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.
More revisionist BS.
You said: "Reagan didn't actually do anything for the pro-life movement. Bush has, in spades."
I know Bush has made many moves that have supported the pro-life movement. My post was made because you said Reagan did nothing. Which is not true at all. Liar.
I'm not defensive. I'm not defensive. Really, I'm not defensive.
LOL! Good night, Cautor............or is that welcome back?
Another great masterpiece from one of our era's greatest columnists.
BUMP!!!
My main beef with President Bush is a seemingly inability to connect with the American people on the emotional level that would be so politically helpful in these times using his bully pulpit he just doesn't inspire and get our side fired up.
He never fires at the Dem's with both barrel's.
Take Krauthammers column today in the NYT what he said would make me livid and I would attack him and challenge that puke to an on camera duel.
You seem very testy when I mention anything other than O'Connor. If GWB want's to appoint more conservative members to the federal judiciary (or do you just mean the SCOTUS), he will have to get his confirmation rate up, and quickly. Your explanation of what you mean by [stinkin' ideology] is very grandiloquent. I'm impressed.
I worked very hard to elect and reelect President Reagan and President Bush. My memory is just fine ( far better than most people's, actually ) and I will never stand by and allow erroneous drivel to be posted here, without factual refutation.
And while you're whining to Cautor, make sure to tell him the things you said to me, sweetie.
Fair and balanced, right?
oh..........btw, did you learn your geography lesson yet about Time Zones, or are you going to make fun of me about that again, and make a fool of yourself?
Just for the record, 'stinkin' is the worst language I ever use. ;)
In 1984, through executive order Reagan created the "Mexico City policy". It prohibited US aid being given to international family planning organizations that provided abortion counseling and access to abortions. Clinton recinded it. Bush43 reinstated it. In 2003 Bush43 partly abandoned the Mexico City policy with his $15-billion AIDS package to Africa. Wrong decision by Bush.
>>>>No response, I see, to any of the other objections.
If you have something you want to debate me on, speak up.
Ya but at some point some of the real slanders have to be met with the truth or else the public will start to believe the crap they hear about him on the MSM. I dont mean he should be petty , but there were chances when he could have blown the Left out of the water with FACTS and chose not to.
(I'd like to see him slap that witch myself though )
My thought is that Roberts is W's Sandra O'Conner.
Whilst it's great that you fight the Conservative fight in N.Y.C., many of us did that long ago and FREEPED, alone, long before there was such a word and FR. And we didn't lose faith nor hope nor get all that depressed. :-)
Perfectly stated.
George Bush is an honest man of strong faith and he has the most difficult job in the world.
Pleasing everybody on every issue simply ain't in the job description. I trust the man. Period.
"or is that welcome back?"
Every time I sign in on FR, the message comes up: Welcome back Cautor. Always makes me thing of the old TV show which I never once watched. BTW, who was that guy who starred in the role? Gabe something or the other?
She's hoping that he'll make up some needed brownie points by nominating another Scalia.
Okay, with that...you will NEVER "get a break" from mes, as long as you last on FR, which I'm betting won't be all that long; kid.
He never fires at the Dem's with both barrel's.
Well said .That's pretty much been my only point here tonight . We won and we dont act like we hold all the cards as we do .
Yes. :-)
I'm not really concerned about what you think .
Geez what a nasty guy .
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