Benching Bork How to end the war over judges.

National Review Online ^ | April 29, 2003 | Randy E. Barnett

[Enterprise]

I like your reasoning, and it appears you know a lot about Bork. Even so, I would like to see him appointed as a recess appointment. More than that, if the RATS want to keep obstructing the President, perhaps they would not like the prospect of recess appointments for the next five years (assuming Bush wins re-election). It would only take a couple of key cases being decided by recess appointments to have them running for their psychiatrists en masse.

[white trash redneck]

This would be FUN as long as WE occupy the White House - and TRAGIC once THEY eventually takeover the White House.

The problem is that just because the GOP doesn't do something is no guarantee that the RATs won't. In the past, it has been the RATs who have led every escalation - consider Judge Bork, and everything that has led from that.

Imagine some time from now, when there is a RAT president and Senate majority, and the GOP (if they only had the spine to do it!) decided to filibuster a left-wing extremist nominated by the president. Do you have any doubt that the RAT president wouldn't use a recess appointment?

I don't, so I don't think there is any reason for the GOP to deny itself a tactic that the RAT wouldn't hesitate to use.