Posted on 07/10/2005 7:19:51 AM PDT by colonel mosby
William Kristol, who correctly predicted that O'Connor would retire before Rehnquist, now has a dire prediction. Kristol claims that Rehnquist will retire this week, and that Bush operatives are already clearing the way to nominate Alberto Gonzales for new Chief Justice. Kristol made the comments on Fox News Sunday, as part of the four member discussion panel.
According to this train of thought, according to Kristol, the White House believes that it can avoid Congressional conflict by appointing a moderate like Gonzales, and then balance it by naming a true conservative to replace O'Connor. This would effectively leave the current "balance of the court" intact.
Panelists Juan Williams and CeCe Connolly applauded this notion, and felt it was a worthy compromise. However, panelist Charles Krauthammer warned that appointing Gonzales to the court would be a huge mistake because, by doing so, Bush would "betray his base" and "betray his promises".
William Kristol said that a Gonzales appointment, or any moderate appointment, would be "incredibly demoralizing" and "disastrous" for George W. Bush, because it would completely alienate his conservative base, and cause a terrible fracture in the Republican Party.
There is more than one hurricane on the horizon.
"Panelists Juan Williams and CeCe Connolly applauded this notion, and felt it was a worthy compromise."
Well that makes it a dog's dinner right there.
And I am willing to bet that the Doom and Gloomers (D&Gs) will ignore the FACTS. Rush vocabulary: Doom and Gloomers = liberals!
I still disagree with you on the incrementalism aspect. The Court is not supposed to be an incremental body - it is to decide whether a law is constitutional or not. Incrementalism lends credence to the Consitution being a living and breathing one, and allows the justices to read into the Constitution their own personal (political) beliefs, like O'Connor has done, and which I gather you would oppose. You seem to be saying to put someone on the Court who will not overturn Roe, Bollinger, Lawrence, and other abominations, but will somehow lay the groundwork for their being overturned until society is ready to handle it. But the longer these travesties remain as "law", the harder it will be to overcome, regardless of how much "groundwork" is laid (see the Miranda history). Society sure as heck wasn't "readied" by "moderate" decisions leading us to Roe or Lawrence, so no point in waiting for them to get them overturned.
Based on what Gonzales did while in the Supreme court in Texas, why in the world would you believe that?
bingo
The reason it was interpreted as personal attacks on Gonzales was because it WAS personal attacks on Gonzales. I couldn't believe the lies and half truths I saw on this website and a little research by the poster would have turned up the lies but that wasn't the agenda.
It does for me as well (to a point) - But this is where I allow myself to trust the judgment of GWB.
I simply trust the man. And he knows Mr. Gonzalez much better than I.
Which made me very grateful since he was/is a McCainiac. He had very little good to say about GW and then got his nose bent out of shape when he didn't get a job -- go figure.
Good grief, talk about a compromising defeatist attitude. Why in the world shouldn't each and every one us DEMAND that Bush keep the promise HE made and appoint Scalia-like originalist judges when the Republicans have 55 votes in the Senate?
He can only get away with compromising if people like you don't hold him and the Republican party accountable. Conservatives will never see any real change if the Republicans know they can do anything they want and people like you will accept it and vote for them anyway.
Bush is going to what he was elected to do, promised he would do OR the Republicans party will pay a price that few parties have ever paid. Do what you promised or lose power.
That's right. Bush DID make a promise. His whole Presidency is based on the premise that he "says what he does and does what he says." He can have no credibility left and a guaranteed legacy as a failed President if he breaks his promise, especially on an issue people will remember for decades.
And a Keyester.
Go ahead...make my day.
What hell are you babbling about? This has been one of the most liberal courts in the history of the nation, from emminent domain to overturning sodomy laws, this court has shown NO regard for the Constitution.
The court way out of the mainstream, doesn't represent the people and creates laws and rights out of thin air. It's not acceptable if Bush and the Republicans don't keep their promise to appoint Scalia-like originalists and the consquences of not doing so are going to be catastrophic.
Bush is the president. He has done many things that I do not agree with, but not nearly as many as his predecessor.Just because he's got an "R" next to his name does not make him immune to criticism from the right. He still works for us ("We the People," remember?), not the other way around.
If this is a trial balloon (which it sounds like it is) it's up to us to shoot it down. Holding our tongues is tacit approval of a Gonzales pick by the Prez, and before you know it we have Justice Gonzales and twenty more years of judicial tyranny.
I haven't voted Republican for my entire adult life just to sit on my hands while my President considers pointing a moderate.
Yeah, but the commie press called both Clinton's appointees "moderates." To them, anything right of Lenin apparently qualifies.
pointing = appointing
Byron "Whizzer" White, appointed by JFK, was the last justice to move rightward after joining the court. He was one of the two dissenters in Roe, along with Rehnquist.
Anyone who believes that the Second Amendment allows for the outlawing of some rifles because they have a bayonet lug on them (just the little piece of metal for attaching a bayonet, not even the bayonet itself) is unsuited to be a judge, or Attorney General, anywhere in the US.
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