Yesterday on Today, the senior senator from Massachusetts was holding forth on the subject of Pres. Bush’s new nominee to the Supreme Court and he (i.e., Kennedy) said the following:
What these hearings are about are really the question and the challenge to make sure that we’re going have someone who stands on the side of working families, the middle class, of ordinary people, when you get right down to it.
The American people during this process want to know is he [Roberts] going to be on the side of the major corporate interests or is he going to be on the (side of the) consumers’ interest? Will he be on the side of the polluters or will he be on the side of those that believe that the Congress had the right to pass important legislation on the environment? And will he be on the side of workers, or is he going to be on the side of the bosses? [SOURCE.]
Attention Sen. Kennedy! Judges are not supposed to be on the "side" of anybody! They are supposed to be impartial. That is why Justice is supposed to be "blind." If you don’t understand that, you are not qualified to assist the Senate in its "advise and consent" role in the nomination process! You are advocating the idea of judges who dispense justice in a biased manner. That is contrary to the virtue of justice itself.
The fact that Kennedy could say such things in public and expect them to be helpful to him and his Party is a sad commentary on how poorly educated in civics the American public is.
Ted Kennedy is a drongo – Chapaquidik proved that.Its just taken a lot of time for Americans to see it, and many still can’t.
Poppin’ a Gourd Over Kennedy’s Comments Re Roberts
Jimmy Akin finds the senator “dangerously unqualified” …
I’m sure if you looked closely enough you could find quotes from Teddy the K attacking conservative judge nominees for not being “impartial.” Isn’t that normally the leftist complaint that people like Janice Brown are so conservative that they aren’t neutral?
“Mary Jo Kopechne was not available for comment.”
Thank you! It’s about time I heard someone else say this….
Wouldn’t it be interesting if Kennedy and some of his fellow senators were nominated just to run them through the same muck that they put the other nominees through.
Precisely right, Jimmy. That’s why the Judicial Oath which justices must swear includes the line “do equal right to the poor and to the rich”; so if he did stand “on the side of workers” as opposed to “bosses”, he’d be violating his oath of office. Whatever the situation, you can always count on Teddy to say something asinine.
Please tell me how the man keeps getting re-elected.
Massachusetts is run by a political machine. Just like NY State. That’s how they get re-elected.
The thing that bugs me the most is what Schumer or Leahy said “the burden is not on the Senate to prove Roberts is not capable, but the burden is on Roberts to prove to the Senate that he is worthy”. This strikes me as wrong. Roberts had to prove to Bush he was worthy so as to be nominated. Then the burden IS on the Senate to see if he is qualified or not. Basically, Democrat senators seem to think that “advise and consent” means “we will pick the candidate through the president, who acts as our puppet or we will be mad that we were not consulted”. How childish, and not what the Constitution intended when it gave the president the choice, not the Senate.
Here in Canada I’m getting Fox News for the first time for a free 60 day trial.
What a breath of fresh air to hear TV commentators openly mock and ridicule this fool!
This is way better than CNN.
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Ted Kennedy is the sad, tragic wreck of someone who once, I believe, held a great deal of promise of doing good. That said, I think him pompous, meretricious, and irrelevant, and am weary of the sound of his voice.
As Prof. Snape once said — “Apparently fame isn’t everything.”
Thank goodness Republicans never resort to this kind of inflammatory rhetoric, huh?
Thank goodness that Local Man didn’t resort to non sequiturs.
I wonder how long the Peoples Republic of Canada and Gomorrah will allow Fox to reach its subjects?