Politics is maddening. It's all about being safe and electable and re-electable rather than about being principled. Most Americans are anti-illegal immigrant, anti-gay marriage, and pro-conservative culture. And Bush has the votes to back him up in the Senate. I hope Roberts turns out to be every conservative's dream, but why shy away from fighting a battle that will force liberals to go on record as pro-illegal immigrant, pro-gay marriage, and anti-conservative values? I'm sure Bush has a reason why he says so little about all the things that matter so much to him, but I don't know what it is. Maybe the GOP leadership is content to just continue quietly winning elections, but the point of winning elections is to have your way. I admire his restraint but I also want him to have his way.
If the Left loses the Supreme Court, the Left loses the Culture War. The Left loses the country. For 50 years, the high court has been its indispensable ally in the campaign to remake America into a secular and egalitarian society. The court has served as the battering ram of a social revolution that has to be imposed upon America—because it is hated by most Americans.
No Congress in the 1960s would have voted new rights for criminals or new restrictions on cops. No Congress would have outlawed the death penalty or declared abortion, naked dancing, and homosexual sodomy to be constitutional rights. No Congress would have permitted desecration of the flag, forced busing, or discrimination against white kids at state colleges. No Congress would have outlawed prayer, Bible-reading, and the Ten Commandments from classrooms.
Liberalism had to be imposed by unelected judges who could not be removed by popular vote.
In the Judges War since 1968, which is ultimately about whether we shall be a judicial dictatorship where black robes rule or a democratic republic where the people rule, Republican presidents have failed more often than they have succeeded.
Nixon chose a great justice, Rehnquist. His other choices, Burger, Blackmun, and Powell, all voted for Roe v. Wade. Ford’s lone nominee, Stevens, was a lemon, as was Souter, named by Bush I. Reagan succeeded with Scalia but failed with his affirmative-action choice O’Connor and with Tony Kennedy, elevated when Bork was rejected.
Looking back at the great court battles since 1968, all have involved the character assassination of nominees seen as conservative: Haynsworth, Carswell, Bork, and Thomas. But for Clinton nominees Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, liberal judicial activists both, the Senate Republicans rolled over.
The Left gets it, but many Bush Republicans still don’t. They don’t like moral issues, and they don’t enlist in culture wars. But as the Left has turned the Supreme Court into a judicial tyranny more powerful than the president or Congress in deciding social and moral questions, Republicans have two choices: they can fight the Judges War, or they can lose the war.
Neutrality—a Bush choice of a non-controversial justice—will be, and will be seen by the president’s friends and enemies alike, as a stacking of arms, a surrender, a cowardly retreat in the Culture War.
The Judges War is about Bush’s legacy and America’s future. No issue is more crucial. Whether America is kept safe for Christianity is more important than whether Iraq is made safe for democracy.
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As long as we have a right-of- center Congress, the biggest reasons to have Republican Presidents are to prosecute war and nominate judges that will follow the written law.
Since we're losing the natural checks and balances of a split government. Since Republican Congressmen will let Bush spend amounts of money that Gore and Kerry would have been denied, Bush has an obligation to nominate red meat conservatives to limit government power in other areas. It's the only think that will take the sting out of his infuriating domestic spending agenda.
Roberts better be the real deal.
I'm sorry, I wasn't so sure there WAS a 'culture war'. What does that mean? Does it mean if I'm a liberal and support gay marriage and abortion, I'm attacking you? Am I imposing these things on you? Am I making you GAY?? Or UNITARIAN?? (Interesting note: most of America's forefathers WERE Unitarians...).
George Washington said once, "I hope we shall ever become more liberal." You fool, to thing that America's justice is being protected one iota by recommending a conservative Supreme Court, a conservative House, Senate, and Executive. You're so right--there IS no balance of power.
Bush's legacy? A legacy of deciding that war IS an option...not a demand? Deciding that dying soldiers is pause for a solemn moment before breaking off to Texas for some R&R? What legacy has this man left but one of heartache, disapointment, budget failures, cuts for the people, and the edging off of civil liberties?
My freedom is lost amongst this man's heartless agenda. My paycheck goes to support an immoral 'war'. And the Republicans blame me for the shaving of the Constitution? Oh, no. Jefferson is rolling in his grave.
America was built on the backs of those who lost to the King. We have a new King in Bush. And like the regents of old, we can't seem to escape his total rule.
Lots of words, saying nothing. Typical.
Funny that some people see Bush as the king when he is leaving office in early 2009.
The real kings are Supreme Court justices that serve for life and give us all the great things we're too shortsighted to vote for ourselves.
The liberalism in Washington's day meant less government not more. It use to mean personal liberty not government spending. The problem is that modern day progressives like personal liberty in their private lives, but they also want taxpayers to fund the mistakes they make with that freedom.
The poorer you are in their vision the more personal freedom you have, because you are going to give up less of what you own to serve the state. One question is whether gay people would trade government money supporting Aids treatment and education for the right to marry.
All requests for personal freedom ring hollo if in the very next breath you are demanding that I fund your personal freedom.
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