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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: CYBERKEN who wrote (142223)	5/3/2001 5:59:55 PM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (3) of 769670

OK, I have too much free time today so I'm gonna get in some trouble now. What the Dems are doing on the Judiciary committee may be ill-advised, ill-timed or the product of desparation rather than compellingly persuasive argument. But look at the climate in Washington now. We have the Attorney General blocking the appointment of Ronnie White on some issue trumped up to pump up his senatorial campaign. We have the only(and eminently qualified) black federal judge ever to serve in Jesse Helms federal circuit in a lame duck situation because of a midnight appointment, we have dozens if not scores of other Clinton appointments languishing for years before a judiciary committee that has blatantly and shamelessly dragged its feet for purely political reasons. Add to this the relentless drumbeat from James Baker after the election going to whatever lengths necessary to undermine the public faith in the ability of anyone -anyone-from local canvassing board to circuit judge to appeals court to Florida supreme court--even in the face of facts to the contrary--to act in a nonpartisan manner....combined with the knee-jerk reaction by every conservative on this thread and elsewhere on SI that any judge who ruled in any way against a republican case could not have done so on the basis of law but only because they were appointed by democrats....and you have some of the basis of deep distrust now afoot in Congress. What goes around comes around, baby. If Baker won on the basis of creating mistrust of the judicial branch, and promoting the idea that people are fundamentally partisan(even if "unconsciously"), then that's what he gets: a supreme court that no one in his right mind could call impartial in Bush v Gore and the perception that Republicans have nothing more in mind than to pack every court they can gets their mits on with the most partial of judges. This atmosphere is extremely damaging and the Reps share at least equal responsibility for it. Who do you think you're kidding, anyway?

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