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.
The United States is not, nor has it been, an "empire." I reject that nonsensical propaganda out of hand.
Somewhere here the other day though someone had a good point: Wholesale "voucheriziation" of the school system would be a good start. Hoepefully, people would select schools heavy in education and light in indoctrination.
Now you're talking!
If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.
They're going fast!
Not only did I read the posts, I copied some of yours as you were harping on "Friday night...Friday night...Sunday was too late...Friday night".
Just thought I'd offer a fact you clearly were not aware of.
You ought to thank me for the point of information.
You're welcome.
We also know that she has become extremely rude and crude and ever so slightly threatening. (reference the meeting ohioWfan in person)
I agree with the rude and crude, but when the threat is against me personally, it's hard to chalk it up as merely a lack of decorum. I take the "come up and see how we deal with nuts like you. I'll buy you a ticket" comment quite seriously.
I tried to start over with this person earlier on the thread, considering previous exchanges as a misunderstanding, and at that point, she elevated the insults to the point of a threat.
If she is indeed innocent, she has made an ignominious impression in her first days at FR.
Yeah, that's what I meant to say. We SHALL see. LOL (Guess I wouldn't have made such a good English teacher after all.)
"Perhaps you don't understand the meaning of "imply"."
I went back an re-read the entire article, and I still don't see the implication that Reagan gave us Thomas. Why don't you point it out for me?
I'd have been worse.
;-)
My typos are legendary..
Who do you people think you are? School yard bullies? The elite clique in the school set? Only you know best? Ohiowfan knows why I used U...ect. ect. ect......
You do not speak for the whole world, let alone other people who have other veiws, if being morally superior is your life...I pity you folks.
I don't appreciate being threatened, it works both ways, you do not even know me at all.but you sure gang up all at once, something to be proud of as so called adults?
I will not even waste any more time with you self absorbed appointed know it alls.....
Just for the record, the abbreviation for etcetera (et-cet-er-a) is etc., not ect. Now go, and teach others what you've learned today.
Calling me "sweetheart" is odd and says much about where you're coming from.
He declared a state of emergency in Louisiana on Saturday.
Funny, that's how you come off. Project much?
"Who do you people think you are? School yard bullies? "
Who do you think you are?
You came into this forum, and you started with this attitude, people responded to your attitude, and now you want to play the victim?
Sorry, that doesn't cut it around here.
"The elite clique in the school set? Only you know best? "
I find that usually when a new poster resorts to this kind of line, they usually are trolls.
I have yet to run across someone who has said these lines and not been a troll.
"I don't appreciate being threatened, it ".. funny, you made a threat in post 430, and now you want to claim that YOU were threatened?
Don't insult us.
"I will not even waste any more time with you self absorbed appointed know it alls....."
Fine, don't let the door hit you in the backside.
She praises Reagan, rhapsodizes about Thomas, omits mention of Bush 41.
She also makes several factual errors including the one about O'Connor being Reagan's only mistake.
You were here from the beginning this morning too. You read the posts and I told Ohio I was a gal, so don't act naive about it...you seem to enjoy the gang mentality too..sad bunch of people...carry on....
I am going back to discussing issues with real people who have real ideas and opinions about politics...enough already.
You showed up, behaved rather poorly, your post 196 shows this.
"Posted by whizeup to hoboken109
On News/Activism 09/22/2005 12:05:07 AM EDT · 196 of 478
Listen, nonpardons and Ohio are people who really need to loosen up and join the rest of the world in reality..it will do you no good to try and be civil, nor have civil discourse with them. "
When told how your behavior was contrary to forum etiquette, you decided to attack and threaten as per your post 430.
THEN you went on to try to claim to be a victim.
As per post 488.
"I am going back to discussing issues with real people who have real ideas and opinions about politics...enough already."
So, you're upset that your behavior won't be tolerated and approved of, so you'll go elsewhere instead of changing your behavior or learning what the forum rules are?
get a life.
When he declared the state of emergency was NOT my main point. It was when he urged the citizens of NO to evacuate. That was NOT until Sunday.
never said I was going elsewhere mindreader.....
Wow, and you're whining about how you're being treated?
This morning, Neal Boortz came up with the best idea I've heard in a very long time...
He said that the dems are afraid of a "real" conservative being nominated to the SCOTUS... He suggested the best way to really send the barking moonbats over the edge would be to nominate Ann Coulter to the SCOTUS! After all, didn't Ruth "Buzzy" Ginsberg say that President Bush can't nominate "just any woman."
Mark
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