Gang of 14 strikes again...
Prior has been approved for his judgeship. God help us.
Let's talk about the "Gang of 14". Was this good for the Dems? Would we have been better off rolling the dice and having the vote. If we had won, Frist would have been done. If we lost, when President Clinton is in office we could jam through whatever judge we wanted. I think it is the better thing for the country but why is it that the Dems are always the ones protecting the constitution and doing the "right thing" and the Repub trying to destroy the Constitution and not carrying about the rules. See redistricting, Schiavo... Maybe it is time the Dems fight fire with fire.
Then again there is something to be said for letting the Repubs hang themselves with their abuses of power.
I promised our republican reader that I would give props to Warner for being a member of the Gang. So here is a tropical drink toast to you Warner. Now do what is right and vote against Bolton.
Tomorrow... Downing Street Memo, Bolton, and the scariest quote I have ever read.
If you get a chance you need to read White House Memo today. All about the FOX "news" interview with Bush in which he is never asked about the war.
Let's talk about the "Gang of 14". Was this good for the Dems? Would we have been better off rolling the dice and having the vote. If we had won, Frist would have been done. If we lost, when President Clinton is in office we could jam through whatever judge we wanted. I think it is the better thing for the country but why is it that the Dems are always the ones protecting the constitution and doing the "right thing" and the Repub trying to destroy the Constitution and not carrying about the rules. See redistricting, Schiavo... Maybe it is time the Dems fight fire with fire.
Then again there is something to be said for letting the Repubs hang themselves with their abuses of power.
I promised our republican reader that I would give props to Warner for being a member of the Gang. So here is a tropical drink toast to you Warner. Now do what is right and vote against Bolton.
Tomorrow... Downing Street Memo, Bolton, and the scariest quote I have ever read.
If you get a chance you need to read White House Memo today. All about the FOX "news" interview with Bush in which he is never asked about the war.
2 Comments:
Interesting that you blame republicans for destroying the constitution when it tends to be liberal judges who routinely rely upon on a single constitutional provision, the 14th Amendment--in fact, on only four words in one sentence of the Amendment, "due process" and "equal protection"--to declare numerous State laws unconstitutional.
The 14th Amendment has to a large extent become a second constitution, replacing the original.
It does not require jurisprudential sophistication to realize that the justices do not decide controversial issues of social policy by studying those four words. No question of interpretation is involved in any of the court's controversial constitutional rulings, because there is nothing to interpret.
The problem is that liberal Supreme Court justices have made the due process and equal protection clauses empty vessels into which they can pour any meaning. This converts the clauses into simple transferences of policy-making power from elected legislators to the justices, authorizing a court majority to remove any policy issue from the ordinary political process and assign it to themselves for decision. This fundamentally changes the system of government created by the Constitution.
As an insider, I feel confident that the nuclear option would have lost. The vote count, as has been confirmed to me, would have been 50/50, with Cheney breaking the tie. The filibuster would be gone and Jerry Fallwell would be getting ready to take a seat on the Supreme Court.
Kudos to the Gang of 14.
Kudos to Colin for posting again!
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