Posted on 03/18/2016 7:58:46 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
JUDY WOODRUFF: President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court to take the spot that Justice Scalia, the late Justice Scalia had, David, Merrick Garland, what do make of the choice, and what does it say about what the president wants on the court?
DAVID BROOKS: Well, frankly, I think it’s an excellent choice. He’s a guy with apparently an amazing temperament. He is the model of judicial restraint.
He seems to be a man of both amazing integrity and capacity to be emotionally moved. And so everything I hear about him is superlative.
And, if I’m a Republican, frankly, running the Senate, I’m thinking, this is the best I’m going to get. And if Donald Trump is down 15 points in the summer or fall, I would confirm this guy, because Hillary Clinton, if she gets elected, who knows what the Senate will look like. It will be, from a Republican point of view, a lot worse.
So I think Republicans should say, OK, we will take this guy, because he’s — from their point of view, he’s a model of restraint.
(CROSSTALK)
MARK SHIELDS: I agree and echo what David has said about Judge Garland.
And, Judy, the knocks on him from the liberal side is, A, he’s a white male. And, you know, you have to have somebody who’s, I don’t know what, biracial or something else.
JUDY WOODRUFF: But he’s too much of a centrist.
MARK SHIELDS: That he — and he’s 63 years old, which doesn’t seem old at all to me.
(LAUGHTER)
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(Sigh)
Can’t we just start the hangings?
The ‘journalistic double standard’ is aggravating me so much tonight that I just cannot comment.
Two leftists and a pseudo-moderate republican having a discussion.
Sorry PBS, not interested.
..what does it say about what the president wants on the court? DAVID BROOKS: Well, frankly, I think it’s an excellent choice...
Yes, has fanatically pro abortion, and rabidly anti gun. He voted to rehear and therefore overturn Heller.
And if Hillary goes to jail...
I thought Shields and Brooks was a country western duo.
“capacity to be emotionally moved.” -— It’s bad enough when elected officials lose their brains and use their emotions.
Why would I care what Brooke Shields thinks?
No!..I think its a new brand of geriatric diaper....
Day 1, puff peace on this punk a tivist judge. Day 2, find out he is an anti-gun zealot. Days after, leftist and fake republican’s start fawning.
And what if Mrs. Bill Clinton is down 15 points in the summer, what would you guys do?
Or maybe a mime team?
(Yeah, we wish!)
Regards,
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