Seeking Justice
America is about to get a new Supreme Court Justice, now that O’Connor has announced her retirement. Surely Mikey is going to chime in on this important issue. However, it won’t be the first time. Here’s what he had to say on the subject five years ago.
George W. Bush is not going to appoint justices who would overturn Roe vs. Wade. He hasn’t done it in Texas, and that’s the only track record we have to look at. He’s appointed moderate justices who have upheld Texas abortion laws. He’s not a right-wing ideologue, he’s a politician, and he’ll do whatever he has to do to get elected. He reads the poll numbers, and two-thirds of the American public is pro-choice. It is part of our American culture, it will never go away. And in fact, all of the Supreme Court decisions lately that have upheld abortion have been because the Republican, Reagan-appointed Sandra Day O’Connor, Bush-appointed David Souter and Ford-appointed Justice Stevens have all been the ones upholding abortion. One of Clinton’s appointees, Breyer, is becoming very conservative. We just don’t know. Eisenhower appointed Earl Warren, and that became the most liberal court of the last hundred years. It’s a guessing game, and I’m not going to make my choice on presidents based on this sort of thing.
Interesting, isn’t it? Mikey’s been rather silent on most things lately, but I doubt he’s going to be able to refrain from commenting on this most important of political issues. Of course, maybe he’s being quiet because he’s so consistently wrong about everything. Here’s another snippet from this interview.
Number one, Bush is not going to win. I truly believe that, because the people of this country are not that stupid. He’s behind 52 to 38 (percent) right now and every week he goes lower and lower. He’s going to continue to sink like a stone.
That was his prediction in 2000, and his prediction in 2004. As we all know he was wrong both times. If I had a track record of being as consistently wrong about every important issue as he has, maybe I’d go crawl under a rock and hide, too.
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