| Sunday, July 03, 2005 |
| These two words |
Apparently the right has two words for President Bush when it comes to Alberto Gozales on the Supreme Court: "Hell no."
NRO has opened up an entire Benchwatch page, focusing mainly on the left's obsession with out-going Justice O'Connor and Roe v. Wade. Might be more intellectually honest to acknowledge that the religious right is equally obsessed with Roe. That is, after all, what this court fight is all about. The right won't be content with just holding the fort with another Sandra Day swing vote -- even though I agree with those on the right who say she wasn't nearly the friend she is now being claimed as by the left (and the mainstream press, which tends to treat her with often uwarranted kid gloves. This is, after all, the same Sandra Day O'Connor who made the most blatant political calculations of any justice during the Bush versus Gore fight, apparently telling colleagues at the time that she only wanted to retire under a Republican president, and thus calling into question her basic ethics in weighing in to essentially decide who would choose her replacement.)
The right, particularly religious conservatives, want the court moved, not maintained in its current state, and that means making the appointment as if it were Rehnquist, and not O'Connor, who is stepping down. Otherwise, what would be the point? |
posted by JReid @ 3:29 PM   |
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