On FoxNews right now, Susan Estrich is saying that Katrina changes the landscape: Bush is weakened and he will be under new pressure to appoint a minority to the court.
This entry was posted on Saturday, September 3rd, 2005 at 11:31 pm.
…he will be under new pressure to appoint a minority to the court.
Why?
Is there some sort of quota based on skin color? I’m a minority of one, does that count? My cousins look Hispanic, I think I should a least get a looksee. Or maybe Estrada would do, no?
No? Oh, they mean a Democrat. I only wish they were a minority.
And in my view Bush isn’t ‘weakened’. There’s a lot of silt to sort through before the Katrina blame game ends. Cooler heads than now exist will ultimately prevail.
We don’t even know how many people we need to save yet. They’re walking, swimming and boating in from various parishes and beyond.
Only the MSM and a few lefties are (already and) consistently *Certain* he’s The Great Satan.
Does Susan even know what a ‘minority’ is? Does sho mean someone who will get rid of Roe, the right to privacy, support the breakdown of the wall between Church and State? Those are all minority positions in this country.
Yup, Bush needs to recover some PR points which he lost by murdering black people after he caused the hurricane with his global warming.
This shit is really easy to make up isnt it? It’s not easy to defend but if I put a small amount of effort into making up more I could overburden any opposition with the volume of conspiracies.
BTW if you think I am reaching in my depiction of the typical liberal bush bashing, you should know that pandagon’s comments gave me the idea. Seriously:
“Starting with keeping many black voters in Florida from voting in 2000, to doing the same in Ohio in 2004, and now to just watching “looters” suffer and die in the South…
I find myself getting really, really jaded. Is this a democracy? We’re getting closer and closer to genocide every day…”
While I understand that the premise of the question above relates the two, I really see no relation. Bush is president while a major hurricane hits the mainland – this happens in every presidency! In many cases, multiple times.
And while the hurricane affects thousands, if not millions, of people in the south, a supreme court appointment affects hundreds of millions of people, Americans and non, born and unborn, conservative and liberal.
It seems to me that the liberal perspective on supreme court appointments is this: the more popular the republican president, the more conservative he is allowed to appoint. The more unpopular, the more liberal he must appoint. Conversely, a liberal, popular president must appoint a liberal justice. Since the media is who seems to determine how popular a president is, we can pretty much always count on a liberal recommendation from the press. This is about as unprincipaled as it can get – the nation needs another principaled justice, and the sooner the better.
For me, and I hope many others, I hope that both Roberts and the replacement for Rehnquist are perfectly constructionist. I realize that to liberals, constructionist equals: old-fashioned, fuddy-duddy, anti-progressive, etc., etc… however, I think that if you were to survey the constructors, you would find them not only to be genious, you would find them to be conservative, consistent, and revolutionary.
I am not a bush kool-aid drinker, but I recognize a far more polluted kool-aid on the democrat side. I just hope that Bush does the right thing with these appointments…
Ugh, I love Susan Estrich because she’s so wacky and harmless. This is a touch more offensive than usual for her, though.
It would be *so* unlike this President to nominate a minority, since he’s appointed blacks, women, and hispanics many times already (even though Angelos says, in his own enlightened words, that Bush is afraid of “Negroes”). And even if he did, does the name “Clarence Thomas” ring a bell? Republicans are merely hated by the left; the mere thought of minority Republicans cause the leftist brain to shortcircuit and explode twenty times a nanosecond. There’s always some offensive, confabulated excuse why a Republican minority is illegitimate or evil… tyrants, Uncle Toms, whatever. Minorities apparently aren’t allowed to have their own individual politics, but must be made to follow one party like mindless lemmings.
Still, the lightweight Estrich is probably just banking on the odds that Bush will nominate a black or woman after nominating a very white male. The odds are very good, since Bush has a record of doing that anyway, and so Estrich probably figures she’ll look bright for making the prediction, or possibly even be able to claim later to have helped create some pressure. It’s about as prescient, though, as predicting a sunny day in summer, so it probably will not impress anyone, not even fellow Democrats.
Sure. And he’ll fire Chertoff and Brown tomorrow. The week after that, he’ll revoke the tax cuts. And the troops will be home at Christmas. zzzz
…he will be under new pressure to appoint a minority to the court.
Why?
Is there some sort of quota based on skin color? I’m a minority of one, does that count? My cousins look Hispanic, I think I should a least get a looksee. Or maybe Estrada would do, no?
No? Oh, they mean a Democrat. I only wish they were a minority.
Rehnquist, I believe it is.
And in my view Bush isn’t ‘weakened’. There’s a lot of silt to sort through before the Katrina blame game ends. Cooler heads than now exist will ultimately prevail.
We don’t even know how many people we need to save yet. They’re walking, swimming and boating in from various parishes and beyond.
Only the MSM and a few lefties are (already and) consistently *Certain* he’s The Great Satan.
Eileen, they don’t know because they won’t go in and find out.
Does Susan even know what a ‘minority’ is? Does sho mean someone who will get rid of Roe, the right to privacy, support the breakdown of the wall between Church and State? Those are all minority positions in this country.
Yup, Bush needs to recover some PR points which he lost by murdering black people after he caused the hurricane with his global warming.
This shit is really easy to make up isnt it? It’s not easy to defend but if I put a small amount of effort into making up more I could overburden any opposition with the volume of conspiracies.
BTW if you think I am reaching in my depiction of the typical liberal bush bashing, you should know that pandagon’s comments gave me the idea. Seriously:
“Starting with keeping many black voters in Florida from voting in 2000, to doing the same in Ohio in 2004, and now to just watching “looters” suffer and die in the South…
I find myself getting really, really jaded. Is this a democracy? We’re getting closer and closer to genocide every day…”
http://www.pandagon.net/archives/2005/09/dear_racist_fuc.html
You can’t make this up, its too sick.
1. Wow….embrace yourself…you could not imagine what is going to happen.
“BUSH’S NEXT SUPREME COURT NOMINEE – SCALIA AND THOMAS CLONE”
the liberals are happy that cloning is illegal. the conservatives are unhappy that cloning is illegal.
2. Meanwhile
“PRESIDENT BUSH TEMPORARILY NOMINATES JUDGE JUDY UNTIL A REAL JUSTICE IS CONFIRMED”
Trust me, stranger things have happened
I’ll give you credit, Jeff. It ain’t easy to listen to Estrich’s voice long enough to get the story.
Thanks for taking one for the team.
While I understand that the premise of the question above relates the two, I really see no relation. Bush is president while a major hurricane hits the mainland – this happens in every presidency! In many cases, multiple times.
And while the hurricane affects thousands, if not millions, of people in the south, a supreme court appointment affects hundreds of millions of people, Americans and non, born and unborn, conservative and liberal.
It seems to me that the liberal perspective on supreme court appointments is this: the more popular the republican president, the more conservative he is allowed to appoint. The more unpopular, the more liberal he must appoint. Conversely, a liberal, popular president must appoint a liberal justice. Since the media is who seems to determine how popular a president is, we can pretty much always count on a liberal recommendation from the press. This is about as unprincipaled as it can get – the nation needs another principaled justice, and the sooner the better.
For me, and I hope many others, I hope that both Roberts and the replacement for Rehnquist are perfectly constructionist. I realize that to liberals, constructionist equals: old-fashioned, fuddy-duddy, anti-progressive, etc., etc… however, I think that if you were to survey the constructors, you would find them not only to be genious, you would find them to be conservative, consistent, and revolutionary.
I am not a bush kool-aid drinker, but I recognize a far more polluted kool-aid on the democrat side. I just hope that Bush does the right thing with these appointments…
TJ
Ugh, I love Susan Estrich because she’s so wacky and harmless. This is a touch more offensive than usual for her, though.
It would be *so* unlike this President to nominate a minority, since he’s appointed blacks, women, and hispanics many times already (even though Angelos says, in his own enlightened words, that Bush is afraid of “Negroes”). And even if he did, does the name “Clarence Thomas” ring a bell? Republicans are merely hated by the left; the mere thought of minority Republicans cause the leftist brain to shortcircuit and explode twenty times a nanosecond. There’s always some offensive, confabulated excuse why a Republican minority is illegitimate or evil… tyrants, Uncle Toms, whatever. Minorities apparently aren’t allowed to have their own individual politics, but must be made to follow one party like mindless lemmings.
Still, the lightweight Estrich is probably just banking on the odds that Bush will nominate a black or woman after nominating a very white male. The odds are very good, since Bush has a record of doing that anyway, and so Estrich probably figures she’ll look bright for making the prediction, or possibly even be able to claim later to have helped create some pressure. It’s about as prescient, though, as predicting a sunny day in summer, so it probably will not impress anyone, not even fellow Democrats.
He should appoint Estrich. The idiot left deserves representation too and whom better to do it than good old Susan?