Orin Hatch And The Living Constitution...

There's a lot of talk about Senator Thatch's statement that John Roberts believed in a 'living consitution':

If Senator Thatch, strike that, Hatch, sticks to his word and asks Harriet, or whoever her replacement might be, if she agrees with Chief Justice Roberts on the constitution being a living, breathing, perspirating, masticating, or even ovulating document, then she should straighten his silly old ass out with the truth and not the flubadub that such clueless politicians or jurist-wannabe's really upon.

Roberts, like most if not all strict interpreters, believes that the constitution itself provided for a future society to adjust when necessary, but NOT from the bench. Is liberty and freedom a living thing? Well of course they are, and Roberts said so but NEVER said that he believed the Constitution itself to be a living thing, but that it provided the means to tweak when tweaking was appropriate and by elected officials responding to the will of the people.

The Constitution was designed to protect the people from the government, and NOT to empower any branch of the government to make willy-nilly changes to law whenever THEY decided it was time for a change.

But this gets to the core of why Harriet is so unsuited to take on this job. Roberts could probably recite the Constitution backwards if asked, and from what we've seen of Mz Harriet's works, she cannot even read it forwards.

He flat-out BS'd them quite well, and they ALL came away with different interpretations on what he said. Even stupid old Chris Matthews on Hardballs was making mistake after mistake in trying to determine what it was that Roberts was talking about, and he had the benefit of instant help from as many legal minds as could speak into his earpiece at any given time.

And that's what Harriet would need...a plug-in to a Roberts-Thomas-Scalia cheat-sheet to help her during the confirmation, because this lady has never indicated anything that even remotely suggests she has ever read, let alone understands the Constitution of the United States.

Being a good ole' gal isn't going to help her out one bit, and if Bush was too unsophisticated to understand that, then someone, yes, at the risk of their job, should have stood up to him and told him the real story. If it even gets that far, she will sit like a dunce while they pummel her with difficult questions, OR, and here's the kicker, or she'll just agree with the last thing the last questioner said. This will confuse EVERYONE, and the wrong answers could very well infuriate the Republican controlled Senate to the point whereby they drop her like a hot potato.

It'd be the epitome of irony to have her receive more votes from the Democrats because they felt that she was, deep down inside, a liberal, and the most embarrassing thing to happen to a sitting President since Truman was handed the plans for the Atomic Bomb and asked if he could see them set one off. Just to get a feel for what they were all gibbering about.