Conservatives Pleased; Liberals Worried -- 10/27/2005

From Cybercast News Service (Hat Tip: Tim Thornton at C-POL).

I reiterate: I also am pleased to see the nomination withdrawn. And I see that many of my fellow conservatives are just as pleased. They include American Values (Gary Bauer), Concerned Women for America, and the National Pro-Life Action Center.

The usual suspects on the left are howling in outrage. Rush Limbaugh must be correct, as he reports on his radio program that the left is very afraid of the type of nominee whom Bush will next send to the Senate. Harry Reid (D-NV) has expressed his own "hope" that Bush "won't reward the bad behavior of his right-wing base." Excuse me, Senator, but I'll take no instruction from you or any of your allies about how to behave in public. Not after one of them (Donald Sutherland of the TV show Commander in Chief) openly sobs on camera, and another one (Al Franken) makes a skit in which he physically assaults someone who disagrees with him and incites another person to do the same. I'm still waiting to see Al Franken arrested for his "bad behavior." (Not to mention Sandy Berger for stealing and maliciously destroying US government documents that probably embarrass him to death.)

Ralph Neas over at People for the (Anti-)American Way is no better--but then again, he is not a United States Senator. Harry Reid is. Why the worthies in Nevada re-elected him the last time he came up, I'll never know. I'd like to address one thing:

The unelected power-brokers of the far right have forced the withdrawal of President Bush's own Supreme Court nominee, before a confirmation hearing has even been held.

Mr. Neas, that we are not elected is true enough. We are, however, the President's ultimate electors. We are, in a word, the bosses--or in three words, the board of directors. Or rather, we constitute the majority of that board called the American electorate who prevailed over you and your tire-slashing, vehicular-assailing, and riotous friends to re-elect George Bush and prevent the election of a man guilty of desertion of his post and having a yellow streak a mile wide. So, as we look forward to our Thanksgiving dinner, we say to you: stuff it.