Wow. DUH

This must be the most OBVIOUS headline EVER, from the Associated Press:

Alito Pleases GOP Senators, Not Democrats

Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito picked his way carefully Tuesday through the issues of abortion and warrantless wiretapping, satisfying Senate Republicans at his confirmation hearings but provoking Democratic expressions of displeasure.

The Bill of Rights applies "in times of war and in times of national crisis," the 55-year-old appeals court judge said, although he declined to specify whether President Bush acted properly in ordering wiretaps without warrants in selected cases as part of the war on terror.

Asked repeatedly about abortion, he assured the Senate Judiciary Committee he would first take previous rulings into account. At the same time, he stressed that precedent, including the landmark 1973 decision establishing a woman's right to end her pregnancy, is not binding on the high court.

"I would approach the question with an open mind and I would listen to the arguments that were made," said Alito, who wrote two decades ago that he did not believe the Constitution includes the right to an abortion.

And you wonder why the Republicans love him and the Democrats hate him.

I think what bothers me the most is that Bush keeps nominating people who will support his abuse of power no matter what and somehow constitutionally justify it. That's what I thought Tom Toles depicted very well in the cartoon in the previous post.