rip william rehnquist
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- prodigalslacker
and now bush gets a second supreme court nominee
fuuuuuck
- visualplane0
ah shit
- visualplane0
ah shit
visualplane
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- IRNlun60
//great
- pocho0
this changes everything...crap. i fear for my kids futures.
- JazX0
He was appointed by Richard Nixon (R).
Rehnquist served in World War II and worked as a weather observer in North Africa.
I have much respect for the Swedish-American.
- JazX0
Rehnquist's grandparents immigrated from Sweden in 1880. His grandfather, Olaf Rehnquist, came from Värmland and his grandmother was born Adolfina Ternbourg in Vretakloster in Östergötland. Rehnquist is one of only two Chief Justices of Swedish descent, the other being Earl Warren, who had Norwegian-Swedish ancestry.
- JazX0
Rehnquist moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where he was in private practice from 1953 to 1969. During these years, he was active in the Republican Party.
So, taking him out and replacing him with someone that Bush wants does what again? It's the same thing, in fact, whomever Bush puts in will probably be more moderate than an old Conservative. Think about it...
- skelly0
I was just thinking that.
- prodigalslacker0
think about the way bush works... practically irrational logic (if there is such a thing)...
rehnquist=conservative
so bush will replace rehnquist with someone who he feels will "fill the shoes" of such a justicejust like he did with o'conner, but with her he got a mdoerat conservative. look for a super conservative here.
- JazX0
could be, but then again Rehnquist was very conservative on many, many issues.
- currey0
PEACH POWER !!!
- superbaka0
they prayed for him to die, and they got their wish.
- CyBrainX0
Nixon was one thing, a liar, war mongering bastard, paranoid about communism. But, he wasn't the religious right and wasn't the worst president in US history. That's what we have. The agenda is different this time. I'll take an army of Tricky Dickies over Mr. Peepers.
- tank0
hehe mr peepers...
- doesnotexist0
i knew this would happen.
i really thought it was going to be crazier than it has been for that other nominee, but now little george can throw a super fantastic i put two justices in the supreme court party. weeeee!!
- JazX0
Historically speaking, there have been worse presidents than Bush and Nixon, it's just not on as grand of a scale.
Lincoln: Wether for good or bad, the first Republican President, ruled the nation through the bitter years of the Civil War as almost a virtual dictator, and limits imposed by the Constitution were ignored.
Another of the Founding Fathers of the United States, John Adams' name will forever be linked with the Alien and Sedition Acts.
- Woodrow Wilson
- Franklin Roosevelt
- Abraham LincolnLincoln was the great evil genius of the nineteenth century in America. He was not merely the worst American president of that century; he was the worst American. And Roosevelt was the Lincoln — and the worst American — of the last century. Wilson, for his part, was the most important link between the two.
Lincoln swept away what remained of the decrepit and morbidly inflated federal Republic, and created the imperial United State. The dust of history's battles often takes a while to settle, and a hundred years later people on their way into the dustbin of history were still wailing about "states' rights." But as Shelby Foote and other historians have pointed out, before Lincoln came to power Americans said, "The United States are ..." and, after Lincoln, they began saying, "The United States is ..." That was a fatal change in people's mental image of the nation-state that ruled them, and it reflected the underlying reality all too well. (My own coinage — "United State" — is only a gesture toward politico-grammatical correctness.)
Wilson inherited the continental empire Lincoln secured and the infant foreign empire forged by McKinley and guarded by Theodore Roosevelt. By injecting the United State into the first installment of Europe's great civil war, Wilson ensured the nation's role as indispensable partner and presumptive heir of the British Empire. By injecting the United State into the second installment of that civil war, and blasting the Japanese Empire's own expectations of inheritance, Franklin Roosevelt consummated the imperial succession.
Lincoln and Wilson were fascists before fascism was cool, and Roosevelt was the great fascist champion of anti-fascism. Lincoln implemented the Whig/Republican program, Wilson the national-liberal or "Progressive" program, and Roosevelt the updated program of liberal corporate statism. Crucially assisted by their foreign wars (and Lincoln's invasion of the seceded South was a foreign war), all three men racheted up the power of the Central Government and, in so doing, enhanced the power of their sponsors in the ruling class. Lincoln, indeed, initiated the transformation of a mercantile and creditor class that enjoyed important, but limited, exploitative privileges into a true ruling class.