Conservatives asked two things of President Bush when we first supported him in 2000: cut taxes, appoint conservative judges. When President Bush ran for re-election, Conservatives had three expectations: fight the war on terror, keep the tax cut, an appoint conservative judges. President Bush has never shied away from promising conservative appointments to the judiciary, and has cited Justice Scalia as the model for the type of judge he would like to appoint.
So far, Judge John Roberts’ appointment to the United States Supreme Court has all the promise of being a very good nominee. He is earning praise from Conservatives for his scholarship and his resume.
Meanwhile, the Left has already started firing their fax machines at the nominee with their fill-in-the-name condemnations of the nominee. Roberts has the right enemies, but it’s too soon to tell whether it’s just more undirected Left anger irrationally attacking anything President Bush does.
Meanwhile, in Aruba, they found some duct tape with blond hair on it, while at South Padre island a small hurricane is on the way, and in Florida where a little girl was raped months ago a couple of miscellaneous details were newly released to the media. So much for cable news, except for MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and CNN’s Aaron Brown. Listening to those two you would think Judge Roberts will single-handedly jail every abortionist across the country. Into the stocks they go.
For the rest of us, we anxiously await the Oracle of Massachusetts’ gaseous utterings from Hyannisport. Given the frequency which Senator Kennedy’s shameless performance in the Judge Bork nomination will be mentioned in the next few days, it will almost be a command performance. “In Judge Bork’s America…” yadda yadda
We hope in Judge Robert’s America there is a little more comity, a little less vitriol, and a greater sense of responsibility in the US Senate than in Judge Bork’s time. From some sources, to be sure, there will be uncontrolled vomiting of bile, but we should expect better from most of our elected representatives.
We have a nominee, we have a long, hot August traditionally devoid of hard news, and we have confirmation hearings timed perfectly for the Fall cable television schedule. In the meantime, we have the World Series of Poker and reporters beaching themselves in the paths of oncoming hurricanes.
