David Souter was the ultimate in bait and switch Supreme Court justices.  George Bush the Elder put him on the High Court with the help of powerful NE influences, including Warren Rudman and John Sununu.  Traditionalists were assured he would be more conservative than he turned out to be.

We were betrayed, and now we have been betrayed again.

Without Souter on the High Court — If Bush the elder had instead put on someone of the caliber of Sam Alito, for example, things would have been much different for our nation.

Here is some interesting background from this source:

Governor John Sununu promoted Souter to the New Hampshire Supreme Court in 1983. Souter quickly established himself as a knowledgeable jurist and an independent thinker. President Bush appointed Souter to the U.S. Court of Appeals in 1990. Justice William J. Brennan retired five months later, however, and Bush decided to move Souter up again. Although Sununu and Rudman denied involvement in Souter’s nomination, Souter’s friendship with both no doubt helped his cause. The ever-unassuming Souter had to be reassured by Rudman that, in light of all the qualified candidates available, an interview with Bush was really necessary. Souter’s nomination passed nearly unopposed through the Senate.

Souter’s first year on the Court was undistinguished. He wrote few opinions and did not display many hints of his judicial predisposition. Since then, he has appeared more comfortable on the Court. He has settled into the moderate camp of the Court as evidenced by his unprecedented 24 similar votes with the centrist Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Together with O’Connor and Kennedy, Souter has formed a moderate bloc in the Court that prevents domination from the conservative wing.

Souter has maintained his simple, bachelor lifestyle. He brings his own lunch, consisting of apples and yogurt, to work everyday and lives in an undecorated apartment. He still returns home to Weare during the summer breaks where he climbs the local mountains and visits his mother.

Now he leaves us, off to spend his retirement climbing mountains with mom, no doubt. Guess it just did not make sense to him in 2006 or 2008 or any other pre-Obama age.

Nice payback, David. We were betrayed, and now have been  betrayed once again.

Look for Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and John Paul Stevens (assuming he is not a ghoul who can ride out another century on the High Court) to follow suit in 2009 so that President Barack Obama is granted the rare opportunity to remake the United States Supreme Court in his own image and likeness well ahead of the fall 2010 elections.

Change America?  You voted for change?  How about Susan Estrich and Hillary Clinton and Janet Napolitano for the High Court?

Moving from the Postmodernist court to the Imperial Senate, note that Senator Arlen Specter surprised no one and finally switched rather than fight on as one of the most liberal Republicans in the Senate.  Aren’t we all glad that term limits never passed so that serial insiders like Specter can haunt us for our entire lives?

Thank the Bush family for that one as well.  They worked hard to keep Specter in the Senate, giving him the rope to hang what was left of any resistance to Emporer Obama.

We were betrayed at the time Senator Specter was re-elected, and now we have been betrayed once again.

With the Senate fully in Emporer Obama’s hands he does not need to worry over pro-lifers whining about the justices he is planning to force on America for the next 30 years or so.

Don’t get me wrong, they will still whine.  Fine fundraising letters will fly off the presses.  But those letters will merely allow a failed leadership to retire in some relative comfort.  The Right’s forward momentum in the political realm has ground to a halt until the 2010 elections -  assuming those are held.

As an attonrey once said to me in a similar (albeit less dire) situation: ”You are going to have to learn to negotiate from a position of weakness.”

This sure is looking like checkmate for the pro-life forces as they have been defined since the 1970’s. Click here for thoughts on a necessary new direction and here for the only known antidote to leftist power plays.

Thanks to the GOP and Bush family for leading us into this box canyon.

We have been betrayed too often in the past, let us agree that we will NOT make it easy to betray us ever again.

Oh, and may the Lord’s Will be done through the coming maelstrom.

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