So Bush pulled a virtual unknown out of his hat. Alrighty then.
So far, with all of the overnight talking about little else, I haven’t heard anything I don’t like about the guy so he gets my tentative ‘Thumbs Up’ until further notice. Let’s hope someone on the committee asks the guy about the 2nd Amendment.
Of course, since the guy isn’t a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, they automatically oppose him.
Chuck E. Cheese Schumer has decided that Roberts isn’t qualified,
“I voted against Judge Roberts for the D.C. Court because he didn’t answer questions fully and openly when he appeared before the committee. For instance, when I asked him a question that others have answered — to identify three Supreme Court cases of which he was critical, he refused.”
“Screw Them� Kos has the same opinion and thinks that this is all just a ruse to get Rove out of the news cycle,
So Bush was supposed to spend all week interviewing potential Supreme Court nominees, but suddenly rushed the nomination forward today. Is Roberts really the guy they wanted, or the first guy that was potentially palatable that could be rushed to the podium?
And for a decision so important, why rush the process longer than necessary?
Well, there’s that thing about Rove.
And apparently Kos is a ‘mainstream’ Democrat, because his party chairman said almost the exact same thing,
Okay on the legal credentials — too bad Judge John Roberts is a conservative. That sums up the reaction of the Democrat party and many who belong to it.
In a statement released Tuesday night, the Democratic National Committee suggested that President Bush announced the nomination of Judge John Roberts Tuesday night to blast the Karl Rove “scandal” off the front page.
“Faced with a growing scandal surrounding the involvement of Deputy White House chief of Staff Karl Rove and Vice President Cheney’s Chief of Staff Lewis Libby in the leaking the identity of a covert CIA operative, President Bush announced his nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court late this evening,” the DNC said.
Too bad for them that the Democrat Party itself isn’t mainstream.
Last night I heard not only the ‘Rove Distraction’ conspiracy theory, which reminds me of this recent episode of Chirs Muir’s Day by Day, but also everything the collectivists think is wrong about Roberts, from his working with mining companies before being appointed to the DC court to his writing as a hired legal eagle on the Roe V Wade issue and everything in between.
On a side note, if the Dems truly wanted the abortion issue to be something tangible instead of an issue to use as a goldmine and hang out whenever their power base was in trouble, they would have used their twenty post-decision years in which they controlled Congress, including six years of the White House being occupied by a Democrat President, to have gotten this turned into its own Constitutional Amendment.
I’m taking bets at work about: 1. How soon the filibuster will arrive, 2. How long it will last due to the ‘Extraordinary Circumstances’ that the Dems pull out of their asses, and 3. whether it will be successful.
I stand to make some money because, as you all should remember, I work with Teamsters.