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Monday, October 03, 2005
...Meanwhile, over in the Chief Justice's wing...
...Bush's other Supreme Court pick is proving that he's no ordinary Chief Justice, he's John F. Kennedy...! No wonder half the Senate Democrats couldn't resist him! Somebody's gonna have to hold David Dreier back if this guy makes a trip to the House floor...

But seriously, the Roberts pick in many ways proves what the Miers nomination proves: that George W. Bush is fundamentally a creature of noblesse oblige. He chooses people based either on family loyalty and personal connection or on the basis of class sympatico. With the Roberts Court, Bush has ushered in an era of cool, calm, corporate jurisprudence -- no wild social boat rocking, no great sympathy for the little guy, and probably a healthy respect for presidential power. Forget Bush the president -- Bush the man seems much more comfortable with people like Roberts, who mirror his social class and upbringing, than with fire breathers like Antonin Scalia, whom the Bush family probably wouldn't mix with socially.

It's that return to a kind of 19th century social and economic elitism that Bush has been driving at all these years, not base, ideological sops to the poor slobs in the mega-churches who got him elected.



Tags: , Politics, SCOTUS, Law, News

posted by JReid @ 10:00 AM  


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