A Rookie for Chief Justice???

[starmaker]

Excuse me but this should not be tolerated

[Dinger]

1. This Could Be The Calm Before The Storm

I hope

[tx_dem41]

2. There have been many "rookies" in the past that were appointed...

as CJ....The great Earl Warren was one (heck he was never even a judge up to that point)...Warren Burger...W.H. Taft.

Actually, probably most CJs in the past were rookies.

[incapsulated]

4. Of the 16 (I think that's the number) half of them were

Only half of the CJ's were members of the court when appointed, I heard this on the News Hour.

I object to him for other, more obvious, reasons...

[CC]

9. The Chief Justice is in charge of

any impeachment proceedings. Maybe * can read the writing on the wall and wants to have a friendly face in charge.

[FreedomAngel82]

11. Good point

And what better person to have then a Bush loyalist?

[JHB]

12. Yes, never forget that it was Rhenquist who decided who was on...

...the assorted three-judge panels that oversaw special prosecutor investigations... keeping ones against Republicans very tight and strict (e.g., Ollie North's getgting off on a technicality), while letting investigations of Dems become fishing expeditions; and replacing reputable prosecutors with partisan hacks (<cough>Starr</cough>).

[Triana]

3. Why the Hell not?...

We've got rookies heading up FEMA. May as well stuff 6-year olds in all those positions. As long as they're beholden to the religious/Republican/bu$hit theocracy-dictatorship - who cares?

[Xenotime]

5. Are the dems in DC planning on stopping this?

They need to.

[Telly Savalas]

6. Jesus, you're setting the bar awfully high.

You ought to be happy the guy has a law degree.

[LTR]

7. Yeah, like the guy who's trying to hire him has loads of experience!

Bush had virtually no leadership experience prior to the presidency.

The governor's position of Texas isn't all that powerful. And he was merely a frontman in all those businesses he ran in the 80's and 90's.

[gratuitous]

8. I wonder if now his nomination is serious enough

I wonder if now Roberts' nomination is serious enough that the Senate will insiste on reviewing his entire record, not just the combed over version the White House has chosen to release.

[TomInTib]

10. Why not? They have incompetent fools

all over the place.