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Politics > Politics-USA |
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06 Jul 2005 08:10:50 PM |
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An open letter to President Bush re Supreme Court nomination |
(This letter, including the quote in the signature,
has actually been sent to .)
In regards to nominating Justice O'Connor's
successor on the Supreme Court, you have two
possible courses of action: either you can
show statesmanship and courage, and nominate
someone who will use his or her mind in a
scrupulous effort to interpret the laws and
the Constitution accurately and honestly, even
if you may not agree with all the resulting
decisions; or you can show partisanship and
cowardice, and do what far too many people
want you to do: appoint a knee-jerk
reactionary who will legislate from the bench
to impose the unconstitutional, un-American
far-right politico-religious agenda.
If you do the former, it is still possible
that the country "may move forward into broad,
sunlit uplands" (to borrow a phrase from
Churchill's "finest hour" speech). But if you
do the latter, it will only do what your
fiscal, geopolitical, social-justice, and
environmental policies have already done:
accelerate America's slide to ruin. Please,
for the sake of your daughters and any
children they may someday have, for the sake
of the country you say you love, *demonstrate*
love for the country, for the Constitution you
are sworn to defend, and choose the first
option: select a true judge, not a dictator;
a thinker, not a right-wing robot.
(By the way, if you nominate Alberto "the
Torturer" Gonzales, the man who devised ways
for you to weasel out of international law and
even common humanity regarding the treatment
of prisoners at Gitmo and elsewhere, you're
going to get a TON of protests from people who
are liberal in the finest sense of the word.
You will once again be a divider, not a
uniter. If Gonzales is willing to trample
on the rights of prisoners, he will most
certainly be equally ready to trample on the
rights of Americans.)
As I indicated above, your policies have been
deleterious to the country. You may go down
in history as the President who destroyed
America. (And how appropriate, since you,
similar to the man who wanted to destroy it
over 200 years ago, are President George III.)
But you have a chance now to repent, to
redeem yourself and your Presidency, to choose
someone genuinely worthy of the solemn and
enormously influential responsibility of
deciding cases on the Supreme Court of the
United States. Don't blow this chance.
-- Jeffrey J. Sargent,
"Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults."
-- Benjamin Franklin, _Poor Richard's Almanack_
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| User: "Frank Dwyer" |
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| Title: Re: An open letter to President Bush re Supreme Court nomination |
06 Jul 2005 09:00:13 PM |
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wrote:
(This letter, including the quote in the signature,
has actually been sent to .)
In regards to nominating Justice O'Connor's
successor on the Supreme Court, you have two
possible courses of action:
$100 says if one of his staff perused it, they stopped right there.
either you can
show statesmanship and courage, and nominate
someone who will use his or her mind in a
scrupulous effort to interpret the laws and
the Constitution accurately and honestly, even
if you may not agree with all the resulting
decisions; or you can show partisanship and
cowardice,
They would definitely stop there.
All in all, a poorly worded letter that would be lucky to get past the
post office.
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| User: "fred" |
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| Title: Re: An open letter to President Bush re Supreme Court nomination |
06 Jul 2005 10:04:25 PM |
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wrote:
(This letter, including the quote in the signature,
has actually been sent to .)
In regards to nominating Justice O'Connor's
successor on the Supreme Court, you have two
possible courses of action: either you can
show statesmanship and courage, and nominate
someone who will use his or her mind in a
scrupulous effort to interpret the laws and
the Constitution accurately and honestly, even
if you may not agree with all the resulting
decisions; or you can show partisanship and
cowardice, and do what far too many people
want you to do: appoint a knee-jerk
reactionary who will legislate from the bench
to impose the unconstitutional, un-American
far-right politico-religious agenda.
Where are you coming from?
Liberal judges are the ones to worry about. This is because,
regardless that they swear to uphold the Constitution, liberal judges
end up reading into the Constitution whatever turns them on. It so
happens that the recent ED ruling, for example, which essentially says
that there is no such thing as private property anymore, was decided by
the liberal leaning majority of justices.
If you do the former, it is still possible
that the country "may move forward into broad,
sunlit uplands" (to borrow a phrase from
Churchill's "finest hour" speech). But if you
do the latter, it will only do what your
fiscal, geopolitical, social-justice, and
environmental policies have already done:
accelerate America's slide to ruin. Please,
for the sake of your daughters and any
children they may someday have, for the sake
of the country you say you love, *demonstrate*
love for the country, for the Constitution you
are sworn to defend, and choose the first
option: select a true judge, not a dictator;
a thinker, not a right-wing robot.
(By the way, if you nominate Alberto "the
Torturer" Gonzales, the man who devised ways
for you to weasel out of international law and
even common humanity regarding the treatment
of prisoners at Gitmo and elsewhere, you're
going to get a TON of protests from people who
are liberal in the finest sense of the word.
You will once again be a divider, not a
uniter. If Gonzales is willing to trample
on the rights of prisoners, he will most
certainly be equally ready to trample on the
rights of Americans.)
As I indicated above, your policies have been
deleterious to the country. You may go down
in history as the President who destroyed
America. (And how appropriate, since you,
similar to the man who wanted to destroy it
over 200 years ago, are President George III.)
But you have a chance now to repent, to
redeem yourself and your Presidency, to choose
someone genuinely worthy of the solemn and
enormously influential responsibility of
deciding cases on the Supreme Court of the
United States. Don't blow this chance.
-- Jeffrey J. Sargent,
"Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults."
-- Benjamin Franklin, _Poor Richard's Almanack_
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| User: "Billy" |
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| Title: Re: An open letter to President Bush re Supreme Court nomination |
06 Jul 2005 08:53:31 PM |
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I'm sure that motivated him to kiss the liberals *****.
Good job
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: An open letter to President Bush re Supreme Court nomination |
12 Jul 2005 09:47:53 PM |
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Billy wrote:
I'm sure that motivated him to kiss the liberals *****.
Good job
I'm just telling him not to kiss the conservatives' *****
either, but remember that he's the President of the
United States, not just the right wing, and should thus
pick a Justice for all the people, not just his supporters.
-- JJS
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| User: "Billy" |
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| Title: Re: An open letter to President Bush re Supreme Court nomination |
12 Jul 2005 10:48:14 PM |
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<jjsargent@go.com> wrote in message
news:1121222868.409443.49170@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
Billy wrote:
I'm sure that motivated him to kiss the liberals *****.
Good job
I'm just telling him not to kiss the conservatives' *****
either, but remember that he's the President of the
United States, not just the right wing, and should thus
pick a Justice for all the people, not just his supporters.
-- JJS
You think he should disappoint the people that voted for him to appease the
people that didn't, something seems flawed about that. Is there such a thing
as a person who opposes Rove VS. wade that is "for all the people" or is
that but one of your requirements? Fact is a lot of people that voted for
Bush do so for one reason, there was a good chance he would get the chance
to select a Justice, I hope he does not let them down.
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