Posted on 06/28/2012 9:19:39 PM PDT by Nachum
Ann Coulter prophesied the coming split between Chief Justice Roberts and conservatives back in 2005, writing that "Stealth nominees have never turned out to be a pleasant surprise for conservatives."
After pretending to consider various women and minorities for the Supreme Court these past few weeks, President Bush decided to disappoint all the groups he had just ginned up and nominate a white male.
So all we know about him for sure is that he can't dance and he probably doesn't know who Jay-Z is. Other than that, he is a blank slate. Tabula rasa. Big zippo. Nada. Oh, yeah ... We also know he's argued cases before the Supreme Court. Big deal; so has Larry Flynt's attorney.
But unfortunately, other than that that, we don't know much about John Roberts. Stealth nominees have never turned out to be a pleasant surprise for conservatives. Never. Not ever.
Since the announcement, court-watchers have been like the old Kremlinologists from Soviet days looking for clues as to what kind of justice Roberts will be.
(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...
Harriet Miers was replaced by Alito.
“But why on earth would Bush waste a nomination on a person who is a complete blank slate when we have a majority in the Senate!”
Remember, at that time, the Democrat minority in the Senate was interminably stalling all judicial nominees in committee, or by preventing cloture. We could have used the “nuclear option” to override that, and gotten our nominees through, but the moderates in the Senate formed the “Gang of 14” to prevent that, and instead set themselves up as the brokers of all judicial nominees. After that, Bush’s nominees had to get past the Gang of 14’s nebulous “extraordinary circumstances” clause, in order to prevent the previous standoff from returning.
That’s the reason we “wasted a nomination” trying to put someone in the court who did not seem too partisan. For this, we can thank the “Republicans”:
Lincoln Chafee (R-RI)
Susan Collins (R-ME)
Mike DeWine (R-OH)
Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
John McCain (R-AZ)
Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
John Warner (R-VA)
Why?
Ah yes, forgot about that.
I agree completely with that- but I've always wondered-Who was the idiot, Bush or Rove? I know that Bush was ultimately responsible for those disastrous second term decisions, but where did they originate?
“Harriet Miers billboards”
WWHD (What would Harriet Do)?
And while I am at it, let me rant a little bit. I live in Maryland so for decades my vote has never mattered - for President, Senate, House. Yet I thought yesterday that even if we had the reincarnation of Ronald Reagan, and he was able to win Maryland. And by a miracle of God we got Repub Senators voted in from Maryland, and replaced the leftists with conservatives, it does not matter. One guy in a black robe nullifies all of that. And it seems to be like professional wrestling - all planned and choreographed with just one person swinging the other way to prevent the pendulum swinging back to the Constitution.
What difference does it make?
It’s a joke. You know a joke, but what the hell...?
“It’s a joke. You know a joke, but what the hell...?”
Mine wasn’t. Well.. maybe just a little..
It’s ironic that Coulter now strongly supports the liberal socialist Mittens, the architect of Obamacare, for president.
That alone calls into question the credibility of her entire archive.
I remember when he was nominated. I like him but didn't have much info. I read one of her columns and wondered aloud....
“Damn...she was precient”
True. Why is she so in the tank for Romney?
“True. Why is she so in the tank for Romney?”
That’s been my question. I just can’t understand it.
And she’s been in the tank for him for quite a while now.
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