Comments on: SCOTUS Slammed at SOTU;Alito Mouths ‘Not True’ at the President

By: guest

guest — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:12:36 +0000

@164 Common sense died the day you were born.

By: guest

guest — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:17:27 +0000

The camera clips destroy the whole context of what really happened. Just before panning to Alito, Sotomayor whispered to him, “Sam, I heard you weren’t always such a douche bag. Is that true?”
The rest is history.

By: guest

guest — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:31:40 +0000

The SCOTUS deserved what it got last night and then some.
The kindest thing that can be said about Alito is that he is a complete asshat.

By: guest

guest — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:45:10 +0000

To everyone saying the Justice Alito showed poor form:
It does not show partiality to negatively respond to an Presidential attack on the Judiciary.
CHECK YOU TRIAS POLITICA

By: guest

guest — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:28:23 +0000

With apologies to Larry David, “A President goes up on stage, ‘I have great respect for the separation of powers. Having said that, You people are a bunch of morons.’”

By: guest

guest — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:28:37 +0000

187-are you kidding me? Obama is a grown-up Steve Urkel. That’s reason the White House always showing him playing basketball (with his defenders standing 10 feet away), so he doesn’t look like a complete dork. I am guessing that Alito did far better with women than Obama did back in the day.

By: guest

guest — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:28:28 +0000

187-are you kidding me? Obama is grown-up Steve Urkel. That’s reason the White House always showing him playing basketball (with his defenders standing 10 feet away), so he doesn’t look like a complete dork. I am guessing that Alito did far better with women than Obama did back in the day.

By: stoner

stoner — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:49:08 +0000

Alito is correct. . . Once again OBAMA lies

By: guest

guest — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:11:23 +0000

Class presidents in my high school used to say mean stuff about the nerds in the chess club all the time, and the chess club nerds would shake their heads and maybe whimper a little, and it was no big deal.
FRAT STUD

By: guest

guest — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:06:34 +0000

@182. You’re missing the point completely. Fine. It’s a constitutionally mandated report. Really a distinction without a difference. The point is that it’s a message from one political branch to another. The justice, who is supposed to be apolitical, contested a political point the president was making whether audibly or inaudibly (it doesn’t matter given that the cameras were sure to turn on him when Obama made the point. By doing so, he discredited the idea that the court is apolitical (slightly).
As to which person was more rude, I don’t think either one was at all. I think we need to get past the idea that disagreeing with each other, even in each other’s presence is rude. Sure, shouting, “You lie” is rude both because it was an attack on a Obama’s character and was a distraction while he was speaking. Although Obama is not a king and Joe Wilson had every right to do it. Alito, by contrast, wasn’t rude in the least. He just did not maintain the appearance of impartiality that the rest of the justices did a better job of projecting.