A confirmation at last!

9/29/05

At last! The Roberts confirmation is over and he has been sworn in. I think I will be pleased with the Roberts Court but to some extent that remains to be seen. It is, however, unusual to have a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States that has a 4 year old son. Strangely refreshing, though.

I have heard Liberals saying that now that they have confirmed Roberts, the President should replace Sandra Day O'Connor with a "moderate". Rubbish! George W Bush won the election after telling the citizens of this country that the nomination of strict constructionist was a priority for him in the second term. Why should he sway from that? I am no longer surprised at the audacity of liberals. They and their Main Stream Media and Entertainment enablers will stop at nothing. Generally I have heard that the Democrats have said that they agreed on Roberts but they will gang up on the next nomination. I have no doubt that is true.

I wonder if anyone noticed something. When Ginsburg was confirmed, she declined to answer questions that she might have to rule on. It has been called the Ginsburg rule. A lot of people were talking about how Roberts should not have to answer the same type of questions. Democrats said, to a large degree, that there was no such thing as the Ginsburg rule and Roberts had to answer all questions.

Well, he didn't. He steadfastly refused to do so and he got confirmed. He got 78 votes. It seems to me that whoever the president nominates has a really good, newly vindicated Ginsburg rule to follow. Who knows. It might help.