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.
LOL! (Meanwhile, I've been enjoying your heated exchange with ohioWfan.)
Well said, hoboken109. Some 'Oldies' around here do not want discussion but complete, unquestioning agreement with their views and opinions about the facts. (That's all they are---OPINIONS ABOUT the facts---it seems that when an Oldie cites FACTS you MUST agree with their interpretation or they'll use their little 'in crowd' connections to get you booted out of here.)
Here's a FACT for some FR Oldies: Our country was founded by rebellious-spirited men and women who didn't believe in 'whatever the King says, goes'.
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Worse than that, questioning the intellectual capabilities of sean hannity now gets you labelled a treasonous assassin. Lock-step is all the craze these days.
So you say. Obviously you never check your facts. And other than sign a bill Congress finally passed (something Reagan never had the chance to do) remind me of what Bush has done besides jawbone.
"That has not been proven... "
That shows you're clueless.
Thank you for your LOL! I get a laugh out of that too. I have been one of Bush's strongest supporters, but it seems this term has become one disaster after another. When he decided to make an apology over the Federal Katrina response, I said enough is enough. The problems in LA were all to do with incompetence by Nagin and Blanco. The Federal response was probably one of the best ever, yet Bush let the MSM get away with pinning a bum rap on him. He needs to get his administration back under control.
My goodness, that's all he's nominated to the judiciary, including the SC, so far.
I didn't say I was a child *in* the 60s, I said child *of* the 60s. I did my diaper filling over a decade earlier. And according to my mother, I did it very well. /nod & a wink
I admit that sometimes I forget FR is not solely populated by 20 & 30 somethings.
This is PERFECT advice to a lot of FReepers who are NOT young as well. Thanks.
A touch of reality for a boy who doesn't know that Ohio is in a different time zone than the west coast.....
(Now I understand, though......you must have had a few too many 'cold ones.' ;)
I'm a very conservative Republican, hoser........and depending on your age, was accutely aware of my conservatism before you could say the word.
President Bush is less conservative than I, but he is still a conservative, and to say he's not a Republican is just silly.
LOL! I never smile at another's despair.......I mean another FReeper that is.
I must confess to a little Schadenfreude at the angst of the left, the diminishment of their power, and their writhing in grief and screams of desperation..........much of which, not incidentally, is due to their hatred for our good, conservative President who is destroying what was left of their power.
(I think that means that we are all bad people inside, and that only through the grace of God can we be otherwise....)
It's not like Ms. Coutlter has a great body or anything, I just like her mind (well, her body aint bad either).
She's good looking enough, but I like her mind and her writing the most.
Go back and reread what I posted. I didn't say we shouldn't help fight AIDS in Africa. When PresBush signed off on the $15-billion Africa AIDS package, he "partly abandoned the Mexico City policy". That policy prohibited US aid being given to international family planning organizations that provided abortion counseling and access to abortions. Good politics, bad policy. Frankly, I don't agree with throwing money at problems, domestic or foreign.
I thought you were a kid because you were acting like one. (And I could tell in two posts that hoboken was sincere because he IS).
Finding out that you're 50 makes me respect your behavior even less.
I figured from your posts that you were about 19......21 tops. And it's true that my own kids were far more mature at 13 than you. And when I found out that you're fifty.......wow! Really sad......
(Of course, you still could be lying about everything.....who knows?).
Oh, that's funny! But you're right, it says "Welcome Back ohioWfan!"........so it would say "Welcome Back Cautor!"
I watched the show off and on, but I can't remember the guy's name. It was Gabe something. I can see his face and hear his voice in my head, but can't remember his name. Such is the aging process.........
See now.......that's where she's wrong. She should know by now that President Bush doesn't do things to get 'brownie points.' And she knows that he's been very conservative in the judiciary.
He'll do what's right. Wait and see.
This article is a rare weak moment for Ann. But she talks alot. She'll recover from this loser......
Worse than that, questioning the intellectual capabilities of sean hannity now gets you labelled a treasonous assassin. Lock-step is all the craze these days.
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