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

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (169684)	8/9/2001 11:01:52 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

She's got a fan club site. Check it out yourself. Found some writings......bon appetit;) Ralph Nies [phonetic], President of People for the American Way, has said, "There is more at stake in these nominations than ever before in our history." Now, first of all, can you imagine the hue and cry if an actually patriotic organization called itself "People For the American Way"? But moreover, evidently there aren’t a lot of Americans who are for the American way, otherwise liberals wouldn’t need Federal Judges to invent ludicrous constitutional rights, jamming the American way down our throats. Nies, along with the ACLU, the ABA, La Rosa [phonetic], and the rest of the rainbow coalition, including the most vicious left-wing propaganda machine of all, the media, insist that their Soviet agitprop has nothing to do with politics. They evaluate judicial nominees, they claim, solely on the basis of their respect for constitutional rights. As Nies says, "The Senate owes its first allegiance to the American people and to the Constitution." By Constitution, he means every crackpot, quote, "right" liberals have been able to sneak into Supreme Court opinions in the last fifty years. And there are lots of them. Rights for killers, pornographers, stinky homeless people, transsexuals, and non-smokers. The "Constitution," the Constitution is in quotes, that is, is oddly silent, however, on the rights of babies, crime victims, and property owners. But liberals can’t admit that what they mean by constitutional rights is a collection of ideological victories completely unconnected to the language of the Constitution. Otherwise, the America people would really be against the American way. So liberals speak in code. Constitutional rights means the entire ideological agenda of the ACLU, privacy rights means sticking a fork in a baby’s head, ideologue means people who don’t see anything about fetus brains in the Constitution, moderate is someone who believes the Constitution strictly prohibits punishing criminals, and centrist means certifiably insane. Now New York Times editorials will make sense to you. Centrist law professor, Cass Sunstein [phonetic], of the University of Chicago, wrote an hysterical jeremiad in The New York Times about the danger of conservative judges who, quote, "would interpret the Constitution in a way that would promote their agenda." But the only agenda conservatives have is for the Court to stop making stuff up and calling it constitutional rights. The conservative "agenda," is to return to a constitutional democracy so we can live in freedom and decide most issues for ourselves. Like the rules of golf. Hallucinating history, just like their pet judges hallucinate constitutional rights, Sunstein complained about the "Republican juggernaut, blocking Clinton’s centrist nominees." I happen to have noticed that although moderate and mainstream are also popular favorites, centrist really is the leading trendy term for a crazy person