Posted on 05/03/2009 9:19:02 AM PDT by FocusNexus
I honestly believe folks on the Hill have sold out their values.
Some might say, “sold their souls to the Devil.”
I think the real hope for America comes from across the fruited plain and not out of DC.
Looks like Obama voters will get judges who want to give them free gas and mortgages after all.
Don’t count your Hatch before he chickens.
Hatch talks tough until it counts. He had his lips so tightly planted on Janet Reno’s ass he talked with a speach impediment.
“I’m waiting for a leader and I don’t see one.”
On that, we agree!
Orrin Hatch is waste of carbon. He’s sucking the life out of the Republican party.
If Orrin Hatch votes against any of Obama’s nominees I’ll donate $2500 to his next campaign.
Presumably with a straight face.
This will be the litmus test by which ALL Obama-Biden bozos are judged. If not, demand that Joe Biden step down and apologize to Justice Thomas.
Senator Biden was the first questioner. Instead of the softball questions he’d promised to ask, he threw a beanball straight at my head, quoting from a speech I’d given four years earlier at the Pacific Legal Foundation and challenging me to defend what I’d said. ”I find attractive the arguments of scholars such as Stephen Macedo, who defend an activist Supreme Court that would strike down laws restricting property rights.” That caught me off guard, and I had no recollection of making so atypical a statement, which shook me up even more. “Now, it would seem to me what you were talking about,” Senator Biden went on to say, “is you find it attractive the fact that they are activists and they would like to strike down existing laws that impact on restricting the use of property rights, because you know, that is what they write about.”Since I didn’t remember making the statement in the first place, I didn’t know how to respond to it. All I could say in reply was that “it has been some time since I have read Professor Macedo … But I don’t believe that in my writings I have indicated that we should have an activist Supreme Court.” It was, I knew, a weak answer. Fortunately, though, the young lawyers who had helped prepare me for the hearing had loaded all of my speeches into a computer and at the first break in the proceedings they looked this one up. The senator, they found, had wrenched my words out of context. I looked at the text and saw that the passage he’d read out loud had been immediately followed by two other sentences: “But the libertarian argument overlooks the place of the Supreme Court in a scheme of separation of powers. One does not strengthen self-government and the rule of law by having the non-democratic branch of the government make policy.” The point I’d been making was the opposite of the one that Senator Biden claimed I had made.
pp 235-236 of "My Grandfather's Son" by Clarence Thomas
Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch believes the president has used code words indicating he wants to appoint an activist to the Supreme Court, who will push a liberal agenda.Hatch zeroed in on Obama's use of the word empathy in describing what he will look for in a new justice.
This is news?
You know you’re right.
Do you remember the conversations then?
He needs to bring 14 votes to our side!
That would be the essence of the bipartisanship of which he spoke.
His deeds of raw hypocrisy then are comparable to Neville Chamberlain’s ‘Peace in our time’ proclamation.
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