He's a uniter.
Not a divider.
That must be why he's nominated this Brett Kavanaugh fellow for the DC Circuit again. They put up the most divisive nominee possible, a man who was Ken Starr's Associate Independent Counsel. It's a slap in the face. And it's not the first time he sent up Kavanaugh. It's the same slap in the face that lead to the first threat of fillibuster from the Dems. Since then Alito and Roberts passed. Those are conservative guys on the Supreme Court, so don't let it be said that Dems are obstructionists because those guys got confirmed.
But this is a
slap in the face. . . again. Gee. I wonder what could have motivated Bush to pick a fight on judges?
Rally
The
Base
Rather than confront national challenges, Bush has sent up a nominee that is a slap in the face to Dems. These nominees are political calculations. Send up a conservative that isn't a slap in the face. Just like with Roberts and Scalia, Dems'll ask questions ("such obstruction!" cried the preacher's wife), then they'll express their views ("Oblublbublubblubstruction!" the preacher thundered in reply), then there'll be an up or down vote ("Ob. . . wahhh. . . huh?" the congregation scratched their heads).
That's right: up or down vote. Scalia and Alito got them, didn't they? Conservative judges are going to get appointments and Dems have not tried to fillibuster any conservative, but not when it's a slap in the face and when they have severe ethics problems.
BUT NOT THIS KAVANAUGH CHAP, IF I WE HAVE ANY SAY IN IT. HE'S A SLAP IN THE FACE.
The Democrats must fillibuster Kavanaugh. It isn't the fact that he's got a more conservative activist's judicial philosophy. Plenty of judges with those views have been. This judge has been nothing but a legal pit bull used to attack Democrats. He's a viciously partisan lawyer, and it's his partisan passion that landed him this appointment.
Maybe instead of picking fights with insulting and provocative nominees, Bush needs to focus more on killing bin Laden, an exit strategy for Iraq, a real energy policy, the budget deficit, the trade deficit, global warming, nuclear weapons proliferation, health costs, research and education, drug law reform, rational taxation, international relations, basic governing competency, and pro-family economics that make work pay.