Filling the D.C. Circuit

Ms. Estrich wrote:
"Clement, Olson and Starr deserve to be commended for stepping beyond the bounds of politics to support a man nominated by a president of the opposite party. It remains to be seen whether Senate Republicans will have the integrity to do the same."

The real question is not "will they have the integrity?" but "why should they take the risk?". What guarantee of reciprocity during the next Republican administration exists? Why should the Republicans believe the Democrats will act any different than they have in the past (and vice versa)?

We are in the middle of a positive feedback cycle going back to the Bork nomination. Each time the presidency flips from one party to the next, those on the outside provide those now in power with payback (plus an extra 10%) for the way they were treated while they were in power. The old wisdom of treating the other guy fairly so he will treat you same way when positions flip has been superceded by deliberate obstructionism when out of power in the hope that that will allow you to grab the whole loaf once you are in power.

The Democrats whine now because their nominees are being blocked, but forget their own sins when the Republicans were in power. Payback is never pleasant.

This will only stop when both sides get together and compromise on judicial candidates. Maybe they should send the judges up in pairs, one conservative and one progressive. A little confidence building like that might allow emotions to cool off. Until then, expect each side to block the others awful nominees, only to see their own sterling candidates receive the same shoddy treatment.

What does "open-minded approach to the law" mean compared to 'strong advocate of the law''? Is this another defintion of progressive versus conservative?

The utter hypocrisy of Demorats.

The facts, pesky things that they are, demonstrate that it was the Senatorial Demorats that changed the confirmation process irrevocably.

During the Bush term Demorats filibustered and sought to block just about all Bush judicial nominees.

Demorat Judiciary Chairman (Sneaky) Leahy, voted against cloture of Bush judicial nominees 27 times.

Schmucky Schumer cast 26 votes to filibuster Bush nominees and indeed in 2003 actually said “Yes we [the Demorats] are blocking judges by filibuster. That is part of the hallowed process around here.”

Dianne Feinstein, who must have been repeatedly beaten with the ugly stick, happlily joined the rest of the Democrat scum and voted seven times against Miguel Estrada for the DC Circuit.

“Dirty” Harry Reid voted against cloture for Bush nominees 26 times. In his stated view there would not be no amount of time adequate for debate on a Bush nominee.

And then the lying liar in chief, the deceiver in chief, the enemy within, little barry boy himself during his brief time in the Senate before the moochers, the tools and the imbeciles fooled by hope and change and yes we can elevated him to the place where he could do most damage to America, played key role in the filibuster of Leslie Southwick, Priscilla Owen, William Prior, Janice Rodgers Brown and Samuel Alito.

On the other hand Republicans, led by that "delayed Stockholm Syndrome" sufferer and panderer to all things anti American John McCain, like the cowards and dimwits they are, have confirmed more than 80% of barry the boy liar's nominees.

On this matter every obama nominee for any post should be filibustered as a matter of principle, because every barry boy nominee is chosen by him for his or her propensity and willingness to do harm to the Republic and the Constitution.

Now the little known big one. Eighty four percent of all votes to filibuster judicial nominees in American history have been cast by Democrats.

Any Democrat asserting Republican obstructionism is not just lying through its teeth (but since when did lying ever bother a Democrat) but is engaging in the height of rank and stinking hypocrisy, something in which Estrich is expert.

So spare me the integrity stuff Estrich, Integrity is a word or a concept that remains a stranger to every walking breathing Democrat.

Joseph Wright (War Hero) wrote:
" led by that "delayed Stockholm Syndrome" sufferer and panderer to all things anti American John McCain..."

Have you been in combat for this country? Have you been a POW? If not, please shut up. Your making conservatives look bad.

So, this started in 2006, when Bush was president and Harry Reid led the Senate? It certainly sounds like Democrats are justifiably being given the one finger salute. You screw us, we screw you.

None of the nominees by Obama could be considered mainstream.

You want the rule of law to matter? Try getting the current regime to start obeying it and enforcing it.

Re: Old Navy
What happened to ignoring me? What happened to not responding to me? Notice that you have come back for some more taunting? I am beginning to think that you do this just for my amusement? LOL!
Old Navy , you know nothing about me, but I observe much of McCain. There is no doubt that he served with great honor. No doubt he suffered. No doubt at one time he was indeed a true hero. BUT that was then NOT NOW
Now he displays a syndrome ( I call it delayed Stockholm) he calls it being a maverick, but whatever it is called, it is an anti America pandering. Like many progressives he divorced then married into wealth, went into politics, was probably the first true RINO and then set about the destruction of America from within, think also John (Teresa) Kerry who did you know served in Viet Nam. McCain's gang of..?...whatever it happens to be at any one particular time, consistently undermines the security of this nation, from his crossing the aisle and never coming back, to his immigration policies to his confirmation of Eric Holder, to his confirmation of Hagel to kissing Obama's ring. This is the unpalatable truth like it or not.
It is not your place to confer ("war hero") status upon anyone not even in your pathetic, childish ( and you would have us believe that you were an intellectual above the fray) attempt at sarcasm. I have never been a POW but this much I will tell you of me, I have seen more than my fair share of real up close and personal combat and in more than one theater of war and in more than one way. I have at times in foreign places sat with those who had they know who or what I was doing would have had me tortured and then killed. Now does that, by your grace, give me right to speak? Now you STFU and stop your pantywaist lecturing!
You bore me.

Joeseph did you get the dirty harry from somewhere or did you make that up yourself? I've heard it before on a podcast. Its a good one. I'm going to have to agree with the anti american john mccain comment. You don't have to be a POW to disagree with the guy. He is a major douchbag and the mouth of Sauron for the military industrial complex. Former POW or not, he is bad news. Funny how he was chowing down with Obama during the epic Rand Paul filibuster. He's just the same as Obama and I'm glad Joesph picked up on it.

Fantasy War Hero James Wright wrote:
" I have seen more than my fair share of real up close and personal combat and in more than one theater of war and in more than one way. "

What BS. A whiner like you wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes in the service. Most people who have been in the armed forces have learned some self control and a minimal respect for others who have also been in the service. You've learned neither.

He also stated:
" I have at times in foreign places sat with those who had they know who or what I was doing would have had me tortured and then killed."

Now your a 'double knot spy"? Give me a break. That takes brains and/or courage. Or perhaps you were a thief? That will get you killed and tortured in quite a few places.

Then Mr. Wright asked: "Now does that, by your grace, give me right to speak?"

No it doesn't. You don't want to speak. You want to call names, but apparently get wildly delusional when anyone calls you on it. You are kind of amusing when get like this. I'm only applying your own medicine to you? Can't you take it soldier boy?

Further, he stated: "Now you STFU and stop your pantywaist lecturing!"

Nope! I'm having way too much fun with this now. I'm not going to "STFU" for a schoolyard bully like you. No doubt in the next installment we will find out that you are an astronaut and have several Nobel Prizes. Presumably that is what allows you to disrespect everyone and anyone you disagree with. It must be really lonely up there at the top of the intellectual pyramid.

I think I'm going to adopt "Wrightism" as my new tactic. And I think I'm going to apply first too my favorite war hero/ double-knot spy. You could almost consider this a homage to your considerable debating skills.

And finally he said: "You bore me."

Good, maybe you'll "STFU" and go away. But somehow I think your statement is a lie. You've gotten awful worked up over a bore like me.

Re: Old Navy

Bring it on pantywaist. Now I gotten you down where I play. Funny that ! Seems I won.

Re: Chris McCoy

No Chris I did not make up the term "Dirty" Harry. It is the well known title of a Clint Eastwood movie and applying it to that low life Reid was not done first by me. I heard it or read it applied to Reid somewhere but that said it is entirely appropriate.

I do not make things up. I just tell it as was or is or how I think it will be. I care not who I offend in so doing.

The truth is the truth.

JW wrote: "Bring it on pantywaist. Now I gotten you down where I play. Funny that ! Seems I won."

Nope. I'll continue to be respectful and civil with anyone who acts decently. I don't feel I have to hate and disrespect everyone I disagree with. You have to earn that from me by, at least, repeated offenses. Hence, I'll never fall to your level. I've won, not you.

Re: Old Navy
No Old Navy you came right down to me not just once but on several occasions. I cast the fly and you rose to it each time. Now you are trying to cast the hook. The victory was all mine. But , I practice catch and release. So off you go a little shaken up but unharmed.
And just so that we are clear.
I do not hate everyone that disagrees with me or with whom I disagree. I do however dispise this administration from top to bottom and dispise all of its enablers. As i have made clear before i have no interest in debating my enemies. The major difference between you and me is that you care about civility to those that hate what you stand for, about appearances, you care what the enemies of America think of you. That is your right. I do not and never will.

Joe Wright wrote:

"So off you go a little shaken up but unharmed."

I'm not shaken, just saddened.

"I do not hate everyone that disagrees with me or with whom I disagree."

Nonsense. You clearly have total disdain for everyone that disagrees with you. You've have never failed to make some abusive or ad hominen attack on those you are responding too.

"As i have made clear before i have no interest in debating my enemies."

What 'enemies' are you talking about? The people who write into this blog? The people who disagree with you? For me, the North Korean regime, the Nazis, the Khmer Rouge, mass murderers, and violent criminals are examples of the groups who deserve a classification as 'the enemy'. Other Americans who merely have ideas different from mine just don't qualify. Being wrong and/or confused about issues does not make anyone an 'enemy'. They are just wrong and confused.

"The major difference between you and me is that you care about civility to those that hate what you stand for..."

Hate what I stand for? What are you talking about? I don't consider that people who have different values and priorities than I do 'hate' everything I stand for. I don't 'hate' what Ms. Estrich (for example) advocates. Some of my values are different than hers and consequently I gravitate toward different solutions to problems than she does. I may not like Ms. Estrich's solutions but I can generally see some worth in her ideas. I may feel that her solutions won't work or that they aren't soundly based in logic, but I don't hate them. With only a handful of exceptions (i.e., true whackos or juveniles in their teens), most "progressives" I've talked too would say pretty much the same things about my ideas. 'Hate' is an awfully strong word. Joseph Stalin 'hated' what I stand for, Ms. Estrich and Mr. Lipka do not.

"...you care what the enemies of America think of you."

As stated above, I reserve this word for a class of individuals a bit more extreme than you do. Ms. Estrich, Mr. Lipka, and John McCain are not "the enemies of America.". I may not always agree with them, and their ideas may be a bit confused, but that doesn't cause them to be lumped in with Pol Pot and Adolph Hitler.

You have some severe issues Mr. Wright. You are delusional and apparently are incredibly intolerant of dissent. You seem to enjoy goading people. You think you are surrounded by 'enemies' who 'hate' everything you stand for. Seek help before it is too late.

The opinions that have been expressed I believe are quite sincere and, overall, well-argued. It surprises me that the contending sides narrow down their focus to personal remarks which are quite irrelevant: who cares if Judy is better than Cynthia in algebra class? Peter says that Jack took an extra piece of pie--what can I do about it?
All these comments accomplish is to show that you have lost concentration and are easily distracted. This implies that the subject of your argument is unimportant.
One of my favorite proverbs: If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.

Re: Old Navy
You really do not quite get it, but before the end of the present term of this administration you likely will.
But by then It will be too late.
As it has been rightly pointed out we are presently a dying nation. Our plight is terminal. America has been poisoned and has had its vitals eaten away by an internal cancer, to wit, liberal fascism in the form of the Democratic party and its enablers and that includes, the public sector unions, academia, Estrich and McCain and their liberal progressive ilk. Those you name, those that you see no harm in are "smiley faced fascists" but fascists nevertheless.
I take it from your previous comments that you tend towards conservatism, albeit, it seems a moderate conservatism. I did not say that you hate, and neither did I suggest it as you seem to posit in the body of your paragraph commencing "Hate what I stand for".
On the contrary, I have consistently noted that you are willing to give the benefit of the doubt, are willing to engage in civil discourse, are willing to compromise with, how shall I describe them, the collective left, the progressives, the Democrats, but all of them liberal fascists/statists.
But that will not stop the rot, it will not slow the decay. McCain and his progressive ilk, like it or not, hasten the decay day by day and by one foolish pandering initiative after the other. The gang of eight's immigration policy, if enacted in any way will seal the deal. It will be over.
What you have yet to discern is that the collective left, the liberal fascists hate ( are not just opposed to) but truly hate all things conservative and hate all conservative values, whether, they be individual liberty, personal responsibility, the free market, the sanctity of life, God's role in society, Judeo Christian values, private property rights or the rights of the individual states to manage their affairs.
They seek redistribution of your wealth and my wealth and insist upon equal outcome not equal opportunity. They seek governance not through a Constitutional Republic but through an all powerful federal government. Their ultimate goal is the moral and economic destruction of America in order that America be just another "also ran" on the world stage, bereft of power and prestige. They hate what America stands for and has always stood for namely, freedom and the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. That being so, whether you want to believe it or not, they hate what you stand for and seek to destroy it. They are every bit as dangerous to America as Stalin, Putin and the rest. That makes them enemies of America. There is no other adjective for them.
And upon reflection, Pol Pot, Stalin and Adolf Hitler are not that far divorced from the present regime and its enablers. Each were of the left. Each were statists. Each slaughtered their own people, the liberals have slaughtered over 50 million American lives since Roe v Wade. Each disarmed its own population just as Obama is trying through domestic and foreign legislation. Each attacked religion, just as this administration is doing through obamacare, through the attacks on the definition of marriage and by the removal of God from the public square. Each set up their own private army as Obama is doing with the assistance of the Dep of Homeland Security. Each bought their media who became propagandists for the regime. Find a main stream journalist that does his job! Each discarded the rule of law as barry boy does daily. Each eventually brought ruin upon his own nation as barry boy is presently endeavvouring to do, not least by the deliberate accumulation of unsustainable and unservicable debt.
Jonah Goldberg said it best " Fascim is a religion of the state. It assumes the organic unity of the body politic and longs for a national leader attuned to the will of the people. It is totalitarian in that it views everything as political and holds any action by the state is justified to achieve the common good. it takes responsibility for all aspects of life including our health and well being and seeks to impose uniformity of thought and action, whether by force or through regulation and social pressure. Everything including the economy and religion must be aligned with its objectives. Any rival identity is part of the problem and therefore must be defined as the enemy."
Ring any bells, see any similarity to what is being played out each and every day? LIke it or not, you, me and anyone not a part of the liberal fascist destruction of America are classified by the left as the enemy.
Get used to it. One cannot fight back or win until the enemy identified, and recognized for what it is.

Re: joseph wright;... Jesis... Liberal fascism???... I do not doubt that there is such a thing but they hardly rate a raised eyebrow... We have ecofascist, and we have anti ecofascist... All God's children got their fascists, but the only problem with the liberals as I see it is that they are trying to make a failed society work that is not failing because of them, exactly...Believing the society and government can be made to work for the people makes them as much of an impediment to revolution as the worst sort of reactionary...Which is sort of what I presume you are...
What, and who do you like in this country, and upon what basis do you judge??? I mean I don't like what is going on but from my reading of history, it is nothing new... Societies are born and they die, and a lot of people contribute, but everyone is to blame, sort of, without anyone being particularly responsible... Do you see what I am saying??? And btw; I wouldn't class you as the enemy... You all may be nuts, but if you help to push this government into the grave it has been stumbling around forever, you will be doing the whole country a service...
Thanks, and get it checked before it spreads, Sweeney

Re: Cowboy Jay;... A lot of widom in some of that book...If you think you know the truth it is your obligation to share it...It is common property after all; but some people don't much care for it, like eating thier vegies...
What Aristippus said in reverence of Socrates sets for all good people a good example: That the most impressive spectacle of life is the sight of a virtuous man steadily pursueing his course in the midst of a vicious people...
A people with their lives and society on the skids know it, and it makes them vicious to have to see the sacrifices of their people past sold for next to nothing to those who make a practice of buying cheap and selling dear... Still; most people left and right are reasonable if you can get beneath all the predicates and principlas they follow thoughlessly...I may talk AT these media mouth pieces, but I will talk to any American about how to improve this place, and look for common ground... I do not think the people are the problem except to the extent that they hang onto the past and will not face the future without fear...
Thanks...Sweeney

Joesph I know where it came from, I was just wondering how you came to call him that. He is absolutly one of the most vile politicians today.

Re: Chris McCoy
The cap fits him and accordingly Reid should wear it. "Dirty" Harry Reid is the personification of sleaze, dishonesty and vileness. It is accordingly appropriate that he is the Democratic leader in the Senate. Reid reflects the character of all Democrats either within or without Congress.

Re: James A, Sweeney
Sweeney writes “... Jesis (sic)... Liberal fascism???... I do not doubt that there is such a thing but they hardly rate a raised eyebrow.”

Truly there is none as blind as those that will not see. Mr. Sweeney you can see Eco fascists but not the liberal fascism and liberal fascists that detrimentally impact your life every single day. Denial of its/their existence will not lessen its/their destructive effect.

Liberals/progressives, radicals, the obama regime, the court of boy king obama, call them/it what you will, they are all one and the same. They are not trying to make a failed society work, they are positively and successfully working at making, what was once a civil society fail.

This unholy confederacy is succeeding in that by amongst other methods implementing a Cloward and Piven style deliberate overloading of the contemptible US welfare system to create and sustain crisis.

You suggest that I am reactionary. To the extent that you mean a rational moralist combating the cultural and political insanity that passes for governance by this administration and it's America hating enablers you are entirely correct.

You also say that from what read in history what is going on is nothing new. Again, unfortunately you are correct.
But as with all prior instances the decline and death spiral you witness is the direct result of progressivism and liberal fascism.

Per Will Durant “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.”

“Her people” Today in America we have a dependent society, made so and kept so by liberalism. We are fast reaching a plurality of moochers, scroungers, looters, and those deliberately made and kept so by Democratic party policy. Democratic Party policy in a nutshell is as follows “when one promises to rob Peter to pay Paul to do nothing, one can always count on the vote of Paul.”

“Her morals” Look around. Liberalism is deliberately destroying the moral fabric of America. It is all relative, anything goes. Gay marriage, attacks on religion, pedophilia is just a sexual orientation, NAMBLA, abortion on demand, opposition to Born Alive Infant Protection legislation etc, etc. Without morals there is no right or wrong there is just………………..?

“Her class struggle” Never has any American administration deliberately set class against class, poor against rich, race against race as this progressive fascist administration. Why? To balkanize, to divide and to subjugate.

“Her failing trade.” The Marxist, bully boys of the leftist trade unions as in every country and in every market they have entered have destroyed the manufacturing industry in America. One need only look at GM, which is no longer in the business of making cars but in the business of sustaining the pensions of layabout ex-employees who once masqueraded as car workers. The energy policy of this administration is aimed at one thing only and that is to sustain and to exacerbate the uncompetitive nature of American industry.

“Her bureaucratic despotism”. In this the obama administration has had no American equal, from the EPA, to Dept of Health to Homeland Security. Unelected despots everywhere regulating and governing by diktat, by threat, by intimidation and all designed to enslave.

“Her stifling taxes” Tax, tax and tax again is the obama mantra. And if all you fools out there who voted for barry the boy tax-master think for one second that you will not be hit by stifling taxes, think again. Seen your gas and food bills go up, seen your energy bills go up, seen your cost of living go up? All indirect taxation brought about by the policies of this administration.

Liberalism, progressivism, Marxism, fascism, socialism, obamaism there is little to truly distinguish the enmity of each ideology for liberty and for self-determination because at the core of each is some form of envy driven nihilism.

Wake up people and see this administration and its enablers for what they really are.

I woulden't go as far as to say dirty harry represents all democrats. There are different flavors amounst democrats just like there are rebublicans. I know a few dems took part in Rands filibuster, and a few others praised it and asked why their party didn't do something like that first. I woulden't lump those guys in with dirty harry. You're never going to destroy the democratic party. They will always have influence. But I'd rather see it taken over by more moderate, sensible democrats and get rid of the reids, obamas, and pelosi's. Just like I'd like to kick the mccains and grahams out of the republicans and replace them with Rand Pauls and Ted Cruz's.

What a day. April 8, 2013.

The great iron lady, Lady Margaret Thatcher has died. May she rest in peace. May God shine his face upon her.

Where are the likes of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan when they are needed most? Where are the defenders of personal liberty, of personal responsibility, of private property, of the free market? Where are the opponents of collectivism, fascism and statism? Where are the leaders? Where are those that give a f*ck about freedom and prosperity?

Not in the toadying, cowardly, craven ranks of today's GOP. That is for damn sure! May the vast majority of the GOP rot in hell !

Today in this near dead Republic we have the treacherous "gang of eight" led by the seditious toad in chief McCain ( and his new found goat Rubio) getting ready to deliver a 1500 page immigration bill that will pave the way for millions of "undocumented" future Democrats to loot and to mooch and to rob the system blind and to do so legally.

Tomorrow, all 50 States will become the economic wilderness that California already is today.

Today in this near dead Republic we have certain cowards in the GOP getting ready to compromise with the gun confiscation lobby. Cravens all !

Today we have progressive Melissa Harris Perry, in an MSNBC promo [ and note carefully here MSNBC is the liar in chief's chosen outlet] declaring that our children do not belong to us but to the collective. Watch for Obama on that one.

Yesterday we had Frank Drebbin (ooops! I meant Joe Biden) declare for a new world order.

Are any of you seeing this yet? Can you not see what is going on?

AS the great iron lady said " To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs and principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects"

The likes of McCain, Graham, Snowe, and all other RINOs finding consensus/compromise with the Dems and progessives and the statists because of being too cowardly or craven to stand ground has gotten us to the dire straits we are in now.

Wright, are you talking about that mandatory service bullcrap they were spewing? It made me sick, them all talking about how todays youth needs to be voluntold between 18 and 21. Its funny how those hypocrits would be immune and probably have never volunteered for the greater good unless it involved propogating their sleezy agenda.

Re Chris McCoy
No Chris I was not. But your sentiments are nevertheless true and correct.

I think the question you were asking is about my comment on the left's notion that children belong not to parents but to the collective.

Melissa Harris-Perry, is a professor at Tulane and an MSNBC contributor who believes a baby is just a thing and that many thousands of dollars have to be spent upon it to turn it into a human being.

As part of an MSNBC promo she let it be known just how the left and indeed obama thinks. This is what she said.
“We have never invested as much in public education as we should have, because we've always had kind of a private notion of children. Your kid is yours, and totally your responsibility. We haven't had a very collective notion of ‘These are our children.' So part of it is, we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities."

Now the danger sign is this. Obama uses MSNBC to float ideas and notions. He is in contact with the loons there on a regular weekly basis. This was no accident.

The left is a virus, it is a cancer that destroys cell by cell, idea by idea, concept by concept. Its continuing target is the nuclear family. Parents teaching moral and conservative values are anathema to the left. The teaching by parents in the home cannot, for now, be controlled by it. But it seeks control.

Just why do you think Obama and his ilk are pushing kindergarten and pre kindergarten for all children. Does the term early indoctrination come to mind? Does reporting upon parents come to mind?

If not it should. Our children are to be part of the collective, upon whom uniformity of thought and action are to be implanted from 3-4yrs old.

Wright, I cannot watch msnbcBS for more than 2 minutes without getting sick to my stomach. I'd imagine the same is true with you. So I"m thinking you follow a website or feed that pulls out these extremist statements for you. If that is the case, would you share your source? I would also like to keep on top of the extremists without actually having to go through the mental tortue of watching msnbcBS

Re: Chris McCoy

Chris, I do indeed watch MSNBC (Mathews, Maddow, Schultz et al) not every day but sufficiently to gauge the left's latest outrages and do it because one has to know one's enemy. I also read the Huff Post, the Hill, the NYT and other lunatic left rags for the same reason. Drunk on the election then re-election of the lying America hating community organizer, by an illiterate, ignorant, mooching electorate they regularly let what they have kept hidden for years out. It is sickening but .....

Of course on the other side there is Drudge Report, the Blaze, the Daily Caller, Michelle Malkin, who tell it like it is and expose our enemies for what they are. I take the headlines and then research further on the web. Also I would suggest taking Imprimis from Hillsdale College subscription is free upon request.