Comments on: Roundup

By: des von bladet

des von bladet — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:09:55 +0000

Over on sci.lang the coinage “squink” for an abundance of evasive misinformation is now generally accepted. It would be good if it caught on widlier, selon moi.

By: Otto

Otto — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:56:18 +0000

“Since 1969, Republican Presidents have appointed 211 Judges to the Circuit Courts. Democrats have appointed 122. Since 1969, Republican Presidents have appointed 813 trial Judges to the District Court bench while Democrats have made 508 such appointments.

If the Federal Judiciary is comprised of a bunch of liberal activists, it is the GOP who put them there.”

On judges, there’s a lot of slight of hand between Republican and conservative appointments. You can have Republican appointees who are not conservative, Republican conservative appointees who turn out not to be as conservative as expected after appointment, and you have to note that the whole concept of what is means to be a conservative or liberal judge has changed alot since 1970s, not least because of the mobilisation against Roe.

So yes, it’s the GOP that put many of these judges there. It was the business establishment wish-washy let’s make a deal with the big unions country club GOP which has been very largely destroyed by the grass-roots mobilisation GOP as Franks outlines in The Trouble with Kansas. Tony Perkins is likely fully aware of this.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:33:40 +0000

Oh, thanks, Ted, for brightening my day. I’ll just toddle off and drink the cyanide now.

By: John Emerson

John Emerson — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:27:33 +0000

Sullivan is bad even when he’s good. Bush is anti-intellectual, and he presents a populist image, but it’s fake. He primarily represents people with money, and he’s suckered some people without money into supporting him. McKinley or Harding would be the best historical comparisons, and they weren’t populist. (Populists are in a hard way in these United States.)

Teddy Roosevelt was a sort of fake populist, and the Bushistas would like that to be the official comparison, but Roosevelt was a literate book-writing guy who actually accomplished things in his pre-Presidential life.

All that can ever be expected from Sullivan, or Hitchens, is an endless series of ingenious, provocative stances.