Posted on 08/16/2005 7:41:01 PM PDT by nwrep
The Lady has met her match.
Lawyer turned columnist Ann Coulter, who wrote a book advising people on how to talk to liberals, is being upstaged in rhetorical audacity and pensmanship by another lawyer. Blessed with an IQ three standard deviations above Ann Coulter's, John Glover Roberts, Jr., President Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court , delivered such stinging rebuke to Reagan-era liberals that his words would bring satisfaction to the reddest of the red meat conservatives.
Some choice phrases and words he employed while composing reviews of Supreme Court decisions or memos for his bosses in the Justice department show a young Reaganite with the cocky certitude of George W. Bush and the explosive wit of Mark Steyn. For example, when three liberal Republican Congresswomen endorsed the controversial idea of equal pay for "comparable" worth, Roberts lashed out at them with the fury of Joe McCarthy face to face with the Rosenbergs: "Their slogan may as well be 'From each according to his ability, to each according to her gender."
When Rep. Elliott Levitas (D-Ga.) suggested convening a conference with President Reagan to discuss "the manner of power sharing and accountability within the federal government" in response to a Supreme Court ruling on the matter, Roberts issued a sarcastic and contemptous statement rebuffing this idea, stating "... there already has, of course, been a 'Conference' on Power Sharing. It took place in Philadelphia's Constitution Hall in 1787, and someone should tell Levitas about it and the 'report' it issued."
More recently, as a sitting Judge on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, he mocked the Endangered Species Act as it relates to Interstate commerce, using the example of a "hapless toad" to illustrate the absurdity of the liberal argument.
In his contemptful dissent in a case against a liberal majority that ruled that it was not reasonable to search the defendant's trunk, even though he was caught driving a car with stolen licenses plates and no registration, Roberts wrote "sometimes a car being driven by an unlicensed driver, with no registration and stolen tags, really does belong to the driver’s friend, and sometimes dogs do eat homework, but in neither case is it reasonable to insist on checking out the story before taking other appropriate action."
And that is the crux of the matter. John Glover Roberts is better at verbally decaptitating liberals than Ann Hart Coulter could hope to be. We ask that Ms. Coulter defer to her literary and intellectual superior.
I don't see why it was necessary to bash Ann Coulter, to praise Roberts.
I am glad you are open to being convinced. But you also need to be open to reality. Roberts' statements, which belittle and humiliate members of Congress are nothing BUT incendiary.
Now do you think people (Men) are even concerned with Ann's IQ?
Someone has to show her who's boss. Just kidding. I lover her as much as anyone else. But in this case, she is just plain wrong, and we need to call her for it.
Are you a Democrat? Because only they are still calling him unknown.
Uh-huh. Reality. Yours? Tad soggy for me, thanks!
Same here....
I like Ann but I agree ole' Annie Oakley was wrong on Judge John Roberts....he's the man...and will change the court to what the majority of Americans want.
Well the Patsy Brigade was going to hate who ever Bush picked.
Well the Patsy Brigade was going to hate who ever Bush picked.
Agree the judge is brilliant, but the writer makes it sound like Ann Coulter is equal to Janine (I don't have to spell her name right) Garafalo in intellect.
No, because they have been fighting him.
What do you believe the intent of stories about the Roemer pro bono work or Playboy were meant to do? Split the conservative base. It failed.
Ditto the lies The Senator from Oregon, Durbin and Feinstein have told to name only a few about conversations with Roberts that did NOT happen that were meant to weaken his support among the conservative base.
Ditto the talk that he wasn't as "conservative as they feared".
It's all been a front job to get us to take him down for them.
I still wouldn't count out a frontal assault as the hearings commenced. But in the meantime since they have failed to split the conservative base, they've retreated to the request for documentation they used to block Estrada.
Hey, do not get to worked up about it, reason I did it, was because some of the Freepers are pointing that to me all the time.
It must be that I do speak 7 Languages and sometimes in the heat of the moment the grammar/spelling doe's not jive.
So, I get smarmier and I do this.... just for the fun of it!
Does she not realize that if Bush nominates someone is a Roe bomb-thrower like that, he would not get confirmed? There would be not more than 45-47 votes for such a candidate.
No problem. Cheers. And it is great you know 7 languages.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
The man has yet to prove a thing to me. Sheite, talk about seven of nine, guess how many current SC justices were appointed by Republicans? It is in the end, incomprehensibly, a crap shoot when it comes to appointing judges.
How unfair and unjust that is.
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