From: Gary Bauer [gary.bauer@amvalues.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 4:53 PM
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Subject: End of Day 1-31-06

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

To: Friends & Supporters

From: Gary Bauer



Alito Confirmed

Just a few hours ago, Judge Samuel Alito was confirmed in the Senate by a 58-to-42 vote. Coming after yesterday's defeat of the Kennedy/Kerry filibuster by a vote of 72-to-25, the far left of the Democrat Party is outraged and depressed. In spite of unbelievable smear tactics, they failed miserably to derail the president's nominee. Polls show that 54% of the public supported his confirmation and only 30% opposed him. He was sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts at 12:40 this afternoon - just in time for tonight's State of the Union address.

This is an important victory, my friends. I fully expect Justice Alito will make a crucial difference, especially when it comes to ending the high court's hostility to the free exercise of religion in the public square. But the battle is not over. We are one step closer, but we still do not have a conservative majority on the Supreme Court. For all the liberal bluster about "balance," the Supreme Court has four liberal justices - Breyer, Ginsburg, Souter, and Stevens - and four conservative justices - Alito, Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas. That means Justice Anthony Kennedy is the "new O'Connor" or swing vote.

However, should President Bush get a third appointment, and many Washington insiders expect he will, that nominee could cement a true conservative majority on the Supreme Court for years to come. And that is why I believe many Senate liberals fought so viciously to block the confirmation of Judge Alito. Their unprecedented resistance to this nomination served as a warning shot for what we can expect if the next vacancy is for one of the liberal seats currently held by Justices Ginsburg or Stevens.

We are proud to have played a role in this successful confirmation effort - a role we could play only because of the generous support and encouragement of our friends around the country. Thank you!


Listen to What They Say

Diplomats all over Europe and the U.S. too, are demanding that Hamas, winner of last week's Palestinian elections, recognize Israel's right to exist as the "price" for continued aid. But what if Hamas agreed to that condition - does any sane person think they would mean it? Why should we give this murderous band of Islamofascists even one penny no matter what empty words they speak under pressure? From their founding until this very moment, Hamas has consistently excelled at only one thing - killing Jews.

Now, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton don't have a problem giving money to Hamas or negotiating with them. Carter says we could send the money to the United Nations, which then could pass it on, thus getting around our laws that prohibit subsidizing terrorist groups. Clinton had this to say, "One of the politically correct things in American politics…is we just don't talk to some people that we don't like, particularly if they ever killed anybody in a way that we hate." Clinton thinks America is silly because we actually have moral qualms about negotiating with people who strap on bomb belts and blow up Israeli families having lunch.

Before we deceive ourselves about the Hamas agenda, let's listen to their leader, Khaled Mash'al, who, in the wake of the election victory, said this: "We will not agree to any kind of disregard of our right to Jerusalem." (Notice he isn't asking for half of Jerusalem.) "We are committed to the right of return." (This is the Palestinian insistance on flooding Israel with millions of Palestinians who have never lived one day in Israel to demographically swamp the Jewish nation.)

My friends, in order to get their hands on U.S. and European money, Hamas may say all sorts of things in the weeks ahead that diplomats will grab on to as evidence of "moderation." But when they talk to their own people, Hamas never changes - their goal is the destruction of Israel, their top ally is Iran; and, ultimately, they want to celebrate our destruction, too.

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