[pogo101]

bttt

[Ogmios]

It is time for the whitehouse to go on the offensive with their judicial nominees, this is getting old, and the media is being as fair as they always are.

Time for Bush to cash in a little of that personal capital he has and get these judges confirmed and on the bench.

[leadpenny]

I watched and listened to most of the hearing yesterday. Her detractors (durbin, schumer, kennedy, etc.) have nothing on her. Based on her demeanor and temperament alone, she will be W's selection for the next vacancy on the Supreme Court. Mark my words.

[OXENinFLA]

I caught some of the opening of this.


Talk about a full frontal slaughter by the dems.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Why bother with carefully selecting judicial nominees? All we gotta do when we disagree with trial results is to make snap political judgments instead, based on the subjective pressure standards of the mob du jour</>, just like in Europe. Evidence and adversarial proceedings? Who needs those when we have internet activism based on whever can make the most emotional and one sided appeal.

Princess Diana is my new hero.

[OXENinFLA]

Turn on C-span!.

[Publius6961]

the voting public would never have stood for such things as racial quotas or the creation of new "rights" for criminals out of thin air, if this had been done by elected officials.

Tom Sowell hits another one out of the ball park.
Of course everything he says is obvious, but agendas die hard.

This particular idea resonated with me because it should remind us all that even legislators are not elected to indulge their private fantasies of what Constitutional Government means, nor to enjoy a puerile power trip.
Strip them of the title and they are all human beings as the rest of us are, many with the most bizarre quirks and character flaws.

Judgeships for life is a concept born in a simpler age, when certain rules and truths were assumed obvious, self-evident and eternal. That is no longer true.

Rules created during that simpler age have been exploited, twisted and degenerated to satisfy the darker side of our nature and the combination of that with egalitarianism has brought us to an impasse.
Rules must change. But how? and when?
The "why" should be obvious.

The rule by the qualified. Wish I knew the name. Oligarchy is not quite it. It must never be arbitrary. Most Americans should qualify. But there is a pressing need to make sure legislators and judges are not only sane, but also must meet a minimum level of intelligence, knowledge and common sense. We all know what that is but I see a long debate in the attempt to codify it.

No more planting flags on Mars, or conjuring up penumbras, judicial sophistry writ large.

[OXENinFLA]

Senator Santourm is speaking about this on the Senate Floor right Now.