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We cannot underestimate the importance of this issue.
If the current "fake filibuster" policy remains intact, then any leftist senator can block the confirmation of any judge (or any other of the President's appointees, for that matter). By so controlling the confirmation process, that senator can "stack the deck" in the judicial branch against constitutional constructionists (you know, the folks who take the Constitution at its word when it says things like, "Congress shall pass no law..." and, "...shall not be infringed").
Once the constructionists are outnumbered in the Supreme Court (which is, arguably, already the case), then we can kiss the Constitution goodbye, because Congress lacks the spine to impeach anybody for anything, even when they're commanded by the Constitution to do it. Imagine, if you will, a Supreme Court that hands down verdicts like those oozing from the current Ninth Circuit. If you think that sounds far-fetched, think again.
So, this "fake filibuster" issue, which is being used by the leftists to control judicial confirmations, MUST be stopped. The long-term health of our Republic hangs in the balance. If we do not stop it now, then I predict that we will, at some point in the not-too-distant future, be forced to either surrender our lives to the will of a leftist, activist, tyrannical judiciary, or take up arms against it.
It won't matter whether you're Democrat, Republican, or Libertarian; it won't matter whether you're conservative, liberal, or moderate: you will no longer be a free citizen protected from governmental tyranny by the Constitution. You will be a slave to the State, and you will be forced to shut up, give up, lie down, and bow down to it, lest someone like Janet Reno send her thugs through your door to "clean house" with lead and flame (recall Waco, Ruby Ridge, and Elian). If you think it can't happen here, then you need to bone up on both history and current events.
Posted by jon at May 3, 2003 07:38 PM