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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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From: Dale Baker5/7/2008 9:21:57 AM
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If this is how McCain views the role of Congress vis a vis the White House, then he will be very much a third Bush term. Sounds like Congress is supposed to roll over, play dead and bring the president his morning newspaper too.

Hopefully Obama will draw some sharp contrasts there, and in the SC judges they would appoint. Only a minority of the country is ardently conservative; this is an issue where McCain hurts himself in the center while shoring up his base.

"Sen. McCain noted that while he had voted for President Clinton's two Supreme Court nominations, Sens. Obama and Hillary Clinton had opposed those of President Bush. The Senate, he said, had a duty to confirm any "qualified" nominee, apparently defining the term to mean holding acceptable academic and professional credentials. "Under our Constitution, it is the president's call to make," he said.

Full article at online.wsj.com
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