Robert Byrd's Statement on Alito:

[joemurphy]

<http://byrd.senate.gov/>

No statement

[Caoimhe]

1. I wonder if he has a hangover

from that bender he must've been on last week

[Canuckistanian]

2. Wait, there is something

Here:
http://byrd.senate.gov/speeches/2006_january/alito.html

He talks about the "disgrace" of the Senate hearings among other things.

An excerpt:

Much has been made of the fact that Judge Alito has expressed support for the concept of the “unitary executive.” Many are afraid that his support for this concept means that he favors a broad “expansion” of presidential power. But Judge Alito has stated repeatedly that his support for the concept of the “unitary executive” does not refer to broadening the “scope” of the power of the President.

Instead, Judge Alito says this theory refers to the way in which the President utilizes his existing power to faithfully execute the law as it applies to administrative agencies within the Executive Branch. In describing the unitary executive in his speech before the Federalist Society, Judge Alito stated that Article II, Section Three of the Constitution provides that the President “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” Thus, he said, “the President has the power and the duty to supervise the way in which the subordinate Executive Branch officials exercise the President’s power of carrying federal law into execution.”

That Alito must be a sweet talker.

[joemurphy]

3. Good find. Byrd's statement is laughable. n/t

[PBass]

4. Byrd's opposition seems to stem from the "rancorous process"

Maybe the process is too rancorous, maybe not.

But that's a piss-poor rationale for greenlighting Alito.

[Canuckistanian]

5. He doesn't see the end result

Only the process. Decorum is everything to him, even above the rule of law and Constitutional protections.

[AndrewJacksonFaction]

6. .

[ladjf]

7. He's already made his statement and it sucked. I'm over him.