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Friday, October 13, 2006
Hugh Hewitt :: Townhall.com Columnist
Conrad Burns and the Future Of the United States Supreme Court
by Hugh Hewitt
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If you know a voter in Montana, you might want to forward this column to him or her. The decision of Montana when it votes for a United States senator in November may very well impact your life considerably.

Justice John Paul Steven is 86. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 73. Justices Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy are both 70. Justice Stephen Breyer is 68. Justice David Souter is 67.

The current majority of the Supreme Court is pro-terrorist rights, anti-property rights, and indifferent to gun rights.

But that current majority will change --dramatically in all likelihood-- over the next six years that Montana's senator will serve.

If Montana re-elects Conrad Burns, not only will the Senate almost certainly remain in Republican control, nominees like Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito will continue to receive a yes vote from Burns, just as he voted yes on both of President Bush's nominees.

If Montana lurches way left and sends Jon Tester to D.C., not only will he vote to put Vermont's radical Patrick Leahy back in charge of the Judiciary Committee, Tester will support the obstruction that killed judicial nominee after nominee during Leahy's stretch as chairman.

George W. Bush won the Montana 2004 by 20% --266,063 to John Kerry's 173,710.

Montana is a very red state.

But it re-elected Democrat Max Baucus by an even larger margin --more than 100,000 votes-- two years earlier.

It is a difficult state for outsiders to understand, though Michael Barone's Almanac of American Politics does a fine job tracing the "two lively political traditions in Montana today."

"One draws on its heritage of class warfare politics, radical miners, and angry labor unions which made Montana for many years the most Democratic of the Rocky Mountain states," Barone explained.

But the second tradition is of "fierce opposition to higher taxes and federal government dictates."

Tester is ceratinly out of the "angry" tradition, and his supporters are part of the Great Snarl that has seized considerable power inthe Democratic Party --the Michael Moore-Howard Dean-Kosputin radicals who thrust Ned Lamont forward, though they will not be able to carry him over the victory line.

All but recognizing their loss in Connecticut, the radicals have put all their chips on Tester, and the camapign reflects their fury. Continued...
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Reply # 1
Date: Oct 16, 2006 - 12:55 AM EST
Stick a finger up
and you'll realize Americans don't like failure. Bush took a month long vacation before finishing a year on the job. Bush failed to protect us on 9/11 by ignoring terrorism and a very specific CIA briefing on Bin Laden. He failed to rid Afghanistan of the Taliban, he failed to accomplish his bizzarre mission in Iraq. He failed to balance any budget year and he failed the middle class with his tax cuts aimed at his base, multi-millionaires. He succeeded in enriching oil companies and succeeded in lying to the world about Iraq WMD's. He also succeeded in "catupulting the propaganda" thanks to Hugh Hewitt, Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly. How does it feel to be a stooge, Hugh?

Bush is a failure, America knows it.

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Reply # 2
Date: Oct 14, 2006 - 10:40 PM EST
Military in UNIFORM in Tester ads
The MT Democratic Party sent out another attack mailing featuring a soldier, IN UNIFORM, purporting to be MTARNG, with statements disparaging Senator Burns. Under 10 USC 888 and DOD Directive 1344.10, this kid, if he is a soldier, just bought himself a court martial and it's an open and shut case. If he's not, he's impersonating a soldier - see you in federal court.

Reservists and Guard members don't have the same restrictions on politicking as active duty, but you can't put on a uniform and appear in partisan attack ads.

The sad part is that despite McCain-Feingold, the politicians who led these kids down the primrose path don't go to jail, lose rights to vote, own guns, hold office, hold professional licenses, obtain government jobs, lose veterans benefits, etc. They just go on.

This race is over the top.

Matt
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