Comments on: “Gang” War http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2008/02/25/gang-war/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gang-war n. the principle of good order<br /><br /> "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:25:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Grumpy Old Man http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2008/02/25/gang-war/comment-page-1/#comment-9131 Grumpy Old Man Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:58:47 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/02/25/gang-war/#comment-9131 The "Gang of 14" position was actually more conservative than the fanciful radical position of the GOP, in the older meaning of the word--more consistent with the traditions of the institution, and with the notion of checks on the unfettered power of the majority. What's more, the judges the GOP has appointed, while an improvement on some issues, tend to have a history of serving in the Executive Branch, and they tend to accept authoritarian notions if they fit the current conventional wisdom of the centralist right. I'd like to see some judges more like the shipwrecked Spaniard, who said, when the native told him there was indeed a government on the desert island. "Then I am against it!" The “Gang of 14″ position was actually more conservative than the fanciful radical position of the GOP, in the older meaning of the word–more consistent with the traditions of the institution, and with the notion of checks on the unfettered power of the majority.

What’s more, the judges the GOP has appointed, while an improvement on some issues, tend to have a history of serving in the Executive Branch, and they tend to accept authoritarian notions if they fit the current conventional wisdom of the centralist right.

I’d like to see some judges more like the shipwrecked Spaniard, who said, when the native told him there was indeed a government on the desert island. “Then I am against it!”

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