Pathetic Pandering

Bush keeps saying that he doesn’t have a litmus test for SC Justice, yet when his evangelical base starts griping he has to admit that he has one litmus test that is completely irrelevant to the job. Especially, when he and his Bushie minions keep talking about how Judges should put their personal opinions aside and interpret the Constitution in it’s original form. We all know they really mean impose Bush’s drastically misguided version of a Christian Theocracy and not the Constitution, how else do you square it’s continued trampling of State’s democratic process through exceedingly lame expansions of the Interstate Commerce Clause to invoke Federal Authority where NONE existed 10 years ago, let alone when the framers got together.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/12/miers.religion/index.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush suggested Wednesday that Harriet Miers'
evangelical Christian beliefs were part of the reason he nominated her to the
Supreme Court. But later a White House spokesman said her religion played no
role in her selection.

"People are interested to know why I picked Harriet
Miers," Bush told reporters at the White House. "They want to know Harriet
Miers' background. They want to know as much as they possibly can before they
form opinions."

"Part of Harriet Miers' life is her religion," Bush said
during Oval Office comments with visiting Polish President Aleksander
Kwasniewski. "Part of it has to do with the fact that she was a pioneer woman
and a trailblazer in the law in Texas."