Chuck Schumer Says He’ll Veto the Next Alito
Posted on November 15, 2006
Well, all the nightmares predicted and warned about before the elections are coming true. Cut and run in Iraq, creating rights for terrorists, Congress doors opened to groups like CAIR, intensified push to kill the NSA program, and now any hope for a Constitutionalist majority on the Supreme Court dashed. Schumer talks about judges like Alito, but if it comes to the point that Bush has an opportunity to select another SCOTUS judge he may not even get a Harriet Myers by.
More than the inability to influence Iraq policy or the President’s tax cuts, Chuck Schumer says that the single greatest failure of the Democrats as an opposition party was allowing Samuel Alito to join the Supreme Court.
“Judges are the most important,” said Mr. Schumer, who orchestrated the implausible Democratic takeover of the Senate last week. “One more justice would have made it a 5-4 conservative, hard-right majority for a long time. That won’t happen.”
From now on, all the President’s judicial appointments will need to meet the requirements of Mr. Schumer, the Park Slope power broker who has happily accepted the mantle of chief architect for the Democrats’ effort to build a majority for the 2008 elections and beyond.
Jeez! I doubt anyone to the right of Nadine Strossen would meet Mr. Schumer’s requirements!
Well, hey! America voted for this “new direction.” I hope all those that stayed at home or did a protest vote are happy. With the Republican picks lately I am hoping the SCOTUS stays the same for the next two years. Maybe we can turn this ship around by then and at least hold out a little hope of saving our judicial branch from the “foreign law” lovers.
Well, if anyone really believed the “bipartisan” meme that the Democrats peddled before the election, here’s the story that should disabuse them once and for all. Chuckles Schumer has flat out promised Bush will not get any more conservatives onto the Supreme Court. Or any Federal court anywhere, ever. Oh, and the loot goes to New York, too.
Hat tip: Hot Air
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That just means the Pro Life supporter have a chance to be obstructionist. I am curious how Americans will feel, when a Democratic controlled Congress can not get its act together, to consent to a judicial pick.
I am also curious whether the GOP will act according to the values they preached when running for election. If they do not, then they need to be removed from office, until conservatives can get some trustworthy politicians into office.
I think that is the wrong attitude Kerwin. That is what happened in this election. Its kinda like saying, hey you’re driving too fast. Pull over and let us put this monkey at the wheel! You take the power from one side you give it to the other. Until you can radically bring a revolution and a third party with it…this will continue to be the truth of it.
But sadly, the GOP will not all of a sudden snap to attention if we continue to vote them in when they repeatedly ignore their base. That’s basically saying “you failed us, you ignore us, but we’ll vote for you anyway because we’re afraid of the Democrats.” The revolution has to start within. The last time we did that we got Ronald Reagan. Besides, the Democrats just won the elections and are already railing on each other. Its fun to watch.
It may be amusing to watch right now, but when they make a serious blunder the laughing will stop.
Jay, they won’t make a blunder. They’ll be spending the next 2 years doing nothing but investigating Bush and arguing with each other, if they accomplish even that much.
The idea is that the antics of the Democrats need to be displayed before the People at every chance. Schumer has no desire to go by the rule of law and would rather dictate his political views on the rest of us. The Democrats voted such an apparent megalomaniac into power.