Hatch: Obama Using ‘Code’ for Activist Judge

I think many people supported Obama because of the balance of the court. We have had enough of the limus test, Dobson approved justices.
We need a court that embodies the principles of the Federlist Papers and who understands the impact of their decisions upon people.
Hatch is using code that they GOP fanatical base is not happy!

There is “old” Orrin Hatch again…why don’t these “do nothing politicans” retire with my “socialist” paid retirement checks that are huge for nothing other than “being a seat holder” with the “good old boys?”

welcome in their own nation,” Obama said Friday, in a clip that aired on ‘This Week.” …What does he mean by this ?

Doesn’t matter if Hatch is Republican or not. You do not want a judge on the bench that doesn’t follow the rule of law. We are in big trouble if we have judges that say, “yes, I know the law says this but I really feel like Ms. Ledbetter should get X, Y, or Z.” That is a judge acting on personal feelings. Don’t be deceived in this instance because this is a good for you judge. The law may mandate a 1 year sentence for a crime and Obama judges that don’t have to follow law could sentence you based on their “personal feelings”! Read, “The Road to Serfdom” and be afraid. Very afraid.

Too much reading between the lines is a sign of a tendency towards paranoid thinking. All Obama is saying is that the law is to serve the people; not the other way around. The case at hand is about real people in conflict seeking justice; not just an opportunity for the next move in a legal chess game.

If Senator Hatch wants to nominate a justice then he should run for President. Talk about wanting to have his cake and eat it. They force through partisan jurists when in charge but, whoa, wait a minute, can’t do that now that we’re not in charge. Bush even nominated Harriet Miers, just because she was his pal.
My guess is that Obama will give more thought to this than he is given credit. Everybody knew this was coming and he’ll probably get to name Ginsburg’s and Breyer’s successors as well. Do you really think he is going to replace a left-leaning jurist with a conservative? The only fight will come when Kennedy steps down.

Americans don’t have the mentality to see the real picture so let me decipher it for you! Thanks Senator Hatch but some people don’t need nor want your insight…..

“Obama this week said he was looking for a person of intelligence, excellence, integrity, and empathy.”
pcc, what is so scary about this if I might ask? Sounds like what anyone would want in a jurist. Not some Right Wing Corporatist Hyper Religious Nut Case like Scalia or Alito.

LMao I wonder how supportive you left wing koskiddies are going to be when your “AVERAGE” family of four will have to pay an extra $3600 a year for cap and trade..Not to mention the massive tax increases that are just around the corner….not to mention inflation.. i WILL BE LAUGHING MY ASS OFF WHEN YOU START CRYING OVER THIS.
GEORGIE, the weekly meeting going ok over at the watergate?

David might I remind you the Banking Bailout began under the Bush administration? Not to mention the largest expansion in government, government debt, deficit spending in thehistory of the Country. And much of this while Republicans were in the Majority in the Congress? Spare me your current angst over deficit spending, when it was Republicans that spent us into the position we are now where the government nearly hasn’t the resources to pull us out of the economic tail spin the Republicans left us with.

Senator Hatch and the rest of the defeated and increasingly meaningless Republicans need to realize the President Obama AND the Democrats won. The country is stuck with the neo-con justices like Scalia, Thomas, and Alito. It is time to present a liberal/progressive person of intelligence to balance the court and try to counter the big money, right-wing justice that ruled under Bush. It was unfortunate that it wasn’t one of the neo-con justices so that the true rule of law could start to be regained after the mess the Repub appointees have made.

‘Code’ for Activist now if that not some of the most, silly willy stuff I ever heard for grown men of power to say about a sitting President. Next someone might say President Obama is sending secret codes to sleeper cells! Just like they were saying V.P. Chaney was sending secret codes to the most secret underground organization,in this country. Hmmm! They need to get a life.

Intelligence, excellence, integrity, and empathy. I can see how you would read that as code words meaning liberal. If he wanted a conservative he should have used four entirely different words.

Can someone please explain to me what a “radical extremist” conservative is? What is so “radical” and “extremist” about trying to keep the left from completely shredding our Constitution?
I realize that this country has strayed pretty far from the Constitution since FDR’s New Deal, but I never thought I’d hear someone describe a person as “extreme” for trying to get the country to return to the principles in the Constitution.
Thank goodness we have 4 justices (Roberts, Alito, Thomas, and Scalia) that still understand and believe in the Constitution.
In Obama’s world, the Constitution or rule of law is no longer what really matters. What really matters is that the Justice has “empathy.” That is code speak for feelings & emotions matter more than the law. And yet we have uneducated buffoons on the left that call Conservatives “extremists.”
The founding fathers must be rolling over in their graves.

MIguy – excuse me but tell me how Alito or Roberts have been using their “feelings” and “empathy” instead of the Constitution as the basis for their decisions???
You libs are all the same. When someone calls you out on your nonsensical way of thinking, you try to justify it by saying “well the other side does it too” yet you never provide examples. Its like something a child would do.

Sandy here is one for your list: Repubs wanted a tax! The last fix for health care from Bush/Rove and then by McCain was taxing the money people pay for health benefits! Conservative values taxing the money people pay for health insurance? If your employer pays a share then that is taxable also. The taxpayers and insured people are already packing the load with higher premiums. Sad….

Sandy Sandy Sandy, thank you for setting that up so I can knock it down! Let’s go through your points one by one:
1. Limited Government – Are you telling me that Obama, the man who has taken over banks and auto companies, the man who has fired a CEO of a private company, the man who just GAVE the UAW control of two auto companies, the man who is politicizing the Census, is all about limited government? I was not for Bush’s big government of spending, but doubling down on STUPID is not a solution!
2. Fiscal Responsibility – LOL! I just have to laugh and laugh at this. First of all, Obama SUPPORTED the TARP bail out along with the Dems. 2nd of all, Obama was TRIPLED the deficit since he took over. He has spent more money than Bush and all the other Presidents COMBINED!!!!
3. Personal Responsibility – EVERYTHING That has gone wrong since Obama has taken over – Obama blames Bush!!! Is that the kind of personal responsibility you’re talking about???
4. The Rule of Law – Water boarding was NEVER defined as torture before Obama declared it to be, and Bush used the techniques he had to on 3 animals to keep this country safe! It must be nice to live in a pre 9/11 mindset.
5. National Sovereignty – What the sam hell are you talking about? Are you too young to remember the Gulf war? We had a cease fire w/ Saddam that he broke repeatedly for 12 years! We had 14 UN resolutions. Enough was enough!
By the way, nice way to change the subject. I realize you can’t control your anger at Bush, but this is about appointing Justices to the SCOTUS.
So tell me, are you really this uninformed, or are you another paid Obama blogger?

Dan In SC: No just an informed voter who thinks for herself. And someone not fooled by right-wing talking heads like Rush, Hannity, Coulter, Beck, and Cheney.
By the way, today’s Gallup Poll of President Obama’s approval rating:
May 3, 2009
Gallup Poll
Approve: 68%
Disapprove: 26%
As far as political moves go, nomiating someone like Sotomayor is a can’t lose for Obama. Either she gets confirmed and Obama appoints the first Hispanic Justice. Or she doesn’t get confirmed and the Republicans block the first Hispanic Justice.
Even a vote on party lines will look horrible for Republicans.
No wonder the GOPers will soon be known as GONers!

Sandy,
Ah yes. The typical liberal that can’t discuss or debate any topic w/ out bringing up your most-feared bogeymen, Rush, Hannity, Coulter, etc. Can you not argue points w/out dragging in the names of people that have NOTHING to do with this article??? Are all you libs the same or did you all attend the same re-education camps?
And guess what, two can play the polls game. A new Rasmussen poll shows Obama’s approval at an all time low of 54% and it has been trending down down down. Obama has about the same approval as Bush did at this point, so what does that mean???
Sotomayor’ race, religion, gender, or emotions should NOT be a factor in her selection!! What should matter is whether or not she will uphold the oath that she will take to uphold the Constitution of the United States!

Dan in SC, wrong again! 56% say they somewhat approve of the Presidents performance so far and 35% strongly approve, I guess you never learned how to read a poll which is market research. Either way you slice it, the Presidents approval ratings are VERY GOOD!

try the truth – oh you got me! 56% vs 54%!! A difference of a whole 2% -ewwww way to go! BTW, the margin of error is +/-3% and as of yesterday it was 54%. And yesterday it his approval index was +1 – the lowest yet.
Give it a day or two and I’ll be right yet again!
None of this changes the fact that his approval about the same as Bush’s was at this point, and that Obama’s approval has gone WAY down since Jan. 20.

Dan in SC, as I said on the torture thread, lets waterboard you and see if you believe it’s torture! Sen. McCain who was tortured serving our country believes it’s torture! And your not blind enough to believe that is all they did? If you watched any shows you would know there was a host of other tactics and abuses they used! I understand what Bush faced after the attacks, I watched the towers fall, I lost friends, BUT that did not give him the right to invade a nation that had nothing to do with the attacks and torture! We can’t hold ourselves up as the example if we are doing exactly what we say is wrong. As for pasting the info, I did forget my quote marks! Gee that makes you soo right, huh! I do my research and don’t just “buy” what any politician says! Free thinker, and you spouting off your talking points? You don’t like people bringing up certain names, but you spout their ideas with out doing any research of your own. And as on the torture thread when confronted with facts about laws broken, you feel the end justifies the means! At what cost to OUR troops!

sandy wrote: “Republicans are going to oppose no matter who the Supreme Court Justice nominee is just because that is all you right-wingers know how to do.”
Right, b/c Dems have been SOOOO willing to go along with Republican judicial appointees! Gang of 14 anyone? Robert Bork anyone? Anyone????

“Right, b/c Dems have been SOOOO willing to go along with Republican judicial appointees! Gang of 14 anyone? Robert Bork anyone? Anyone????”
Cannot be helped if Republicans nominate such ignorant, unqualified people as Bork and Miers. Your bad! Not ours.

try the truth – RE: the Obama poll. 43% disapprove of Obama and 32% strongly disapprove!! What you’re point? The trends clearly on NOT favorable for Mr. Obama!!!
YOU say the country is less safe. I ask you the same question I asked Dave. What proof do you have? No attacks on American soil since 9/11 – that’s called results!
As for the tea parties, I did not attend but I would have if I didn’t have to go to work. And if you think they were only about taxes, it shows how out of touch you are. They were MORE about SPENDING! And rightfully so! The taxes those people were talking about were the taxes they know are coming as a result of all the spending! You can’t spend as much as Obama and not pay for it somehow eventually! That may be a difficult concept for you to understand.
Ha ha ha…you’re holind up McCain’s daughter as someone to look up to?? Oh my gosh I know you are joking b/c that 20-something D.C. socialite knows about as much about politics as Brittany Spears! All Ms. McCain cares about is getting invited to the liberal cocktail parties. She’s even admitted she doesn’t know much about politics. Why should anyone listen to the daughter of a failed RINO moderate Presidential nominee? McCain (along with Dole) proved once and for all that moderates do not win Presidential elections.
And guess what, I was brought up in a Democrat family. My father also has voted Democrat for over 60 years, but this time he said hell no and voted for McCain! Your party has gone so far left that he doesnt even recognize it. The people running the Democrat party today have NOTHING in common with JFK or Harry Truman!

try the truth wrote: “WHAT PART OF THEY HAD THE INFO BEFORE THEY TORTURED ISN’T GETTING THOUGH TO YOU!?”
where are you getting this weird information?? If this is true, then why have so many people in the intelligence community, including Dennis Blair, Obama’s OWN intelligence director say waterbording worked? His own words are:
““High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa’ida organization that was attacking this country,”
So how can they have already had the info, and yet turn around and admit that they got “high value” info?

Ted posted “You do not want a judge on the bench that doesn’t follow the rule of law. We are in big trouble if we have judges that say, “yes, I know the law says this but I really feel like Ms. Ledbetter should get X, Y, or Z.” ”
You are so correct about the judges ignoring the rule of law, that’s how G.W.Bush got into office the first time.

I’ve got a code word for Hatch, whaaaaaaa! You lost, you don’t get to pick. Hopefully, Obama will pick someone like 35 to counterbalance the young Mr. Roberts.

Dan In SC- Please try and understand you have no idea what your talking about! Ms. McCain may not understand politics. She understands the christian, non inclusive, racist, do as I say, not as I do vitrole of the GOP!
No attacks on American soil, your right! How many friends have you buried? How many of your friends served and VOTED FOR PRES. OBAMA!? My family was Repub, because they had been the party that believed in civil rights for all! That is not who they are today! Tells me alot about your father ( bless his soul) and you! Do your own research, stop listening to your talking points! I’m off, no need to respond, although I know you will, it’s what you do, when nobody can challenge you. I’m making dinner for my boyfriend who by the way served. He lost 3 finger off his right hand, oh he made his living as a graphic artist! Until Pres. Obama, he was FIGHTING for benefits! In 100 days he has received them. Oh, as they chopped off his fingers, they made reference to water boarding! He is here as I respond to you, his question is, will you volunteer to serve? Since you think torture and your boys Bush and Cheney are so wonderful? Will you send you children? Yes, waterboarding is torture, your boy Hannity volunteered to have it done, there have been those who have said they will give $1000 for every second he can stand it, he hasn’t done it yet, why? May you one day understand. Use your own brain, stop doing talking points. By the way, Clarence used all that was available to him to get ahead, then wanted to close if off to others! I’m sure you don’t like affirmative action, but guess what skippy in my and your life time there are still laws on the books that make people of color second class citizens!

The Republicans are purging and getting back to basics of fiscal and limited central govt. IT’s a good and necessary evolution. When the majority of the youth who voted for obama are paying 45% taxes they’ll agree.

try the truth – Am I going to respond? In the words of your most hated conservative woman – “You betcha.”
First I want to say God Bless your boyfriend for fighting for this country. I have nothing but respect for all servicemen. But Id like to know when he enlisted for the service? Im sure it was not during the evil Bush/Cheney administration!
Second of all, cutting off someone’s fingers is REAL torture and should not be equated to waterboarding. Ask your boyfriend which one he’d choose if he had a choice. I think that’s a pretty easy answer.
Third of all, I do my own research. If I didn’t Id simply believe all the nonsense that is reported on MSM outlets like ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC. How can you claim that someone that goes against the “conventional wisdom” fed to the public by these propaganda outlets does not do their own research??
Forth of all, your quote: “there have been those who have said they will give $1000 for every second he can stand it, he hasn’t done it yet, why?” Well I can tell you why. The person who said he’d pay is Keith Olbermann who nothing more than that immature liberal hack! And Hannity NEVER said he’d be water tortured for money by the second. He simply said he’d do it for charity, and if someone came along that was genuinely concerned with a charity that he believed in, Im sure he’s do it. Funny how libs are SOOOO against waterboarding the enemies of this country, but they would LOVE to see one of their fellow countrymen be waterboarded just b/c that person is conservative. You guys need to get your enemies in order!
Fifth of all, as Ive said many times, I am not a pure apologist for Bush/Cheney. They did MANY things that I did not like! That being said, Obama is doing a lot worse things and far more of them!
And what kind of question is it to ask me if I will send my children to fight in the military? The military is a all-volunteer force. If my children decide to volunteer, I will support them. If they decide that service is not for them, then so be it.

Greg,
Consider this. Hatch says President Obama is speaking in “code” about his eventual Supreme Court justice nominee. Hatch and fellow Republicans really know what’s it like to speak in “code”:
(1) When John McCain and Sarah Palin opposed the Lilly Ledbetter Bill they did so because they said “women just deserve more education”, that’s all. That was code for: “We don’t think women are good enough to be paid the same amount as men.
(2) When Republicans call Obama a “marxist”, that’s code for: “He’s going to engineer a violent takeover of the U.S. government”
(3) When Republicans say that “heathens” brought Swine Flu from Mexico, that’s not just ethnic bigotry, but also code for “we are scared to death of Latino growth and development”.
(4) When Republicans used to attack bills as “quota bills”, that was code for “affirmative action that only black people benefit from”. And of course, Republicans, and Democrats, know better. African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, and Arab-Americans have benefitted from Affirmative Action, but, according to government and private industry numbers from the beginning, white women have benefitted the most. Everyone knows it, but Republicans chose to speak in code, as to benefit from misinformation and anger from economically displaced whites. (Ironically, even Sarah Palin benefited from TITLE IX, an affirmative action program).
Nobody, but nobody, plays the criminally irresponsible version of “speaking in code” better than Republicans. They wrote the books on it.

Dan In SC- Well once again your wrong! We stood and watched the towers fall, his brother was in one, he signed up then. He was ROTC in college, he believed what your liars said! And now I’m quoting him, yes, I’d prefer to have my fingers, but I also watched 19 and 20 year olds being water boarded in Iraq then Afaganistan, some still have brain damage from lack of air. For you to sit here on this blog and say what you do is a slap in the face. I read what Sheryl ( my real name) said on the torture thread, how dare you!
This me, if Hannity thinks it’s so easy, it doesn’t matter who challenges him, for charity he should do it, or is he like many of you, who have not served a p**y!? I only asked you to be water boarded because you didn’t think it was torture, but even when somebody who has been tortured speaks out you discount it! HOW DARE YOU!

Dan In SC |- you are right about the Democrats of before! But guess what, your party has turned into them, sad…

Personally I would have no problem with a 100% white man SCOTUS, or a 100% black male SCOTUS, or a 100% black female SCOTUS, etc. I just want the BEST people on the court that will uphold and defend the Constitution the way it is written – not the way they want it to be written!
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Now I’m scared, we agree! :)Only issue is the GOP many times, notice I didn’t say always, don’t agree. They want what they want!

FS – what is this “neo-con” you speak of? Don’t you know that’s an anti-Semitic term! Shame on you! What do you have against Jewish people??

ConservativeWoman: Have you been living on an alternate planet the past 8 years? America has seen first hand the results of Republican “values” at work, and those “values” brought us:
1. Two illegal wars
2. Record shattering deficits
3. Economy in the dumps
4. Rampant corporate abuse
5. Implosion of the housing market
6. Unprecedented government corruption
7. Torture
8. Discrimination
9. A more dangerous world
10. Government waste
11. Politicization of the Justice Department
12. Lack of response to Hurricane Katrina
13. Millions more without health care
14. Poor quality jobs
And on, and on…..and you have “strong leaders” like Glen Beck? Beck is so far around the bend that he meets himself coming. He puts the lunatic in lunatic fringe.

sandy, you’re kiddding. right?

Frank – Dude, I’m there with you, Barney and Nancy should have stood up and said NO! I’m no fan of theirs! I would like to see them retired! But we did have a commander in chief that allowed this! Right!

Dan In SC posted “FS – what is this “neo-con” you speak of? Don’t you know that’s an anti-Semitic term! ”
I have never heard that as an anti-Semitic term. It is short for Neo Conservative, something you know quite well.

Ok people I need to make dinner for a man that served and paid for it! Dan, no reason to answer anything we said, it isn’t fair, we’re not here and if you want to diss a service man, says alot about you. Walk in another persons shoes, I tie his every day.Do me one favor, I have no right to ask, tape your thumb, index and middle finger of what ever hand you use, then talk to us. Then wage a battle to get benefits for over a year, when your bread and butter deals with you being able to use your hands. When you still have infections and they want to take you hand with no guarantee that you will get benefits! The only reason we have benefits is HRC came to my paper. Yeah, I’m part of the media, Valerie Jarrett called personally. We are working very hard to get benefits for others, until you or yours have served stop!

sandy | May 3, 2009 4:42:20 PM
Hey, Sandy, I couldn’t go with you, because Obama has spawned too much negative damages to American in historically as follows ;
biggest debts ($13,600,000,000,000.00)-2012 year,
biggest budgets($3,600,000,000,000.00),
biggest printing of money($1,000,000,000,000.00)-finished printing on Mar.20,2009,
biggest expensive of Inauguration and The Apology Tour ’09,
biggest spending for ABORTION, 1,000,000,000.00 to Foreign Countries,
biggest aiding $980,000,000.00 for TERROR GROUP OF HAMAS,
most submissive foreign policy with Hugo and Fidel Carstro,
biggest Governments w/smallest efficience,
biggest Admin. who are controlled by tax-cheaters and pro-abortion,
IN THE TIME OF
biggest economic crisis,
biggest chaotic Stock Market in Wall St.
highest rate of unemployeds,
highest rate of foreclosure.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THESE??

Oh well, looks like the thought police are starting to delete my posts, so Im outta here.

Dan In SC posted “They have nothing to do with classical conservatives like myself.”
And most references to neocons have nothing to do with being Jewish. The phrase has been used many times to denote a political agenda that supports using force to spread democracy and are willing to have government get involved in welfare programs.
I did find an article about the Jewish aspect of the term neocon, but most talked about neocons in purely political terms.
I also remember why being gay meant being happy. Time change.
So you’re a classical conservative. Do you find it frustrating that neo-conservatism has kidnapped your party? Do you find it maddening that people will vote Republican just because of the name and don’t realize that this is NOT the GOP of old? Personally, I donated money and voted for Ron Paul, but look how the GOP treated him.

Unhappy w 3.6 trillion budget posted “WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THESE??”
Hard to say, too many distortions of the facts. Too many of those bad things were in place when he took over. Obama did NOT take over during a strong economy (as you well know).
So bottom line, if you have to resort to distortions then your arguments must be pretty weak.

I just don’t see how we can afford universal healthcare, universal daycare, shore up social security and medicare, allow the social benefits system to be played by noncitizens and still prosper as a nation. How is that possible? It’s a Democrat fantasy world.

Waterboarder: the term “kool-aid” died its natural death long ago. But you neo-cons can keep up the old rhetoric. Just goes to show how lost your party really is.

R. Pfau posted: What does man profit if he gains the whole world but loses his soul? God settles all accounts. God has the final say.
Ya know I like that. I think this is why we now have our President. Think about that a bit. A Black man elected to the Presidency of the United States of America with the name of Barack Hussein Obama? …He does work in mysterious ways doesn’t he… So, let it be written. So, let it be done. HALLELLUAH! Praises to the Lord!

Sen. Hatch needs to get over himself, Republicans have so stacked the Court to the Extreme Right that it will take decades to undo the damage they have done. President obama needs to appoint a left of center Justice to at least maintain the current imbalance that exists, and not let it drift even further right.
Hey Republicans, we had an election in November and you got spanked along with your agenda being rejected. Enough of the right Wing Activist Judges, time for a sea change back to the left side.
Posted by: Dave The Cynic
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If the court were made up of people from the “Extreme Right”, I’m sure abortion would have been outlawed by this time. Roe vs Wade hasn’t been touched.
Judging by your own post, the extremists are obviously on YOUR side of the fence.
…. and just in case you’ve forgotten, there is another Congressional election in 2010. Because your party has gotten so carried away and is force-feeding far left liberalism on us, I have no doubt YOU guys will be getting the next “spanking”.

The GOP has just one goal, and that is to prevent President Obama from doing anything helpful to our country. The GOP is now the “party of no”, the party of sore losers, and the party of lost radicals with only fanatics and wackos leading the pack.
Posted by: James B———————————That’s true as the GOP has only one hope in 2010, 2012 and that is Obama fails. They cant win on their own merit. That’s why they spend so much time whining and bashing the other guy instead of selling themselves. Nothing with the GOP has changed and they probably wont. In 2012 they still will be scratching their heads and wondering why they lost again.

A “pro-abortion” justice? Nobody I know is “pro-abortion” we’re pro-choice. Talk about inflaming the base. I don’t think Joseph Smith would be very proud of him — Brigham Young on the other hand????

“Pray liberals in our government will not be able to lie” —we are still oozing from a war that was started based on lies from a right wing Christian. over 4000 people died and hundreds of thousands of Americans are disabled thanks to a lie from a “Christian”. You’re living in a glass house. Put down your stones.

Hope I do not get my head bitten off for this. I am a proud Obama voter as a Ind and once republican. Abortion– Freedom of choice is a good thing.No religious belief should be used to adapt policy. However abortion is a problem in this country. To many woman and girls use it like berth control. Over and over again. I do not know which is worse. A woman that has baby after baby for a bigger Gov check or a person that uses the system and abortions over and over. I do think women should have a choice as its their body. However I personally think it should not be used lightly and that person seeking an abortion to have to go through hoops to get one. That way these immature girls and loose woman that are not even responsible enough to use contraception wont be able to easily get one and may remember that next time. I do realize accidents can happen and a women’s health come in to the picture as well.

I see Hatch has added a tinfoil hat to go with his magic underwear.

However I personally think it should not be used lightly and that person seeking an abortion to have to go through hoops to get one.– How dare you! You dont want your head cut off?? Too bad! Consider yourself beheaded ,because what kind of country do you think we live in that some girl has to go groveling to anyone to get permission to NOT have to carry a pregnancy to temr against their will!!! It is obscene to suggest that the government, you, or anyone else, would have such dominion over another person’s body that you would dictate to them they MUST develope and birth a baby against thier will! Do you think involuntary servitude is legal in this country???? No matter if the constition has a privacy inherent, one thing is clear, it is NOT legal and it IS protected in the constitution that NOBODY had dominion over another person’s body! THAT was guarrenteed when slavery was outlawed. Maybe you WANT someone to keep that embryo in thier body, but you CANNOT force them, and just like with ‘jumping through hoops’ to vote for blacks, which really meant, they can’t vote, THAT IS ILLEGAL as well. YOu cannot force someone to do manual labor against their will, period. Pregnancy IS LABOR! 24/7 for 9 months, it’s work, it’s a job, developing a baby and you CANNOT force someone to do it ,and you have no right to ‘make someone jump through hoops’ becuase they do not want to do this labor! HOw about this -how about we make fat people ‘jump through hoops’ for heart surgery. It was their own bad choices that made them fat, made them need surgery, so say no. make them loose 30 pounds first, THEN they can get the surgery and if they die first, too bad. We should control what they can and cannot do with their bodies because we know better, right????

Mary ————-Calm down. Jeez- I was talking about some and and very few woman. You know as I do there are too many abortions in this country. Sounds as if you are really bitter. Of Course it takes two and the father should have to go to every single counseling or other with the mother. Sorry my post upset you so much. On the fathers side i will never forget a girlfriend of mine I thought I loved dearly. I was young them. She was pregnant and went and got an abortion and didn’t tell me about the pregnancy or abortion until afterwords and it just about crushed me. And by the way not all women lay under a man for the same reasons.

Dan- Your comments would be amusing if I didn’t think you were serious. You absolutely prove my point about looking at your reflection and decrying what you see as the faults of others.
I certainly prefer Roberts to Rehnquist but he is a judicial activist in the cases he is allowing to come before the court. Alito, like Scalia and Thomas, proclaim strict constructionalism but only inasmuch as it subserves a political agenda. For example, why is the right to bear arms sacrosanct but freedom of speech less or other intrusions of government less protected.
But I grow weary of the mindless arguments here, particularly with so-called conservatives (you don’t know me and odds are that I am more conservative than you) who think that honesty and loyalty to the party are incompatible. I am tired of labels (“liberal”, “socialist”, etc) as an excuse to not have a meaningful idea or retort.

Obama’s description of what he is looking for in a judge fits mine perfectly. I really could care less what Orrin Hatch wants. Obama should pick a justice who reflects his values.

What would be the “code” for narrow minded bigot? These repulsive people are chocking on their own HYPOCRACY !! Anyone watching Fox News,lately or viewed parts of the GOP convention would think they were watching “AMERICAS MOST WANTED”!

Unhappy w 3.6 trillion budget posted —–
….and The Apology Tour ’09,
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Distortion one, the Apology Tour? Obama said truthfully that there were problems on both sides. And he went to Europe to do more than apologize.
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Distortion two, biggest spending for ABORTION.
From the news…..
President Obama struck down a rule Friday that prohibits U.S. money from funding international family-planning clinics that promote abortion or provide counseling or referrals about abortion services. It is for family planning, not abortion.
Hardly giving money for just abortions.
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Distortion three -> biggest aiding $980,000,000.00 for TERROR GROUP OF HAMAS,
From the news….
The White House sought the change as part of a bill authorizing $840 million for the Palestinian Authority as well as for rebuilding Gaza after this year’s 22-day Israeli military assault.
The “Hamas” part of this is because Gaza is trying to from a new unity government and some of the members might be backed by Hamas. This is NOT money to go to Hamas
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Distortion four -> most submissive foreign policy with Hugo and Fidel Carstro,
Wow, he shook hands with Hugo and is easing restriction put upon Cuba during the cold war. Wars over folks, no need for this embargo nonsense to go on.
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IN THE TIME OF
Distortion ???? -> I give up trying to number them. let’s see
biggest economic crisis -> crisis was here before he was sworn in
biggest chaotic Stock Market in Wall St. -> Stock market fell about 1500 point under Obama. In the mean time it has rebound. It was under 8000 when Obama was sworn in, Friday it closed at 8212.41. You call that chaotic. Here’s chaotic for you .. .Under Bush the DJA fell from a high of around 14000 to under 8000 when Obama was sworn in. A drop of over 6000.
highest rate of unemployeds,
highest rate of foreclosure.
Same as before, these conditions existed long before Obama was sworn in.

Such hate and vitriol from the left. Conservatives attack ideas and liberals attack people. Take a look at the posts.
I live in Utah and Hatch is anything but conservative. He has proposed more bipartisan legislation with Kennedy than any other Republican I know.
The supreme court has one job, to interpret law based on the constitution. And while the constitution and this country is still a democratic republic, that is the way it should be. If you want a socialist country let the judges be activists. Let them make decisions based on their own point of view, not the law. For me, I want a judge who understands the constitution and bases all decisions based on that NOT on politics or personal prejudices. (left or right)

Nothing Obama has done so far has made sense for this country, why should we expect anything different on this. He certainly fooled me.

LOL – Really BO is the wise man? Where you see wisdom, I see inexperience and naivity. Being a good orator (when reading a teleprompter) is not the same as being wise.
Wisdom is the founding fathers. Wisdom is Ronald Reagan. Wisdom is Bejamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.
Wisdom is not taking the worlds foremost leader of freedom, success and individual rights down the path of socialism.
Who in the world is coming up with a vaccination for the raging flu? The US pharmaceutical companies. Why because they can. We should not be apologizing for our success and for our constitution. We should not be apologizing for being defenders of freedom in Europe and the middle east. We should not apologize for being the greeatest, God blessed country in the world. We are who we are because of the wisdom that came before.
Wisdom sees that and doesn’t go on an apology tour or bow to foreign kings or have social photo-ops with evil dictators.
Wise? please………..

Look at Hatch trying to tell constitutional lawyer Obama what to consider when nominating a SCOTUS.
Funny isn`t it?

Yeah all that bouncing out of a recession of the 1980′s was horrible. Interest rates dropping like lead was awful and that whole Me-generation success and the boom of the silicon valley thing was rotten.
And don’t misquote me. I didn’t say he was the greatest of all time. But Reagan was a dang sight more wise than Obama. How about freeing the Iranian hostages, breaking the USSR, the Berlin wall coming down. He knew about foreign policy and being tough on bad guys.

Mrs.Plasticman posted “How about freeing the Iranian hostages, breaking the USSR, the Berlin wall coming down. He knew about foreign policy and being tough on bad guys.”
And he could change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands…..
1) Sorry honey, but Carter got those hostages out. They were on their way home before Reagan was sworn in. Unless you believe that rumor that Reagan cut a deal behind the back of Carter with the Iranians to swing the election for him. But that would be treason, besides we all know that Reagan doesn’t make deals with Iran (hahahaha).
SuperReagan did NOT single handedly bring an end to the USSR. What NONSENSE. There were so many forces at work for DECADES. Perhaps you can tell my uncle who died in Korea that he wasted his life? Tell all our brave dead and wounded that we only had to wait until Reagan got into office to defeat the USSR.
And tough on bad guys? Is that why he TUCKED TAIL and RAN after the bombing in Lebanon?

Activist Judge: Republican term for any judge who does not vote in lock step with Republican religious, social or ideological dogma.
More please, thank you.

Now that we have established that torture is wrong then murdering the unborn will have to stop as well. Finally justice for all!

Im a democrat and he needs to put a judge on the supreme court that doesnt make up law that is what gets some of these criminals off in open shut cases the justice doesnt make law it upholds the law but I think Obama will do the court some good by putting some youth on the court but if there was anything that agreed with Bush which rare was his supreme court picks dont go making up laws and punishments, let the elected lawmakers do their job, wait minute congress sucks at that, maybe i should rethink this. haha.

“Under Bush the DJA fell from a high of around 14000 to under 8000 when Obama was sworn in. A drop of over 6000.”
Yes, and we can thank President Bush for writing the first TARP bailout package while also saying “I have abandoned free market principles to save the free market system” for that. Horrible!
So the solution is…more bailout money and more abandonment of the free market? Uhh…not the way to encourage people to put money INTO the economy!

I can tell you that empathy does not and should not play any part in a Judges decision of any case. Yes a Judge can feel sorry or even angry with the case in front of him but LAW and LAW ALONE must always be the deciding factor in their decisions. Without this we may as well live in russia where all decisions are still political.

What idiotic commentary on the part of Hatch. I know, conservative yahoos like to complain about “activist” judges, but really, every single Supreme Court judge is an activist in that they seek to implement their own world view/ideology on the law. Those who claim otherwise – Scalia and his little lap dog Thomas – are just trying to obscure the issue. And really, anyone who tells you they interpret the Constitution according to “original intent” is just lying to your face. How do they know what they “original intent” is? What makes anyone think that the writers of the Constitution had any “intent” in writing it than what they said. More conservative BS that no one believes anymore. As a philosophy, you can see the decline of conservatism with each passing day, because it simply does not provide answers to the problems people are facing today. Look at the last election…..

The Republicans, or better said, the conservatives, have their code words also. “Activist judge” is only one of them. I suppose this means any judge who takes part in decisions finding as unconstitutional those laws favored by Republicans? C´mon, Senator Hatch, don´t be such a hypocrit!

Do you think he can find a Judge who is not a tax cheat?

Truthfully I’m getting weary of the republicans He has the right to choose anyone he feels is right for the job and not what the republicans want. When they were in power, they chose whomever they wanted so back off. I am so tired of their complaining and bitterness. This constant complaining is not helping their party and makes them look old and a party of the past.

Mr. Hatch….as long as we are talking code words….I think the code word for predjudice is conservatism.

The Supreme Court in 1896 ruled in “Plessy versus Ferguson” that racial segregation in the schools was OK. By a 9-0 ruling in 1954, the Supreme Court declared segregated schools unconstitutional. However, not a single word in the Constitution regarding equality of the races had changed in those intervening 58 years. So I guess God’s Own Party must still be VERY upset with those ACTIVIST JUDGES who made us a better more civilized country. Maybe this is why only 21% of Americans recently polled are willing to admit they’re Republicans!
Posted by: AlChemist | May 3, 2009 5:43:11 PM
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All I can say is “Owuch!!” and “LOL!”
Sock it to ‘em baby!!

Supreme Court is supposed to represent everyone, conservatives as well as liberals. I think we need an Asian- American on our Supreme Court. Asian-Americans are minorities who have contributed a great deal to America, while abiding by the law. Unlike other minorities, they don’t try to push their own agenda; they don’t rely on federal assistance; they are not hateful and belligerant like some minority activists who try to force their issues down our throats.