Patterico's Pontifications

5/8/2005

Chuckie S.: Hypocrite

Filed under: Judiciary — Patterico @ 9:45 am



Captain Ed nails Chuckie S. between the eyes. He notes that Schumer yesterday urged President Bush to tell conservatives not to use harsh language to criticize Democrats:

In his radio appeal, Schumer sought to draw Bush more directly into the fray by urging the president to denounce some conservatives who have used harsh language to criticize the Democrats.

“I am making a heartfelt plea to you, Mr. President. When you came to Washington, you said you wanted to change the climate in D.C.,” Schumer said. “Those stating these abhorrent views count themselves as your political allies. One word from you will bring a halt to these un-American statements. That would be a way to strengthen democracy here at home.”

Meanwhile, Schumer’s leader Harry Reid has called the President a “loser” and a “bad president,” and his nominees “bad people.” Ted Kennedy has likened the President’s nominees to Neanderthals. Reid called Clarence Thomas an “embarrassment” and said that one of his dissents resembled an “eighth-grade dissertation” — then it later became clear that Reid had not read the opinion, or (probably) any others by Thomas. Of Janice Rogers Brown, Reid said — without any support — “She is a woman who wants to take us back to the Civil War days.”

I am making a heartfelt plea to you, Senator Chuckie S. Those stating these abhorrent views count themselves as your political allies. One word from you will bring a halt to these un-American statements. That would be a way to strengthen democracy here at home.

P.S. One more thing . . .

UPDATE: Hugh Hewitt has more.

4 Responses to “Chuckie S.: Hypocrite”

  1. “Reid called Clarence Thomas an “embarrassment” and said that one of his dissents resembled an “eighth-grade dissertation”

    I thought the hamdi one was kinda sappy.

    actus (a5a443)

  2. I thought the whole comment was surreal. Chucky and his buddies do everything they can to thwart President Bush’s nominations, and then expect Bush himself to take their side against those who oppose their opposition too strongly?!

    Between that and branding as “un-American” the notion that judicial candidates should get an up-or-down vote, I fail to see why New Yorkers see fit to elect this guy to any office, except maybe Director of the Department of Making Hillary Clinton Look Moderate.

    Xrlq (c51d0d)

  3. “Between that and branding as “un-American” the notion that judicial candidates should get an up-or-down vote, I fail to see why New Yorkers see fit to elect this guy to any office,”

    His daily show performances have been great.

    actus (93bcdd)

  4. Re these outrageous attacks on the judiciary. An enterprising reporter could go back and find those reasoned and sober criticisms (ahem) of SCOTUS in the Bush v. Gore ruling by Mssrs. Kennedy, Schumer, et al.

    Or even further back, perhaps one could research the views of these defenders of an impartial judiciary when the issue of the death penalty in Texas was debated. Perhaps there were some reasoned criticism of the Texas judiciary by the very same people critical of excessive criticisms of the robed gentry.

    SMG

    SteveMG (fe9064)


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