Samuel Alito nominated to the Supreme Court!

Well, that was quick! This morning, Bush nominated Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. Hooray! Bush said, "Judge Alito is one of the most accomplished and respected judges of America and his long career in public service has given him an extraordinary breadth of judicial experience. He's scholarly, fair-minded and principled and these qualities will serve him well on the highest court in the land." Bush added that Alito has more judicial experience than any Supreme Court nominee in 70 years. Alito is considered a conservative federal judge. Of course the conservatives in Congress are overwhelmingly happy about this pick, while the liberals are quite angry. Senate Minoriy Leader Harry Reid said he was "disappointed" in the pick of Alito in that he is not a "consensus nominee" and said one day earlier that that nominee would "create a lot of problems. The nomination of Judge Alito requires an especially long, hard look by the Senate because of what happened last week to Harriet Miers. Conservative activists forced Miers to withdraw from consideration for this same Supreme Court seat because she was not radical enough for the. Now the Senate needs to find out if the man replacing Miers is too radical for the American people." He went on to criticize Bush for not choosing a woman or Hispanic for the seat, saying, "He has chosen yet another federal appellate judge to join a court that already has eight justices with that narrow background." That's interesting, because if I remember right Bush's last nomination was a woman....hmmm.
It should be interesting to see how many liberals do vote him down because he was UNANIMOUSLY confirmed in a liberal controlled senate 15 years ago.
And quickly yet another great example of blatant liberal news bias:
The Chief White House correspondent for CBS news, John Roberts described the President’s selection of Judge Samuel Alito as "sloppy seconds," saying, "So, Scott, you said that -- or the President said, repeatedly, that Harriet Miers was the best person for the job. So does that mean that Alito is sloppy seconds, or what?" He said this during a press conference with White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan. The fact that he would suggest that is absolutely ridiculous. Bottom line is that the democrats are pissed off because last week it seemed like the White House was collapsing in on itself. However, with a new nominee who will almost assuredly pass, gasoline prices coming down, economy still growing, Iraq doing better by the month, and indictments that were much less severe than many might have thought, the White House really seems like they're on a new path. Things are looking up just a week after it seemed like nothing could go right for Bush.