In the first hour of Friday’s show, Mark made the case that the upcoming resignation of SCOTUS Justice John Paul Stevens may have dire consequences for the future of the country.
Convinced that Stevens’ resignation was deliberately timed (in order that an ultra-leftist president to fill with a like-minded judge), Mark recalls some of the nation’s most disastrous and Constitution-twisting decisions made by a mere 5-4 SCOTUS vote. Two of them were the doing of Justice Stevens himself:
(1) The decision to allow the EPA to regulate the emission of carbon dioxide, a newly-declared pollutant, and
(2) the decision to grant terrorist detainees held at Camp G’tmo certain civil rights they were not entitled to, which interfered with President Bush’s legitimate war-making powers and which to this day jeopardizes our national security.
Mark argues that a left-wing ideologue like our current president would no doubt nominate justices that would make Stevens look conservative by comparison. Therefore, as a plan of action, he demands that Congressional Republicans do everything possible to block any Obama nomination. He warns them, as well as us his audience, not to gratuitously play “nice guy” just to curry favor with the Democrats or media. He argues that if Republicans need to filibuster or obstruct, then they should do so with full force—reminding us that the precedent for such actions was set by the Democrats, such as the “Borking” Ted Kennedy in 1987 and the pompous Chucky Schmucky Schumer during the Bush years.
In short: If Obama gets an ultra-liberal activist justice on the Supreme Court, it would another huge nail in the coffin of this nation. This is a time for Republicans to show their backbones, even more so than during the government-run health (s)care ordeal. They must block at all costs!
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