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.
Pardon me, but a Republican should not have to "reach out" to Conservatives.
We got him elected, after all.
Awhoe lot of "perfect conservatives" think the president hasn't reached out to them. Read FR for a few days, and you will see it.
If memory serves us correctly he also gave us Kennedy didn't he. That should answer her question.
I think Scalia's age may have entered into Bush`s final decision. Scalia was a little too old. The choice was Roberts for 25-30 years, or Scalia for 10-15 years. A no brainer. Personally, if not Scalia, then surely, Justice Thomas.
>>>>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.
LMBO!!!
Yeah, I seem to remember some president in the 80's had written the 11th commandment, "thou shall not criticize another republican". Who was that, oh yeah it was President Reagan. Reagan was a great man and a great president, but don't forget he gave us O'Connor, Amnesty, pulled the Marines out of Beirut, signed a tax increase in 1986, and so on. Reagan was criticized by many of the so-called pure conservatives of the time, but those conservatives seem to have forgotten those differences.
Dubya ain't perfect, but he's pretty darn good.
Got that right. Lets hope he nominates another O'Conner. Yeah that was a great appointment there! Yep, the chick who says racism will go away in 25 years! Real brilliant appointment from the Gipper!
I see your point. I'm actually glad, that unlike liberals, the conservative movement has every shade of conservative under the sun! Criticism is OK by me, as long as it is tempered by the acknowledgement of the great things this President has done. I like Ann Coulter, but think she's just silly 25% of the time.
So Republicans aren't allowed to criticize an elected official? The Founding Fathers are turning over in their graves at such a suggestion. Read on.
Let's start with the phrase, 11th commandment. It came during the 1966 Governor's race in California. That was a slogan Reagan didn't create.
"The personal attacks against me during the primary finally became so heavy that the state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican. It's a rule I followed during that campaign and have ever since.
Now, I'm not Ronald Reagan and neither are you. I believe Reagan was speaking for himself when he made those remarks. He didn't mean, you and me.
Btw. Have you forgotten? Candidate Reagan had some harsh criticisms for PresFord during the GOP primaries in 1976.
Everyone was saying that in his second term Bush would have the luxury of being himself and no longer need to compromise with the rats for political purposes but Bush has become more of a big government liberal after the election and when the "real Bush" was supposed to appear and after he was given a majority in the senate and house.
You can't expect this development not to demoralize principled conservatives. Any glimmer of conservatism that we see out of Washington will be the result of conservatives putting pressure on the Republicans, not by smiling and head nodding.
Seems to me that Bush is doing BETTER than Reagan in the Judicial department.....
What's the evidence again??
O' Connor and Roberts??
I sure would like to live long enough to see Ann Coulter become an old woman who blurts out anything on her mind, unedited and unrepressed.
Deserves to be repeated........only bigger. :)
Complete hypocrisy.
Reagan gave us O'Connor, so thank GOD, that President Bush isn't being Reaganesque, with choosing Roberts first to replace her and now to fill Justice Rehnquist's position; for whom he clerked.
Soooooo, Ann wants an ITALIAN CJ? Has she never gotten over Guchionne (sp.?); perhaps?
Not all of us, but most. Thanks for posting that! Many people here need to be whacked over the head with the facts, every now and again.
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