[AntiGuv]

A bit of what our Tory friends across the Pond are thinking. They sure don't pull any punches!

[AntiGuv]

ping!

[vbmoneyspender]

following an earlier uninspired choice

They must not be following things too closely

[carl in alaska]

I wouldn't call John Roberts an "uninspired choice." These editorialists did not interview Roberts in the oval office. Bush knows his views extremely well at this point. A man like Roberts is not going to lie to the President in an interview in the oval office.

[saganite]

The bushbots will be here shortly to condemn these "elitists".

[Ben Mugged]

And neither do we. All Republican Senators voted for Ruth Vader Ginsberg. GW nominated Harriet Miers and she will be confirmed. That's the truth of it. Get over it.

[msnimje]

There are supposedly 1,084,504 lawyers in the United States, the most judicially-obsessed country on earth (no doubt there are already even more since that last count); out of this 1m-strong universe, Ms Miers would not make the shortlist of even the top 5,000. She has been nominated because she is a close confidante of the President, a former staff secretary, personal lawyer and currently White House counsel.




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[Cicero]

The Tories need to clean up their own act. They have been in the wilderness since they pushed Maggie Thatcher over the side, and there are no signs yet that they have found a decent leader.

[RichInOC]

Okay, now Roberts is mediocre? I guess that's why Dubya made two attempts trying to get him on the DC Circuit. I guess that's why Poppy tried to get him on the DC Circuit in 1992. Seems like an awful lot of respect to pay a mediocrity, don't you think?

[Torie]

This screed seems to mention the SCOTUS nominees in passing (characterizing recklessly Roberts and Miers as seemingly two peas in the same pod) as a launch pad for a jihad against Bush for wrecking the Reagan revolution, and is not bothered with many specifics. Just what was the Reagan revolution, and just how is Bush wrecking it? Reagan and Bush both didn't mind spending money to grease the political wheels, both were into deficits and tax cuts (well Reagan largely reversed his, and Bush hasn't reversed his but whatever), and both were strong on defense, and both favored or favor in effect immigration amnesties. The only thing I can see Bush wrecked was Reagan's gift for communication, which Bush does not have, and never did, and never will.

[Torie]

Oh also, the author didn't live up to his Manchurian candidate headline. Who is the man or woman or evil organization behind the curtain pulling the Bush sockpuppet strings? The theme of the headline is totally absent from the ensuing text.

[Brad’s Gramma]

WAKE UP!
FIRE IN THE HOLE!

CLICK THE BLASTING MACHINE
STOP FREEPATHONS!

[counterpunch]

Mr Bush has made the mediocre John Roberts, a moderate conservative with an undistinguished legal track record, the new Chief Justice

But President Bush exemplifies excellence in mediocrity!
I think John Roberts was an inspired choice, personally.
As was Harriet Miers... but inspired by what, exactly, one should ask.

[cardinal4]

These would be the same Tories who have been minority to Labour since John Major?

[TheDon]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1498597/posts?page=80#80

[muawiyah]

"W" is going to have 3 more chances to nominate members of the Supreme Court. Even the Brits should have realized that.

[Ann Archy]

Sorry, but John Roberts was a BRILLIANT choice!!

[WOSG]

"The Roberts appointment is not a disaster, though it shows a poverty of imagination."

ROFLMAO... Bush only picked the most qualified person out there... how "unimaginative" to not pick an ACLU lawyer like Clinton did.

[BushisTheMan]

where's the BARF alert?

[sinkspur]

President Bush and his entourage are cultural conservatives, rather than radicals in the mould of Reagan, who was driven by his belief that freeing individuals and liberating the economy would produce a new and better society.

Ah, yes. Ronald Reagan, who knew nothing about Sandra Day O'Connor or Anthony Kennedy, and nominated them both.

Ronald Reagan, who cut and ran after 267 Marines were killed in Lebanon.

Ronald Reagan, who signed ZERO anti-abortion bills.

Ronald Reagan, who cut taxes, then raised them again, two years later.

I loved Ronald Reagan, who restored hope to this country after Jimmy Carter's malaise. But he had three SC picks, and he struck out on two of them.