Thursday, October 27, 2005

Harriet Hello and Goodbye...

For better or worse, Bush Supremes nominee Harriet Miers has asked the President to withdraw her nomination and he has reluctantly complied. The alleged reason is a desire not to enter the realm of having to disclose confidential material, but the withdrawal is probably due to the fact that it was simply not working.

HazZzmat has been a bit confused about this whole issue all along. We generally trust W and saw no real empirical evidence to reject this nominee out of hand. On the other hand, true blue (or red) conservatives remember Bush I's inadvertent betrayal when, nominating Justice Souter to the bench as a stealth candidate who couldn't get Borked, he ended up appointing an ultra lib who has dogged the court ever since, backing and sometimes writing wretched decision after wretched decision.

Additionally, the conservatives really seem to be spoiling for a Senate fight this time, forcing the invocation of the "constitutional option" (we won't use the liberal term) to, presumably, humiliate the Democrats by forcing a Bork-like conservative judge through in spite of Dem objections. The Repubs should remember that their majority isn't absolute and the bipartisan "Gang of 14" could foil them at any time.

We ourselves are looking for a reliable strict constructionist, but it's not time for the Repubs to get cocky and force a fight. Sometimes if you long for something too much, you just might end up getting it.

This blog's main emphasis is on rescuing the culture (when we're not fulminating about something else), so you might wonder why the court stuff catches our attention. But remember, culture vultures--if the domination of our literary, cultural, and media organizations by hardcore leftists bothers you, simply recall how this has evolved over the last half-century: via the unelected, liberal-leaning Supreme Court, packed for years with creative leftist judges who are only to happy to legislate left and provide cover for their Democrat friends. The aggregate weight of this mass of disastrous rulings has resulted in the coddling of criminals, the eviction of religion from public discourse, and the most inscrutible and least scientifically defensible decision on the value of human life in the lifetime of this nation.

One way you can devastate a culture is by using the law as a tool for dismantling it. This has gone on too long and has been obviously destructive--something the conservatives are bound and determined to end, at least for a generation. We like this idea ourselves and support it. But with media propagandists working against this outcome 24/7, waving a red flag in front of them is probably not the way to win. Like it or not, largely due to the lies and negative propaganda of the left, the public as a whole straddles the fence on this issue. Getting cocky before you win is not the way to move the fence sitters to your side.

W understood this, which is undoubtedly why he tried to nominate a stealth candidate who, like Chief Justice Roberts, didn't have much baggage upon which the left could hang its bogus case. But Ms. Meirs proved to be a little too stealthy for the faithful with a long and bitter memory of the Souter disaster. Yes, it would be fun to stuff the 'Rats through the rim with a slam dunk. But don't count on automatic success, folks. These people didn't stay in power for nearly 60 straight years by not learning a thing or two.

The Republicans won an inning (presumably) with the Roberts home run. And it was fun. But it's not fun if you end up losing the game.

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