Monday, October 31, 2005
Lordy lordy, it's a Supreme Court Revival!
A throwback to the past, with a good old fashioned white, Baby Boomer generation male! Yeehaw! And he's even Italian to boot! I'm talking about Samuel Alito, Bush's replacement for Crony McStupidson.
Honestly, we shouldn't really care about what this guy looks like. It's especially disconcerting when you hear democrats like Harry Reid saying that he's disappointed that Bush didn't pick a woman, or a hispanic, or a hispanic woman to the court. It's talk like that that make liberals seem like morons- that all that really matters to us is having a rainbow of skin color on the Court, and that if there were 5 men, 4 women (or vice versa), 4 whites, one hispanic, one asian, one black, one native american, and one indian, this country would be set for years.
No, what the democrats should be complaining about is the fact that he's not a moderate- that people call him Scalito, that he's anti-choice (I'm not sure how I feel about that phrase). But we'll see, obviously. It looks like he's definitely an originalist, obviously, because of the Scalia comparisons and his past rulings.
The question is, will he try to be like Roberts and get through confirmation by repeating the mantra "I'm here to judge, not to legislate" twenty times a day? Or will he show himself to be a more forthcoming candidate? I don't know, but it's clear to me that Bush simply picked the most conservative candidate that would likely not be regarded by the left as a right-wing radical. And therefore Alito will make it in. "At least he's not Priscilla Owen" can be our silver lining.
And this is the kind of pick I was expecting when Bush won in 2004. Just a regular, conservative Justice who's probably going to let a republican congress do its thing but vote against more liberal laws as being "not what the founders intended." But, in the end, as long as no more Justices step down in the next 3 years, I think that the court will certainly have shifted to the right, but it's really not that bad. Right?
Honestly, we shouldn't really care about what this guy looks like. It's especially disconcerting when you hear democrats like Harry Reid saying that he's disappointed that Bush didn't pick a woman, or a hispanic, or a hispanic woman to the court. It's talk like that that make liberals seem like morons- that all that really matters to us is having a rainbow of skin color on the Court, and that if there were 5 men, 4 women (or vice versa), 4 whites, one hispanic, one asian, one black, one native american, and one indian, this country would be set for years.
No, what the democrats should be complaining about is the fact that he's not a moderate- that people call him Scalito, that he's anti-choice (I'm not sure how I feel about that phrase). But we'll see, obviously. It looks like he's definitely an originalist, obviously, because of the Scalia comparisons and his past rulings.
The question is, will he try to be like Roberts and get through confirmation by repeating the mantra "I'm here to judge, not to legislate" twenty times a day? Or will he show himself to be a more forthcoming candidate? I don't know, but it's clear to me that Bush simply picked the most conservative candidate that would likely not be regarded by the left as a right-wing radical. And therefore Alito will make it in. "At least he's not Priscilla Owen" can be our silver lining.
And this is the kind of pick I was expecting when Bush won in 2004. Just a regular, conservative Justice who's probably going to let a republican congress do its thing but vote against more liberal laws as being "not what the founders intended." But, in the end, as long as no more Justices step down in the next 3 years, I think that the court will certainly have shifted to the right, but it's really not that bad. Right?
# posted by Stuart @ 11:23 AM 
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sources say that Harriet Miers and Nugget McSimpson were coke-runners in the late 1970s for the Cali Cartel, using Miers' influence in the Texas government and McSimpson's otherworldy charm and charisma to basically "run the damn state as they saw fit."
Later, McSimpson and McStupidson were found in drug-induced comas in an abandoned warehouse filled with used hypodermic needles and several anonymous immigrants. McStupidson came to first and was able to successfully escape the psychiatric ward of the Laredo Municipal Hospital. She changed her name to Harriet Miers and has been at large since.
McSimpson was last seen in Nicaragua, 1987 and his whereabouts are unknown.
Later, McSimpson and McStupidson were found in drug-induced comas in an abandoned warehouse filled with used hypodermic needles and several anonymous immigrants. McStupidson came to first and was able to successfully escape the psychiatric ward of the Laredo Municipal Hospital. She changed her name to Harriet Miers and has been at large since.
McSimpson was last seen in Nicaragua, 1987 and his whereabouts are unknown.
It should be noted that although Nugget McSimpson has a bunch of rocks named after him, there are no known geological features currently associated with Crony McStupidson.
The important thing is that the McSimpson trail has gone cold and should not ever be followed up on.
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