Sen. Patrick Leahy .......

[Dying Eagle]

GO FUCK YOURSELF!!!!!!!!!!!

Roberts is a racist, bigoted, civil right trampling, freedom hating, wing nut. How will your "conscience" or lack there of feel when he starts destroying our civil liberties. Stupid, Jackass, Dino, Motherfucker, Grow some Stones!!!!!!!!

I feel so muck better!!

[Benhurst]

1. Next time, Dying Eagle, don't hold back. Express yourself!

:rofl:

I know how you feel. I can't believe he's voting this way.

[Dr.Phool]

2. Maybe Cheney was right for once.

:sarcasm: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank:

[mopaul]

6. wow, leahy DID go fuck himself....and US TOO

fuck him

[samdogmom]

3. Man, you made me laugh! Thanks! n/t

[bigwillq]

4. I agree.

I will be ashamed of every DEM who votes for Roberts.

[liam_laddie]

5. My letter to Sen. Leahy this a.m.

Senator Leahy - With all due respect, you - and ANY Democrat who votes for his appointment - are FOOLS who are being snookered by the WORST administration in US history.

How can you not KNOW that Roberts' "testimony" was a Trojan horse of non-answers to essentially a committee of naive Democrats and phony republicans, Specter's act not withstanding.
You did NOT receive important background papers on him. You apparently have NOT studied his consistent bias FOR big business, against the average citizen. He does not have a sufficient career record as a judge. He has been MAINLY an advocate-attorney for elements and forces which are NOT in the mainstream of a decent, balanced society. He's always done
what his clints desire. His approach will be a rubber stamp for the Club For Growth, the PNAC, the forces behind Cheney, Rumsfield, and all the other INCOMPETENTS in this
mal-administration.

The history of social JUSTICE in our former participatory democracy, will be erased under this fakir and anyone voting to approve him as CJ of the SCOTUS will have a heavy burden indeed on their conscience unto eternity. SHAME on your announced vote!

Angrily, etc...

[mopaul]

7. i'm the type that remembers and holds grudges patrick leahy

fuck you in 06

[UTUSN]

9. This Is the ONE Non-existent Time I Disagree with MoPaul

[Jacobin]

8. We lost this battle last November

Or, the the election was undone in Ohio, as the case may be.

[journalist3072]

10. My open letter to Pat Leahy

Senator Leahy:

It is with a heavy heart that I write to you this evening, expressing my extreme displeasure over your decision to support the nomination of John G. Roberts as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

You said today: "I can only take him at his word that he does not have an ideological agenda."

Senator, with respect, everything that we know about John Roberts suggests that he does indeed have an ideological agenda. And that he is the wrong person to lead the Court.

I am especially troubled by his record on civil rights. He once advised the Reagan administration to remove language from a housing bill, that referred to a "fundamental right to be free from discrimination." Citing his opposition to the language, he said "there of course is no such right."

If John Roberts believes that there is no fundamental right to be free from discrimination, does he then believe that I, as an African-American, can be discriminated against in the workplace?

Moreover, in responding to the Fifty States Project, he dismissed what he referred to as the "perceived problems of gender discrimination." He also pontificated on whether "encouraging homemakers to become lawyers contributes to the common good." When he was asked about this statement during his confirmation hearings, his only response was that it was a joke against lawyers, not about women in the workplace. He said "It was a small office. They expected return projects around very quickly. We were expected to be candid. And if making a joke about lawyers would make for a more enjoyable day on the part of the people in the office, that's what we did." Maybe he should forgive me for thinking those were the comments of a man who felt women don't deserve to work outside the home.

I am extremely troubled by his views on affirmative action. He has argued that affirmative action forces companies to hire unqualified employees, simply for diversity's sake. These views clearly demonstrate he doesn't understand that affirmative action is not a quota system. It is a corrective program meant to diversify our nation's schools and offices, simply by giving preference to minorities who are just as qualified as their Caucasian counterparts.

It is also troubling that as John Roberts was interviewing with the White House for the Supreme Court vacancy, he was helping decide a lawsuit that had been brought against the Bush administration. He voted in favor of the Administration, clearly leaving the impression of a quid pro quo.

Senator Leahy, it is not very hard to do the right thing. And the right thing to do now is to oppose the nomination of John Roberts.