Posted on 09/21/2005 4:54:29 PM PDT by goldstategop
Perhaps President Bush has inadvertently nominated a true conservative to the court with this Roberts fellow. I remain skeptical based on the following facts:
Anita Hill has not stepped forward to accuse Roberts of sexual harassment.
The Democrats did not accuse Roberts of having a secret life as a racist.
We have no idea what kind of videos he rents.
Also, I'm still steamed that Bush has now dashed my dreams of an all-black Supreme Court composed of eight more Clarence Thomases. Incidentally, eight more Clarence Thomases is the only form of human cloning I would ever support.
As liberal Hendrik Hertzberg wrote in the New Yorker, Roberts was a scared choice. After Hurricane Katrina, Bush was even more scared. So when he had to pick a chief justice, he renominated the Rorschach blot.
For Christians, it's "What Would Jesus Do?" For Republicans, it's "What Would Reagan Do?" Bush doesn't have to be Reagan; he just has to consult his WWRD bracelet. If Bush had followed the WWRD guidelines, he would have nominated Antonin Scalia for the chief justiceship.
As proof, I refer you to the evidence. When Reagan had an opening for chief justice, he nominated Associate Justice William Rehnquist. While liberals were preoccupied staging die-ins against Rehnquist and accusing him of chasing black people away from the polls with a stick – something they did not accuse Roberts of – Reagan slipped Scalia onto the court.
That's what Reaganesque presidents with a five-vote margin in the Senate typically do. Apart from toppling the Soviet Empire, Scalia remains Reagan's greatest triumph.
Scalia deserved the chief justiceship. He's the best man for the job. He has suffered lo these many years with Justices Souter, Kennedy and O'Connor. He believes in a sedentary judiciary. He's for judicial passivism. Scalia also would have been the first cigar-smoking, hot-blooded Italian chief justice, which I note the diversity crowd never mentions.
But most important, if Bush had nominated Scalia, liberals would have responded with their usual understated screams of genocide, and Bush could have nominated absolutely anyone to fill Justice O'Connor's seat. He also could have cut taxes, invaded Syria, and bombed North Korea and Cuba just for laughs. He could even have done something totally nuts, like enforce the immigration laws.
Even if Roberts turns out to be another Rehnquist (too much to hope for another Scalia!), we don't know that, Bush doesn't know that, and Bush has blown a golden opportunity to make Chuck Schumer the public face of the Democratic Party. A few weeks of Schumer as their spokesman, and normal Democrats would be clamoring for Howard Dean to get back on the stick. Teddy Kennedy would start showing up at hearings actually holding a double scotch.
Inasmuch as Bush must still choose a replacement for O'Connor, it's important to remember the "Sandra Day O'Connor bylaw" to the WWRD guidelines: Never appoint anyone like Sandra Day O'Connor to any court at any level.
Reagan had made a campaign promise to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court. He didn't say anything about appointing a ninny. But back in 1981, it was slim pickings for experienced female judges. O'Connor was a terrible mistake and will forever mar Reagan's record, but at least he did it only once.
Bush has already fulfilled all his campaign promises to liberals – and then some! He said he'd be a "compassionate conservative," which liberals interpreted to mean that he would bend to their will, enact massive spending programs, and be nice to liberals. When Bush won the election, that sealed the deal. It meant the Democrats won.
Consequently, Bush has enacted massive new spending programs, obstinately refused to deal with illegal immigration, opposed all conservative Republicans in their primary races, and invited Teddy Kennedy over for movie night. He's even sent his own father to socialize with aging porn star Bill Clinton.
(Sidebar on the aging porn star: Idiot Republicans fraternizing with the Clintons has not harmed the decadent buffoon's reputation abroad. A Chinese condom manufacturer recently named one of its condoms the "Clinton," a fitting tribute to the man who had Monica Lewinsky perform oral sex on him in the Oval Office on Easter Sunday. Their advertising slogans are: "Always wear a 'Clinton' when you're getting a 'Lewinsky'!"; "I still believe in a place called the G-spot"; "Extra-thin skinned!"; "For when you really, really want to feel her pain." Note to Bush: This isn't Walter Mondale. How about sending Pops on the road with Joey Buttafuoco?)
According to my WWRD wristwatch, it's time for Bush to invade Grenada, bomb Libya, fire the air traffic controllers, and joke about launching a first strike against the Soviet Union. In lieu of that, how about nominating a conservative to O'Connor's seat on the court? It would be a bold gesture.
I live in nYC and I argued with more people and tried to convince more people to vote for Bush then you can know ( actually opened a few eyes) I came close to getting physically abused more than once in the City .. I was in the middle of the sharks at all times but I held my ground . I gave people articles to read and real news stories ..even quotes from here. I also helped with an aspect of the convention in NYC.
By the way , whats the purope of mentioning newbie .Is that supposed to question my conservative loyality or something ?..Cheap shot .I call it as I see it and I see Bush taking little action to counter the lies and slanders of the insane leftist Dems.
You dogs in the manger/cut of your nose to spite your face people need to rethink your positions.
I didn't say a 'perfect" conservative. One of those will never run for, nor get elected to, the presidency.
RR pushed through the congress serious tax cuts, and then made the tactical error of cutting a deal with the DIMs in a [smaller] tax increase. We still were better off than before both. But yes, it was wrong to go with the increase.
RR did what he could for pro-life. Based on the make up of congress for his terms and the way the majority of the electorate was leaning, I don't see that he could have concretely done any more. I think his public support of the movement has a lot to do with the size and [the perceived] legitimacy of pro lifers now. Incrementalism has to start somewhere.
Lebanon? Pathetic from the get go through to the end. Putting miltary personel out with unloaded weapons is nothing short of criminal. It was happening before that and is still going on [Bosnia]. No excuse.
He did not run up (was not at fault for) the deficit. Total myth. Liberal urban legend. That is subject for another discussion thread, but it's total crapolla.
Amnesty? Big mistake. But, in his defense, he was expecting the congress to follow up with better immigration controls. I believe that, had RR had eight years of a pubbie controlled congress, he would fare much better with a domestic agenda (to my liking) than GW has so far.
Yes, I agree. I also agerr that he's on the ropes lately and that bothers me . He lets too many Dems get away with too much crap. Much goes unanswered. His choice of bringing that scumbag Klinton into any position maked my blood boil.
And a Big "thanks guys" to the Chinese for being real. Now how about a "Kennedy" for underwater sex...
Ann Coulter while spewing forth vitrioulic retoric usually, which I do not agree with, she is right on this point, and Bush's deficit government spending on Katria puts the last point perfectly with the pen on the pad!
Most people who really supported President Bush are very proud of him, and still completely support him, even though we don't always agree with what he's done in every area.
I guess what you've said makes you kind of a fair weather friend. You have lots of company here, though. Lots of kicking when the President's down kinda stuff happening on FR these days. Lots of losing sight of the big picture because of small personal preferences and ideology.
And lots of DU trolls saying the exact same things as the 'purists' who are 'disappointed.' There's no way to tell when you signed up just a few weeks ago.
When you talk this much, you can't always be right. Missed this one by a mile.....
I sort of enjoyed the 'Clinton condom' report--
WTF?
We get screwed either way.
Why not just scap the status quo and try again?
It's been done before.
>>>> Anyway Scalia would've been fantastic...
Agreed.
Upon the death of the father, who is the Sr., his son, the Jr., drops the Jr, from his name.
A boy given the exact name as his paternal grandfather, has the Roman numeral "II" attached to his name. When the grandfather dies, the numeral remains.
When a son is given the exact name of his father and paternal grandfather, the Roman numeral "III" is attached to his name and so on and so on.
Reagan put O'Connor and Kennedy on Scotus. He gave a BLANKET AMNESTY TO EVERY ILLEGAL, he didn't trim government spending, he raised taxes after lowering them, he took away just about every single deduction but mortgages, gave jobs to old cronies, pulled out of Lebanon, did less than NOTHING about terrorists and terrorism, and never did a damned thing about abortion...and that's just for starters.
But I'll agree with you wholeheartedly...YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND NOR KNOW WHAT CONSERVATISM IS.
For the most part I am proud of him . I just feel that his 2nd term is not living up to what I expected. The party in general has been "lazy" in reposnding to adsurd charges against them . In my opinion many Republicans in power are not acting as if they ARE in power.God forbid the Dems ever get the upper hand they will mop the floor with us.
(Don't let history get in the way of your stinkin' ideology, Cautor......)
Upon the death of the father, who is the Sr., his son, the Jr., drops the Jr., from his name.
A boy given the exact name as his paternal grandfather, has the Roman numeral "II" attached to his name. When the grandfather dies, the numeral remains.
When a son is given the exact name of his father and paternal grandfather, the Roman numeral "III" is attached to his name and so on and so on.
Reagan put O'Connor and Kennedy on SCOTUS. He gave a BLANKET AMNESTY TO EVERY ILLEGAL, he didn't trim government spending, he raised taxes after lowering them, he took away just about every single deduction but mortgages, gave jobs to old cronies, pulled out of Lebanon, did less than NOTHING about terrorists and terrorism, and never did a damned thing about abortion...and that's just for starters.
But I'll agree with you wholeheartedly...YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND NOR KNOW WHAT CONSERVATISM IS.
"Lots of DU trolls around here, telling us that they supported President Bush, but now they're 'disappointed' in him......just like you did."
I wouldn't get myself too lathered up over what you think are DU trolls. There aren't many of them. I've been posting on FR since 1999. I have voted a straight Republican ticket in every national, state, and local election since 1980. I voted for Dubya twice. I was involved with the fund-raising effort on FR way back when they raised thousands of dollars to put a full-page FR ad in the Washington Times about the Clinton impeachment. I still recall posters like Cinderella and Boston and many others who were also involved in that effort. So I'm not a DU troll. If I don't think Jr. has made the most of his years in office, I'm entitled to my opinion without being labeled a troll. And besides Bush accepted blame for Katrina, so I know he won't mind my taking him to task.
These purists are nothing but a joke. They're no more intellectually honest than the left is.
Fortunately, there aren't very many of them. President Bush has maintained support of nearly 90% of his base since he was elected.
These malcontents were never part of his support from the beginning.
"GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH is the father of HEORFE WALKER BUSH. In order for a boy/man to have the Jr. applied to the end of his name, his entire name MUST be exactly the same as his father's name; as is the case of algore."
My, what a revelation. You're an absolute fount of familial expertise. Regardless, he's now become "Jr." to me--after all, he's just a chip off his old daddy's New England prep school block.
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