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RUSH: Now, continuing with a theme that came up last week, Senator Specter suggested that we needed to go back and review the confirmation hearing testimony of John Roberts and Samuel Alito because they may have misrepresented themselves to the committee members in order to get confirmed. In other words, he wants to go back and see if the committee was lied to by Alito and Roberts. So, last Friday, this was picked up by Senator Schemer — Schumer. He spoke to the American Constitution Society convention. Here is a portion of Senator Schemer — Schumer\u2019s — remarks.<\/p>\n

SCHUMER: Were we duped? Were we hoodwinked? Were we too easily impressed with the charm of the nominee Roberts and the erudition of nominee Alito? In case after case, our most recently confirmed justices have appeared to jettison decisions recently authored by their immediate predecessors. Although Roberts and Alito both expressed their profound respect for stare decisis at their confirmation hearings, many of their decisions have flouted precedent.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What are you going to do about it? I thought we weren\u2019t supposed to criticize judiciary! I thought we weren\u2019t supposed attack the judiciary. I thought they were off limits, Senator Schumer. I thought this is outrageous. This is a power grab. The libs are threatened. They feel worried. The Supreme Court, folks, is how they insulate themselves from election losses. It\u2019s how they get people, activists, on the court instituting their own personal policy preferences regarding the law. Liberalism shall run free and uninhibited on the Supreme Court! Now they think they may have been lied to. Were we hoodwinked? Do you realize how stupid you are making yourselves sound with that line of questioning, about yourselves? Here\u2019s another portion of Senator Schemer — Schumer\u2019s — remarks.<\/p>\n

SCHUMER: So every day I feel more comfortable with my vote against Chief Justice Roberts, and every day I\u2019m pained that I didn\u2019t do more to try and block Justice Alito. I was one who felt we ought to filibuster, but my colleagues convinced me we just didn\u2019t have the votes. We should have done everything we could to have blocked Alito. Alito shouldn\u2019t have been confirmed. We should have done our job better. Take the president at his word. When a president says he wants to nominate justices in the mold of Scalia and Thomas, believe him. The burden always lies with the nominee to show that he or she is within the mainstream, and that burden cannot be met, as we\u2019ve seen, by mouthing pleasant platitudes with modesty and stability at a confirmation hearing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Boy, last I remember, it was Justice Alito\u2019s poor wife that was fleeing the hearing room in tears over the way her husband was being treated by the Democrats on the committee! I think it was Senator Leahy, was it not? (sigh) ‘We should have done everything we could to have blocked Alito. He shouldn\u2019t have been confirmed.\u2019 Schemer is consistent here, talking about finding judges that are ‘within the mainstream.\u2019 That\u2019s a political characterization. The court\u2019s not supposed to be that. Mainstream to him is liberalism. Liberalism is not mainstream America. It is not. Here, look, Washington Post. I\u2019ve got one more Schemer bite. Washington Post, Drew Westen. The new George Lakoff (rhymes with), is back again, writing another advice column in the Post on Sunday to the Democrats: ‘Dems, you gotta have heart.\u2019 Lakoff\u2019s replacement here issues another call for more passion, less facts from you Democrats. Page three of this piece, he says, ‘Voters disagreed with 75% of what Reagan had on issues, but they liked him and that\u2019s why they elected him,\u2019 and they can\u2019t get themselves beyond that. They do not understand that Reagan was elected on issues of substance. It wasn\u2019t marketing and packaging. Yeah, he was a likable guy and that helped, but you don\u2019t win 49-state landslides on pure likability. You know, by the way, we\u2019ve had passionate Hillary, and I don\u2019t think that plays very well, that screaming and shouting out there. So the Democrats, the only reason that this column was written, is they can\u2019t dare be honest about who they are because they aren\u2019t mainstream. Liberalism isn\u2019t mainstream. That\u2019s why to come up with all this compassion and emotion. ‘You gotta have heart. You got appeal to people\u2019s feelings. You can\u2019t get caught up on the facts! Facts are too hard. Facts are too cold.\u2019 Plus the facts go against the libs. All right, one more Schumer bite. Final portion of his remarks. This is the pi&egrave;ce de r&eacute;sistance.<\/p>\n

SCHUMER: For the rest of this president\u2019s term, and if there is another Republican elected with the same selection criteria, let me say this. We should reverse the presumption of confirmation. The Supreme Court is dangerously out of balance. (smattering of applause) We cannot afford to see Justice Stevens replaced by another Roberts or Justice Ginsburg by another Alito. I will recommend to my colleagues that we should not confirm any Bush nominee to the Supreme Court except in extraordinary circumstances. They must prove by actions, not words, that they are in the mainstream, rather than we have to approve that they are not. There\u2019s no doubt we were hoodwinked.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What does that say about you, that you were hoodwinked? You were outsmarted. These guys, both of them, ran intellectual rings around every one of those pompous windbag senators on that committee, Republican and Democrat members alike. That\u2019s why they couldn\u2019t vote \u2019em down. They ran rings around them. You got hoodwinked. You\u2019re just pompous and arrogant. You don\u2019t allow yourselves the understanding that a lot of people smarter than you that show up for these jobs, but now you\u2019re going to shut down, shut down the whole confirmation process. This is libs. This is the Stalinism of the libs, just total control. They don\u2019t get their way? Shut down the process.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Back to this last bite with Senator Schumer. He said on the next nominee, they\u2019re not going to get hoodwinked. ‘The next nominee must prove by actions, not words, that they are in the mainstream.\u2019 Now, tell me: how does a nominee sitting before this pompous bunch of windbags, demonstrate action that pleases them? First of all, it\u2019s a flawed concept because they don\u2019t know the cases that are going to come before them, so the senators make \u2019em up based on their political leanings and so forth. What\u2019s the next nominee supposed to do? Demonstrate his actions by going up and kissing Senator Schemer\u2019s rear end? What kind of action are we talking about here? You know, Schemer is worried about ‘precedent,\u2019 all this precedent being overturned. As we\u2019ve said many times here: a judge\u2019s job is to follow the Constitution, not ‘precedent,\u2019 unless the precedent follows the Constitution. If the precedent follows the Constitution, fine, if the precedent does it, then you over turn it. It\u2019s what strict constructionists do. If you take this out to the local conclusion, if Schumer had his way, Dred Scott would still be the law of the land, Plessy Ferguson would still be the law of the land. Dred Scott upheld slavery. That was a precedent that we had to overturn. Well, for the purpose of this discussion, that\u2019s accurate. Plessy-Ferguson upheld segregation. We would still have segregation if you can\u2019t overturn precedent, if you can\u2019t reverse precedent. Schumer\u2019s the idiot here, the one being inconsistent, purely political. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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