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On John Roberts: It's Simple Really
The yea or nay on John Roberts' nomination to the post of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court can be decided thusly: either the Bush Administration releases ALL of the deputy solicitor writings pertaining to Roberts or he gets a thumbs down. At this point, it's that simple.
Each and every Senator should be saying to the Busheviks: 'you want my yes vote then you provide all the available information.'
This is not a partisan viewpoint. Hardly. It it a basic tenet of democracy and what should be applied to EVERY nominee to the Supreme Court, be it from a Republican or Democratic administration.
The American people deserve this particular litmus test. It is called democracy.
If you disagree, let me give an analogy: Would an employer give lifetime tenure to any individual who washed his hands of submitting his entire work history? Someone who brazenly stated that if an past employer didn't want to provide documentation of his output, then that is their private business and nothing further will be offered about such employment during that period of time? Who flat out refuses to discuss a judicially critical segment of his past?
Of course not.
Especially so at the lofty level of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
C'mon you Democratic Senators of woeful will, of 'can't we all just play nice and get along.' Stand for something. How many more times will you allow yourselves, and ultimately this country, to be snookered? And suffer as a result?
And as for you 'fair-minded' and so-called 'independent' Republican Senators, if you cannot even require a complete record then your true political stripes are showing.
This documentation subterfuge is typical Bushevik method of operation. Precedent be damned. They decide on whether to hide something or, if necessary, fake it. The American public will get to see only what the Busheviks deem appropriate and the bulk of the mainstream media acquiesces..
Ah, as Robert Duval came close to saying in "Apocalyse Now" as Major Kilgore: "I love the smell of oligarchy in the morning..."
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