The Roberts Nomination - What’s at Stake?

[kerrygoddess]

The Roberts Nomination - What’s at Stake?
September 12th, 2005

If you’re not paying attention — you should be. The first day of the Roberts nomination hearing has come to a close. The day was filled with statements on the nomination by the various members of the Judiciary committee, there’s more on that here, here and here. I checked around the blogosphere to see what’s being posted about the hearings… not much, considering this nomination could affect the direction of the Supreme court for the next 20 - 30 years and involve 8 - 9 presidential terms.

There are some major issues at stake. Issues that will affect the future of our country for generations to come. We simply cannot sit back and wring our hands and say well, they ARE the majority, and it’s a shoe-in, because we’ve seen in recent weeks how the support for the majority has fallen.

Senator Ted Kennedy, Ralph Neas of People for the American Way and Joe Trippi joined a large group of bloggers earlier this evening on a conference call about the Roberts nomination.

Senator Kennedy said that the Roberts nomination hearings are “John Roberts job interview with the American people.” Roberts “owes it to the American people”, to let them know where he stands on issues of importance. In discussing today’s statements from his Republican colleagues, he said that they were “working from the same playbook” and asked “why don’t ‘they’ want us to know about him”, referring to the papers that the Bush administration has refused to release.

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[Dr Fate]

1. They need to bring up "Brownie" and use the word "Resume" over & over.

It is fresh on everyones mind and it makes plain, common sense:

"We cant have proper hearings until we have ALL the unreleased documents-the entire resume. Is the Administration being open about his resume??-we dont want another Brownie-and certainly not with a lifetime appointment. Release the documents- lets see his entire resume."

[kerrygoddess]

3. yes they do... N/t

[jmatthan]

2. Get out of Jail Free card for war criminal Bush

eom

[confludemocrat]

4. WaPo: "As Battlefield Shrinks, Democrats Mute Their Attacks"

I hope there is a change over the next day or so or we have strike two in the Democratic Party's last at-bat (along with the big Dems support for the Iraq War and amplifying the Republican drumbeating on the "war on terror" line which they have used with little real opposition to gain control of everything and that will take a generation to wrest back from them.

[genius]

5. He doesn't think the feds should outlaw violence against women

on a national level.