Bush's Wise Move...

Frustrated by their inability to kill the Roberts nomination, the Left decided it would make a little noise and retreat - keeping their powder dry for the next retirement which was expected to be Rehnquist, sooner or later. All that changed last week. As Jed Babbin points out in the American Spectator Online, Bush's decision to elevate the nomination of Roberts to that of Chief Justice is a move that will force the hand of all the Democrat Senators who were hoping to stay quiet on the sidelines.

By elevating the Roberts nomination to the chief justice's job, the president has made the Roberts fight one the libs must win, and they won't. Roberts will be confirmed (probably not in time for the first day of the court's session next month), but soon after that. And when the president nominates another conservative to replace O'Connor, the libs will be fighting for their political lives.

There will be little or no room for them to maneuver around their core constituencies. The NARALs, the PFAWs, and the rest will be shrieking for a filibuster because they realize that with Roberts, Thomas, and a third young conservative (Thomas is only 57), President Bush will be able to stock the Roberts Court with enough conservatives to clearly deprive the libs of their last hold on American government. Their hysteria will be palpable, their rhetoric confused and destructive. There will be a filibuster, unless the president does what they want and nominates a liberal. Which he won't do.

No Democrat -- not even Slippary Hillary -- will be able to hide. Anyone who wants the allegiance of the hard-core left, and any Democrat who expects to gain the presidency must have it, won't be able to take a tempered position. Every one of them will be flushed from cover and revealed as the doctrinaire hyperliberals they really are.

I wonder how this will effect Kos' sooper sekret plan to make the members of the DLC "radioactive", which he announced on August 22. Incidentally, that "two weeks" is now up.

Fasten your seatbelts!

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