Dick Morris: How Roberts Choice Has Throttled The Dems

[Dover]

The Hill:

With deft Roberts choice, Bush plays judicial jujitsu
Who says President Bush isn’t brilliant? His maneuver in appointing Judge John Roberts has completely throttled the Democrats in the highest-stakes game of his second term.

The key is that Bush has used the Democrats’ opposition to his district and circuit-court judicial appointments against them and made it a ratification of the Roberts candidacy. Simply put, by choosing a judge whom the Democrats confirmed unanimously when he was nominated for the D.C. Circuit Court — and whom they did not filibuster — Bush has made the Democrats impotent.

The Democrats thought they were preparing for the Supreme Court battle when they hit on their strategy of filibustering Bush’s judicial nominations. They saw these battles as spring training to get them in shape for the real fight that would come when Bush made his Supreme Court nomination.

Instead, their strategy has backfired massively. By lending such a high profile to their opposition to Bush’s lower-court appointments, the Democrats have effectively denied themselves the ability to filibuster anyone of whom they have approved in the past...cont'd

http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/DickMorris/072705.html

[ewagner]

1. Morris is forgetting

political rule #9456,87: Consistancy is not a requirement. It is only used when it is convenient to do so and ignored when it is expedient to do so.

[Melodybe]

2. And a big Fuck you to Morris, please spit Bush's jiz out of your mouth

before you start talking.

What a creep! He's wrong too.

[Nite Owl]

3. Approved unanamously?

I don't think that's right. And this is a SC appointment which is more than a little different. Didn't read the whole article, on my way out.

[LittleClarkie]

4. Shut the fuck up, Morris

Gleeful bastard, isn't he.

Nice RW talking point. But the lower courts aren't the Supreme Court. What was acceptable for one isn't necessarily acceptable for the other. And Roberts has had little time on the bench.

Who could Bush pick who hasn't been approved before. No one, unless he doesn't pick a sitting judge. But even Morris must see that the stakes are higher on the SC.

What made this guy turn from Clintonista to RW mouthpiece?

[Missy M]

5. We all say bush isn't brilliant .......

in my opinion Roberts is exactly who bush would pick for the SC, no surprise. How is that brilliant on his part. Dick Morris should just go away.

[forwardthinker]

6. I fear we have lost this one...

Brilliant is the right word for it. We've been had once again by Karl Rove... Obviously Roberts will be extremely conservative in his judgment, once he is politically untouchable. We can only console ourselves with the fact that Roberts' acceptance of the nomination is obviously political. For someone who is ostensibly as dedicated to the law as Roberts is said to be, you would think that with such a short judicial record he would decline the nomination, wanting a more experienced jurist sitting on the highest bench in the land. Roberts will probably be the most lasting legacy of the Bush administration's corruptions.

[KoKo]

7. This article and Dotty Lynch's article on CBS, online, this a.m. shows

the Bush PR Machine kicking in and going for the jugular with our Democrats. It's probably good to ignore these articles about Dems going down in defeat, Dems don't have a message and are fighting amongst them selves...

It's the Rove Propaganda machine. And, it's only out there to demoralize us. imho...