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.
Ping
If she hadn't dumped it all to be a pundit, she probably would have been a judge by now or at least handling cases in front of the SCOTUS.
LOL!!
NICE!!
BUMP!!
I wasn't aware that Joe McCarthy went face to face with the Rosenbergs.
Ping
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."
CLASSIC! He's not as beautiful as Ann Coulter though!
Rules. ...
I'm liking Judge Roberts better and better, but still want to hear from Ann. They'd make a great double-barrelled shotgun against the libs.
OK, who's gonna be the first to invoke "the rule"?
But Roberts isn't a pundit, so I don't really know why Coulter needs to "step aside". In his new position he's going to be a judge, after all, not the minister of anti-liberalism. And unlike Ann he will be deciding what's constitutional and what's not, so his rigorous thinking won't be as "reader friendly," though I dare suggest it will be superior to Ann's.
Not bad. Not bad at all....still no match for Ann though.
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."
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."
After Roberts is confirmed the Right will continue to be Right.
I too like the way he mocks the liberals in his opinions, reminds me a little of the way Scalia hammers Justice Breyer about his citing foreign law in his opinions :-), The more I read about Roberts, the more I like him
LOL! Cool. She looks bloated in that pic, And on Ann, bloated looks good. :-)
Nothing written above about Roberts rises to the level of Ann Coulter's rhetorical ability.
Roberts might well be able to run verbal rings around Ann, but this author did not pull out examples that give much confidence that that is the case.
He didn't. It's called an analogy.
Yep, she graduated cum laude from Cornel, JD from Michigan.
Founded a federalist society chapter, was editor of the law review, and from her Town Hall bio.
"Coulter clerked for the Honorable Pasco Bowman II of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and was an attorney in the Department of Justice Honors Program for outstanding law school graduates.
After practicing law in private practice in New York City, Coulter worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she handled crime and immigration issues for Senator Spencer Abraham of Michigan. From there, she became a litigator with the Center For Individual Rights in Washington, D.C., a public interest law firm dedicated to the defense of individual rights with particular emphasis on freedom of speech, civil rights, and the free exercise of religion."
Her bio is impressive.....and consider that she basically chucked it all to become a pundit and writer.
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