Double standard.
It's funny how the administration has whined about the phillibuster and tried to outlaw it, yet W has no problem making recess appointments. If you ask me, the recess appointment is much dirtier pool than the phillibuster.
So it sounds like your gonna get stuck with John Bolton as US ambassador to the UN.
On another note, I hope all the idiots that voted for Bush, purely because of his supposed anti-abortion stance are paying attention. Even though these same mouth breathers have never actually listened to his stance on abortion. He is NOT anti-abortion in his policy beliefs. Sure, his personal beliefs may be against abortion, but his personal beliefs have always taken a back seat to his political aspirations. He's a political animal. He's learly stated that he doesn't have any intention to go after Roe V. Wade. And the funy thing is that all these morons who vote solely based on a candidate's abortion stance don't realize the president doesn't really have anything to do with it. He's the executive branch, not the judicial or legislative.
The most the president can do is lobby congress and appoint pro-life judges. He has not yet done that. None of his appointees are pro-life.
I wonder why these Republican voting geniuses don't ask themselves why the Democrats aren't screaming about Bush's latest Supreme court nominee? After all, if he was pro-life (or anti- Roe V Wade) they'd be ripping his lungs out by now. But instead all reports seem to be that there's no real controversy over John Roberts.
I can tell you why the Democrats aren't screaming. In a 2003 confirmation hearing, Roberts said:
"Roe v. Wade is the settled law of the land. It is not--it's a little more than settled. It was reaffirmed in the face of a challenge that it should be overruled in the Casey decision. Accordingly, it's the settled law of the land. There's nothing in my personal views that would prevent me from fully and faithfully applying that precedent, as well as Casey."
So, Here bush has two possible openings in the Supreme court*, enough to turn the balance of power to the pro-life side and once again he screws the conservative right that elected him by choosing a nominee that will NOT support the opinion of those same voters.
*(O'Connor is retiring and Rehnquist is about to drop dead)
Meanwhile, it seems the traitor Rove is getting away with his outing of Valerie Plame.
So it sounds like your gonna get stuck with John Bolton as US ambassador to the UN.
On another note, I hope all the idiots that voted for Bush, purely because of his supposed anti-abortion stance are paying attention. Even though these same mouth breathers have never actually listened to his stance on abortion. He is NOT anti-abortion in his policy beliefs. Sure, his personal beliefs may be against abortion, but his personal beliefs have always taken a back seat to his political aspirations. He's a political animal. He's learly stated that he doesn't have any intention to go after Roe V. Wade. And the funy thing is that all these morons who vote solely based on a candidate's abortion stance don't realize the president doesn't really have anything to do with it. He's the executive branch, not the judicial or legislative.
The most the president can do is lobby congress and appoint pro-life judges. He has not yet done that. None of his appointees are pro-life.
I wonder why these Republican voting geniuses don't ask themselves why the Democrats aren't screaming about Bush's latest Supreme court nominee? After all, if he was pro-life (or anti- Roe V Wade) they'd be ripping his lungs out by now. But instead all reports seem to be that there's no real controversy over John Roberts.
I can tell you why the Democrats aren't screaming. In a 2003 confirmation hearing, Roberts said:
"Roe v. Wade is the settled law of the land. It is not--it's a little more than settled. It was reaffirmed in the face of a challenge that it should be overruled in the Casey decision. Accordingly, it's the settled law of the land. There's nothing in my personal views that would prevent me from fully and faithfully applying that precedent, as well as Casey."
So, Here bush has two possible openings in the Supreme court*, enough to turn the balance of power to the pro-life side and once again he screws the conservative right that elected him by choosing a nominee that will NOT support the opinion of those same voters.
*(O'Connor is retiring and Rehnquist is about to drop dead)
Meanwhile, it seems the traitor Rove is getting away with his outing of Valerie Plame.
posted by Tachyon at 12:17
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