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To: Sully- who wrote (9696)	5/6/2005 4:26:51 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

Betsy's Page Brandon Crocker sums up the silliness of the Democrats' logic on filibusters. <<< It is also an important distinction to note that the Clinton nominees who were blocked by Republicans were blocked by majorities, not by filibustering minorities. Using Democratic logic, it is dirty politics for majorities to hold up a president's judicial nominees, but it is vital to the health of the country that minorities be allowed to hold up a president's judicial nominees. CAN ANY SERIOUS PERSON take the Democrats seriously any more? The Democrats claim that the judicial nominees against whom they continue to filibuster threaten the Republic as they are "too conservative" and might make rulings based on their own personal convictions rather than the law. What personal convictions might those be? Well, that the Constitution is the law of the land, for one. To believe the Democrats, the constitutional rights of Americans are not threatened by the Democrats' favorite "mainstream" judges -- such as those who dominate the most overturned court in the land, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, or Supreme Court Justices like Anthony Kennedy or Ruth Bader Ginsburg who think that the Constitution is a "living" document subject to ratification by a majority of Supreme Court Justices who should be guided by, among other things, the laws and popular feeling in other countries -- but by judges who are "too conservative" in believing that the Constitution trumps the laws of Belgium, or whatever Justice Kennedy might believe should be "fundamental" rights on any given day. >>> He then goes on to ridicule Mario Cuomo's ignorant radio address last Saturday. If you missed that one, I explained a little constitutional history to Mario last week. posted by Betsy Newmark betsyspage.blogspot.com theamericanprowler.com betsyspage.blogspot.com

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