yeah that's one reason i'm voting for him

burndtdan: yeah that's one reason i'm voting for him

Speaking a second language will better prepare our children for the future.

Cool! I might actually vote for him if that's the case.

jonah goldberg is an america-hating asshat.

He would be a perfect representative of Earth when the Annunaki return.

/As long as we're all in make believe land here...

Getting everyone to speak "Muslim" is a lofty goal. I'd be happier if he could get everyone in this country to speak proper English first before mandating a second language requirement.

i hate it when this dick gets greenlit.

A "Jonah" is usually associated with bad luck for sailors.

Maybe I'll finally be able to take off my flag lapel pin

What's wrong with having a FABULOUS gun?

The fact that Obama voted against Roberts for no reason other that politics is troubling. Roberts was more than qualified for the position.

I'm going to wait until he adds to his platform a "mandatory abortions for all women of child-bearing age," makes official his "Free Rape of White Women Reparation Act," and finalizes his plans to hand over San Antonio, Texas to his cousin Osama bin Laden before I add my vote.

Nabb1: The fact that Obama voted against Roberts for no reason other that politics is troubling. Roberts was more than qualified for the position.

right. because he wasn't nominated because of his politics.

/sarcasm

Jonah Goldberg: making a living off the idiots who continue to listen to his ignorant bullshiat-filled rants.

Pocket Ninja: "Free Rape of White Women Reparation Act,"

White women?

FlashHarry: Nabb1: The fact that Obama voted against Roberts for no reason other that politics is troubling. Roberts was more than qualified for the position.

right. because he wasn't nominated because of his politics.

/sarcasm

What makes John Roberts unqualified for the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? The President made his choice and the ABA gave him a glowing recommendation and the Senate threw a fit. Yes, all Presidents try to chose a nominee that suits his political bent, but there are no guarantees (Eisenhower referred to Justice Brennana as the "worst mistake" of his Presidency). Can you articulate any non-partisan reasons to reject Roberts?

Nabb1:

What makes John Roberts unqualified for the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

Nothing, if you don't mind the second best. Or have we all forgotten



?

IndyMBA: Getting everyone to speak "Muslim" is a lofty goal. I'd be happier if he could get everyone in this country to speak proper English first before mandating a second language requirement.

this.

greedalwayskills: i hate it when this dick gets greenlit.

?

Blues_X Jonah Goldberg: making a living off the idiots on FARK who continue to listen to his ignorant bullshiat-filled rants.

FTFY

Nabb1: FlashHarry: Nabb1: The fact that Obama voted against Roberts for no reason other that politics is troubling. Roberts was more than qualified for the position.

right. because he wasn't nominated because of his politics.

/sarcasm

What makes John Roberts unqualified for the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? The President made his choice and the ABA gave him a glowing recommendation and the Senate threw a fit. Yes, all Presidents try to chose a nominee that suits his political bent, but there are no guarantees (Eisenhower referred to Justice Brennana as the "worst mistake" of his Presidency). Can you articulate any non-partisan reasons to reject Roberts?

i'm not denying politics came into play. he was nominated because of his politics. and every senator voted based on politics. if you think obama was the only one to do that, you're high.

IndyMBA: Getting everyone to speak "Muslim" is a lofty goal. I'd be happier if he could get everyone in this country to speak proper English first before mandating a second language requirement.

...and then it should be Chinese, in order to easier facilitate future trade. Arab, Turkish, Kurdish and Farsi is the future language of diplomats though...

Oh, this idiot is the guy who thinks Mussolini and fascism were left wing. After that much stupid, I don't see why I should pay any attention to a word he says. But I read TFA anyway...

I guess if Obama is elected President, we'll become a monarchy. The judges will take over everything! OMG! By the way, moran author, not that it will happen here anyway, but a country ruled by judges is not a monarchy.

Without divided government, it tends to be "advice and rubberstamp."

/*sigh*

That Jonah Golberg is a whiny, doughy yambag has been established to the point where it's no longer even a viable debate topic. It's a scientific fact.

So I'll move past that and get to what really identifies him in this article as a complete and utter failure as a human being: His use of the phrase "in a very real sense."

Is there a more meaningless, emotionally brain dead phrase in the English language? Seriously, what the f*ck does it even mean? Does Jonah perceive things most of the time as being part of some alternate reality?

Anyone who uses this phrase needs to be put inside a rocket with a crazed, angry monkey and shot into the heart of the sun.

Nabb1

Especially his position on full rights for corporations. They're just like people now.

What a crap article. Obama is reiterating the concept of equity within the judicial system. And the fact that the Constitution is a living, breathing instrument. If equity and change were not brought into judicial decision-making, women would still be unable to vote, just compensation for personal injury would be non-existent, and child labor would still be acceptable.

sigdiamond2000

Anyone who uses this phrase needs to be put inside a rocket with a crazed, angry monkey and shot into the heart of the sun


I'd pay good money to see him matched up with David Brooks in a cage death match.

/2 douchebags enter
//1 douchebag leaves

SherKhan: Nabb1:

What makes John Roberts unqualified for the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

Nothing, if you don't mind the second best. Or have we all forgotten?

That was a farce, and I said it when it happened. I won't argue with that. Roberts had an impecable record of experience in the judiciary, though.

FlashHarry: i'm not denying politics came into play. he was nominated because of his politics. and every senator voted based on politics. if you think obama was the only one to do that, you're high.

Yeah, but Obama's running for President. If you want to see Senators sweeping aside political objections for SCOTUS nominees, go look into the record surrounding Ginsburg's confirmation.

sigdiamond2000:

Is there a more meaningless, emotionally brain dead phrase in the English language?

Aye. I, for one, find "I, for one" to be one. In a very real sense.

From TFA:

Do we want to live in a monarchy or a nation of laws?

Right, because Bush's signing statements maintain Congressional oversight, and in no way give the executive an abundance of power.

SherKhan: sigdiamond2000:

Is there a more meaningless, emotionally brain dead phrase in the English language?

Aye. I, for one, find "I, for one" to be one. In a very real sense.

For all intents and purposes, "for all intensive porpoises" is the worst.

SherKhan: Aye. I, for one, find "I, for one" to be one.

That's definitely top ten for sure

greedalwayskills: i hate it when this dick gets greenlit.

You are going to want some anti-biotics for that greenlit dick.

SherKhan: Aye. I, for one, find "I, for one" to be one. In a very real sense.

I, for one, welcome our new "outraged at overused and brain dead English language phrases" overlords, in a very real sense.

Nabb1: Yes, all Presidents try to chose a nominee that suits his political bent, but there are no guarantees (Eisenhower referred to Justice Brennan as the "worst mistake" of his Presidency).

Actually, I think he said it was Earl Warren. And in his defense, it's not like Eisenhower wanted Warren specifically... Warren (who was then Governor of California) promised to step aside in the 1952 presidential election for Eisenhower in exchange for getting the first vacancy on the Supreme Court. Which just happened to be the Chief Justice slot.

Can you articulate any non-partisan reasons to reject Roberts?

I suppose turning the Supreme Court into an unelected backup legislature to pass the things you can't get through Congress counts as non-partisan. Barely.

Marcus Aurelius: sigdiamond2000

Anyone who uses this phrase needs to be put inside a rocket with a crazed, angry monkey and shot into the heart of the sun


I'd pay good money to see him matched up with David Brooks in a cage death match.

/2 douchebags enter
//1 douchebag leaves

Can we add Bill Kristol and Kathleen Parker and make it a Battle Royale?

Nabb1: Yeah, but Obama's running for President. If you want to see Senators sweeping aside political objections for SCOTUS nominees, go look into the record surrounding Ginsburg's confirmation.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "politics" here. Can you explicate at all? Personally, I hate Roberts for his dedication to the concept of corporate personhood, something which totally chaps my libertarian ass. Is my objection to him, therefore political?

What is staggering, or at least should be, is that Stevens freely admits that he no longer considers "objective evidence" or even the plain text of the Constitution determinative of what is or isn't constitutional: "I have relied on my own experience in reaching the conclusion that the imposition of the death penalty" is unconstitutional.

Justice Antonin Scalia, in a blistering response, justifiably exclaimed that, "Purer expression cannot be found of the principle of rule by judicial fiat."

Oh SNAP. Justice Scalia, you of the quick-wit and forked tongue for your ideological foes.

Feeling sorry for the poor guy who violates the Constitution or the law has no role in how a Supreme Court justice is supposed to make a decision. Legislators can write laws based on empathy. They can invoke their pet theories about "how the world works." They can even, as Justices Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsberg are fond of doing, consult foreign laws and court decisions in their efforts to make a more perfect union. But Supreme Court justices are supposed to decide what the written law requires, not pick winners and losers based upon some sense of noblesse oblige. That's why all of those statues of Lady Justice show her standing blindfolded, not bent over kissing the boo-boos of the unfortunate and the downtrodden.

Yeah I don't really think "empathy" is anything that should be considered some sort of a litmus test for a judge. By definition of their roles, they are supposed to be empathy-less to either side of a dispute.

patrick767: I guess if Obama is elected President, we'll become a monarchy. The judges will take over everything! OMG! By the way, moran author, not that it will happen here anyway, but a country ruled by judges is not a monarchy.

Technically, it would be an oligarchy, not a monarchy. In practice, there's not much difference between the two. And if federal judges are going to be deciding cases not on the basis of the law, but whose side they most sympathize with, that's exactly what we're going to get. The only reason the power of judicial review works is that it is based on what the law or the Constitution says, not what the judges can talk themselves into believing it says.

"[T]he candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties, in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal." - Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address

Nabb1: The President made his choice and the ABA gave him a glowing recommendation and the Senate threw a fit.

Note: The ABA tends to be a very left-leaning organization politically as well.

SherKhan: Nothing, if you don't mind the second best. Or have we all forgotten

Didn't she get replaced by Alito and not Roberts? I thought I remember Roberts as being the only nominee for Rehnquist's seat, whereas Miers/Alito were nominated for O'Connor's seat.

He will also appoint Jeremiah Wright as his Secretary of Black

Nabb1: SherKhan: Nabb1:

What makes John Roberts unqualified for the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

Nothing, if you don't mind the second best. Or have we all forgotten?

That was a farce, and I said it when it happened. I won't argue with that. Roberts had an impecable record of experience in the judiciary, though.

FlashHarry: i'm not denying politics came into play. he was nominated because of his politics. and every senator voted based on politics. if you think obama was the only one to do that, you're high.

Yeah, but Obama's running for President. If you want to see Senators sweeping aside political objections for SCOTUS nominees, go look into the record surrounding Ginsburg's confirmation.


Why ask Farkers to explain? You can get the explanation from the Senator himself.

He's got my vote then.

Silly, Muslim isn't a language. Obama will force everyone to speak Arabic.

And if he's giving Arabic lessons, hey, a difficult and relevant language. Fine selection.

In other news... BOOGITY, BOOGITY, BOOGITY!!!

Ace Frehley's Ghost: In other news... BOOGITY, BOOGITY, BOOGITY!!!

Let's go racing, boys?

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Nabb1: The fact that Obama voted against Roberts for no reason other that politics is troubling. Roberts was more than qualified for the position.

His concurring opinion in Morse v. Frederick, and his opinions in other cases, indicate that he's an activist judge. If Justice Roberts is going to make decisions based on politics, then there's no reason why a Senator shouldn't vote based upon that.

greedalwayskills: i hate it when this dick gets greenlit.

Just because we read it doesn't mean we believe it. I'm happy it got greenlit - otherwise I'd have never found out what a ranting, raging farkwit this guy is.

KaponoFor3:

Didn't she get replaced by Alito and not Roberts?

Yup. Still, a peek into the petty and purely partisan penchant of the President.