[Congressman Billybob]

The Chronicle is typical of most of the lib-Dems both in and out of office in this editorial. It demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to have a written Constitution, and why that is rendered a nullity if Justices pick and choose whether they will obey and enforce it.

John / Billybob

[SwinneySwitch]

"....the role of the justice they were nominated to replace..."

Irrelevant, your honor!

[Kimmers]

Excellent post!!!!!

[knews_hound]

BTTT

Nice column John.

Cheers,

knewshound

[Christian4Bush]

BillyBob BUMP

[Jaysun]

In some ways I actually enjoy reading liberal tripe like that pointed out in this article. Liberal control freaks are hilarious when they aren't in control.

[pogo101]

Tsk, John, I'm sure if we went back and checked the Chron archives, we'd find its editorials decrying the nomination of openly liberal Ginsburg to replace the largely conservative White.

Right? Of course we would!

/sarcasm.

[HarleyLady27]

San Franciso is unfit to be anything

[SmithL]

Here is the original thread on that editorial:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559819/posts

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

That last sentence summarized the entire MSM, plus detailing why they're rapidly going the way of the Dodo.

[Fielding]

As long as they don't claim to journalists or chroniclers, who cares? Oh my!! This rag is named the Chronicle. Perhaps they use a different language that English.

[04-Bravo]

I would rather read a back-issue of Pravda.

[dirtboy]

I just brained myself on a low beam in the basement and have a towel pressed to my head to stop the bleeding.

And suddenly, the points in the Chronicle Editorial make sense.

Maybe if I go back down in the basement and run into that beam a few more times, I can become a liberal.

[concentric circles]

Easy pickin's for today's commentary. Every writer needs a day like that.

I'm surprised the editorial board didn't just keep on digging the hole they were in and criticize Judge Alito for denying the relevance of foreign law in cases before the Supreme Court.

[E-2K]

Sorry to wax into a vanity post, but The American Heritage Dictionary definines "Chronicle" as follows: (krŏn'ĭ-kəl) n. An extended account in prose or verse of historical events, SOMETIMES legendary material, presented in chronological order and WITHOUT authorial interpretation or comment. The San Francisco Chronicle, contrary to the definition above contains MOSTLY legendary material presented WITH MOSTLY authorial interpretation and comment. For that matter, how many other worthless rag sheets also carry the name "Chronicle"?

[Alia]

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[Alia]

To wit, Congressman Billybob. What the SF Chronicle has published under its "veil" of "editorial" is usual -- it is willful propoganda, IME, rather than "lack of knowledge".

[billbears]

No one wants a “moderate” policeman, who will capture some of the criminals if he feels like it. No one wants a “centrist” surgeon, who will correct some of the patient’s physical problems, but not others. And perhaps no one wants a newspaper which attempts to write authoritatively about the role of the Justice of the Supreme Court in total ignorance of facts readily available to any competent researcher.

No but a conservative, non Republican that is, wants someone that respects the separation of powers and can recognize that the administration has overstepped its bounds. A main reason that Luttig or Janice Rogers Brown wasn't nominated. It wasn't the fear they couldn't get past the hearings, it was the fear they may stand against the administration. 'Competent research' shows that clearly enough

Considering there is only one conservative on the bench currently (Justice Thomas), Bush is not about to put another up there. Alito is a good company man and unfortunately will agree with the administration instead of reading the Constitution and the inherent limitations therein.

[.cnI redruM]

Rather then Stare Decisis, they were looking for Decisis en Saxem. McCain_Feingold can directly preempt the first amendment, but Roe v. Wade can never come up for discussion. You'd have to drink like a Kennedy to honestly believe that.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1556698/posts

[kevkrom]

One of the tip-offs was that the article claimed for homosexuals “the right to bear children.”

And they want to be called "Loretta". The fact that they physically can't have children is no one's fault, though, not even the Romans.

[Clintonfatigued]

Should anybody be surprised?