Mark Steyn: Has Bush blown it?

The Spectator (U.K.) ^ | 10/08/05 | Mark Steyn

[Mo1]

later read

[Pokey78]

Steyn ping!

[GOPJ]

... the stuff the Left likes is hard to get elected on — gay marriage, racial quotas, partial-birth infanticide — and the courts play a critical role in advancing a ‘progressive’ agenda with minimal appeal to voters

Great stuff!

[rdb3]

Has he blown it? Perhaps, but it's far too early to tell, Mr. Steyn.

If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.
They're going fast!

[Puppage]

and the courts play a critical role in advancing a ‘progressive’ agenda with minimal appeal to voters under the guise of constitutional ‘fairness’

When issues are brought before the SC it is instantly taken out of the hands of We The People.

Why not let The People vote on abortion? WHY? Because the issue was brought before, and ruled by the SC. That's why.

Leaving all of us without a voice.

[Sometimes A River]

Here we go again...Bush defending the reliigon of Islam on the radio.

And, I didn't know Mark Steyn was a closet Communist! You outed yourself Mark!

[kellynla]

BTTT

[linkinpunk]

may cause problems in 2006

Bush and Rove know there is an abortion case that will be decided before the mid term elections.

I don't they they are dumb enough to appoint a pro-abort that would show her colors within months of getting her job.

[frankjr]

"My old comrade David Frum, who worked with her in the White House, is devastated by Bush’s pick, calling her a ‘lovely person’ but a ‘taut, nervous, anxious personality’ who’ll be a pushover for the leftie gang on the court."

If someone is a "pushover", and she is confronted by two gangs, one headed by Ginsberg/Stevens and the other headed by Scalia/Thomas, which gang wins? Which gang would you want on your side? I'm giving Scalia/Thomas all of my lunch money...and the lunch money I just stole from Ginsberg and Stevens.

[Dane]

The only things that has blown are the heads of the snobs who ihabit the right wing DC bubble, and I think that's a good thing.

[theFIRMbss]

>Well, we can dream, can’t we?

Dream?! Dream about what?
Changing our Republic to
a coalition

arrangement the way
countries work in, say, Europe?
Then all decisions

will need approval
from all two-bit "power blocs"
that can agitate

the pop emotions.
Instead of nightmares like that,
just let Bush govern!

[shield]

Miers is a Souter....EXCEPT SHE'LL BE HARD RIGHT...LOL

[hobbes1]

Steyn Ping

[JulieRNR21]

For what it’s worth, my sense is that Harriet Miers will be, case by case, a more reliable vote against leftist judicial activism than her mercurial predecessor, Sandra Day O’Connor. Why do I say this? Well, she’s a strong supporter of the right to bear arms. The great Second Amendment expert Dave Kopel says you have to go back to Louis Brandeis 90 years ago to find a Supreme Court justice whose pre-nomination writings extol gun rights as fulsomely as Miss Miers. According to an old boyfriend, Judge Nathan Hecht of the Texas Supreme Court, she packs heat — a Smith & Wesson .45 — which I can say with certainty the other lady justice, the far-left Ruth Bader Ginsberg, never has. She is also very opposed to abortion, and a generous contributor to pro-life groups.

My thoughts exactly!

And then there's this blogger who sums up what I believe is the strategy behind the Miers nomination:

http://mysandmen.blogspot.com/2005/10/applying-principles-of-war-to-harriet.html

[Huck]

it’s a remarkable achievement to get damned day in day out as the new Hitler when 90 per cent of the time you’re Tony Blair with a ranch. The President is a religio-cultural conservative who believes in big government and big spending and paternalistic federal intervention in areas where few conservatives have ever previously thought it wise.

Very good piece.

[TomGuy]

Has he blown it? Perhaps, but it's far too early to tell, Mr. Steyn.

Granted.

But the apprehension is:
When we are able to tell, it will be too late. For the Supreme Court, there are no 'do overs'.

[Mamzelle]

re: Of course, conservatives have been mad about a lot of Bush policies for a long time — education, immigration — but, in fairness to him, he campaigned as a massive federaliser of the school system and as a big nancy-boy pushover for illegal Mexicans. So we can’t complain we were misled.)))

Maybe someday I'll understand WHY he wants to be a nancy-boy for Vicente's special benefit...

[alwaysconservative]

Steyn notes that the Democrats are "el stinko floppo" without xxx42, and have lost 3 elections since he "left" office. . .

I simply adore Steyn (all the time, but with gems like this, even more so)!

[ex-snook]

PRESIDENT PLAYS TEXAS POKER

President Bush has gone all-in with an unsuited Queen but will anyone call him?