John Roberts
So Bush's pick for the Supreme Court is John Roberts. The first thing that comes to mind with this is that Matt Drudge is utterly and completely full of shit.
A few weeks ago, he was headlining with news that his sources had confirmed that Rehnquist was going to resign. WRONG. Today, as soon as it became clear that Bush was going to make his announcement tonight, Drudge plastered Edith Clement's photo across his site and made it very clear that he believed 100% that she was the pick.
WRONG.
I have a certain fascination with the Drudge Report. I go there regularly and check it most often in times of breaking news, because Drudge has very low standards for what he's willing to report, which means that he's always one step "ahead" of the "respectable" media and is willing to post stuff before anyone else would- never mind the fact that he's wrong quite a bit.
Bottom line is, his site's got a high entertainment value.
And he is utterly and completely full of shit.
Anyway, from the very little that I've heard, it seems like Roberts is a good pick for the court. He's a judge who's conservative enough to appease Bush's base but not so far out there that Democrats are going to be able to cry bloody murder. As a liberal person, I'm disappointed to see a conservative being appointed to the court. But, being that Bush is the president and the majority of people in this country are conservative, I think this choice was pretty well thought out. He got what he wanted without blatantly offending the dissenting party.
posted by Jeff @ 7/19/2005 10:41:00 PM
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Jeff,
You should have heard Drudge's anti Harry Potter comments last Sunday night on WABC.
He was talking as if the Potter series is going to make all of America's children turn away from religion and become Satan worshiping witches.
Strange that he didn't criticize Lord of the Rings or fantasy books and gaming in general.
It was one of the most simpleminded rants I've heard in a long time;I simply had no idea he was incapable of accepting the Harry Potter series for what it is; moderately well written but entertaining escapism for children that has helped spark good reading habits...
I think the problem here is imagination. Imagination leads to free will and free will leads to dangerous thinking. Let's put the hocus pocus books down for a second and accept the Lord into our hearts. And obey. Don't forget to obey.
Roberts was 25th-most conservative out of 37 Republican candidates I looked at (totally non-scientifically).
So Roberts might be kind of near the middle of the Republican party, but he's nowhere near the center of the country, where he should be, given the outcome of the last election.
Roberts has a toe in all the different kinds of bad stuff Republicans are about. With the environment, abortion, and human rights, he has a whole leg in.
Most of the current conservative commentators are authoritarian conservatives... true "conservatives" are not self-appointed guardians of public morality, but are fully supportive of individuals' rights, and are very wary of giving government at any level too much power.
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