"I need a U.S. Senator who understands that we need people on the bench who will strictly interpret the Constitution and not use the bench to legislate," Bush pointed out at a fundraising dinner for the Republican candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in Tennessee, speaking of his philosophy concerning appointment of federal judges.
Although I agree with the idiot that the judiciary should not "legislate," I cannot agree with his disjointed thoughts concerning strict interpretation of the Constitution of the United States of America.
Our President might understand the old adage, “What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.” Then again, for the President of the United States of America to mis-quote The Who, which is, in a sense, a Freudian slip relative to the Iraq debacle, when trying to use an old idiom tends to prove that he might be a fool; and I doubt that he has any grasp of idioms and adages.
If the judiciary is not permitted to legislate, then, to be consistent in such philosophy of government under our Constitution, neither should the executive be permitted to legislate.
And Congress must do its job and not delegate it to the executive.
Otherwise, let's be honest ... we'd have a dictator in power; and our representative democracy, a model for the entire uncivilized world, would be no more.
Posted by Bill at September 2, 2006 11:37 PMTime for a change, indeed. Thanks for the link to Rocky...gives me hope.
Posted by: Cowtown Pattie at September 4, 2006 08:32 PM