I'll pass.
Posted on 07/09/2005 12:08:48 PM PDT by Crackingham
Contending that President Bush's far-right allies are pushing him to appoint an extreme conservative to the Supreme Court, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid pointed to liberal icon Earl Warren as a model. In his party's weekly radio address, Reid, D-Nev., noted that Saturday marked the anniversary of the 1974 death of Warren, a Republican whose court established a liberal tradition with its 1954 school desegregation ruling and other decisions. Reid said Warren had been able to forge a consensus on the court that would become the national consensus.
"Mr. President, that's the kind of justice we hope you'll nominate," Reid said in Saturday's broadcast. "Someone who will bring us together. A mainstream justice who won't use their judicial robe as a cloak to impose their political ideology on the country."
Bush is considering a nominee to succeed Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. The Senate, under the Constitution's directive that it offer "advice and consent" on such appointments, must vote on his choice.
O'Connor, a Republican and long a swing vote on the court who often took a moderate stance on decisions, to the chagrin of conservative activists, announced her retirement last week. Reid hailed her tenure on the court and said she decided cases "the old-fashioned way — based on law, not politics."
Reid said he hopes Bush and the Senate will work together to nominate and confirm a justice who can build on national consensus on important issues, hold a deep respect for the Constitution, and make rulings not along narrow partisan ideology, but with "an open mind and a big heart."
"But radical-right activists are hungry for something else," he added. "President Bush's far-right allies are spending millions of dollars to pressure him to pick not just a conservative, but an extreme conservative, someone out of the mainstream, someone who will impose their narrow partisan agenda from the perch of the highest court in the land instead of faithfully interpreting the law."
"America deserves better," he said.
Bite your tonque Harry.
Earl Warren?
Pardon me...
*BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!*
ahem...I'm back. Sorry, I actually thought he was serious there for a moment...
"President Bush's far-right allies are spending millions of dollars to pressure him to pick not just a conservative, but an extreme conservative, someone out of the mainstream, someone who will impose their narrow partisan agenda from the perch of the highest court in the land instead of faithfully interpreting the law."
Even though I have come to expect such blatant lies from the likes of Harry Reid, at times it can still make by blood boil to hear such nonsense.
Reid must not possess one ounce of shame for him to be able to say such things. Anyone who is honest will admit that it is the Left, not the Right, that uses the Courts to impose what can't be won in the proper democratic/political/popular channels.
Abortion on demand, gay marriage/civil unions, citizen-like status for illegal aliens, near unlimited taking power, etc --- all imposed by the Courts, not the people or their elected representatives. If the Sup Court were made up of 9 Scalias and Thomases then each of these things would be settled by the people or their elected leaders. There would be no mandate handed down from the Court. The only time they'd step in and strike down duly passed laws are when they clearly violate a Constitutional right that is actually in the Constitution -- like the former provision against government takings of private property. Reid knows this, but he's become such Ted Kennedyesque demagogue that he accuses conservative judges of doing what his kind is guilty of.
And that the GOP isn't better and more forceful in responding to such lies and absurdities is sort of disheartening.
Yeah, we want to take advice from Harry Reid. Just what we need, another Earl Warren.
Keep talking Harry, I'm almost asleep.......zzzzzzzzzz
Sorry, Dingy, we've got enough lefties on the Court already.
When I was a kid, I used to see signs saying "Impeach Earl Warren" which now I realizes would have been a great idea.
The dems can jump us my @$$.
Dingy is even dumber than he looks.
We won this election Harry, shut the hell up.
Makes me think of the King of the Hill episode
PEGGY: Oh, that is nonsense. Did a woman ruin the Supreme Court?
HANK: A woman did ruin the Supreme Court, and that woman's name was Earl Warren.
I'll pass.
Kehoe: sit down Dingy Harry, and stfu. Your roll is "advise and consent," nothing more.
5.56mm
Middle Finger to YOU Dingy Harry!
Tell Reid to sit down and shut up.
"Mr. President, that's the kind of justice we hope you'll nominate," Reid said in Saturday's broadcast.Could someone please remind me again who won in November?
Hell, for that matter, could someone remind the Republicans in the Senate who won in November? It's just a matter of time before some RINOs start buying into this Kumbayah bull@#$% on SC appointments.
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