Does * have the first idea of how our government works?

[edhopper]

He picks a SCOTUS nominee whom he is "personally comfortable" with. Has he never heard of separation of powers? Doesn't he know that if confirmed he should NEVER speak to the Justice again. Who gives a rats ass if he can get along with the nominee. Does he have the slightest idea of what's in our Constitution?
What a moron!!!

[CottonBear]

1. More to the point, he doesn't care how it works as long as he gets his way

:grr:

[tompayne1]

2. I don't think he has read it

I had a quote somewhere. Dang.....

[chelsea0011]

3. Absolutely! He is a genius. Money, corruption, and lies is how

the Bushies see things.

[peekaloo]

4. NO. He's a Dictatortot

and it's working well for him so far.

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. LOL!

"Dictatortot."
I am so stealing that! :rofl:

[peekaloo]

18. I stole it from a C-SPAN caller a few years ago.

:D

[incapsulated]

5. It's not stupidity, it's arrogance

The "system" is working for him, he is working the system. It doesn't matter if he ever speaks to Meirs again, what matters is if his lawyers ever have to appear before the Supreme Court, he has a friend.

[acmejack]

13. He comes by it (dis)honestly!

It is a family tradition, the Bushes and the Walkers have been working the system for all it's worth for generations. They are the "Robber Barons" of yore, literally.

[gratuitous]

6. As long as he's the dictator, he's comfortable with his dictatorship

And oddly enough, every Republican in the Senate is comfortable with it, too. A dismaying number of Democrats, as well.

[93ncsu]

7. I didn;t realize the US Constitution ...

forbade a sitting US President from speaking to a sitting Justice of the Supreme Court. Is that really in there somewhere ?

[edhopper]

10. No it doesn't.

But my point is that they will not be working together. SCOTUS is a separate branch of government, and only interacts with the executive at an official level.
He seemed to Pick Meirs the same way he picked Cheney. He felt comfortable with her. As if that matters.
He does not seem to grasp the workings of our government.

[AllegroRondo]

11. No, but a sitting justice is expected to recuse themselves

in any case in which they may have a personal involvement. Seeing as the President it the supreme executive, and very involved in how laws are made and executed, we would expect a justice who has daily and very familiar contact with the President to recuse themselves on many more cases.

Not that it stopped Scalia in the Cheney case......

[texpatriot2004]

8. Recently I saw him on TV say that he was going to observe

(during the RITA hurricane preperations) because he "needed to understand how the State and Federal Governments worked together." NOt sure if that is the exact quote but if it wasn't, it was something very close to that. Good thing he was Gov of Texas 1st eh? He ruined our State Government.

[louis-t]

9. He really doesn't know, not that it matters

Remember, he's the guy who claimed that the EXECUTIVE Branch of the government is the LAW INTERPRETING branch (during the 2000 recount). He really doesn't know, nor is it necessary for him to know. He'll do what he wants regardless of : The law, protocol, tradition, common sense, good taste, common courtesy, common decency....

[The Backlash Cometh]

12. This cronyism IS the key to his success. It's been around forever,

and it's only now being noticed? What do you think Scalia meant when he was shocked, SHOCKED that anyone would question his hunting trips with Cheney when Cheney's case was going to be presented to the court? Scalia has never had that kind of scrutiny and doesn't realize that cronyism is wrong because THAT's how he got to the Supreme Court in the first place.

And what about Robert Novak crying because the Democrats are "criminalizing politics?" He's upset because the DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO TAKE AWAY HIS EDGE.

They sit there and condescend to everyone else, when the truth is that they compromised themselves in order to be winners in this country.

[Igel]

14. Does that mean that the prez should never speak to

any of the senators or representatives, and the congressfolk should never speak to anybody on the SCOTUS?

And what about the VP? He's both chair of the senate and in the executive branch. I guess he can't even speak to himself.

[firefox]

15. Not a moron, but a puppet

Remember how after the first * selection, the media attacked anyone who called * the puppet that he is got blasted. The greatest truth about * is that he is a puppet. He does not have to think. He does not have to write speeches. He is told what to think and what words to say.

I am surprised with all the punditry out there that we do not hear more of the solicitation of * by the Neocons and the education of * after he agreed to run for office.

I think the greatest truth out there on * is that he is a puppet and the best educational fruition will come when WeThePeople tell the story on his selection.

I regret not having a link on how he was approached and how he was indoctrinated, but the media are not going to say it and the pundits are all missing the main pressure point.

The case for * as a fascist is not being made either, and that is part of the reason the tide has not begun to go out on the band of criminals that are in our public offices.

[jazzjunkysue]

16. Um, no. Thought we covered that a while back.

:hug: