Appeals Court Upholds ObamaCare

[FuzzyLumpkins]

It's always fascinating to see Wild Cobra show that he has a better working knowledge of federal courts and cons utional law than people who devote their lives to studying those things. I mean, obviously, Laurence Silberman has been a liberal wolf in conservative sheep's wool since he was appointed -- or something.

For instance, he wrote an intermediate court opinion striking down the DC handgun ban in the appellate decision affirmed by the Supreme Court in er.

He wrote the intermediate court opinion concluding that the independent counsel statute threatened the President's Article II powers, a conclusion that Justice Scalia vigorously defended in a dissenting opinion when Silberman's opinion was ultimately overturned.

He's close friends with Clarence Thomas, Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld.

He's been openly called a partisan ("Yet Silberman’s place at the head of the commission has already raised doubts about its credibility, given that Silberman has often behaved as if his paramount role as a federal judge is to protect Republicans, persecute Democrats and slander anyone who disagrees.")

He's been regarded "historically . . . as one of the stronger conservative voices on the federal appellate bench."

He's not new to being labeled a staunch conservative("He is a judge who came of age at the time when conservatives were responding to the activism of the Supreme Court in the 50’s and 60’s. He is a significant member of the conservative legal world, with membership in the Federalist Society and with a record of service in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan administrations.")

But, clearly, his conservative bona fides are disputable.

It doesn't matter what anyone says. You see what ever your pea brained biased mind is going to see.

You were saying, WC?

Nice stuff FWDT.

[ElNono]

It's always fascinating to see Wild Cobra show that he has a better working knowledge of federal courts and cons utional law than people who devote their lives to studying those things. I mean, obviously, Laurence Silberman has been a liberal wolf in conservative sheep's wool since he was appointed -- or something.

For instance, he wrote an intermediate court opinion striking down the DC handgun ban in the appellate decision affirmed by the Supreme Court in er.

He wrote the intermediate court opinion concluding that the independent counsel statute threatened the President's Article II powers, a conclusion that Justice Scalia vigorously defended in a dissenting opinion when Silberman's opinion was ultimately overturned.

He's close friends with Clarence Thomas, Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld.

He's been openly called a partisan ("Yet Silberman’s place at the head of the commission has already raised doubts about its credibility, given that Silberman has often behaved as if his paramount role as a federal judge is to protect Republicans, persecute Democrats and slander anyone who disagrees.")

He's been regarded "historically . . . as one of the stronger conservative voices on the federal appellate bench."

He's not new to being labeled a staunch conservative("He is a judge who came of age at the time when conservatives were responding to the activism of the Supreme Court in the 50’s and 60’s. He is a significant member of the conservative legal world, with membership in the Federalist Society and with a record of service in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan administrations.")

But, clearly, his conservative bona fides are disputable.

Are you being sarcastic?

[CosmicCowboy]

http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/27/med...-bartlett.html

Were you even paying attention in the 1960s and 1970s? This is from Forbes and the first thing a clicked on a "GOP Medicare 1960s" google search.

For s sake your line of thinking is the same rhetoric that wasput out by the GOP in FDRs day.

All those guys are dead.

Thats all you got?

[scott]

It's always fascinating to see Wild Cobra show that he has a better working knowledge of federal courts and cons utional law than people who devote their lives to studying those things. I mean, obviously, Laurence Silberman has been a liberal wolf in conservative sheep's wool since he was appointed -- or something.

For instance, he wrote an intermediate court opinion striking down the DC handgun ban in the appellate decision affirmed by the Supreme Court in er.

He wrote the intermediate court opinion concluding that the independent counsel statute threatened the President's Article II powers, a conclusion that Justice Scalia vigorously defended in a dissenting opinion when Silberman's opinion was ultimately overturned.

He's close friends with Clarence Thomas, Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld.

He's been openly called a partisan ("Yet Silberman’s place at the head of the commission has already raised doubts about its credibility, given that Silberman has often behaved as if his paramount role as a federal judge is to protect Republicans, persecute Democrats and slander anyone who disagrees.")

He's been regarded "historically . . . as one of the stronger conservative voices on the federal appellate bench."

He's not new to being labeled a staunch conservative("He is a judge who came of age at the time when conservatives were responding to the activism of the Supreme Court in the 50’s and 60’s. He is a significant member of the conservative legal world, with membership in the Federalist Society and with a record of service in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan administrations.")

But, clearly, his conservative bona fides are disputable.

Beat me to it.

Let me respond for WC:

I knew all that. I was just testing you guys. Also notice where I said he must be getting senile.

[Wild Cobra]

You were saying, WC?

Nice stuff FWDT.

If you actually knew me, you would have understood my post as a disappointment of the Judge.

Yes, I knew he was appointed by Reagan. That's why I phrased it that he may as well have been appointed by Obama.

You lib s never cease to amaze me at how biased your thoughts are.

[scott]

If you actually knew me, you would have understood my post as a disappointment of the Judge.

Yes, I knew he was appointed by Reagan. That's why I phrased it that he may as well have been appointed by Obama.

You lib s never cease to amaze me at how biased your thoughts are.

Nailed it!

[FromWayDowntown]

Nailed it!

Yep. I think it's become a fairly simple 5-step approach:

1. make a completely ridiculous and insupportable statement;

2. get called out on same;

3. insist that statement was actually extraordinarily nuanced (even going so far as to say what he said isn't what he said);

4. insist that those who can't see the nuance are extremely biased (sprinkle in partisan buzzwords as necessary to increase indignity); and

5. declare victory -- use more partisan phraseology to augment claim.

There should be an :wc emoticon.