Jul 19 2005
Time to Mobilize The Chillin’!
The announcement is tonight and it is time for the Coalition of The Chillin’ to speak up. We have been waiting for this true test of the Coalition’s wisdom and we also have a chance to influence the weekend debate if we can pull together a Carnival of The Chillin’ for posting on Friday. So consider this a call to start chillin’ for real.
Please provide links for the Carnival of The Chillin’ by Thursday, 9:00 PM Eastern to
AJstrata@strata-sphere.com
Cheers, AJStrata
BTW, Don Surber has the best prediction on who the nominee will be.
UPDATE:
The Carnival of The Chillin can be now found here.
Bush Will Announce Pick in Prime Time
At 8:00 p.m. central, President Bush will announce his Supreme Court pick (hat tip to AJStrata, who would like all members of the Coalition of the Chillin’ to submit posts to a special SCOTUS Carnival by Thursday, 9 p.m. eastern).
On an unrelated …
AJ, thanks for the carnival invite. I’ve turned the temp down to deep-freeze at Vote for Judges, however. The fish just weren’t bitin’ on my retention-election bait.
In lieu of a link, I’ll venture this comment, which recasts a couple of recent posts at VFJ:
President Bush, over the rest of this term, has the chance to fix a big problem. Bigger than terrorism is today, bigger than welfare reform was yesterday, bigger than Social Security will be tomorrow.
But to fix the problem with the Supreme Court (a problem most conservatives will agree exists and is serious), he’ll have to nominate three judges in the Scalia mold or the Thomas mold (I’m a Thomas guy myself). And have them confirmed. And have them remain in that mold until they retire or die.
That’s a tall order, and we won’t know for 10 or 15 years whether he succeeded. And even at that, we’ll need to elect another conservative president after Bush. And then another.
There are two non-appointment ways to fix the problem: With a new constitution that clarifies where we are today as a nation (a remote possibility); or with a constitutional amendment to impose some Article III accountability (a possibility slightly less remote).
The right-nominee fix is the easiest of the three, and also the least effective over the long term. If any of your readers support the amendment remedy, the petition’s still up at Vote for Judges.
BTW, you’ve Strata-lanched me a couple of times. Thanks for the links!
I sent mine… hope you got it, cos it was prescient and such.
Yes I got it, I had not had a chance to respond to submissions coming in! Good job. The folks at daily Kos are beside themselves.
Roberts nomination
The Coalition of the Chillin’, those who maintained composure while others freaked out over the Senate’s “Gang of 14” filibuster deal, are already declaring victory. They were right. Without the deal, the Democrats would have filibustered any nomin…
OK, totally didn’t get to this in time, sorry about that. Look forward to reading it though!
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