I agree with people that I don't think she's qualified. I'm very perplexed about Bush choosing her. I have one mind that says he picked her so when she doesn't make it through the nominations Bush will be able to play hardball and say "See, I gave you a moderate and you didn't approve her. Now I'm going to pick someone further to the right."
Bush does, however, have a history of cronyism...and I hate using that word because everyone's tossing it around. But someone put up a website recently to "Find The Brownie", or more clearly, point out unqualified political appointees. Placing political appointees have been a sport in Washington, but Bush is a master at it.
One other point, for Latoya: I don't care if 99% of the US population is woman, the candidates to the Supreme Court should still be based on the BEST QAULIFICATIONS, not gender, not race, not even necessarily on whether they can be counted on to be a "swing voter" as so many Democrats and pundits have been bugging for but on whether or not they will allow themselves to interpret matters of Constitutional law and allow themselves to be circumscribed by the boundaries set forth in the Constitution.
Oh, oh...while I'm here, I want to send a big fuck you to Diane Feinstein who thinks it's unfair for the Supreme Court to try and limit her powers through a correct interpretation of the "interstate commerce clause". In case you don't know, the Constitution limits the matters that Congress can create laws on as those that pertain to "Interstate Commerce". The Commerce Clause states that Congress may make laws on: "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes."
Sen. Feinstein somehow understands that to mean that she can make gun control laws, or education bills, or hey, whatever the hell she feels like. SHE CAN'T. And one of the reasons she's so worked up about whom Bush will pick for the Supreme Court is because the Court has become more inclined to strike down unlawful legislation because it does not meet the standard set forth in the Commerce Clause.
So I hope Bush picked someone who is a strict constitutionalist who will continue to chap Feinstein's hide. And if that person's a disabled black lesbian muslim who just had an abortion, I don't really give a damn.
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