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RUSH: John Roberts. Judge Roberts. I want to tell you, there are two things at work here. One of them — both of them, actually — I mentioned yesterday. The Democrats are having a tough time, and they are going to have an impossible time, to oppose the man on anything having to do with any kind of substance. I want to make a prediction. In fact, I made the prediction to people last night and it\u2019s already come true so you may have heard about it before I made the prediction. But I think what they are going to do, as I said last night, what they are going to do is try to derail the guy at the hearings on the basis of, “He won\u2019t answer our questions,” and, they\u2019re going to ask for documents when he was at the solicitor general\u2019s office, and they are going to ask for documents that they are not entitled to have on the basis of the separation of powers.<\/p>\n

\"\"The SG\u2019s office will not turn them over and we\u2019ll be stuck where we were with Miguel Estrada and John Bolton. The Democrats will say, “We can\u2019t go forward with this. What are they hiding? All we want to do is see what he thought during the pieces. We don\u2019t have much on record of Judge Roberts. This will give us an idea of what he is thinking. The White House is refusing to turn this over. Why, what are they trying to hide?” Blah, blah, blah. Keep a sharp eye out for that. There is another thing. Linda Greenhouse — I told you yesterday, she is the Supreme Court supreme writer at the “Pinch” Times, the New York Times — and lo and behold! I told you yesterday. I told you yesterday that one of the problems going to have with this guy is he is big in the DC social circuit. He has given his phone number to journalists. They can reach him. He doesn\u2019t hide. He doesn\u2019t hibernate. He runs around. He\u2019s not a social butterfly, don\u2019t misunderstand, but you know, he\u2019s not a hermit. He doesn\u2019t avoid these people like Clarence Thomas or “Nino” — as he is now popularly known by his friends — Scalia.<\/p>\n

Lo and behold, here comes Linda Greenhouse with pieces of New York Times talking about how, well, this Roberts guy gets out and there is going to be a chance to influence him and have him grow. She doesn\u2019t say it this way. You\u2019ve gotta know New York Times code to translate this from her story. But there are many people think that\u2019s what happened to Anthony Kennedy. He grew, that he became friends with the DC culture. He became concerned about what they write about him and his conservative views somewhat moderated and his liberal views grew — and the New York Times is throwing the first little temptation, if you will, to Judge Roberts with the Linda Greenhouse piece. “In the meantime, less than 15 hours after President Bush announced that John Roberts will be his nominee, leading Democrats stood before a bank of TV cameras and criticized the president. Their ire had nothing to do with Roberts. Senator Barbara Boxer and Representative Jane Harman, assail Bush for failing to punish Karl Rove for his alleged involvement in disclosing the name of the CIA operative.<\/p>\n

Roll Call says in a set of talking points, issued Wednesday morning, the Senate Democratic Leadership urged rank and file senators to continue spotlighting Rove\u2019s involvement in the leaking of CIA operative Valerie Plames\u2019 identity. ‘A Supreme Court nominee will not distract the country from growing credibility problems at the White House,\u2019 Democrats were told to say and echo.” You heard the talking points. They\u2019re all saying that. Dingy Harry, yesterday, complained. He wagged his finger at reporters saying, “You\u2019re going to put Rove back on the front page. You can\u2019t let Rove off this easy,” blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re so pathetic. They\u2019re just so pathetic. I just saw something. Where is it? Where is it? I\u2019ll have to find it. “Battered-Left Syndrome.” Somebody sent me a note, “There\u2019s a new syndrome: Battered-Left Syndrome. It\u2019s sort of like battered-wife syndrome. They keep getting beat up and still hang around the people that beat them up, and no one can figure why they just don\u2019t leave and change.” They have battered-left syndrome out there, folks, and I think I\u2019m one of the batterers! That is why I feel honored to have this new syndrome named out there. I\u2019ll have to get the name of the guy who did it. Battered-left syndrome. They just keep punishing themselves, and they come back and they encourage more punishment or incur more punishment — and they keep doing it in the same way. They\u2019re not surprising anybody, anymore. If you want to give them a football team analogy — and by the way, speaking of football, I\u2019m going to miss Teddy Bruschi not playing this year. Teddy Bruschi of the New England Patriots. He had a mile stroke in January not long after the Pro-Bowl, and all the news accounts call Teddy Bruschi “the heart and soul of Patriot defense,” and he\u2019s all that but he\u2019s more as well. If you can be more than the heart and soul, he is. He\u2019s a great player. He doesn\u2019t just provide inspiration. He is a great player and makes great plays in big games.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re going to miss Teddy Bruschi. But you can understand it: a mild stroke, sitting out a year. He\u2019ll still be with the team and offering encouragement and practice, and acting as a coach primarily. But it\u2019s too bad, scary. These are people in the prime of physical condition, in their 30s — and, have a mild stroke like that. But the football analogy would be: These guys do not have the forward pass. All they\u2019ve got is the off-tackle play and they run it every play, everybody knows what\u2019s coming. They know where to stack the hole. (laughing) Just, you know, “Push them back! Push them back! Far back!” (laughing) They\u2019re about to be ready to be pushed back into their fourth or fifth safety. They just keep coming in the same way and they\u2019re getting beaten up — and it\u2019s battered-left syndrome. Let\u2019s give you examples. Let\u2019s go to the audio tape. Last night, PMSNBC Hardball, David Gregory — really in a foul humor lately because Bush is outfoxing him and everybody else in the media — talking to Katrina vanden Heuvel. Katrina the editor of the left-wing, underground rag called The Nation — and also Terry Jeffrey of Human Events is on there, and David Gregory says to Katrina vanden Heuvel, “Where is Roberts\u2019 vulnerable to the opposition?”<\/p>\n

VANDEN HEUVEL: I want to take it out of the left-right context for a moment, if I might, because what I think what\u2019s going to happen with the court is not so much moving right. I think it\u2019s moving backwards. I think that is the frame so many Americans may not articulate but feel, because the civilizing decisions of the last 70 years whether in equal rights, in environmental rights reproductive rights, (voice quivering) workers\u2019 rights, may well be rolled back — and I think certainly, on Roe v. Wade, he is going to be questioning tough ways — aaand in the excessive deference to executive power, at a time when I believe many Americans are worried about checks and balances, and overweening power in extraordinarily dominating GOP party [sic].<\/p>\n

RUSH: Could there be a more out-of-touch person that they could get to go be on TV to represent the left? I\u2019ve never heard somebody so out of touch with reality. The court moving backwards? Court moving backwards! I guess it depends on your perspective but what in the world does a liberal have to complain about with the Supreme Court? Katrina, if it weren\u2019t for the court, you wouldn\u2019t have half the things you think are important in this country. People wouldn\u2019t vote for \u2019em if they had a chance. The court\u2019s the only way you\u2019ve gotten half of the stuff that\u2019s perverted this society. To sit there and think the frame that so many Americans not articulate, the court\u2019s moving backwards? The American people as expressed in polls are worried about the judicial branch\u2019s overreaching power. There is no separation of power between the Executive Branch and the Judicial and Legislative. It\u2019s all assumed by you in the left that the Supreme Court is the final authority anywhere, and you guys are going to have to make up your minds about judicial review. You either like it or you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Here, once again, she\u2019s worried about whether or not the new court with this new horrible man, Judge Roberts — (whispering) probably personally selected by Karl Rove — is going roll back environmental rights, equal rights, reproductive rights, workers\u2019 rights, every right, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, the left\u2019s rights, all this sort of stuff. Well, wait a minute! You guys keep saying that you want judicial review. You want the court to be able to determine what is constitutional and what isn\u2019t — except when you don\u2019t control it, you don\u2019t want that. Like if you were consistent with this, if you are really worried about judicial review, then you got to go back and bring back Dred Scott to life — if the court can\u2019t overturn itself, if the court can\u2019t say that something\u2019s unconstitutional and reverse a law of Congress. I guess it can only do those things when the left has the court in its control.<\/p>\n

But this is, folks, this is hieroglyphics . This is verbal hieroglyphics trying to translate this. This is the best I can do. Even if you look at pre-vacancy polls before O\u2019Connor retired, the vast majority of the American people want somebody like John Roberts on the court — and Miss vanden Heuvel as a typical elitist says the American people don\u2019t know what they want because they\u2019re too stupid to know what we want — that is why we at the Nation are trying to tell them every day. But how many people subscribe and read that? If it weren\u2019t for Yahoo putting it around in their RSS, 90% of the people see the Nation, wouldn\u2019t see it — and I\u2019m not sure how many people see it then. Here is more kook stuff by the way. One more bite from Madam vanden Heuvel.<\/p>\n

The question here from David Gregory, “What this selection tells us about George W. Bush — the president, even the man — seems to me, Katrina, the president had this all set up in the very beginning which is, they sort of put out there that they want to make this about qualifications. They\u2019re daring the other side to challenge ideology using the Ginsburg model saying, ‘Look, she was a liberal but she qualified, she sailed through the confirmation process.\u2019 What are your thoughts on this?” My first thought would be: “What\u2019s the question, Gregory?” but Katrina doesn\u2019t care what the question is. Here\u2019s her answer.<\/p>\n

VANDEN HEUVEL: I see something different. I see a maaan in Bush who is not…<\/p>\n

RUSH: (gagging)<\/p>\n

VANDEN HEUVEL: …ummm…<\/p>\n

RUSH: A-hem!<\/p>\n

VANDEN HEUVEL: He\u2019s a divider.<\/p>\n

RUSH: A-hem!<\/p>\n

VANDEN HEUVEL: But I also see someone who, again —<\/p>\n

RUSH: (coughing)<\/p>\n

VANDEN HEUVEL: — wants to accrue as much power in the Executive Branch as he possibly can.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (scoffs)<\/p>\n

VANDEN HEUVEL: I refer back to this decision in the DC Circuit court last week, Judge Roberts basically! violating Sandra Day O\u2019Connor —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ooooooooooooooooooh!<\/p>\n

VANDEN HEUVEL: — that war is not a blank slate for this president.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, stop the tape! I told you that\u2019s the next thing they\u2019re going to go after. I told you yesterday. They are going to go after him on this decision that overruled a Clinton judge who had said that these military tribunals were unconstitutional, basically usurping the power of the Constitution granted the commander-in-chief. So they\u2019re going to go after this guy for participating in that — unanimous decision, by the way. Here\u2019s the rest of the bite, but I\u2019m going to answer Gregory\u2019s question here after Katrina muddles her way through the rest of her answer.<\/p>\n

VANDEN HEUVEL: And he wants a court that\u2019s going to defer to him, just as he wants a media who will defer to him – and I would not, I would ask people to remember that Judge Roberts privately adviiiiised Governor Jeb Bush in 2000 in the recount about ways to overturn the, uhhh, to overturn the courts taking it to the floor of the legislature.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape! This is about to drive me nuts! The courts in Florida were rewriting election law, Katrina without the legislature having been involved. If you look at the Constitution, the Florida Supreme Court nor any other state Supreme Court determines the electors from a state! The legislature, the state legislature does this. If Roberts was advising anybody here, Jeb Bush, it was how to get around a rogue, out-of-control Florida Supreme Court which was rewriting “What\u2019s a Chad? What\u2019s not a Chad? What\u2019s a hanging Chad? What\u2019s a leading Chad?” This is amazing. Here. The answer to the question is — Here\u2019s the question: “What this election tell us about George W. Bush — the president, even the man — seems to me the president had this all set up in the very beginning, which is, they sort of put out there that they want to make this about qualification…” Mr. Gregory, go check with your buddy Howard Fineman.<\/p>\n

\"\"Howard Fineman swerves into the truth yet again in a piece at MSNBC today. You know why Bush keeps confounding you, Mr. Gregory and all the rest of you in the media? Because he\u2019s honest! All he\u2019s doing is what he said he was going to do. You keep looking for deceit because that is who you are used to covering: politicians that deceive you — and in some cases you marvel at how they are able to do it — such as Bill Clinton. You never thought Clinton was telling you the truth when he said anything. So consequently, you don\u2019t think any politician that is good tells the truth! Well, Bush said, “I\u2019m going to pick this kind of person. I\u2019m going to pick this kind of guy. I\u2019m going to pick this kind of woman.” He did! They\u2019re wondering what the trick is. How did Bush sandbag them? Tell you what, folks, it is a pretty sorry situation in the media when you can trick them by telling them the truth.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I listen to Katrina vanden Heuvel or any of the other liberals, and I just have this question: Why do they lie about what they really believe? Why do they pretend to care about individual rights? All this workers\u2019 rights, this rights, that rights. They care about government. They support government by judiciary, folks. They\u2019re not worried of workers\u2019 rights, civil rights, this right. They\u2019re worried about abortion rights, but that\u2019s about it. All this other stuff is camouflage. They believe in government by judiciary. In essence they support government by five-or-six unelected lawyers as long as they are activist liberals. Now she won\u2019t say that, but that\u2019s what she supports and that\u2019s what she is afraid of losing as Bush nominates Roberts and others to the court. Their new hero, by the way, Sandra Day O\u2019Connor? Sandra Day O\u2019Connor agrees with Roberts on his decisions in many, many cases. I mean, I think these people are so inconsistent that they… Well, it is like battered-lib syndrome, battered-left syndrome. It is like, “Here I have this baseball bat”<\/p>\n

“Oh, good I want you to hit me again! Here I come.”<\/p>\n

Whack!<\/p>\n

I know it sounds violent, folks, I don\u2019t mean it in a literal sense, but they are battered around here and they don\u2019t know it, and they keep coming back for more.<\/p>\n

Read the Articles…<\/strong>
\n(NY Times: Bush\u2019s Supreme Court Choice Is a Judge Anchored in Modern Law)<\/strong>
\n(NYT: An Interview by, Not With, the President)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Headline: Battered-Left Syndrome<\/strong>
\nSubheadline: We are in a war, like it or not.<\/strong>
\nSource: National Review Online<\/strong>
\nBy: Ted Lapkin<\/strong>
\nDate: July 21, 2005<\/strong><\/p>\n

The aftermath of the London terrorist bombings has demonstrated that the antiwar Left is severely afflicted by the political equivalent of battered-wife syndrome. With each new beating, the scarred and bruised victims of spousal abuse tend to excuse and rationalize the actions of their tormentors. A stubborn unwillingness to accept the proposition that their partners are violent louts plunges these woeful women into a morass of self-deception that spawns only further violence.<\/p>\n

The far Left has similarly proved unable to liberate itself from the web of rose-tinted delusions that it has spun about the nature of Islamic extremism. After each al Qaeda outrage, leftist ideologues are quick to castigate their own countrymen for a catalogue of sins, both real and imagined. With a perverse combination of self-loathing and adoration of the enemy, the radical Leftist mantra preaches that if only we were nicer, the jihadists could not fail to love us. It\u2019s our own fault if Osama bin Laden doesn\u2019t realize what good people we are.<\/p>\n

And all the while, these “progressive” academics, pundits, and politicians engage in ridiculous intellectual contortions designed to mitigate the guilt of the terrorist perpetrators. When push comes to shove, some intellectuals believe that Islamism is simply an understandable reaction to what they describe as “Western imperialism.”<\/p>\n

The streets of Britain\u2019s capital city were still damp with innocent blood when the same obscene dance of political self-flagellation began. Within hours of the explosions on the Underground, author Tariq Ali was blaming these attacks on George Bush and Tony Blair. The architects of the London bombings were exercising their just entitlement to vengeance for the “violence being inflicted on the people of the Muslim world,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

Journalist Robert Fisk rushed to sing from the same song-sheet in the left-wing British daily The Independent. “It was crystal clear Britain would be a target ever since Tony Blair decided to join George Bush\u2019s ‘war on terror,'” Fisk thundered. The true arch-terrorists of our time, he argued, could be found in the White House and 10 Downing Street.<\/p>\n

And if the causes of Islamist terrorism were being falsely diagnosed by leftist ideologues, then the policy proposals being advanced by these same voices were morally bankrupt as well. Rather than pursue the fanatics had who visited such death upon the innocent of London, George Galloway, a radical member of Parliament, urged Britain to adopt the Spanish model of crumpling under pressure.<\/p>\n

After a terrorist attack last year on Madrid\u2019s rail system, Spain\u2019s socialist government withdrew its troops from Iraq. But Prime Minister Jose Zapatero\u2019s capitulation did not remove Spain from al Qaeda\u2019s target list. In mid-June 2005, CNN reported that 16 members of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi\u2019s network were arrested in Madrid while planning additional terrorist attacks against that city.<\/p>\n

On September 11, Americans became aware that they were facing a war against an enemy of a kind they had never before encountered. And through bombings, decapitations, and assassinations it has dawned upon other democratic nations that, like it or not, they too are part of this same conflict.<\/p>\n

Our enemies go by such names as al Qaeda, Jamaa Islamiya, Hamas, and Hezbollah. They belong to a global jihadist movement that considers it a religious duty to wage holy Islamic war against the infidels of the West.<\/p>\n

This is a war that we did not start, but that we dare not leave unfinished. We dare not because our foes are fanatics who strap explosives to their bodies and fly airliners into office buildings. We dare not leave it unfinished because our antagonists see the destruction of our civilization as a necessary precursor to the expansion of their own culture.<\/p>\n

Our jihadist enemies are fighting to create an ideal society that looks a lot like Afghanistan under the Taliban. And this is a vision that is repugnant to the foundational ideals of free people everywhere. Women forced to be barefoot, burka-clad, illiterate, and unemployed. Christians and Jews barely tolerated as second-class dhimmicitizens. No art, no science. Societies dominated by poverty, oppression, backwardness, and ignorance.<\/p>\n

In the world according to radical Islam it\u2019s the jihadist way or the highway, and these 7th-century dogmas represent the only acceptable outcome to al Qaeda.<\/p>\n

But the far-left views the world through a political prism that distorts this essential reality. Fixated by a knee-jerk hostility towards all things American, the likes of Ali, Fisk, and Galloway refuse to recognize the existence of this conflict, much less the stakes that are involved. Their primal instinct is to appease bin Laden and his cohorts rather than oppose them.<\/p>\n

But Winston Churchill defined an appeaser as “someone who feeds the crocodile in the hopes of being eaten last.” The sooner we accept the fact that this is a war; then the sooner we can get about the task of winning it.<\/p>\n

— Ted Lapkin is director of policy analysis at the Australia\/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC), a Melbourne think tank.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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