How about this...GWB holds off on a new Chief nominee until Roberts is approved...then Oran Hatch is nominated Chief Justice. I don't think that Chuckie, Teddy, Lady Boxer or "Leaky Lay-Hee" could trash Hatch after all these years claiming comity in the senate. Even if they did, no "Moderate" Democrat would vote against him.
I can, not the least of which is that two confirmation hearings will be bad enough. Why go through three?
I'm with you. Why would GW appoint a CJ without an established track record? Can you imagine the shape we would be in if one of the "pseudo-conservatives" appointed by Republican Presidents in the past had been named CJ before they even took the bench? Rehnquist because a Justice in 1972 and didn't become the CJ until 1986 . . . when our Beloved President Reagan had 14 years of history to use as his guide.
Besides . . . NOW is our opportunity to end all this Judicial Activism BS!! NOW!!!!!
We've got the liberals on the run in Congress, in the Senate, and in state and local politics . . . they've been using the courts to cram their agendas down our throats. Now . . . right now . . . is our best chance to end this nonsense.
I urge every FReeper to bounce out their politicians. DEMAND THAT THEY DO THE RIGHT THING -- NOMINATE TWO STAUNCH CONSERVATIVES AND BE WILLING AND PREPARED TO TAKE ON THE KENNEDYS AND SCHUMERS OF THE WORLD REGARDLESS OF HOW LONG IT TAKES!
Who cares if it takes YEARS to confirm these two Justices? Our children's future and the future of our country is at stake.
A bit melodramatic, you say?
Not one bit. Say what you will but the Buck stops at the Supreme Court because our law-makers don't have the guts to take the Supreme Court on as an institution. Nowhere in our Constitution does the Judiciary have the power to "MAKE" laws . . . but that's exactly what they've been doing. When Justices refer to European Law or European Decisions or any-damn-thing else EXCEPT OUR LAWS to justify their interpretations of OUR CONSTITUTION, I say it's time we reel them back in and demand that they only do the jobs our Founding Fathers assigned to them. They've seized legislating powers with impunity.
I say . . . ENOUGH ALREADY!!