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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (139949)	4/21/2001 7:03:03 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Ish, I don't know anything about it. We have a lot of geese in Colorado in the winter. Scumbria

To: Ish who wrote (139949)	4/21/2001 8:22:48 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

A federal government that assumes it has the right to make such a regulation, and meets no serious opposition, is a greater danger to its citizens than to its geese. The judicial nominations are starting to come up, and may include a replacement for Sandra Day O'Conner (71) by late Summer. Bush is looking at nominating an Hispanic from Texas, and the left-wing Senate minority will be forced into choosing between their 90%-voting black minority (which wants NO nominations from this administration, unless its Rev. Sharpton himself) and the emerging Hispanic middle class. The census shows that this rising Hispanic group is becoming dominant in California, a state that has, of late, been a cornerstone of left-wing electoral support. I suspected that Clinton, having arranged to skate on perjury and obstruction in the Senate, would be permanently blocked from naming a justice by the Nichols/Gramm faction, which can muster over 40 votes on a cloture motion any time they want. We never got the chance to find out. The same is now true, IMO, of the Daschle/Kennedy/Clinton faction. But the left plays into the hands of the right once more if they choose this short-run strategy, because: 1) There will undoubtedly be a Democratic president again some day, but he's unlikely to have 60 votes in his pocket in the Senate. And... 2) In the absence of being able to bring about any reasonable tort reform, or put a brake on further Roe v Wade-type judicial legislating, simply closing down the judicial branch would be the next best thing as opposed to watching it continue to destroy our society. Liberals NEED their Court, even if they are temporarily irritated by the Florida decision. It would be interesting to see USSC cases coming to a tie on a Court of 8, 6, 4, or 2, and even more interesting to see the left dealing with an empty court. Better still, how about a Thomas/Scalia Court? (Not them in charge, simply them AS THE COURT ITSELF). Last I heard about Thomas being asked about his continuing harrassment by the left regarding the phony scandal they tried to stop him with, he reportedly just smiled and said "Appointed for life...".