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Jens 'n' Frens
Idle thoughts of a relatively libertarian Republican in Cambridge, MA, and whomever he invites. Mostly political.
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."
-- Daniel Webster
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Friday, November 08, 2002 :::
Jonah Goldberg writes:
The first thing Bush has got to do is move some judges through the Senate. Whether he should lead with the most controversial ones or the least is a tricky question. The Left and the Democrats will paint anybody the Republicans confirm as a hate-mongering, Orwellian goose-stepper. So the question is, does that mean you should put the most palatable ones up first, so the Dems look hysterical for no good reason ? or do you put the hard-core guys up first because this may be the GOP's only chance? I don't know. But I do know that the conservative base demands, expects, and deserves a lot of good judges to be confirmed by the Senate because of this, and Bush needs to placate them right away.
It's widely considered good politics to take care of your base early in the election cycle, when people who don't participate in politics except on election day aren't watching, and move to the center toward the end of the cycle, when your base is on-board. This would suggest that if Bush has a list of judges he wants to appoint, he should start with the more conservative ones and move toward the less contraversial.
Keep in mind, though, that we'll only have 51, or possibly 52, seats in the Senate. Anyone who meets with disapproval from Lincoln Chafee and Susan Collins isn't going to be confirmed at either the beginning of the session or the end.
::: posted by Steven at 10:40 AM
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