Posted on 11/06/2006 8:37:23 AM PST by ConservativeGadfly
I will guarantee to all here ever since GW was elected that there will never be a true conservative SC when he leaves. This is too vital to the elites that run this country & own the CONgress. Conservatism isn't in their interest.
"She was just tying her tennis shoes."
Huh?!?
I hope that a big win for us tomorrow renders these cut-and-run "conservatives" irrelevant in the future.
Yeah, I saw that post. I wouldn't trust it. Nor do I trust these rumors. As much as I like the idea of Stevens stepping down, I don't see it happening. I'd be willing to bet he stays until he dies and he hasn't looked particularly ill to me.
Dude, is that necessary? I'm not a fan of Stevens either but I'm not going to wish damnation on him.
Stevens also served in WWII as a Navy code breaker.
There was a picture of her with her head down during a hearing. It was attributed to her being very tired because of medical treatments.
I said it was because she is "Ruth Buzzy" and was just tying her tennis shoes.
(Jokes lose their effect if you have to explain them.)
Gees that sounds something like Pancreatic cancer or leukemia. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
If it turns out to be Justice Steven's though I have to admit that I always thought he'd retire feet first from the bench. I also felt he thought his duty was to be an activist on the bench under the cloak of "Supremacy".
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it seemed more of an observation rather than a judgement.. to me anyway.. thats about how it looks to me too
His military service is admirable. But it has nothing to do with his eternal soul, does it?
Steven's biography says his religious affiliation is Protestant. I have read his opinions (disastrous as they are) on homosexuality and abortion. If those opinions reflect his actual core being (and I believe they do), he has absolutely no relationship with Christ.
Jesus said He was the truth, the life, and the way, and that no one went to the Father except through Him.
Stevens doesn't have much time.
This is the biggest unspoken reason to maintain GOP Congress majorities. Stevens will not make it two more years and we HAVE to have a Scalia/Thomas/Roberts/Alito type responsible conservative constructionist Judge to replace Roberts, not another radical activist liberal Justice who thinks the Constitution is written in pencil, not in stone.
First of all,let me wish Justice Stevens good health.
But it's still time for him to go.
I'd lvoe to see an "in your face" kind of nomination liek Roy Moore, but he'd never get confirmed. The President ought to pick Janice Rogers Brown or Miguel Estrada. Let's see the Dimmycraps do tehir stuff on the first African American woman to be nominated or the first Hispanic.
Yes I've been following that also. Her health is not good. It's quite possible that Bush will be nominating TWO Judges for Supreme Court, and we know what kind of Judges he'll put up. Six years and not a single lib or stealth moderate gutless wonder like Kennedy or O'Conner. If the GOP can hold on to Congress, which I believe they can, when Bush leaves office in Jan of '09, the SC would have a 6-1-2 make up, with six constructionist conservatives, one milk-toast "please like me" moderate (Kennedy), and two remaining liberal activists; Breyer and Souter. That would do a LOT to restore America's values and Constitutional protections that have been stripped away and abused by SC liberal activism of the past 20 years.
Conservative judges are more modest - they believe that they uphold the law while activist judges beleive that they are the law. A big difference. This is what is at stake. The people throwing a temper-tantrum by not voting will oversee the abolishment for all practical purposes of the First, Second and Fourth Amendments and the enshrinement of "rights" for criminals and terrorists.
Yes it would. Any conservative who isn't voting Republican tommorrow or hasn't already, is a joke and their values mean nothing. Their shortsightedness that the balance of the SC will be decided in the next two years is amazing, but I think that group of people is largely fictional. REAL conservatives want this country the way it was founded. CONSERVATIVE and NO MORE liberal activist Judges. NO retreat from war. CLOSED borders, LOW taxes, and AMERICA FOR AMERICANS.
And I really appreciate them doing this, as it has energized Republican voters.
Heck, the past 40 years.
It is too bad that every GOP Senate candidate did not bring up the SCOTUS issue in all their races. It is a winning issue as are tax cuts, national security. How the voters could not see that the Dems would revoke all attempts at a new Court, new tax cuts, and our national security advantages is beyond me. I hope these new polls actually reflect that there is a Big Mo to Pubs in the races Tues.
And they will learn that lesson very painfully if they end up tipping the scales the Dems way.
But I don't actually think that's going to happen. 'Teaching a lesson' is nice talk, but when the rubber meets the road, conservatives are not dumb. They won't go down that path.
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