Tuesday, July 19, 2005

We have a nomiee!!!

And the guy, John Roberts seems to be very qualified. Unless your a DailyKos loyalist. I haven't checked other liberal sites yet but it will be very funny to see the bullshit they "dig up" on him. They can bitch, whine, and moan all they want. My personal view is that if a fomer council to the ACLU (Ruth Bader-Ginsberg, the last SCOTUS appointee) can serve on the Supreme Court, John Roberts can. Well you will all be able to get good laughs from the liberal sites because I will be posting and linking to what they say about him because it most likely will easily be dismissed as false disinformation. And if you need more liberal blathering tune in to your local Error Ameri"kkk"a station (if you even have one in your area). It will be entertaining for sure.


Here's a PDF I pulled of Kos
right here. Maybe valid points maybe not.

And here are some entertaining comments from Kos (fyi they AREN'T edited, don't believe me? Go on the site and look bitch!)
When Roberts thanked his family, he mentioned his son, Jack...Roberts' wife's face fell. It was like a poker tell. I think we should research Jack.
by mayan on Tue Jul 19th, 2005 at 13:13:01 PDT


And here are some from the Demokkkratic underground

44. If you have to SHUT THE GOVERNMENT DOWN!
Edited on Tue Jul-19-05 08:12 PM by calipendence

COMPLETELY DOWN! Fillibuster *EVERYTHING* if they try to go nuclear on you! This is the fundamental battle we've all elected you to fight. This is where we expect you to fight to your fullest abilities to win!

Don't let any business go through the Senate or the House unless they pull back this nomination.

Thanks!


And here's a nice sane post from someone that has obviously thought this through...

just what we need. A fucking whacko fundie for the next 30 years or so returning the country back to the 19th century. Why do they all have to be so fucking REGRESSIVE?

What is it with these people, that they're so scared of the present and the future? They want to return to the days of robber-barons, slave labor, NO WOMAN'S RIGHTS, shit, no rights for anyone!

Godamn it, if these fuckers want to pick a fight, I'll knock the snot out these pricks. I've had it with these asswipes!


Liberalism is a mental disorder, look above for god's sake

to contrast here's a "sane liberal"

John Roberts, 49. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Washington, D.C., Circuit. Top of his class at Harvard Law School and a former law clerk for Rehnquist, Roberts is one of the most impressive appellate lawyers around today. Liberal groups object to the fact that, in 1990, as a deputy solicitor general, Roberts signed a brief in a case involving abortion-financing that called, in a footnote, for Roe v. Wade to be overturned. But it would be absurd to Bork him for this: Overturning Roe was the Bush administration's position at the time, and Roberts, as an advocate, also represented liberal positions, arguing in favor of affirmative action, against broad protections for property rights, and on behalf of prisoners' rights. In little more than a year on the bench, he has won the respect of his liberal and conservative colleagues but has not had enough cases to develop a clear record on questions involving the Constitution in Exile. On the positive side, Roberts joined Judge Merrick Garland's opinion allowing a former employee to sue the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority for disability discrimination. He pointedly declined to join the unsettling dissent of Judge David Sentelle, a partisan of the Constitution in Exile, who argued that Congress had no power to condition the receipt of federal transportation funds on the Metro's willingness to waive its immunity from lawsuits. In another case, however, Roberts joined Sentelle in questioning whether the Endangered Species Act is constitutional under Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce. The regulation in question prevented developers from building on private lands in order to protect a rare species of toad, and Roberts noted with deadpan wit that "the hapless toad ... for reasons of its own, lives its entire life in California," and therefore could not affect interstate commerce. Nevertheless, Roberts appears willing to draw sensible lines: He said that he might be willing to sustain the constitutionality of the Endangered Species Act on other grounds. All in all, an extremely able lawyer whose committed conservatism seems to be leavened by a judicious temperament.

That's all I can stand for right now, I don't weather to laugh or throw something through the computer screen. I will put up comments on the conservative side later tonight, I need to cool off and eat now though. I'll try and have em up by midnight CST. I'd put a pic up but it's plastered all over the net, go find one it won't be hard.

6 comments:

Ol' BC said...

"sane liberal", now there's an oxymoron. However, your sane liberal did note the most important issue in my eyes - returning some level of sanity to commerce clause interpretation. Overturning Roe is no big deal as the issue will revert back to the states where it constitutionally belongs.

Ben said...

Paul in case I haven't told you I am actually for overturning Roe vs. Wade because I think it was unconstitutional. Let the states decide. And Bush will most likely get to appoint 2 (but for sure 1) justices before he leaves in 2009. There might be sanity brought back to the SCOTUS. Ol'BC I agree, that's why I put it into quotes. Good point man.

Ben said...

Paul I didn't say it could be ignored, actually the exact opposite. It can be disproven very easily once the dust settles.

Ol' BC said...

It's been a while, but I think Roe was actually ruled on as a privacy issue. I've slept a few nights since then.

Ben said...

Of course we always need to listen to the supreme court. Remember Plessy v. Ferguson in 1898? Seperate but equal? That worked out well, it took them 56 years to figure it out with Brown v. Board of Education. I give Roe v. Wade until 2015 tops. The Supreme Court will change its mind on this. Besides, won't you admit paul, that reaching the conclusion they did is a serious strech?

Ben said...

I don't, but I don't believe the Supreme Court should be all-powerful on that, leave it up to the states, the feds are more often than not a nusiance.