10/31/2005
Today, President Bush came back with a terrific nominee to the US Supreme Court, Judge Samuel Alito, of the Third US Court of Appeals. The fact that Judge Alito is a male has yet, to my knowledge, been made an issue, but you can expect that to happen any time now, if it hasn’t already.
You know how I knew that Alito was the right pick? New York’s “other” Senator, Chuck Schumer, came out swinging. Here is an excerpt from a press conference he gave immediately following the President’s nomination:
A preliminary review of his record raises real questions about Judge Alito’s judicial philosophy and his commitment to civil rights, workers’ rights, women’s rights, the rights of average Americans which the courts have always looked out for.
Now, it’s sad that the president felt he had to pick a nominee likely to divide America instead of choosing a nominee in the mold of Sandra Day O’Connor who would unify us.
America needs unity now. America needs reaching out to one another more than ever. But the president seems to want to hunker down in his bunker and is more concerned about smoothing the ruffled feathers of the extreme wing of his party than about governing all of America and changing history for the better.
This is a watered down version of what Ted Kennedy did to judge bork in 1987 when he declared that “Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, children could not be taught about evolution.” I know, this is a VERY watered-down version of the low-minded attempt by Senator Kennedy to assasinate Judge Bork’s character (an attempt which was ultimately successful). Still, I believe the similarities are there; and it can only get worse from here.
But I digress…
So, when I heard Schumer immediately go after Alito, I felt my second moment of profound relief in just under a week. The first moment came when Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination, which I felt bad about even as I felt grateful for Ms. Miers’ very selfless act.
The fact that the left is getting almost immediately frothy over this nomination tells me that the President has just hit a home run. As I’ve said in the past, conservatives are eager for the coming fight with the radical left.
We want this battle. More importantly, we want the public to watch with their eyes open, so they can see exactly how desperate some on the left are to keep the courts from going back to their traditional role of INTERPRETING the law rather than creating it.
Now, if only Republicans in congress would show the same backbone that President Bush displayed for us today…
David Flanagan
Viewpointjournal.com
1 Comment
The only makes sense is there is a ‘radical left’, which there isn’t. There is center right, Represented by the current breed of Democrats. And there are the far right, near Nazi Republicans.
Time for a compleat house cleaning. Somthing that real americans need. Real Amerian Ideals. Like Truth, Justice for everyone, and Liberty.
Comment by Branedy — 11/1/2005 @ 2:37 pm