(Blog Post) A cottage industry – literally an industry, given the sums of money raised and spent – now exists in which the far left and right either brutalize or lionize the President’s nominees. Because the absence of controversy means bankruptcy, it has to be invented by both sides, whatever the cost to the nominee personally and to the integrity of the judiciary nationally. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
This was a delightful read that brimmed with sanity. Oddly and sadly, the article is about observing a dysfunctional body politique and how we have become a series of strategists operating in huddles in order to select a representative from a small group of Americans - to represent the Judicial word of the land as it pertains to the Constitution. This body is not without flaw as the article reveals, but more than flaw, Goldstein regards the Court as a large vessel that requires ballast in order to function. The article was most judicious and fair - however - I had one point of contention and that was about not completing the operational link between public opinion and how the confirming body - the Senate - deals with it procedurally. That's is the fourth layer of distraction that is likely to be deployed, if for nothing else, to distract the electorate from holding the GOP responsible for the stink bombs they will undoubtedly hurl from the wings with the likes of Gingrich, Romney, Guiliani and the rest of the usual subjects. Perhaps it didn't make the edit, nonetheless, a good article.
