President Bush Picks Former Senator [Tennessee's Fred Thompson] to Aid Supreme Court Vote

LifeNews ^ | July 6, 2005 | Steven Ertelt

[johnny7]

Thanks... maybe we can give Thompson a two-by-four. I'd like to see Leahey in that standing, body-cast.

[linkinpunk]

Good move.

[johnny7]

Na...

[Phlap]

Harry Reid sugested in the RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL that Bush pick Senator Byrd.

Reid cited Justice Hugo Black of Alabama as a former senator who was appointed to the Supreme Court. Black, a member of the Ku Klux Klan in his youth, was appointed to the court by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1937.

“I think it is a great idea,” Reid said about the possibility of appointing a senator to the Supreme Court. “Some outstanding people have come from the Senate. The last was an ex-Ku Klux Klansman who turned out to be one of the greatest civil-rights jurists of all time.”

Currently the only sitting senator who is a former Klansman is Sen Byrd.

[Phlap]

Wasn't a comment like that why Trent lost his job?

[lightingguy]

Hunt for Red October ping

[VRWCmember]

Wasn't he Buford Pusser in 'Walking Tall'?

Nope, that was Joe Don Baker. They look a lot alike though.

[jokar]

Wasn't he Buford Pusser in 'Walking Tall'?

that was Joe Don Baker.