Impending Liberal Abuse

I hope the Conservative establishment is happy. Heaven forbid that someone who isn't day and night"political" be a Justice. The nominee that the Conservatives want will be villified and gored by the Liberals. Remember the way that Robert Bork was defamed and demonized by people who weren't worthy to hold his shoes. He was supposedly racist, unqualified (though he was a law Professor) and would in short be the end of civilization as we know it. Liberals are lying scum, and the media helps them mount attacks on candidates. This means that the truly conservative nominee must be impeccably authoritative or they will not make it through. This can be seen through Chief Justice Roberts, who was so academically invulnerable he was able to survive the gauntlet. It would have been funny, though, if Meirs made it through and then turned out to be ultra-conservative- - just as irony.

Egomaniacs Against Meirs

Why are so many Republicans against Harriet Meirs? "She's not qualified!" Ruth Bader Ginsburg said weeks ago that she would be willing to advise the President of which women were qualified to serve alongside her. (How modest of her!) Professional smart-ass Ann Coulter declared she was more qualified than Meirs. (Of course, she thinks she knows everything about everything.) Others declare her a crony. (see my blog entitled "Sherman Minton") None of these arguments hold water. I say that the main problem with the Supreme Court is a mind boggling egotism, where mere lawyers become gods who create law out of their prejudices and nothing more. Creating laws without details like democratic support has progressed so far that many Americans don't even realize when the Supreme Court has overstepped judicial review and entered the land of autocratic fiat. If someone really stupid was appointed to the Supreme Court, it might make people realize that these posers are only human beings, and don't deserve an unchecked power to describe as unconstitutional everything they don't like. A disaster for judicial activism would be a blessing for democracy.

Sherman Minton

Anyone remember Sherman Minton? He was a golf buddy of President Truman who was appointed Supreme Court justice. Did Sherman Minton destroy the judiciary? No. Did the works of Sherman Minton lead to legalized abortion? Ha- -it took geniuses like Bill Brennan and Harry Blackmun to do that. Harriet Meirs is the end of the world? Give me a break.