Expected Drivel

Big news! It seems that the liberals are less than satisfied with the nomination of John G. Roberts to the Supreme Court. When I heard that you could have knocked me over with a feather! OK, maybe I wasn’t quite that surprised. It seems that the Dumbocrats feel that the friend of their enemy is their enemy. It’s not exactly how the old adage goes but it is as close as the Dumbocrats can get without activating their second brain cell. I know, none of this is news but when people are so narrow minded that their behavior can be predicted so accurately, it doesn’t leave much to talk about.
John Kerry, the Senator from Massachusetts and former presidential candidate come through with his typical linguistic panache. In other words he missed the target by a country mile. Apparently he fears that John Roberts on the Supreme Court will threaten Americans right to privacy, especially as it pertains to Roe v. Wade. How is he wrong, let me count the ways. First off, he is totally ignoring what the man has said on that very topic. He made it clear in 2003 that he accepts the Roe v Wade decision as the “settled law of the land.” This makes it clear that he has n plans or desires to overturn the precedent, but Kerry seems to have missed this fact. Also, Roe v. Wade has noting to do with privacy. It never has. If a women’s pregnancy is a matter of privacy why is it a common practice to print the names of mothers and fathers of all the new borns in a local news paper? If it is acceptable to announce Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Smith’s latest bundle of joy, then how is killing that child a matter of privacy? If anyone can come up with an intelligent answer to this variation in thinking let me know.
Many people believe that there will not be any attempt at a filibuster as there has been with all of the other Bush judicial nominees. The head of the Senate judiciary said that this doesn’t seem to be a filibuster creating nominee and even Feinstein of California, who is so far to the left she has to communicate with fellow liberals by cell phone, claims there will be no filibuster. What strikes me as curious is that Leahy is quoted as stating “It will take sufficient time and a great deal of hard work for the committee to prepare for these hearings.” Hmmmmm perhaps long enough to keep him off the bench at the start of the new session in October? A filibuster by any other name . . .
Some are even griping about the fact that just days ago Judge Roberts was in agreement with an Appeals Court decision allowing military tribunals for the terrorists suspects being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. What do they expect to do with them? A new set of clothes, fifty dollars in their pocket and then a nice little bungalow in the suburbs? These are enemy combatants, dressed in civilian clothing plotting and carrying out ways to kill Americans. They are not American citizens, they were arrested outside of American borders and currently reside outside of this country. The constitution does not apply. They are enemy agents and should, no MUST treated accordingly. John Roberts has the intelligence to know this and the back bone to say so. He deservers our respect, not the contempt of a few left wing malcontents.
Chuck Schumer of New York isn’t happy either but is on even less solid ground that most liberals. He claims that Judge Roberts is not qualified because he “told” the Supreme Court they were wrong in the Roe v Wade decision. As I mentioned yesterday, Judge Roberts was co-author of a brief that stated in part that Roe v Wade was “wrongly decided” and should be overturned. This was an expression of his legal opinion at that time and was not, nor can the intelligent mind construe it as telling the court anything. (This is not the last time we will hear of this document I’m sure so I am going to attempt to get a copy of it for a full quotation in a day or two so stay tuned).
The Alliance for Justice far and away takes the prize for stupid reasons too oppose this nomination. They are against Mr. Roberts not because of his record on case law, not for opinions expressed in written form or in speeches. They are against him for no other reason than George Bush nominated him. That’s right, it doesn’t matter who the man is, it doesn’t matter what he has or hasn’t done, the only thing that matters is who says he should be on the bench. After a few more days of checking his background I’m sure the Alliance for Justice will realize he is totally unqualified for the Supreme Court because his third grade teacher wore tennis shoes every other Friday. Stand by for up to the minute updates on this critical issue.