[lit-ideas] Re: was that a slap in the kisser?

Ursula, I am to take your reply to mean that I *didn't* miss anything here? 
That Billy Bob John Roberts really was promoted from a possibly unqualified 
candidate for justice to a possibly extremely unqualified cj, without even a 
whimper from the Dems? Realize, please, I posted in all seriousness, living 
in the conservative sticks as I do.
Carol


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From: "Ursula Stange" <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: was that a slap in the kisser?


> ...and the youngest cj in 200 years or something.  He could be there for 
> forty years or more...not that I'll still be paying attention, but...
> Ursula
> getting older by the minute...
>
> Carol Kirschenbaum wrote:
>
>>Friends, I need your help. No doubt I missed some fundamental step in the 
>>controversial issue of Bush's Supreme Court nominee, John Roberts. As I 
>>recall, John Roberts's judicial career was rather scanty, and so Dems were 
>>sending out petitions asking fellow Dems to file a request through FOIA to 
>>let Congress and the little people see John Roberts's opinions.
>>
>>Then, suddenly--or so it seems to me--John Roberts was no longer Bush's 
>>nominee as Sandra Day O'Connor's replacement, but Bush's nominee for CHIEF 
>>justice.
>>
>>Am I mistaken in assuming that the chief justice is a more important and 
>>traditionally more significant role that that of a regular ol' lifetime 
>>bench-sitting Supreme Court justice? And am I mistaken in thinking that 
>>when Bush upped the ante, he was slapping Congress in the face? ("You dare 
>>question my nominees? Take THAT!")
>>
>>Was this discussed anywhere? Suddenly, or so it seemed, my lefty 
>>legislative connections stopped e-mailing me about that FOIA request. 
>>Instead, John Roberts--shades of Tim Robbins' _Bob Roberts_--was voted in 
>>as chief justice of the US Supreme Court. I keep looking for commentary by 
>>pundits, but nada.
>>
>>Did I miss something? Is this all a joke?
>>Carol,
>>stymied in Fresno
>>
>>
>>
>>
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