What timing. Alito gets his first vote the day after a wink, wink, nod, nod from Bush yesterday to the anti-choice forces:
President Bush told abortion opponents Monday that they are pursuing "a noble cause" and predicted that their views would prevail eventually.Lots of code talk from the GOP when it comes to the choice issue. They all know Alito will overturn Roe, but they won't say it. Alito knows Alito will overturn Roe...and he talked in legal code when he said that case wasn't "settled law"":
"We're working to persuade more of our fellow Americans of the rightness of our cause," the president told abortion foes gathered at the foot of Capitol Hill on a chilly, rainy day. He spoke by telephone from Manhattan, Kan., where he gave a speech.
"This is a cause that appeals to the conscience of our citizens and is rooted in America's deepest principles," the president said. "And history tells us that with such a cause we will prevail."
Alito also worried abortion-rights supporters by declining to call the landmark Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion "settled law," as Roberts had done in his own hearings.Course, that wasn't news, because the traditional media had to focus on the big news that his wife cried. There are probably more than a handful of Members of Congress who have benefitted Roe v. Wade. Just like many of them have benefitted from the privacy rights established by Griswold v. Connecticut. But, make no mistake, those rights are on the chopping block. For the theocrats, Roe is the low hanging fruit. They want to strip all our privacy rights. But, they'll never say it out loud...they'll just talk in code.
