Lost Opportunity
Here's what Thomas Sowell thinks about the compromise in the Senate over filibustering judges:
"If it was just the Republican Party that lost in this confrontation, that would be a minor partisan matter. What is of major importance is that the American people lost a golden opportunity that may not come again in this generation.
That opportunity is -- or was -- to set in concrete both the Senate's right to vote on judicial nominees and the American people's right to govern themselves, instead of being ruled by judges who increasingly take decisions out of the hands of elected officials and impose their own personal policy preferences."
Here's what Thomas Sowell thinks about the compromise in the Senate over filibustering judges:
"If it was just the Republican Party that lost in this confrontation, that would be a minor partisan matter. What is of major importance is that the American people lost a golden opportunity that may not come again in this generation.
That opportunity is -- or was -- to set in concrete both the Senate's right to vote on judicial nominees and the American people's right to govern themselves, instead of being ruled by judges who increasingly take decisions out of the hands of elected officials and impose their own personal policy preferences."
posted by John Coumarianos at 5/25/2005 11:27:00 PM
2 Comments:
Are we holding Ronald Reagan up to some unattainable standard of perfection or making political arguments?
Juvenile judicial eschatology or constitutionalism? It's true, Republicans are the reformers or even "radicals", but what does their abandoning the status quo amount to?
Additionally, if you wonder whether Sowell remembers who picked the wobbly O'Connor, I wonder whether you remember who picked Scalia. Why shouldn't we fight for other such picks?
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