Comments on: Obama nominates Merrick Garland to SCOTUS

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 07:06:18 +0000

“prosperously” should be purposely

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 07:04:10 +0000

neo-neocon

I did not in any way prosperously tried or trying spamming your post.

My apologies, however its your space and you’r free to do what you like.
thanks

By: Whatever

Whatever — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 04:22:29 +0000

Trump will be no worse than Arnold in CA – blustering and egotistical, Arnauld was a faux republican who created years of deadlock, which is the best that can happen, especially compared to Hillary.

Those who say Trump will result in anything but gridlock are just tin hat lunatics. His executive orders won’t increase immigration, and his staff will include Christie, Carson and other “real” republicans so the rank and file will swing things right at least the lower level.

Those who are “never trump” are as much enemies as the left since they don’t know how government operates.

By: Ira

Ira — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 01:47:44 +0000

Artfldgr:

I think you are wrong about Justice Roberts and Cruz.

That is, Justice Roberts WAS a good appointment at the time. But, something happened to him between his first draft of the first SCOTUS opinion in the 2012 case NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ET AL. v. SEBELIUS and his final draft.

See,
http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2012/07/01/the-supreme-courts-john-roberts-changed-his-obamacare-vote-in-may/#5c31bfc27c4c

I don’t know what it was, but I suspect it was not something good.

Whatever it was, it was not something that Cruz or most other people could anticipate.

By: Stark

Stark — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 21:42:35 +0000

Kyndyll G’s analysis above of Donald Trump is spot on.

Trump is a shameless self-promoter that lacks any substance and covers it will bullying bluster. He appears to be a pathetic person who know the price of everything and the value of nothing, especially our Constitution.

Garland would certainly be the fifth certain vote on the liberal side of the Supreme Court and the GOP should make that clear to the public without entertaining any hearings.

By: Frog

Frog — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 20:45:00 +0000

From yesterday’s WSJ on Judge Garland:
“law professor Clare Huntington, who clerked for Judge Garland during his first year on the D.C. Circuit, described him as “deeply involved in the minutiae” of legal reasoning, sweating the details of each case rather than promoting a broader philosophical agenda. In addition to criminal law, Judge Garland has a special expertise in administrative law–“the bread and butter of the D.C. Circuit,” which handles many cases involving federal agencies, Ms. Huntington said.”

In other words, Garland pursues trivia; he is a judicial mouse, the 180 degree opposite of Scalia. As an expert in administrative law, he manifestly likes to deal with Federal bureaucrats and their bureaucracies.

Garland is a sweaty wee little man, exactly the kind of guy to take orders from Great Leaders like BHO and Hillary.

He is also very opposed to the 2nd Amendment.

The notion that his nomination should be kept open until after the election, so that he could be Senate-confirmed before Hillary takes office to nominate someone worse is a quite nutty idea. If Hillary wins and Dems retake the Senate, BHO just withdraws Garland’s nomination in November, in order for fire to rain down from Democratic heaven come 2017.

By: Ralph Kinney Bennett

Ralph Kinney Bennett — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 19:31:10 +0000

Garland a moderate? A moderate! “Thou are neither hot nor cold… And I will spew thee out of my mouth.” Garland well knows the lay of the land at this time and he is a committed-enough Leftist to allow Obama to cynically use him as a political toy boy in hopes of baiting the Republicans. What more need be said.

By: Kyndyll G

Kyndyll G — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 19:22:13 +0000

Artful, honestly. If Trump were to get elected, which is dubious (chances are, he’s only here because he’s the only person that could possibly have gotten involved in the race that his friend Hillary could beat) at best he is going to be a one-term failure that will embarrass actual Republicans (if our party still exists) for years.

He shows no real ability to do anything other than rabble-rouse crowds at the lowest-common-denominator level. His ideas are puerile and delivered as if by a man who really has no idea whatsoever what he’s doing here. I disrespect him as a human for his repeated displays of boorish, aggressive and patently offensive behavior and as I noted on a different forum, given that his specialty seems to be making a small fortune from a large one, I don’t greatly respect him as anything other than a self-hyped and overhyped brand when it comes to business.

Your attempts to attack Trump’s opposition by any tinfoil hat thing you can find make you sound like a democrat troll and had I not seen you here for years, that’s what I would assume you are. Here, I can only presume that not only have you drunk the Trump Koolaid, you’ve invested your life savings in it.

I used to do a lot of debating in a certain sports field, and the Trump backers remind me of the subset of the population which obsesses on newcomers and dismisses those with any sort of real established record, even if it’s good. They’re not looking for good, they’re looking for an Epic Hero; and once something is demonstrated to be merely good, it can never be an Epic Hero. But anyone with no record at all still could be The One.

News flash: Trump is not The One, anymore than Obama was.

By: Richard Saunders

Richard Saunders — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 19:04:09 +0000

Artfl, once again you are positive in your opinions but wrong on your facts. The FBI does not indict anybody. The FBI makes a criminal referral to the Justice Department. The Justice Department, i.e., Loretta Lynch, determines whether to convene a grand jury to indict.
A grand jury may have been convened; it is unusual, but not unheard of, for immunity to be granted without one, but that doesn’t mean DOJ will have the grand jury indict.

It all comes down to politics. If Trump gets the nomination, the Evil Empress will be indicted. If the FBI Director tells Lynch that he and dozens, perhaps hundreds, of agents will resign, the Evil Empress will be indicted. If Lynch and the Onederboy succeed in cowing Comey and the rest of the FBI and IC into silence, she won’t be indicted.

Get it?

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 19:02:26 +0000

"OBAMA NOMINATES STEALTH LEFTIST FOR THE SUPREME COURT" "How Judge Garland's deciding vote would reverse key decisions protecting Americans’ constitutional freedoms." Garland's record makes a compelling case that he is indeed an activist liberal judge.