Posted on 07/02/2012 10:10:41 AM PDT by Daveinyork
George W. Bush did many memorable things during his time in office. He gave us No Child Left Unharmed (officially mistitled “No Child Left Behind”), a massive, unfunded prescription drug benefit (Medicare Part D), and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the real cost of which will ultimately be in the area of $4 trillion.
As of last Thursday, however, one could make an argument that his most memorable “achievement” was nominating John Roberts to the Supreme Court. What a super pick that turned out to be. Clearly, Bush knows a stealth liberal when he sees one. (I’m not buying the theory that Roberts is a cunning chess player who did conservatives a big favor by imposing limits on Congress’ power to make a mockery of the Commerce Clause.)
If the left succeeds in fundamentally transforming the United States of America into the Union of Soviet American States, Chief Justice Roberts, by virtue of a single unconstitutional decision, can proudly claim that he played a major role in that transformation by bludgeoning the Constitution at a critical juncture in our decline.
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“It’s time to either rid the GOP of it’s current leadership, or move on and build a real Conservative Party.”
I agree.
The problem with taking over the GOP is money.
The RINOs - the Bushes, Romneys, etc - have LOTS of it. And its why they are IN the GOP - to protect THEIR money. They don’t give a rat’s @$$ about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, or national sovereignty. American exceptionalism is meaningless to them. Profit is their god and they are more than willing to sacrifice Christianity and western Civilization to Islam if it will secure their investments and reap bigger profits.
We saw in the last primary how very powerful the RINO establishment is. In no race I am aware of did Romney win 50% of the vote until AFTER his opponents conceded.
He NEVER had to attack them personally as his many PACS did the dirty work for him. I still think THEY picked up those individuals who who accused Cain and set them up to it. I think THEY were involved in attacks on Santorum and Bachmann.
The only way to fight money is with bodies. And the best place to put those bodies are on town and county party committees and start taking leadership rolls away from local party bosses who pander to these bastards. Then work upwards from there. Drive these peiople away to the Dems where they belong.
He gave us Kennedy too, whose name last week before the HCR law decision was mud.
I've responded to similar statements several times since the Obamacare decision: conservatives trusted GWB to nominate true conservatives to the SC. Few are in a position to evaluate court nominees and they just have to trust the president to pick strict constructionists as they were promised.
Roberts had only been on the Court of Appeals for two years before W nominated him to the SC. He did not have much of paper trail and was considered mostly an unknown by most who follow such appointments closely.
Most didn't know much about him, they trusted W to appoint a true conservative.
Roberts was W's first SC nominee. Miers was nominated for the second vacancy, and when the uproar became so great, she withdrew and W nominated Alito.
GD the Bush Family all! GHWBush did a lot of damage to Reagan and Nixon, GWB was a waste of time and Jeb needs to run for office in Mexico!
“I will would be willing to take my chances with Romney over 0bama.”
One word “RomneyCare”
Okay....timeline and opportunity....W still effed up royally.
Americans are insane to continue electing republicans or democrats to national office. Those who’ve given us more of the same for 80 years can be reliably expected to continue giving us more of the same.
America is a ONE Party nation: one party with 2 faces.
What America desperately needs is a distinct, 2nd party.
Correct. FR was just about 100% in favor of Roberts.
Today it's all "Bush's fault".
Fickle, fickle, fickle.
He should be impeached for re-writing the filing.
We were deceived, all of us.
Wrong order. W was going to nominate Meiers to see if he could do worse than Roberts.
Three and 2/3rd words: “I don’t care”
Who thought/knew that a "conservative" SCOTUS Justice would put his inner Rodney King ("Can we all get along?) in first, second and third places over his oath to protect and defend the Constitution?
And no one seems to consider what could have happened. Would any freeper be happy with a nominee of John F*ing Kerry's? Gore's? As bad as this decision was--and don't get me wrong, this was terrible and will forever taint Roberts, even if his every decision from here to his grave is as far right as can be--it's not as bad as what we would certainly be facing if Kerry or Gore had been given an shot at a SCOTUS appointment. Had that happened, not only would 0bamacare have been upheld, the majority decision would have been crafted as ironclad law.
What is of utmost importance right now is what happens next, and that's November.
Well, I do care, but, once again, I’ll be holding my nose and voting for a squishy, unreliable, progressive Republican, just to keep the reliable progressive Democrat from having his way with us.
But, Romney has zero credibility on this issue, unless he admits that RomneyCare was a mistake, and he has so far refused to do that.
I thought the furor over Harriet Miers, both here on FR and elsewhere, was obscenely overdone even at the time it was happening. (That Sam Alito, at least, appears to have turned out to be a fine justice is at best a mitigating factor, not an excuse.) Now, I’m looking back at it, and the Regan McNeil headspin from “yay, great choice, Dub” to “she sucks, change it” back around to “yay, great choice, Dub” (all in the space of a few weeks), and Dave Frum and Ann Coulter playing featured roles in trashing the non-Ivy grad, and all the rest...basically, I’m now figuring the Miers thing was a trial run for the Palin hazing and a lot of the other insane, internecine BS that’s gone on in the GOP and the conservative movement since then. Had I known that, I think I might have told you guys what my boy Jim Belushi says at the end of this video* seven years ago...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=485153133371329904
...instead of now, which is what I’m sorely tempted to do.
*(Warning: That’s a clip from “About Last Night” (1986). Tim Kazurinsky from SNL and Denise DeClue wrote the screenplay, but David Mamet wrote the 1974 play from which they adapted it, and this conversation sounds every bit of it. Just gloriously foul language and an absurd sexual situation. If you click that link and you’re offended, don’t come crying to me.)
I realized it just after I hit the post button.
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