Posted on 07/26/2005 3:09:01 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Yesterday we noted, based on a column by Jonathan Turley, that Senator Durbin appeared to be flirting with the idea of holding John Roberts' deeply held Catholic beliefs against him. Turley reported that, when Roberts met the Senator, Durbin had interrogated Roberts about how he would handle a hypothetical conflict between Catholic principles and the law. The hypothetical is more than a little far-fetched because, to my knowledge, Catholicism doesn't make it a sin to declare bad laws constitutional.
Today, according to the Washington Times, Durbin and his staff are denying that the religious interrorgation took place and that the Senator or anyone on his staff told Turley otherwise. But Turley insists that the information came straight from Durbin, when the two met in the green room at one the Sunday gab shows.
Who is telling the truth, Turley or Durbin? Hugh Hewitt puts his money on the law professor, not the politician, and who can blame him? Says Hugh:
Sen. Dustbin and the rest of the left deserve credit for one thing. They have created a situation where Evangelicals, Roman Catholics and Orthodoox Jews see a common thread to admire in each other.
Msybe you never heard about the concerns about John F. Kennedy running for president and being catholic?
I predicted several days ago in a post I can't locate that this would happen as soon as word got out Roberts was a Catholic. It smacks of prejudice and religious discrimination (Oh, ACLU where are you when we need you?). Typical Demon-rat Durtbin--the Repubs should play this up. After all Catholics have traditionally voted largely Democrat. Dirtbag may have shot himself in the foot.
No, sorry I didn't get that politically active during JFK's presidential bid because I was in diapers at the time.
Yet the Catholic Kennedys are somehow acceptible, nay, elevated to Godhood?
Yeah, all history began with your first steps.
This is on Hugh Hewitt's site right now.... But in an interview last night, Professor Turley said Mr. Durbin himself had described the conversation to him on Sunday morning, including the statement about recusal.
Could Durbin be that stupid? Well, we are talking about Durbin here.
I guess it is a matter of who to believe, Jonathan Turley who is a respected law professor, or DICK Durban.
Durban is WAY over his head messing with Jonathan Turley, just about all the cable networks discuss Constitutional issues with him.
He's got a lot of nerve first of all for claiming to be a Catholic... then to question a true practicing Catholic?
Nothing is worse than a Catholic that doesn't practice their faith...
Don't worry, we Catholics that do practice our faith were down his throat immediately, hence the backpedaling.
Durbin and his ilk used this guy to shake it up...and he called them on it.
Separation of Church and State except for Gitmo.
I was a altar boy...Even though I am a Catholic...
(Sorry, can't remember after that...I hit the floor)
Third Debate
Only if you are a Republican.
John Kerry was never questioned about it, was he?
Cafeteria Catholics are OK with the Libs as long as they select the right menu items
Thou shall not kill murders - Good
Thou shall not kill Innocent babies - Bad
And now even Mormons seem main stream!
Nope - Durbin knew full well that he would be quoted by Turley, and that he would have to make a show of denying what he told Turley. Durbin was planting a seed here, hoping it sprout into a picture of John Roberts as some kind of religious extremist unable to separate his personal views from his legal judgement, and thus being unqualified to be any sort of judge, let alone a Supreme Court justice.
And as fertilizer for that seed, Durbin very cynically used the public's loathing and distrust of the media and it's gaggle of self-appointed "experts" who can be counted on to fill air time and column inches with their endless bloviating and pimping fpr the liberal cause. It's actually a rather clever strategy that could only be used by someone completely lacking in shame, and confirms just what a fungus Dick Durbin really is.
"We SERIOUSLY need to take our country back"
-----yeah, but,as Durbin might put it, that's just
what Al Qaeda wants to do. Let's not be like them......"
"The hypothetical is more than a little far-fetched because, to my knowledge, Catholicism doesn't make it a sin to declare bad laws constitutional."
Good line, that misses the point. "Catholic" could be promoted to mean "would throw Roe". Expect more of this, they have nothing else so far.
Turley comes across as sincere, honest and thoughtful, not an idealogue.
Durbin is part-time lunatic fringe.
Trimmed with the razor, simple truth is likely correct...the story rings true.
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