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By all accounts, Judge Roberts is a stellar choice for the Supreme Court, and I think it would behoove us all–Republicans, Democrats, and otherwise–to try to help this get done. Roberts is certainly a conservative, but he is also a federalist, which means that he intends to stick to the constitution. Hugh Hewitt said, the day Roberts was nominated, that Roberts is the sort of judge that, if the constitution seems to indicate a decision that would be labelled “liberal,” Roberts would go with that–because that’s the constitution. For this reason, Hugh thought (and I think I’d agree) that even the Democrats would be reasonably happy with this choice for the Supreme Court.
Sadly, that isn’t universally the case. I listen, occasionally, to AM 950 (Minnesota’s channel for Err Amerika), just to know what is being said by “the other side,” and occasionally to try to convince myself that maybe, just maybe, the left is not as extreme, loony, and hateful as we (conservatives) tend to think they are. I’m consistently disappointed. Within minutes of Roberts’ nomination, whatever pundit was ranting on Err Amerika was denouncing Roberts as a capitalist stooge and anti-environmentalist. It would be nice if they were just honest and said, “Bush appointed him, therefore we must hate him!”
The next day, a different radio show (I think it might have been Laura Ingraham, but I don’t recall…) had a sound clip of a senator (IIRC) talking to Larry King about the appointment of Judge Roberts. He began by stating what a good choice Roberts was, how exemplary his record was, and how everyone respected him so much. Well, that was nice. Then he went on to express alarm… at what? At how happy the conservatives are with the appointment. That’s what politics is coming to them; it is now a valid reason to oppose a great judicial appointment, just because the other side thinks it’s a great idea.
Well. That’s just peachy. If you’d like to help sidestep another round of foolibusters, sign the petition mentioned above; and if you can and will, visit the GOP Action Center and call or write your senators, even write your local newspaper editors. Thanks.
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I went to a Bible school near Tulsa, Oklahoma a few years back, called Rhema Bible Training Center. Every summer they have a “campmeeting,” really a Bible teaching conference, but named after the old “campmeetings” which used to be held, often actually in large tents, in the late forties and through the fifties.
