Posted on 07/28/2005 10:10:07 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Howard Dean has decried Ruth Bader Ginsberg as a right winger. John Kerry is demanding that the White House release Supreme Court nominee John Roberts’ records in total. And Teddy Kennedy, well, Teddy continues to talk out of both sides of his mouth. If it were possible to hear “eyes roll” the sound would have thundered across the country with each one of these statements.
Whether it is their manipulation of our nation’s sitcom attention span or the elite media’s bent agenda is irrelevant. The Democratic “sideshow barkers” are getting away with it.
Recently, at one of his many anger-fests – or as I like to call them, Anger-paloozas – Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean took the opportunity once again to lash out at Republicans and conservatives while painting a picture of the Democratic Party that would confuse Picasso.
While being queried about the possibility of John Roberts’ being confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, Dean said, "The President and his right-wing Supreme Court think it is 'okay' to have the government take your house if they feel like putting a hotel where your house is."
Huh? What? I wonder what color the sky is in Howard Dean’s world and if whatever he is afflicted with is contagious.
The decision that Dean was referring to, Kelo v. The City of New London, which allows local governments to forcibly acquire private property in order to pad their tax bases, was ascribed to by the court’s liberal coalition of justices: John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer. The only “conservative” that signed on to this unconstitutional ruling was Justice Anthony Kennedy.
The idea that a court which seats Ginsberg, Stevens, Souter, and Breyer could somehow be considered a “Right-Wing Supreme Court” is akin to the idea that Bill Clinton would be an excellent cheerleader camp counselor. The thought really is that preposterous.
Meanwhile, in another part of the strange and quizzical land that is “Democratopia,” we have the oblivious John Kerry and the calculating Teddy “A Bridge Too Far” Kennedy.
Vietnam War protest hero John Kerry recently called on the White House to release “in their entirety” all of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts’ records as they pertain to his public service. "We cannot do our duty if either Judge Roberts or the Bush administration hides elements of his professional record," Kerry said.
I am sure Senator Kerry will afford the White House the same amount of time to release Roberts’ records as Kerry took to sign his Form 180. In fact, the White House should follow Kerry’s lead and release Roberts’ records exclusively to a friendly newspaper so that they can vet and redact information that could be of any substance. This way the White House could say it satisfied the request for the release of Roberts’ records without actually releasing any information--just like Kerry!
And speaking of transparency, how can the subject of liberal hypocrisy be addressed without a mention of the crowned prince of duplicity, Teddy Kennedy.
Donning a straight face that would make Stephen Wright envious, Kennedy stated in a recent press conference that Nominee Roberts’ confidential files – files protected by the sanctity of attorney-client privilege, mind you – from both his tenure as solicitor-general, as well as his work as a private attorney, should be open to scrutiny by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Normally it would be typical of Kennedy to impose a double-standard so that a conservative would be disadvantaged and disenfranchised. Demanding a judicial litmus test whose qualifier is the right to privacy (Roe v. Wade) while obliterating the right to privacy mandated by attorney-client privilege is shooting par at the Teddy Kennedy Judicial Invitational. But in this instance there is a very rich icing that goes with the cake.
Kennedy took a very different attitude toward the types of questions that should be asked of a Supreme Court nominee when then Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall was to go before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"We have to respect that any nominee to the Supreme Court would have to defer any comments on any matters, which are either before the court or very likely to be before the court," Kennedy said during a 1967 press conference. "This has been a procedure which has been followed in the past and is one which I think is based upon sound legal precedent."
Hhmm, it seems that the idea of transparency in Teddy’s world is subjective. At once it is as clear as the thinnest membrane known to man and at the same time it is as murky as the waters under the bridge at Chappaquiddick. Let’s just hope it doesn’t take Judge Roberts ten hours to answer any questions.
So, as the circus that will be the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts arrives in Washington, D.C., it is important to remember that “sideshow barkers” seldom hawk wares of value and never play on an even field. In this case the disingenuous calls of “step right up” are an invitation to deception.
With that in mind, can someone define the word “is” for me please?
About the Writer: Frank Salvato is a political media consultant and managing editor of the website, TheRant at http://www.theRant.us.
Frank receives e-mail at oped@therant.us.
Char :)
Good article, thanks for posting!
As expected from Ted Kennedy and the rest of the dims, what was not required of Ruth Bader Ginsberg should be required of President Bush's nominee. That the American people probably can't see the hypocrisy in this is amazing.
Brainwashed by the liberal media, and dumbed down by the far left socialist educational system, from kindergarden to our universities. There is where the problems are. Too many "little Churchills" all over the country. It is a veritable infestation, and it is as dangerous as islamofascism, because it is the embedded enemy within.
Thanks for your comments, Theresa.
Char
Jorge Cabrera, a convicted felon from Florida, gave the DNC $20,000 and then attended a political reception in Miami at which Cabrera got his picture taken with Al Gore. Cabrera was soon invited to a December 1995 pre-Christmas event at the White House and was photographed with First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. The next month in January 1996, undercover agents arrested Cabrera with three tons of Colombian cocaine. Prior to Cabrera's January arrest, he had been arrested twice on drug charges, and pleaded guilty to non-drug-related charges in both cases. Cabrera is serving a 19-year prison sentence.
I can go on and on about the criminals that the dems get money from but I don't have enough space to write it..When will the Republicans get enough gumption to go after these criminal dems for their harassing of Bushes nominee..
Some responses from John Roberts to any question asked by chappaquiddick teddy...
You're sinking to new depths.
That's water under the bridge.
You're all wet.
You're dredging up the past.
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