Robert Byrd hangs up on the Constitution.

I cannot believe that ROBERT BYRD has said that he would support Justice Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court. This is the man who should clearly recognize the danger that Alito would bring to the evisceration of the "seperation of powers" in the Constitution.

What is he thinking? He has written a book, Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency.

Senator Byrd should look into the actions of Judge Alito and not just with his conversation with the nominee.

He of all Senators should be aware of the danger that Alito is to the Constitution, and why those "signing statements" by the president and the president's use in those signing statements of a "unitary executive" shows that there is a clear bright line in the Constitution which should not be crossed due to the seperation of powers doctrine in the Article 1. The president is trying to make law himself and circumventing and prevent the will and intent of Congress when he produces a signing statement as he signs a bill into law.

John Dean and other lawyers have brought significant insight into this power grab by the president based on the recent uproar over Bush's signing statement on the McCain amendment to the DoD budget bill.

The founding fathers knew that men with power will hold on and enlarge their power at the expense of the people. This is why there was the dividing of governmental power between the executive, legislative and judiciary as delineated in the Constitution.