[Iconoclast2]

What's scary is that if she is right, Bush has wasted a Supreme Court appointment on someone who will not work to change the disaster that is Supreme Court jurisprudence.

[redgolum]

What's scary is that if she is right, Bush has wasted a Supreme Court appointment on someone who will not work to change the disaster that is Supreme Court jurisprudence.

Great point.

[70times7]

What's scary is that if she is right, Bush has wasted a Supreme Court appointment on someone who will not work to change the disaster that is Supreme Court jurisprudence.

Ahh, but the key difference is that as the justice in lower court rulings he is bound by the decisions handed down by superior courts. In this case he will be basing his decisions upon the constitution, rather than decided law; he will be the one defining the law. In listening to his answers under these senate hearings my confidence in the gentleman has increased. All I want is someone who intrepets the constitution. What the liberals are afraid of is that he will do just that, rather than rewriting the "living" document to mean whatever they want.

BTW, I wonder how far could I get if I claimed the tax codes were "living" documents?

[Carry_Okie]

What's scary is that if she is right, Bush has wasted a Supreme Court appointment on someone who will not work to change the disaster that is Supreme Court jurisprudence.

What's scary is that we're 12 posts into the thread and you're the first to notice that.

[Natural Law]

You are obviously not a conservative. Conservatives do not want activist judges and justices pushing any agenda or theology right or left. Conservatives are constitutionalists who believe that the constitution already gives us all of the tools needed to rectify the current situation or amend the constitution.

[Malesherbes]

I worry about the same thing. I just hope that the nasty treatment Alito got from the Dims will tick him off enough that he does a little payback on the Supreme Court. In any case, on the Supreme Court, he will have a chance to make new rules, not just follow those made up by the erstwhile 5 to 4 liberal majorities.