I repeat something I wrote a few days ago:
Compromise will invariably mean that at least two of the ten appointees will not be granted a floor vote. Not good enough! It’s got to be all or nothing! Compromise will signify that the spine transplant was not successful, and it will add one more item to the ever-growing list of evidence that Republicans do not comprehend the meaning of the title – or the responsibility incumbent in being – the majority party.
Hours away. The Republican majority was just hours away from invoking a crucial Constitutional option that would have at least served as a catalyst to restore a balance of power, and they capitulated.
Cowards. Sniveling cowards they are.
They are allowing leftist ideologues who govern by two sets of rules, and who bear no allegiance to this republic (and their allies, a handful who sit on our side of the aisle, apparently because they simply prefer the view – their seating arrangement having nothing to do with embracing a conservative ideology) to call the shots.
They are scuttling a last-ditch, completely Constitutional attempt to reclaim the American judiciary from blatantly leftist tyrants who have turned the term ‘justice under law’ inside out, who have declared the American Constitution subservient to global judicial whims, and who regularly scuttle our own citizen-cast ballots on local, state, and national issues, and decisions and laws passed by our elected representatives. Unconstitutional parliamentary maneuvers have been declared the rule of the day. Or, if it suits their fancy, they prefer to invent rules out of thin air, and declare the invoking of Constitutional options ‘tyrannical maneuvers’ capable of instigating a Constitutional crisis.
Senate history shows no uncalled-for examples of filibustering judicial nominees – and certainly no examples of doing so to a nominee who would clearly win a floor vote. That kind of unconstitutional partisan roadblock is historically unprecedented.
Yet two centuries of formal, accepted senate procedure has found itself stopped dead in its tracks by a minority party because that minority party has been in decline since the culture wars of the sixties. And over those forty years, they have succeeded in usurping much of the power designated to our elected branches of government and bequeathing it to an appointed, unaccountable judiciary that increasingly shares their leftist ideology. Commensurate with this unconstitutional shift in power has been a dramatic self-inflicted weakening of the backbone of their ideological opposition – namely ‘conservative’ legislators with a reverence for the Constitution (fast becoming an voluntarily endangered species).
Black has been declared white and white has been declared black … and the ‘conservatives’ remain silent.
The opposition has promised to behave, and to allow judicial nominees a vote, except for ‘extreme circumstances’. ‘Extreme circumstances’ no doubt include nominating judges who have declared a belief in God, a conviction that all newborns or nearly-borns deserve to live, or that the color of one’s skin must not elicit preferential treatment, etc. The ‘extreme circumstances’ loophole is big enough to drive a Mack Truck through (and I can hear those diesel engines roaring to life already).
What’s the sense in voting anymore? We may as well sweep in front of our own doors, take care of our own families, pray for the best, and allow the red-state ballot boxes to gather cobwebs.
The Constitution is in shreds. An activist left-leaning judiciary will eventually be the death of our republic. And in my dictionary, ‘compromise’ is now a four letter word, and ‘Republican’ is fast closing in on sporting the same label.
~ joanie
One need only pay the slightest attention to the rhetoric or perhaps the invective would be a better term, of the democrat cadres over this latest coup. There is no "reaching across the isle", no "bi-partisanship" not even the slightest "goodwill", only warnings, threats, and vicious attacks upon those who would restore the constitution to it's origional position as the foundation of our government.............
Consider that again, vicious attacks upon those who would restore the constitution to it's origional position as the foundation of our government.
If there ever was evidence needed that that foundation has been eroded it is there. I have some more to say, but will have to get on to my day in the gulag (work).
See you later this afternoon. t.
Well said, joanie.
I couldn't agree more.
The crux of the matter as you put it:
"They [the GOP] are allowing leftist ideologues who govern by two sets of rules, and who bear no allegiance to this republic (and their allies, a handful who sit on our side of the aisle, apparently because they simply prefer the view – their seating arrangement having nothing to do with embracing a conservative ideology) to call the shots."
Question:
(Cupping ear) Where has our fearless leader been on this matter? What of the Bully Pulpit?
The President wouldn't shut up when the issue was Social Security, "Iraq Freedom," or the Tsunami, but during this entire farce and threat to the Constitution he's clammed up -- as has Cheney.
So on the TWO most important issues of the day -- Border Security/Sovereignty + Party Sovereignty (do we see a theme here?), this Administration chooses to masquerade as crickets.
Well stated as usual. The recent caving by some of our guys is frustrating. What's just as curious are the Dims who joined in this coup. One has to wonder just who's pulling the strings. Sure ain't us is it?
FGS
As excellent an analysis as I have read! Bravo!
(BTW, Your friend, Brad Rutter is burning them up on Jeopardy. It looks like he might unseat the almighty Jennings.) {g}
joanie,
Thanks for the ping and the great rant.
What are you doing for the next 7 years? Are you interested in a run against St. Ricky?
I second Badray's motion. Santorum has been a thorn in our side for a while now. I'd much rather see you sitting in his seat. If you're not up for that, then at least agree to write the speeches for his republican opponent.