{"id":526882,"date":"2010-04-14T02:41:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T06:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f96\/obama-nominates-bill-ayers-court-lindsey-graham-politely-requests-more-liberal-c-42273\/"},"modified":"2010-04-14T02:41:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T06:41:51","slug":"obama-nominates-bill-ayers-for-court-lindsey-graham-politely-requests-more-liberal-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/526882","title":{"rendered":"Obama Nominates Bill Ayers for Court; Lindsey Graham Politely Requests More Liberal C"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>04.13.10 08:37 AM posted by scottspiegel<\/p>\n<p>When anticipating Obama\u0092s upcoming nomination to replace retiring  Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, there are two approaches  conservatives might consider:<\/p>\n<p>Hope that Obama nominates the most conservative candidate, in case he  gets confirmed;<\/p>\n<p>Hope that Obama nominates the most liberal candidate, to highlight  Obama\u0092s radical ideology and make it easier for Republicans to reject  her.<\/p>\n<p>Relatively speaking, the most conservative candidate on Obama\u0092s short  list is D.C. Appeals Court Judge <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Merrick_Garland\" >Merrick Garland<\/a>.  The most liberal is Seventh  Circuit Appeals Court Judge <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diane_Wood\" >Diane Wood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with hoping for a moderate candidate is that anyone Obama  is dreaming of nominating would be a disaster as far as adherence to  the rule of law and upholding the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with hoping for a leftist candidate is that we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottspiegel.com\/2009\/05\/31\/party-of-warmongers-waves-white-lace-hankie\/\" >cannot<\/a> rely on Republican Senators to be courageous  enough to block even the most egregious Obama nominee\u0097even after the  Democrats just declared war by passing a bill taking over the country\u0092s  health care system without a single Republican vote.<\/p>\n<p>Given their dismal failure last summer to stand up to Our Wise Latina  Sonya Sotomayor\u0092s incendiary record (typical GOP critique during her  confirmation hearings: Lindsey Graham\u0092s creepy, drooling paean, \u0093I <i>like<\/i> you!\u0094), Republicans cannot be counted on to offer meaningful opposition  to whichever train wreck Obama picks this year. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativeoutpost.com\/obama_nominates_bill_ayers_court_lindsey_graham_politely_requests_more_liberal_candidate\" ><b> read more &amp;raquo;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativeoutpost.com\/obama_nominates_bill_ayers_court_lindsey_graham_politely_requests_more_liberal_candidate\" >http:\/\/www.conservativeoutpost.com\/o&#8230;eral_candidate<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>04.13.10 08:37 AM posted by scottspiegel When anticipating Obama\u0092s upcoming nomination to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, there are two approaches conservatives might consider: Hope that Obama nominates the most conservative candidate, in case he gets confirmed; Hope that Obama nominates the most liberal candidate, to highlight Obama\u0092s radical ideology and make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}