Adventures in My Mind
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Oct 4, 2005
Could've been worse; could've been better.
She's not a foaming at the mouth and falling over backward kind of conservative like we all expected, but she is a corporate lawyer (strike 1), from Texas (strike 2), and one of his cronies (strike 3).
Add to that that she has no discernable record to understand her judicial philosophy and how she comport herself on the highest bench in the land. And of course, the Whitehouse and senate Republicans want to keep her papers as Whitehouse counsel secret.
Again, I'm just amazed the hubris of this administration. Clearly, they were emboldened by the relative ease of the Roberts confirmation. How else do you explain diving right into the crony pool while accusations, allegations, and confirmed proof of incompetence of other crony appointees throughout the Bush administration?
George W. Bush is not a good man. And I say that for one reason and one reason only: his pathological inability to compromise. Say what you will about his shady business dealings, his servitude to the oil industry, his avenging Christian warrior stance against Islam, his deceitful public record, but I find him to be lacking in character because damn the consequences attitude toward his own opinion. It is reckless. It is unforgiving. It is self-centered. It is the hallmark of individual who doesn't give a damn about anyone else other than himself.
Time after time we are smacked in the mouth by lies, deceit, ulterior motives, inexactitudes, and an overall contempt for both the rule of law and democracy by him and his administration.
This nomination is no different. He made up his mind that this is what he wanted to, despite indications that say he shouldn't, and went ahead and did. And if Democrats rightly criticize this nominee as a crony and being absent any record by which to judged for competency for the position, they will branded as obstructionists who are standing in the way of government being able to do its a job. As if the Bush adminstration has ever given a damn about what courts think, unless of course it is to give them an election win or the ability to indefinitely confine and hold secret tribunals for detainees of the "War on Terror."
I can't believe that the next presidential elections are still 3 years away.
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