on November 14, 2005 08:48 PM

I'm surprised twobeano hasn't responded to this.

Posted by: MH on November 14, 2005 09:53 PM

I'm surprised twobeano hasn't responded to this.

I killed him and ate both of his chromosomes.

Posted by: Sue Dohnim on November 14, 2005 11:11 PM

Both his chromosomes?

Funny, I thought he had an extra one somewhere.

Posted by: Dave in Texas on November 14, 2005 11:14 PM

No no no, I'm talking total, like a fruit fly has eight.

Posted by: Sue Dohnim on November 14, 2005 11:23 PM

did he have vestigial wings too?

Posted by: Dave in Texas on November 14, 2005 11:29 PM

are you implying that 2beanornot2bean is a bit light in the loafers?

Posted by: on November 15, 2005 01:58 AM

No, it means for the rest of your fk'n natural life you have to hear about how whatever case overturns Roe will clearly be the greatest tragedy in the entire history of humankind.

Same difference. My life does not turn on one single issue. I'm sick of it being a litmus test for everything.

Posted by: on November 15, 2005 04:45 AM

are you implying that 2beanornot2bean is a bit light in the loafers?

No, I'm implying that he's "evolutionarily-challenged."

Posted by: Sue Dohnim on November 15, 2005 09:38 AM

I can only say you're welcome.

Shouldn't we get through the traditional borking first?

Posted by: VRWC Agent on November 15, 2005 09:41 AM

To: Posted by (too gutless to let anyone know who I am) at November...

Actually (if it's anyone else's business), I have not engaged in sex outside my marriage, which means it doesn't matter one whit whether I have had a vasectomy (the proper term, not "neutered"). No, I'm not holier than thou, it's just that I was taught to control my physical actions no matter what my hormones wanted me to do.

So what's the big deal about that? You want someone to absolve you for having some fun? Knock yourself out, but stop using my tax dollars to do it! If you don't want to get pregnant or get someone else pregnant, the only guaranteed way is to not commit the act. Guaranteed results, that. And I'll guarantee this, too: no other method of contraception has the same guarantee.

Posted by: Carlos on November 15, 2005 09:59 PM

And if guys like you don't want women to get pregnant then don't stick your dick in anything that spreads it's legs and then try to blame it all on the woman. I don't know if you have sex or not outside of your marriage. I doubt you would admit it it if you do. You do seem to have a great deal of hostility towards women. And, no the proper term for you is neutered.

Posted by: on November 15, 2005 11:35 PM

And if guys like you don't want women to get pregnant then don't stick your dick in anything that spreads it's legs and then try to blame it all on the woman. I don't know if you have sex or not outside of your marriage. I doubt you would admit it it if you do. You do seem to have a great deal of hostility towards women. And, no the proper term for you is neutered.

Jeebus H. Kreestos - defensive much?

All Carlos was pointing out is the (absolutely logical) point that abstinence works 100% it's tried, and you take that and turn him into a neuter with hostility toward women?

Sounds to me like you need to put the Energizer Bunny batteries back in your Mother's Little Helper - those Wal-Mart alkalines just ain't up to the job!

Posted by: JD on November 16, 2005 01:22 AM

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