... I was going to make a comment, but then I decided I don't want to join the freak show.

Dafydd,

Pompous vitriolic left-wing trolls are bad enough, but they should at least stay on topic. No?

RBMN:

Oh, have some patience. Wilson Kolb will flop over the line fairly soon.

He has to: it's part of his schtick to get himself banned from "right wing" web sites, so he can strut up and down and preen to his pre-teen pals. It's one of the few things that validates his otherwise empty existence.

He has even taken to goading me to ban him; evidently, I'm not giving satisfaction in the censorship department. Perhaps he's having a hard time convincing his cadre that he's a bona-fide revoloooooshunary... Jeez, can't even get himself banned from Big Lizards!

So he'll do something spectacular RSN. He must. I mean, what else has he got going?

Dafydd

Is there any realistic chance the Repubs will vote against this nominee? I agree with Will (and if Will has not earned the right to weigh in on this type of question I don't know who has) that this woman is far, far too likely to be a bad Justice to be confirmed.

a) She's a wide-eyed naif who thinks that Bush is "the most brilliant man I've ever met." What happens if she establishes a girls club with Ruth Ginsburg and decides she's really the most brilliant person in the world?

b) I do not think Souter was a closet liberal when he was nominated; I think he was a solitary, eccentric Milquetoast that got dominated by his clerks and the Court culture. Sound like anybody?

c) Conservatives have busted their butts for 30 years for this opportunity, and every time we have the football snatched away at the last minute. We are tired of playing Charlie Brown to the Bush family's Lucy.

Please don't feed the trolls.

Liar, you went.

beebop: "She's a wide-eyed naif who thinks that Bush is "the most brilliant man I've ever met."

Isn't that the kind of petulant condescension best left to left-wingers? Bush has brilliantly discharged his duties and completely fooled these idiots on the left throughout his presidency. Yet you somehow are amazed that a trailblazing woman finds a man that she has been able to intimately observe over many, many years is the most brilliant man she's ever met. A man who has afforded a number of capable, competent women positions of authority perhaps unparalleled in the history of the American presidency.

The most brilliant? He sure as hell might be. In fact, he might be the most brilliant man you'll ever meet, if you got the chance. The most startling thing about the self-evident snobbery displayed by some conservatives when it comes to this woman is the incredibly narrow understanding they have of brilliance, competence, and qualifications.

Maybe we have enough book-smart academic masturbators on the Supreme Court. How about some folks with other forms of intelligence, or "brilliance." Some folks actually able to engage in social intercourse, high level thinking, and fidelity to faith -- and a work record to establish THOSE bona fides, rather than law review articles.

This is quite an education, I'll tell you that. I thought I had left much of this nonsense behind with the Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party. That damn Bush is getting smarter to me all the time. Now, while being CHARGED with hypocrisy, he's actually EXPOSING a deep-seated conservative hypocrisy among a certain crowd that has probably rubbed him the wrong way more than once in his political career.

The Supreme Court is the big leagues, the Supreme Court is the big leagues! Do these people running off at the mouth with that line realize what they're saying? What a warped understanding of the law!

A question for Miers, the best candidate available, supporters at Hypothetically Speaking

One comment nuked for potential liability.

KarmiCommunist, you're not the commenter I was talking about in the other thread; but you still cannot level potentially libelous accusations against anyone here. Be more careful, all right? (In this case, you accused two celebrities of using illegal drugs when there is no evidence of such that I have seen.)

I'm sure it was in jest, but it's still not allowed.

Thanks,

Dafydd

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