Judging History - Republicans don’t know what they want.

It is understandable that liberal Democratic presidents, beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt, loaded the Supreme Court with liberal, Democratic justices.

What is far harder to understand is how a whole succession of conservative Republican presidents — Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Bush 41 — managed to appoint so many liberals to the Supreme Court.

Republicans know what they want.... They just don't know which of what they want they should want the most.

Democrats know what they want above all else, and that is power. For them it is easy. For Republicans, trying to decide which of our goals is most important is the hardest thing to form a consensus on.

The Democrats are closet Communists. They want to destroy Christianity, the family, the Constitution, free enterprise, and anything decent that remains in America, while selling out the rest to the ChiComs. Republicans are spineless cowards who try not to offend the Democrats and the media while kowtowing to their Saudi masters who murdered 3000 Americans on 9/11.

I only caught a little bit of the last part of it, but Dennis Prager had a lady on Tuesday talking about the Supreme Court. The part I heard was about Souter. She said that people in the GHWB's administration (not only Sununu) were really pushing for Souter. Ken Starr was a possibility but they nixed him because they didn't think he was conservative enough--HA! Here's Part I and II of the interview if anyone is interested:

http://www.townhall.com/TalkRadio/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=3&ContentGuid=b5cf4ed2-6959-4a0a-83c0-5b7964b38fa2
Tuesday February 27, 2007
Suicide Bomb near VP With Dennis Prager
Prager H1: At an Air Force base in Afghanistan. He only heard a loud noise. Did the terrorists know he was at the base?.. Mattel wants to sell trucks to girls. Good luck… UCLA creates a new chair in sexual orientation law thanks to a million dollar donation. Think they’d set up a Right to Life chair if someone offered them the same amount of money?.. Dennis talks to Jan Crawford Greenburg, correspondent for ABC News who covers law and politics for World News Tonight, Nightline, and Good Morning America. Her new book is Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court.

http://www.townhall.com/TalkRadio/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=3&ContentGuid=af6c73c4-6bcd-4d32-827c-bd2c60d6c6c7
Tuesday February 27, 2007
Supreme Conflict With Dennis Prager
Prager H2: Dennis continues his conversation with Jan Crawford Greenburg… They discuss the 2000 election decision and Justice David Souter… Islam is making in-roads with American blacks supposedly because it has a special affinity for the oppressed. Where?

From the article:
What is far harder to understand is how a whole succession of conservative Republican presidents — Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Bush 41 — managed to appoint so many liberals to the Supreme Court.

I am loath to disagree with Thomas Sowell, but to refer to Nixon, Ford, and Bush 41 as "conservative Republicans" is a little rich me. Maybe Thomas isn't feeling good. I know the flu has been going around.

I don't blame the Republicans as much as I blame the zeitgeist and the natural tendency of justices to want to accomplish something once they get on the bench.

I don't think it is easy for them to get a feeling of accomplishment, when they control their temptation to do something "groundbreaking."

Society would label a justice with self-control as an "unfeeling and reactionary do-nothing."

In other words, increased public scrutiny of USSC Justices and their decisions, probably influences Justices more than we realize.

Justices might be worrying about their legacies in history books than they worry about the good of the country.

It seems to me, that it would be hard to find many truly committed "strict interpreters."

"conservative Republican presidents Ford and Bush 41 ???? "

Relatively speaking and on non-judicial issues, yes. Rumsfeld, Cheney, and arch-conservative William E Simon served under Ford.

What's missing here is a few things:
1. Law schools are now repositories of ardent liberalism/leftism. Even 'republican' judges can fall sway to leftwing interpretations of the laws/constitution.
2. the fact that Republicans only in recent years have woken up to the politicization of the judiciary as an issue of active conservative concern. It began with the 'borking' of Bork that we realized we had a fight on our hands. However, the courts had been slipping into liberalism for 30+ years prior! Actually going back to FDR's plan to pack the courts. I dont know the reaction to Ford's nomination of Justice Stevens, and if the conservatives wree as opposed to it as they were to the Miers nomination.

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