Conservative Caucus' Choice for Top Court . .

[MountainLaurel]

Is none other than our favorite christofacist, Judge Roy Moore. Ladies, got your burkas handy? Non-Christians, ready for a little pagan roast?

:puke:

Upstairs in the otherwise staid University Club yesterday was a gathering designed to annoy President Bush: Members of a group called the Conservative Caucus sat around an oval table wearing Ten Commandments pins on their lapels and declining to speak in the polite tones favored by Bush in this "dignified debate" over judicial nominations.

Here at this news conference, outgoing Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was not the "great American" deserving of a hug, as Bush said, but someone whose judicial philosophy concerning abortion rights was summarized as: "If it helps your career, then kill your baby." Here, the Supreme Court was not a venerable American institution but the body responsible for "decades of assault and abuse on the Constitution."

In this room, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, assumed to be Bush's personal favorite to replace O'Connor, is a "big step backward," and only one man, really, is qualified for the job: Roy Moore, former chief justice of Alabama, best known for refusing to follow a federal order to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments from the state courthouse and was therefore removed himself two years ago.

Moore is not here, except as a gauzy robed portrait smiling up from dozens of copies of his book, "So Help Me God," spread around the table. Instead, this is a kind of Draft Roy Moore movement, where his absence only adds to his followers' conviction that he is destined for something grander than this mere press conference. "A national hero to millions," Howard Phillips, chairman of the Conservative Caucus, says by way of introducing the man whose spirit hovers above the room. "The great patriot, that exemplary jurist, God's man for these times."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/13/AR2005071302441.html

[bryant69]

1. Man I hope Bush nominates Gonzeles

Just to see these pukes go crazy. It could split the party. Of course Gonzelaz would be terrible on the bench, but it sure would be gratifying to see the insanity.

Bryant
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[wli]

2. I don't think so

We need some kind of moratorium on these thugs trying to legislate and/or appoint their way out of responsibility. i.e. shut the federal government down until the criminal investigations are done.

[Kahuna-mia]

3. Gonzales for the Court

What a choice? On one side we have a man who can rationalize torture being legal, on the other side we have people who turn the nation into a theocracy. I guess I would have to go to the torture guy as being best choice, and the lesser of evils. On 9-11 allot of American's would have tortured people to get answers as an emotional response. We were an angry nation. I have heard discussions of Nuking Mecca. Maybe that is what turns me off most about the Bush's they take advantage of some our worst traits and make them policy, which is the heart of Fascism.
On the other side are people who believe that they have a lock on Biblical interpretation and that if you don't agree you are going to hell to burn forever. Which sounds allot like extremist religions elsewhere. If you assume that a non-believer is going to hell anyway, how much value does his life have to you. We already have a religious zealot on the High Court, Scalia. We don't need to add a conservative fundamentalist to go with him, if anything conservative protestants are more extreme than conservative catholic's.
With a more religiously motivated Court, we may see change slowly, but we will see it. The first thing to go is the Right of Choice. The court will also be more inclined to censorship, to dividing the Races, anti worker and when it comes to torturing non-Christians, I think they turn a blind eye. I belong to an organization that these people hate and I fear them so I hope Bush selects Gonzo.
Maybe after Gonzo gets on the court, when he no longer has to satisfy the ultra-conservatives, he will be more of a moderate. He is intelligent and I don't know of anything in his past that would disqualify him, other than being a friend of GWB.

[OKNancy]

4. It's a weird political world isn't it?

I've heard many Democrats express the same thought. The fact that the right-wingers hate him is certainly a plus.

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[newyawker99]

5. Hi Kahuna-mia!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[MountainLaurel]

6. Welcome!

And thanks for your comments -- it's sickening when we have to hold our noses and support a modern day Marquis de Sade because he's a better option than a Protestant Torquemada.