Whether Bush likes it or not, conservatives, who discuss everything, should NOT remain quiet now. I agree with Bork. Furthermore, the left also heard his remarks to conservatives which bothers me.
The discussion about Gonzalez has never been personal or shrill and has always been civil and about his politics. Most reasonable conservatives do not see him as a reliable conservative. The president should consider the opinions of the majority of those who put him twice into power and should not be attempting to silence them. The Democrats will behave as the democrats no matter what.
Apparently, many on the left also don't like Gonzalez and spoke out today. Their attacks on Gonzalez will become far more personal. I have a sneaking suspicion, the president won't be asking them to be quiet or telling them that he doesn't like it when his friends are attacked. Such is politics. But Bush should keep his opinions about conservatives and their public discussions to himself. Many like myself aren't listening. And we don't take our marching orders from the Republican party.
It has been objected also against a bill of rights, that, by enumerating particular exceptions to the grant of power, it would disparage those rights which were not placed in that enumeration; and it might follow by implication, that those rights which were not singled out, were intended to be assigned into the hands of the General Government, and were consequently insecure. This is one of the most plausible arguments I have ever heard against the admission of a bill of rights into this system; but, I conceive, that it may be guarded against. I have attempted it, as gentlemen may see by turning to the last clause of the fourth resolution.
James Madison, addressing the First Congress of the United States, 1789.
The 'inkblot' means precisely what it obviously means: that the Federal government has no powers beyond those explicitly and narrowly enumerated within Article One, Section Eight of the U.S. Constitution - and that all further rights are retained by the people.