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To: RetiredNow who wrote (112645)	4/19/2012 1:39:29 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 149317

Judicial Restraint Pretty Much Obsolete on the Right These Days —By Kevin Drum Thu Apr. 19, 2012 8:39 AM PDT In an otherwise tedious case about milk regulation, Appellate Judge Janice Rogers Brown decided to give her inner Randian free rein last week. "Cowboy capitalism" is dead she moaned, and courts are at fault for not slapping down legislatures both local and national that infringe on economic rights. It was a pretty remarkable performance, all the more so since it really had nothing to do with the case at hand. So what gives? I think Dahlia Lithwick gets it right here: There’s one other point worth making, before we leave Judge Brown to her open-mic libertarian musings. She is, beyond any doubt, apt to appear on any short list for Mitt Romney’s choice to replace any of the four Supreme Court Justices who are currently in their 70s, some of whom will be 80 by the 2016 elections. In that light, this concurrence looks less like a judicial opinion than a job application. I have written before how ironic it is that a liberal jurist can be disqualified from a judicial confirmation hearing for expressing a single progressive idea in a law review article, whereas when it comes to conservative judicial nominees extreme and full-throated ideological exhortations are usually an added bonus. For Brown, the choice to write an opinion eviscerating New Deal worker and health protections at precisely the moment these issues are burning up cable television and Tea Party rallies is just smart politics. It’s hard to imagine a liberal shortlister attempting the same and surviving a Supreme Court confirmation bid. Or a confirmation bid of any sort, really. Yep. Both Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan had to practically disavow any settled opinions on anything, and even so got plenty of rabid opposition from gun groups, abortion groups, and other right-wing groups convinced they saw a glimmer of a shadow of a penumbra of liberal thought in some choice of words a dozen years ago or an ambiguous decision handed down that touched on some hot button issue. But Brown? She just lets it rip. Apparently she's not worried that it will hurt her at all with a future President Romney. I have a feeling this might become a trend. Conservative judges have been feeling less and less restraint over the past few years about expressing their small-government bona fides, and the recent oral arguments over Obamacare were a kind of high court permission to let politics roam freely in judicial proceedings. I suspect a lot more lower court judges are going to take advantage of that. motherjones.com

To: RetiredNow who wrote (112645)	4/19/2012 1:49:46 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Greece is already in tears and they are destroying themselves further with every day that passes using your method of solutions. Actually Greece has a massive austerity program... what you're recommending for the US and not what Ted is recommending.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (112645)	4/19/2012 2:46:19 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

If you haven't noticed, Greece is in CHAOS right now. It's a mini revolution going on and the economy is in tatters. Is all of that worth it just so Greece may pay back some portion of extortionate loans to the EU countries it owes to? If the Greek people had any power, they would have been far better off doing what Iceland did. Put the bad bankers and politicians in jail. Default on their loans, balance their budget. Re-institute their own currency and tighten up on tax collection and reform. Those are the fundamental things they need to address, and have yet to do so. Greece is already in tears and they are destroying themselves further with every day that passes using your method of solutions. Uh..........one size does not fit all. The Greeks are in trouble because of the Greeks, not because of their banks. Do some research before you comment. As for solutions, the Greeks have been forced to do what you are recommending for the US..........austerity, austerity, austerity. They are not my "method of solutions". They are all yours baby. One thing we can agree on.......its killing the country.