Peace Like A River


It was a wide river, mistakable for a lake or even an ocean unless you'd been wading and knew its current. Somehow I'd crossed it... Now I saw the stream regrouped below, flowing on through what might've been vineyards, pastures, orhards... It flowed between and alongside the rivers of people; from here it was no more than a silver wire winding toward the city. - Leif Enger, Peace Like A River

Friday, July 01, 2005

Release the Hounds!

Peasants, report to your assigned stations to receive torches and pitchforks. Liberals, report to Fang-Sharpening Depot #2. Media, report to Smear Campaign HQ.

And conservatives, for the love of all that is good and holy, report to the Robert C. Byrd Cybernetic Center to receive your bionic steel spine implants.

Sandra Day O'Connor has just announced her retirement from the US Supreme Court. Let the Confirmation Wars begin! Oooh, this is going to be fun.

It's doubly interesting that O'Connor is the first to retire, and not Rehnquist. If Rehnquist had gone first, liberals might not put up too much of a fight if Bush nominated another conservative to replace him, because it's just trading one conservative for another.

But with O'Connor, nominating a true conservative (please nominate Luttig!) could change the balance of the court. O'Connor is the swing vote on a lot of issues. But, as this post says, "It is true that O’Connor’s unprincipled approach from time to time yields a vote in favor of results that might be labeled conservative, but she has an uncanny knack for doing so in cases where her vote doesn’t matter."

Controlling the judiciary is Items #1 through #22 in the secret liberal Plan for World Domination. It's the only way they get their socialist agenda into law, as they sure wouldn't get it past voters.

This could be a pivotal moment. Rehnquist is ailing, and could very well retire. Justice Stevens is 85. There could be more retirements in the near future. Bush needs to stand firm and nominate conservative, and then fight to get them confirmed.

If Bush nominates Gonzalez, I'm packing the car and moving to Idaho to live in the mountains and wait for The End. He's a moderate at best. As the terrorists think they are at war with us, liberals are willing to go to war over the Supreme Court. Do we conservatives have the stomach for a fight? We'd better.

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