Challenge: Find 1 thing in this Mark Levin essay that isn't full of shit

[BurtWorm]

Just take this excerpt. It goes wrong from word one. Did the Democrats try to scuttle Roberts as they scuttled Bork? No. They rolled over for Roberts. Is there a left-wing battle plan that Democrats in the Senate might put into effect? No. The Senate Dems are mostly closet Republicans, and they don't seem to have any coordinated plans. (Not to say some aren't acting like Democrats during these hearings.) Do "Americans have a much more sophisticated understanding of the proper role of judges" today thanks to "Rush" and "Sean" bloviating GOP Talking Points to the pig-ignorant masses all day long for the last 15 years? Are conservatives really against "judicial activism?" Does the Left really want this court dictating national policy? Does the right really believe in "popular sovereignty?"

It's all friggin' gas.



http://levin.nationalreview.com/archives/086757.asp

Vast-Left-Wing Flop

First there was John Roberts. Now there's Sam Alito. The left-wing battle plan honed since 1987 during Bob Bork's confirmation hearings is flopping badly. And there are several reasons for this.

Today Americans have a much more sophisticated understanding of the proper role of judges. First and foremost, the judiciary has so exceeded the bounds of its legitimate authority that the public has taken notice of, and interest in, its egregious abuses of power. From upholding the seizure of homes and barring a display of the Ten Commandments in a courthouse, to conferring rights on terrorists and benefits on illegal immigrants, the accumulation of these policy decisions are troubling not just to conservative intellectuals, but wide swaths of American society which are affected directly by these rulings.

Conservatives have also done a superior job in explaining their case against judicial activism by way of the new media. Long before these hearings, Rush and Sean, among others, have been educating millions about the framers' intended limits on the judiciary, and have exposed the underlying hostility for representative government motivating the judicial supremacists. The Left is now forced to defend the idea that the dictates of nine lawyers in black robes should set national policy, while conservatives are defending popular sovereignty and the founding principles.

The liberal senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee look frustrated and sound incoherent because, well, they are. Their problem is that when you don't have fidelity to the written Constitution, your judicial philosophy, such as it is, consists of nothing more than strained and often contradictory arguments made for the purpose of advancing a political and policy agenda. Hence, we hear Dianne Feinstein demand from Alito adherence to judicial precedent respecting Roe v. Wade (Arlen Specter refers to is as super-precedent), and in the next breath acceptance of something called a living and breathing Constitution....

[Mutley]

1. This is all I saw.

"First there was John Roberts. Now there's Sam Alito."

The prepositional phrases seem pretty solid, too. :D

[BurtWorm]

3. I was going to say I don't trust even his "ands" and "thes"

but Lillian Hellman beat me to it. (Or was it Dorothy Parker?)

[Mutley]

5. I'm not sure, but that's pretty funny.

[NoPasaran]

7. It was Mary McCarthy talking about Hellman

"Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the."
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lillian_Hellman

[BurtWorm]

8. Thank you!

I knew it was some smartass like that. ;)

[long_green]

2. Rush and Sean?

He is SO trying to act like he knows the popular kids. It's like, TOTALLY transparent.

[jobycom]

4. I think he's right that Bork's confirmation hearing was in 87...

[Blutodog]

6. Complete Garbage

Levin is nothing but a Bu$hCo asslicker always has been. It pays well and u don't need balls to do the job u just have to be souless and clueless.