By The Prowler on 11.1.05 @ 12:09AM
With DNC-Clinton holdover help, Democrats try to play dirty against Alito even while knowing they'll get nowhere.
Kudos to the fellows at Red State and Townhall, who nailed DNC dirty
tricksters for their sliming of SCOTUS nominee Samuel
Alito.
Red State got hold of a Word document from the DNC oppo
researchers, which included embedded data that showed who worked on
it. Based on their research, a couple of low level flunkies pulled
the dirt together, while one Devorah Adler did the
polish. And who might she be?
Clinton White House documents reveal that she was one of
Bruce Reed's deputies on domestic policy back when
the Democrats ran the White House. She served as Associate Director
for Health Policy.
Now, Adler is plying her Clinton training for Howard
Dean. As reported
by AmSpecBlog on Monday, Democratic Senate Leader
Harry Reid seemed to sense a tidal shift in public
opinion and MSM coverage of the Alito nomination. Before noon, he
spoke to DNC chairman Dean and asked that the rhetoric on Alito be
cooled. Dean, according to DNC sources, declined the invitation to
be civil toward an esteemed judge.
Now, comes the DNC dirt document, which attempts to slime Alito
with charges that he was soft on organized crime and mean to
immigrants. See a pattern here?
Panic may now be setting in among Democrats. Sen. Chuck
Schumer appeared on CNN late Monday night, with a five
o'clock shadow and somber attitude, saying that the Senate should
not be rushed into a vote, never mind that Schumer's own staff have
been vetting Alito for more than a week, ever since word began
leaking out that the White House might be looking to make a
change.
Beyond Schumer, both Sens. Ted Kennedy's and
Joe Biden's staffs have full briefing books
completed on Alito, and were poring through them on Monday
afternoon.
One Democratic political consultant who was coming off Capitol
Hill after meetings late Monday said there was a level of
frustration among Senate Democratic staff that he had not seen with
the Roberts nomination. "This is a guy [Alito] who has had 15 years
on the bench. Our guys say his rulings are consistent, but for
every one you think you have him nailed on ideology, you flip the
page and, boom, he cuts back on you to the other side of the
argument in a different case. [See John Tabin today.]
And it's still solid stuff. This morning, I got the sense our guys
were ready for a fight. Now 12 hours later I'm not so sure. They
want the fight, they just don't have a lot of ammo."
topics:
Joe Biden, Harry Reid, Books
