Posted on 09/14/2005 1:52:57 PM PDT by hinterlander
Sen. Joe Biden probably does not realize it, but in his exchange with Judge John Roberts in today’s confirmation hearing, he echoed the basic complaint conservatives have made about the Supreme Court for decades: It has become a super-legislature where five unelected people can decide--virtually without accountability--the most profound issues of public policy.
Biden did this when he candidly likened Roberts to a senator running for office--then chastised Roberts for not answering questions about “issues” just as he would be made to do if he were a politician running for office.
“[I]t’s kind of interesting this Kabuki Dance that we have in these hearings,” said Biden. “As if the public does not have a right to know what you think [on] the fundamental issues facing the country. There is no more possibility that anyone of us here would be elected to the United States Senate without expressing broadly, and sometimes specifically, to our public, what it is we believe. The idea that the Founders sat there and they said: Now, look, here’s what we’re going to do. We are going to require the two elected branches to answer questions to the public with no presumption they should have the job of senator, president or congressman. But guess what? We are going to have a . . .
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I think Roberts should've told him that Supreme Court Justices are chosen based on their proven intellect, unlike Senators.
Naaah. He didn't need to say it, it was so obvious.
If you consider trite phrases and psuedo-intellecutal cliches "eloquent"
Hugh Hewitt called Clueless Joe Bden the Ted Baxter of the Senate!!
Hugh Hewitt calling him the Ted Baxter of the Senate was the funniest thing I've heard in ages.
It was a Neil Kinnock speech that slow Joe Biden plagarized.
OK, we still don't have the hair transplant details, but I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.
Just another poster-boy for term limits.
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