Mrs Alito in tears today, MILLIONS of women in tears tomorrow

[LSK]

Are we going to overlook the rights and feelings of millions of women because ONE woman who lives in a fucking GLASS HOUSE has her feelings hurt?

[chimpymustgo]

1. Nailed it, LSK.

nt

[Dinger]

4. Ditto (nt)

Perfect. excellent point.

[Sequoia]

2. Why? What's the scoop?

Everyone talks about her but no one posts a pic.

[txindy]

14. She's on the right.

[catmother]

23. she looks like a nice italian wife -- the kind that doesn't question

their husbands -- like the one i used to be married to expected me to be. boy did he get a "shock".

on edit: no offense to italian women but some of those men are very old fashioned.

[txindy]

26. I do believe her maiden name is Bomgardner or something similar

Martha-Ann Bumgardner. Not that it matters. Just a bit of trivia.

[catmother]

29. doesn't matter. my maiden name was a german name too, but

my first husband wanted me to act like his mother and sisters-in-law. he used to say that my german/irish/american family was cold. when my uncle died my ex was shocked because my aunt got up and greeted everyone and walked them up to the casket. he said an italian woman would just sit in front and not move. he also said "i know if i died you would be so sad". i told him "don't flatter yourself". lol off the subject but i think we all need a little laugh today.

[Sequoia]

33. You're funny!

Thanks for the laugh.

[catmother]

42. you're welcome. n/t

[Sequoia]

34. Wearing the lastest fashion!

Hurl. Wear a solid colored blouse mamn.

[txindy]

35. Oh, don't even get me started on that.

But beware. The PC police are out and about on every thread. We must not mention clothing. It's dishonorable. :eyes:

[Sequoia]

37. Opps, and annoying. Federal offense ya know!

[jasmeel]

45. Video on CNN now of her crying. Most annoying thing EVER!

http://www.cnn.com/

[Catamount]

47. Thanks for posting that link.....my dvr screwed up...so I missed...

that part of the hearing. Do you or anyone else know what time this happened?
Thanks and :hi:

[hopein08]

3. Damn, I missed it...why was she in tears?

Please, I need details.

[Justitia]

7. 'cuz someone was picking on her husband - boo hoo. -eom

[realFedUp]

10. read Lindsay Graham's transcript

basically Mrs. Alito is tired. Graham is appealing
to pro-Alito people by saying despite Alito's joining
CAP, it seems to LG that Alito is a good man and
not a racist. I think Mrs. Alito just has had
enough of this process. She really should leave
the room if this is too emotional for her.

[Justitia]

11. She better toughen the fuck up. She should take lessons from Hillary -nt

[librechik]

5. I'm sure Sam keeps a lot of stuff secret from her

and a racist streak is just one of them. Maybe he's never let her see it--or maybe he was pretending to get in with the Rayguns. I'm sure it will be spun against the dems somehow.

[Justitia]

6. I cried & cried when my aunt almost lost her life to an illegal, botched

abortion. She was given Last Rites three separate times. My cousin was on the brink of being an orphan and that made me cry even harder.

Her fucking feelings were hurt? Too fucking bad. Desperate, dead women leave plenty of crying relatives behind.

[LSK]

22. where are all the stories of botched abortions???

None in the MSM!!! :grr:

[Justitia]

25. No kidding! It's not like my aunt's experience was even unusual back then

Of course, these are women in their later yrs these days (if they survived), and they are too ashamed / embarrassed to talk about it.

Plenty of women DIED.

I heard one woman on CSPAN talk about losing her mother at the age of 8 and being raised by her father. She was very frightened that we are moving back to those days and all the families that will suffer. I really, really felt for her.

I have a good friend whose mother died at 12 from what the family assumes was a botched abortion as well (her father died a yr later and he is the only one who knew for certain).

My grandmother told me two of her sisters-in-law had abortions (illegal) in the 30s. They survived, but both had serious medical complications that lasted for months and could not be treated because they feared prosecution.

These cretins act like the death and maiming of women is fiction.

[jasmeel]

46. It's been too long since that's happened. People don't know

about that reality. So they're just hearing the anti abortion side of things. If we had women dying from botched abortions everyday-including women from these RWers families-they'd change their tune. I'm starting to feel like we're going to have to live that all over again. Now THAT'S something to cry about!!!:cry:

[Kurovski]

56. A caller on c-span this morning relayed how during the Depression

her parents decided to abort when her mother became pregnant and there was no money for them to live, let alone another.

Her mother died from the amateur abortion and her father raised her and a sibling alone.

The irony is that during the Depression women who could not afford children could not afford a proper procedure, and many times did not have the connections to gain one.

Women who were fully financially capable of raising a dozen children could get an abortion here or overseas, having the money and the means.

PLEASE GET RID OF ALITO NOW.

NOW.

NOW.

No more fucking around with this stuff. Filibuster the clueless freak.

[Sequoia]

36. I'm sorry, that's very sad.

[Justitia]

40. Thank you. Luckily she survived with yrs of medical treatment

behind her. She was on a colostomy bag for more than three yrs. Her botched abortion injury was a perforated colon which became almost fatally infected. This is the most common physical injury during an illegal abortion. Her internal organs grew together - egads.

That time was absolute hell for our family. My aunt and my cousin moved in with us so I got to watch the fallout first hand for many, many years. In fact, she never really recovered fully - she STILL lives with my mom and still has medical problems. She was also financially devastated.

At least she lived, so we are very grateful for that.

[txindy]

8. So it would seem.

I can't forget that her husband belongs (or belonged) to CAP, an org. that fought against women and minorities attending Princeton. Gee, has she not realized her daughter is female? Or was it the recounting of the strip-search of the 10-yr-old that did her in? No, that was yesterday. Maybe the mentally challenged man being raped with a broom handle and her husband denying him his day in court over "procedure" upset her?

Somehow I doubt it.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. Was she crying on cue as a distraction?

"Now honey if they get too close to the truth I'll tug my ear like this you start bawling. Got that?"

[realFedUp]

13. I think she's just tired.

This is a tiring and stressful and they
shouldn't make family members sit through
these hearings unless they want to be there.

[Kurovski]

57. You're much kinder than me.

I think she's full of it.

Of course, there is always the possibility she has no idea of who her husband is, or she comes from, and lives in, one of those families that has a "different" interpretation of what bigotry is.

In other words, deluded.

[LSK]

15. someone pointed out that Grahm was coaching them beforehand

Perhaps he coached her for her little stunt. It happened during his questioning.

And of course the FUCKING HAPLESS MSM will be all over how upset Mrs Alito is. She will probably dine in a very nice restaurant tonite with her family laughing about it.

[Neecy]

12. perfectly said.

[chimpymustgo]

19. Stephanopolis: "dramatic" moment. That's the lead of the story.

The Missus, the pain and suffering the Democrats have inflicted on the Scalito family.

[catmother]

24. oh that poor woman. my heart goes out to her. nt

[babylonsister]

16. Amen, LSK! Rec'd! That IS the question! nt

[NVMojo]

17. she can take her personal beliefs and nurse them, just don't shove

them down my throat!!! With laws!!!

[malaise]

18. Ditto n/t

[Just Me]

20. So. let's focus on those women rather than her and her glass house. n/t

[LSK]

21. tell the MSM n/t

:grr:

[Just Me]

27. Fuck 'em. No reason to allow the CM to distract us. Yes?

This obsessive attention to the behavior of this woman is simply,...a waste of time and energy.

I really don't give a shit whether her behavior was feigned or not.

What's important is that Alito is dangerous as a justice because he has ALWAYS sucked up to the extreme right-wing which advocates excessive power to the executive,...a power which destroys our government as we know it. THAT'S WHAT'S IMPORTANT.

Her behavior is merely a distraction from that extremely important aspect of this appointment.

fuck the media

let's stay focused

seriously

[jonnyblitz]

28. great subject line LSK!!

:thumbsup:

[in_cog_ni_to]

30. Hell no. n/t

[Dees]

31. Jesus on stilts. It's a damn set up. Please don't swallow this BS.

It's a picture painted. A sculpture sculpted. A strategy to show that liberals, Dems and for that matter anyone who isn't a Repug is a goddamn monster. Such a pile of crap.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

32. Gave you the 5th vote for Greatest. PERFECT subject line!!!!!!

[gulfcoastliberal]

38. Fuck Mr. & Mr.s Alito

They are evil, worthless pondscum. They're headed for the 7th level of hell.

[madokie]

39. sorry to be so brass but f--- her feelings, I want fair and justice

[boobooday]

41. Yes, you make the point.

Damn straight.

[eve_was_framed]

43. Thank you! My sentiments exactly

[bigwillq]

44. BRAVO!

Nominated! :bounce:

[Catamount]

48. Thanks...I leave the house for some supplies and miss everything!

;(

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

49. Kick

THIS is the subject line that should be a talking point defense.

[tlsmith1963]

50. I Wonder if it's an Act

Could Mrs. Alito be putting on an act to get people back on the Republicans' side? Could this be some strategy to make Democrats seem like they are mean? I wouldn't put anything past those neocon jerks.

Tammy

[athena]

51. Of course it's an act.

If she didn't want to cry in public, she could have gone to the bathroom. That's what I would have done. She's not a child; she can control her actions. What she did was completely intentional.

[Catamount]

52. I doubt it....she did seem tired earlier on....but I always wear my

tin foil hat these days!

[incapsulated]

53. Fucking A! She is helping this creep get appointed!

With her completely inappropriate outbursts!

Look at the meanie Dems they made the poor lady cry!!

:cry:

Fuck them both. They would put us all in jail for trying to control our own bodies, and I'm supposed to have sympathy with this bitch because her husband was called out for bragging about belonging to a rascist, sexist organization?

WTF is going on, here???

:mad:

[chimpymustgo]

54. Kicking for the TRUTH.

nt

[LSK]

55. kick for the evening folks

I bet the Alitos and Grahms are having a nice laugh at a very expensive dinner right about now.

[The Backlash Cometh]

58. Every day we make a Republican cry, is a good day for America.

[Nostradammit]

60. LMAO!!!

Hear, Hear!!!

Not nearly enough republicans crying for my tastes!

[nicknameless]

59. Crying at SCOTUS Senate hearings? It's become the thing to do.

Clarence Thomas did it -- choking up over the "high-tech lynching" he allegedly was being subjected to.
Actually, he was just being subjected to witnesses' testimony of their horrible experiences with him.
So they probably cried first.

Alito's Frau might also have cried, had SHE been subjected to his horrendously misogynistic rulings in the past.



And they all have those fake "They told me to smile" expressions on their faces -- mandatory for neoCons.
Gale Norton wore hers so long, that I'm surprised her face didn't break during her hearing.

[Joe Chi Minh]

61. What a telling point.