January 2, 2008
HAVE YOU THANKED MAVERICK AND THE GANG TODAY?:
Conservative courts likely to be Bush legacy: The president's success in getting judicial nominees confirmed gives the federal bench a decided GOP tilt. (David G. Savage, 2/02/08, Los Angeles Times)
After nearly seven years in the White House, President Bush has named 294 judges to the federal courts, giving Republican appointees a solid majority of the seats, including a 60%-to-40% edge over Democrats on the influential U.S. appeals courts.The rightward shift on the federal bench is likely to prove a lasting legacy of the Bush presidency, since many of these judges -- including his two Supreme Court appointees -- may serve for two more decades.
And despite the Republicans' loss of control of the Senate, 40 of Bush's judges won confirmation this year, more than in the previous three years when Republicans held the majority. [...]
"Some of the appeals courts will be quite far to the right for a generation to come. So why is the Senate rushing to confirm as many of these terrible nominees as possible?" asked Simon Heller, a lawyer for the Alliance for Justice, a liberal advocacy group.
He gives the Republicans more credit than the Democrats for adhering to the party line. "Republican senators have voted in lock step to confirm every judge that Bush has nominated. The Democrats have often broken ranks," he said.
So, other than radically remaking the judiciary; 8 years of economic growth; the Reformation of the Middle East; adding India and France to the Anglosphere; the FBI, NCLB, retirement reform, HSAs, etc.; stem cell and anti-abortion measures; and not only winning two presidential elections and expanding his majority twice while defying historical precedent and retaining a functional majority in his final midterm; why would any candidate want to emulate W?
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John Cleese really would have to play Paul Krugman in the biopic, eh?
99% of America's will not have access to school vouchers at the end of Bush's second term. NCLB is a failure in that regard.
The Middle East is not reformed. We merely have a foothold for possibly warring-on Syria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Al Qaeda and Hezbollah.
The Middle East today pines for jihad, not democracy. Until democracy is desired and Christendom/Jewry are allowed to exist, theoretically, cheek-to-jowl with the Islamic elitists, than there can be no "reform." After all, what the heck good is democracy if the "demos" want with all their heart to kill and burn the unclean jews and crusaders?
Frankly, OJ, there is no evidence that the Palestinians, for instance, arise every day hoping their democratic terrorist regimes will fix the sewers/schools/roads. There is, however, ample evidence with every pronouncement from the regimes and from all public media, ALL, that their most heartfelt obsession is to drive the jews into the sea and then begin expansion of the caliphate.
It drives admirers of Western Civilization to distraction to see Condi comparing these savage cultures to the American civil rights movement. You'd think it would be a slap in face to all of those who worked so hard for equality; but perhaps there is a twisted justice to it, since all the American civil rights organizations seem to agree with her about the plight of the Palestinians and the general horibbleness of world jewry.
Posted by: Palmcroft at January 2, 2008 2:31 PMThat most schools aren't failing is a victory, not a failure. Few who are eligible use the vouchers.
The demos doesn't. as in Hezbollahstan it just wants self-determination and economic development. The Sa'uds are reforming. Pakistan and Syria require Civil War but we're finally moving in that direction.
The Palestinians voted for sewer fixing and we tried starving them. We'll grow up and they'll get what they want.
America would have been better off had the Civil Rights movement been more violent. Instead whites were able to indulge in self-congratulation and not repay their debt.
The bad guys would have won hands down if the Civil Rights movement had become more violent...
Posted by: Benny at January 2, 2008 7:52 PMYou overestimate the nativists.
Posted by: oj at January 2, 2008 8:39 PM