Alito Confirmed

Reuters:

A sharply divided U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, backing a second conservative nominated by President George W. Bush in his effort to move the nation's highest court to the right.

The largely party-line vote was 58-42 to replace the more moderate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor with Alito, a federal appeals judge since 1990, and came four months after the Senate approved Bush's first Supreme Court nominee, John Roberts, as U.S. chief justice.

And I'm glad it's over. No doubt the Democrats within the Kos-Krazy left's headlock will craft a new target for their "the-sky-is-falling" hysteria, but this battle is over, and the left is no stronger. Chuck Schumer echoed the increasingly annoying Dem talking point when he whined that

The union would be better and stronger and more unified if we were confirming a different nominee, a nominee who could have united us more than divided us.

I wonder, when will the left realize this country is not as pro-abortion as they think it is? The number of Americans who oppose abortion-as-birth-control is on the rise, and a definitive majority oppose partial-birth abortion. Abortion may be "settled law" and an inherent right in the constitution to the Kos Kids, but if that were so, why is there still such a debate about it? Nobody argues anymore whether blacks or women should have the vote because there's no longer any controversy. Not so with abortion, and despite the fiery rhetoric about back-ally abortions and "turning back the clock," the left is slowly but steadily being forced into retreat.

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