American Politics Journal -- No Justice, No Judgeships

No Justice, No Judgeships!
Don't Let the Chamberlains Make You Knuckle Under
by Tamara Baker

Dec. 14, 2000 -- Saint Paul, MN (AmpolNS) -- You'll be seeing a lot of polls showing support for the alleged legitimacy of the Connecticut Thief ranging from 80 to 90%.

Bear in mind that half the American people didn't vote. Bear also in mind that those who voted Democratic are the ones most likely to care.

So the 10% to 20% these polls will show is actually 20% to 40% of those who actually voted, and 40% to 80% of all Democrats.

This means we voting Democrats have a LOT more leverage than the media admits.

If those of us who KNOW we were robbed by the Connecticut Thief put the pressure on our elected Democrat officials, we can keep them from knuckling under to the "unity" (read: "abject, groveling submission by Democrats") pitch.

For starters, here's an idea I got from an attorney.

Tell your elected Democratic Senators that they are not to approve a single Federalist Society nominee for the Federal Judiciary.

Period.

No Ted Olsons. No Kenny Starrs.

They can approve other GOP nominees, but ONLY after they have been vetted to a T (those justices that look like David Souter are OK, for instance).

No justice, no judgeships!

As Alan Dershowitz said last night on MSNBC, in order to "heal" the "wound" you have pull the broken glass out of it first, or it festers and infects.

No justice, no judgeships!

The vote count mess in Florida must be investigated, and a full count must be done as soon as possible. There must also be assurance that the doctrine of "equal protection" -- the one Justice Nino Scalia misused to protect George W. Bush -- is followed both in letter and spirit, and that Florida's black urban areas have the same nice Optiscan voting machines as do the state's white counties in the Panhandle. If this is not done, it's time to put the hammer down.

No justice, no judgeships!

Don't let the appeasers in both politics and the media sucker you in with the "healing" gambit. Appeasing Nazis doesn't work, as Neville Chamberlain found to his sorrow.

No justice, no judgeships!