Tooth gnasher for the day
Bookworm on Feb 09 2009 at 10:38 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
First, put on your jaw guard. Second, go to Cheat Seeking Missiles and read this post.
The judge, interestingly, is a George Bush, Sr., appointment. It’s impossible to tell with the information at hand if he went liberal on the bench (the Greenhouse effect, named after U.S. Sup. Ct. judges who start going liberal to please former NY Times court reporter Linda Greenhouse); was always liberal; or, most intriguingly, knows something about this case that we don’t know.
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Bookworm:
Jaw guard was insufficient.
Needed: Padded room to keep me from banging my head against the nearest wall.
Linda Greenhouse would have been targeted for character assassination had she been a Republican with that kind of influence.
Yeah, well. I like GHW, but it’s pretty apparent that judicial appointments weren’t his thing.
GWB also couldn’t keep his word, neither to his constituents or to foreigners.
That is a big thing in the South, or at least it should be.
Bush, when he made a promise, kept it. Even with social security, when he could have done better focusing on Iraq.
OK…so look at the bright side. Maybe this is a terrific test case in order to quash (actually I like “squash”, but it’s _so_ not correct!) future cases and eliminate further legal actions.
I hope.
Wonder if there’s a place to donate to the farmer’s legal expenses…
I’m not sure I understand the attack on the Judge.
Judges aren’t simply free to dismiss cases because the facts are ludicrous. If the plaintiff’s have a legal argument that presents a question of fact (and there are no procedural problems), the case is to go forward.
I think you are being a bit too hard on the Judge, as I sincerely doubt he has released an opinion as to the factual merits of this case.
Speaking of gnashing of teeth…
http://onemansthoughts.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/are-you-ready-for-the-house-bill-titled-hr-45-blair-holt-licensing-and-record-act-of-2009/
Obviously I’m soon going to be a candidate for false teeth…!
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30632
Legal-Right, I’m hard on judges because of the number of times I’ve dealt with judges who have kept a manifestly dead case alive just because they felt sorry for a plaintiff. I’ve never recovered from the judge who acknowledged that the plaintiff had no legal claim whatsoever but added, “but I think there’s something there.” The case went on for another 4 years and $2 million, only to have the vast emptiness that was the plaintiff’s cased in a full, expensive, time-consuming trial. Judges are also lazy, and it’s always easier to let a case keep going than to take the time to articulate reasons why it should not.
Certainly there may be a case here — there may be some law or facts that we don’t know — but I’m never inclined to give judges the benefit of the doubt.
Toothgnashing rapidly reaching the gums…
http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2009/02/11/democrat-leaders-hold-midnight-meeting-freeze-gop-out-of-stimulus-negotiations/
Judges come from lawyers, normally. Change the education of lawyers, change the composition of judges.
Seems like an obvious plan. If you want to destabilize a nation, that is.