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.
Bush has been much more out front and in the public eye this time round, PUBLICLY urging people to evacuate, which is something he didn't do in Louisiana where he PRIVATELY urged Blanco to order a mandatory evacuation the Friday before the hurricane hit.
Blame you for what? You're the one who mucked away your own vote by voting for a loser without a face.
Deficit spending is virtually the same thing as raising taxes. The money has to be borrowed and then paid back with interest.
It would be one thing if the deficit spending were all due to military spending but that is not the case. Entitlement spending is the main culprit and we have Bush to thank for that.
Nice try, but that's not true. Interest has been an expense item on the federal budget for 30 years.
Ann is on my "Dream Team" fantasy SCOTUS. But, she needs to chill.
I agree that the spending needs to be curbed and the illegal immigration needs to be stopped.
The spending programs to repair NO may be moot after Rita finishes with the Gulf Coast. But,
All of the programs the President detailed last week carried responsiblities for the recipients. And many sounded as though the money wouldn't come from gov't coffers in the first place.
Now, if the President would only let Ann and me in on his planning and speech writing sessions, we'd clean this mess up right away.
Thank-You! Could not of ever put it in the words you did, plus I did not pay much attention to politics then, should of but do now and have been ever since the first time I saw Clintons Face and speak and the first phony debate Clinton had with Jerry Brown ect. I haven't quit since!
"We are finally in a place to make real and lasting change by putting good men on the SCOTUS. The results will endure for generations. This is an exciting time to be a Republican."
I could not agree more. I have my eye on the prize.
That is wishful thinking. But even if it is true, if the moderates vote like democrats, what have you really won?
Frankly, I agree that for the segment of the party who values overturning Roe V Wade or opposition to gay marriage as the most important issue, this probably is an exciting time.
For those however, that see property rights, securing the border fighting back socialism and reigning in the size and scope of the government as important issue, it is a very scary and depressing time. In Georgia, the GOP was able to get an amendment on the ballot to ban gay marriage in record time. However, after the eminent domain decision there the GOP leadership assured the public that there was no need for an amendment protecting property rights as the government would never abuse its power.
At this rate, the GOP will soon be a religious and morality party only.
Huh? If you deficit spend, you have to borrow MORE money which means that you have to pay back MORE interest. Do you think that deficit spending never has to be paid back?
They won't. Stop worrying. Democrats in their current form, are so far out of the mainstream, it's not even debateable which direction the moderates are headed.
Where have you been? Earth to Adams...Bush most certainly made a PUBLIC PLEA for all people to evacuate in La. on the telly over the week-end, I think everyone saw it and heard it repeated....
Huh? The current GOP mainstream senators ALREADY vote like democrats. While the democrats may be moving more and more to the left, so is the GOP.
Look at any spending bill that has passed through the senate in the last 5 years and see if you could tell if was from a conservative senate or a democratically controlled one.
Bush's public relations during the Katrina ordeal were not very good. His gaffes allowed the democrats to pin all of their mistakes on FEMA and Bush.
I thinks that is fair also, but why should Dubya VETO legislation passed by a Republican controled Congress?
Amnesty was certainly a mistake but he did not encourage illegal immigration as Bush has done.
You are going to have to refresh my memory. Did Dubya say "Hey You! Illegal immigrant...(looks side to side - curls index finger) Come over here," and I missed it?
In the post 9/11 world, securing the southern border should be a security priority, not a vote buying strategy.
It could be that Dubya is recklessly endangering all our lives for votes that he can't recieve, or it could be all that "compassionate conservative" stuff was fer real. Maybe Dubya thinks immigrants are compelled to come to America so they can work and feed their families. He may even see them as children of God, with meaning and purpose. That is certainly what Reagan thought. I think President Bush is capable of leading America while still holding concerns about forms of unnecessary social misery around the world.
I agree we need to do something about the borders. I live in CA and we did vote for Prop 187. It was overturned by the courts and now we have water stations set up for illegals. I expect to see a MacDonald's in the middle of the desert soon.
The police in CA have not been able to call INS to pick up illegals unless they commit a crime (other than being illegal)since the mid 80's The power is in the courts. I am hopeful that the changes in the SCOTUS will solve some of these long overdue problems.
He said that illegal immigrants were only here to do jobs that Americans won't do. He has continuously encouraged illegal immigration.
Bush even called the Minutemen volunteers "vigilantes" and very much denounced their efforts.
I agree, I watched the Senate vote on an amendment to the Ag.Bill and it was an amendment by Binghaman N.M. for I think it was a 10 million increase on nutritional education info or some such nonsense, I thought for sure it would be defeated...WRONG!! Here you have them all doing sound bites on telly about finding ways to cut back because of Katrina, they know Rita is coming and they do this? I could not believe it...they may have did there usual I'll vote for your's if u vote for mine but this was ridiculous. I do watch the votes when i can and try and keep informed on what they are doing to us before it goes to conference...which is another story, good and bad depending on the outcome...never ends
One last point...I am not opposed to the guest worker program that President Bush suggested.
Look at where the spending is going to. Actually when you really look at it, it's the Democrats who've wasted government spending for the last 60 years, by doing nothing. They're angry now that Bush has taken it on a different course and actually changing the landscape.
If the congress passes offensive legislation (and they have) then Bush should veto it no matter which party is in charge.
The fact of the matter though, is that the republican controlled congress (thanks to the senate) is passing exactly the bills that Bush wants them to. That is why he is not vetoing any of them.
Everyone complains about RINO's in the senate, but Bush is the main RINO in our government.
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