OK Senators, today is the day we see what you are made of. Bush’s numbers are in the toilet, there is rampant dysfunction, corruption and ineptness in everything the man has touched for almost 5 long years. Here is a Supreme Court nomination that is one giant Trojan Horse, guaranteed to bedevil the very Democrats who elected you for the next 30 years. What you do now will affect all of us for ages to come and we are watching you today so we know just how to spend our political dollars as well as cast our votes next year and beyond.
Remember that this nominee has a very slim paper trail, which is why he was chosen. What little paper there is on Roberts is being withheld from you and it is being kept from you for one reason and one reason only: it defines him and is the reason Bush has nominated Roberts to sit along with the two justices he has publicly favored, Scalia and Thomas. There is a reason why the Neocons and Fundies have been quiet throughout this process and that is because they have been assured that Roberts is everything they have been longing for.
Your job as Senate Democrats is to see that they do not get this and today is your day to fight back with your vote. Your constituents will understand when you tell them that you cannot vote for a man when the relevant documents have not been handed over to you, but your constiuents will not forgive you when every month for the foreseeable future they watch the Supreme Court dismantle our freedoms and allow corporations, religious fundamentalists and the uber-wealthy to run rampant over our way of life. Act now or we will all suffer the consequences.
cross-posted at Liberal Streetfighter
Roberts will sail — there isn’t enough will in the Senate democrats to bloack a doorway, let alone block this nomination. It is a done deal.
From the outside of the democratic party looking in, I have to say that there is nothing that I see going on that is going to change a goddamned thing for the forseeable future — maybe not even in my kids’ lifetimes — 2006 is going to be very interesting to watch, but I know, that when it is all said and done, I am going to feel exactly the same way as I did in 2002 and 2004. The system is broken and no amount of tinkering from the inside is going to fix it.
With Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and the next pick, we will have a block of 4 votes that will haunt us for the next 25 years as none of these men are going anywhere.
This is an unmitigated disaster for America.