Friday, February 25, 2005
Civil War on Nominees
Hewitt poses the question on whether Republicans should follow the example of Grant or McClellan in confronting the Dems on judicial nominees -- grapple or dawdle. Here is my favorite paragraph from his commentary.
HughHewitt.com: "Democrats have increasingly backed themselves into a corner that elevates above all else a small set of radical positions: absolutism on all things related to abortion, a reactionary refusal to consider any innovation on social security, a demand for the judicial imposition of gay marriage, and most troubling of all, an indifference to the stakes in the GWOT mixed with the defeatism and advocacy of retreat from the Kennedy-Boxer fringe.
In this stubborn and self-destructive attachment to a distinctly anti-majoritarian set of radical views, the Dems have come to resemble nothing so much as the old Confederacy. They put their faith in various leaders --of course Bill Clinton is their Lee, and perhaps Hillary will be their Stonewall Jackson-- but their cause is doomed, and not just because of the superior political firepower of the GOP and Red State America, but because their cause is wrong, and profoundly anti-majoritarian."
Read the whole piece.
In my state, the Republican party has come to control both chambers of the legislature and the governor's office. In fact, there are only one or two state-wide elected officials who are Democrats. After examining one of our state Democratic websites, I see that even in this conservative environment, the local Dems refuse to distance themselves from the outlandish liberal positions of those who control the national party. Instead they simply squall about the oppression of one-party rule and insinuate that the religion of legislators is an evil in and of itself.
HughHewitt.com: "Democrats have increasingly backed themselves into a corner that elevates above all else a small set of radical positions: absolutism on all things related to abortion, a reactionary refusal to consider any innovation on social security, a demand for the judicial imposition of gay marriage, and most troubling of all, an indifference to the stakes in the GWOT mixed with the defeatism and advocacy of retreat from the Kennedy-Boxer fringe.
In this stubborn and self-destructive attachment to a distinctly anti-majoritarian set of radical views, the Dems have come to resemble nothing so much as the old Confederacy. They put their faith in various leaders --of course Bill Clinton is their Lee, and perhaps Hillary will be their Stonewall Jackson-- but their cause is doomed, and not just because of the superior political firepower of the GOP and Red State America, but because their cause is wrong, and profoundly anti-majoritarian."
Read the whole piece.
In my state, the Republican party has come to control both chambers of the legislature and the governor's office. In fact, there are only one or two state-wide elected officials who are Democrats. After examining one of our state Democratic websites, I see that even in this conservative environment, the local Dems refuse to distance themselves from the outlandish liberal positions of those who control the national party. Instead they simply squall about the oppression of one-party rule and insinuate that the religion of legislators is an evil in and of itself.
// posted by Zerin Hood @ 9:30 AM 
