WP, Milbank: Instead of Savoring Alito Victory, GOP Serves Up Ill Will

[DeepModem Mom]

Instead of Savoring Victory, GOP Serves Up Ill Will
By Dana Milbank
Wednesday, February 1, 2006; Page A02


Minutes after yesterday's confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) rushed to the Senate television studio to declare it "a happy day for the United States Senate." But instead of happy faces, the Republican senators lined up behind McConnell wore the grave expressions of sore winners.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.) took off after Democratic "divisiveness" and the party's allegiance to "outside, activist, hard-left groups."

"A real problem in the confirmation process" was how Sen. Jon Kyl (Ariz.) saw it.

Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.) capped it off by taunting the losing side: "If you want to keep fighting on this issue, we welcome that fight."

One shudders to think how the lawmakers would have reacted if they'd lost the Alito vote....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/31/AR2006013101195.html

[unblock]

1. they've always been sore winners. remember sore/loserman??

[John Q. Citizen]

2. They are pissed because we got the attempted filibuster we wanted.

[DeepModem Mom]

3. a.m. kick

[ProSense]

4. The filibuster was a great move. n/t

[Sydnie]

5. Perhaps they need to hear blivet's** speech again

He called for them to lay down the swords, didn't he? Looks like that's not going to happen now, huh? :sarcasm: :rofl: