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.
One recent example that I think backs up the lack of understanding of how the government functions was the piling on and echoing the leftist lies that the President was 'slow' in responding to Katrina, without any understanding that he had no legal right to respond before the local and state governments did.
I was encouraged to hear the woman interviewed on ABC who (to their chagrin) understood that the President was at not at fault, but that the local and state authorities were.
I am also frequently appalled that the hard right here on FR aligns themselves with the left on so many issues to oppose the President.
And it doesn't seem to bother them a bit. I know that politics make strange bedfellows, but why doesn't it bother these 'purists' that they are sleeping with the enemy?
FR is educational in more ways than one....
So that whole thing in the Presidential oath about "upholding the Constitution" means what exactly? What is the criteria for a veto supposed to be?
I could mention the Prescription Drug Plan and all the Campaign Contributions made by the Drug Companies, and their opposition to letting people buy Reimported Medications. That's just one example of Taxpayer Money being funneled into well connected Private Companies, rather than allowing a Free Market Solution.
I could post more examples of such funneling by those in power, however since such examples seem to upset so many when it comes to those in their own Party, I'll just drop it.
"So, in order to appeal to more voters, they go left"
Sound to me like your party really has a problem then.
Many Strong Republics have become Weak Empires by Over Extending themselves and running out of Money.
History has lessons to teach for those willing to learn.
Our Founders understood these things, and warned of such dangers. Were they weak?
Stop right there. No need in reading any further. The United States is not nor has it ever been an "empire." One thing you far-right fringers have in common with the looney left is that you believe your own propaganda.
No thank you. It doesn't work.
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They're going fast!
I almost forgot to answer your question.
No, they are not "weak." They are dead.
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They're going fast!
SO True.. I voted for them both many times.. You pretty much said it all.. Voteing for Bush makes you a MORON.. and they wipe themselve with your vote.. You do see things quite clearly..
No............ the only MORON is YOU .
"You do see things quite clearly"
What I see QUITE clearly is what a IMPOSTOR you are
Securing the borders is NOT in the Constitution and is omitted therein, from the description of presidential duties.
From Article IV, Section 4 of the United State Constitution...
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion
You tell em` Jeff!
The left gets away with such ignorant accusations because much of the American public is...........well, stupid.
But you can't get away with that kind of trash around here. Freepers are educated........they know history, and are familiar with facts.
And you are clearly not.
I'd have to see a sworn affidavit signed in blood to believe that hosepipe voted for President Bush......ever.
You see right thru me eh!.. LoL..
You havn't even scratched the surface yet..
You don't even know what a Republican is, and yet you claim to be one. I don't believe it.
And you have yet to support your claim that President Bush is more liberal than Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, or Dwight Eisenhower. Of course, it's obvious why you haven't done so.....
It's not true.
I knew it you are a BUSHBat.. and a devotee of Count Von Bushula.. the bleeder of the public treasury.. cross dressed as a republican..
Hose, You speak like a fool. More proof that you NEVER voted for President Bush, You sound just like those fools at the Democratic Underground and that big hunk of slime Michael Moore
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeees, that's right, every single politician, who has ever lived, manipulates EVERY SINGLE THING, as payola, for his cronies, and of course, he/she personally knows every single CEO/"fat cat" in the world. hehehehehehehehehehehehe
It's all a conspiracy, the president, from Washington on down has been out to get you and yours and keep you down and poor. :-)
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