Exactly, compared to Republicans. Left-wing and right-wing is a matter or perspective. They meant different things to people 50 years ago, 100 years ago etc.. - Now if I said, “democrats are socialists” or something - then I’d be wrong.

The truth is that U.S.A doesn???t have any leftisht political parties, democrats and republicans are pretty much the same they both belong to the right.

Well, there are plenty of real lefty parties, it’s just not the Democrats. Your probably right though, there’s not much difference between the Dems and Reps, though I know there’s alot of real progressives in the Democratic Party, but if the whole party were to move in that direction all of a sudden, they’d lose a LOT of votes.

Now only when a President has a healthy majority in the Senate, is it easy to get a judge to the bench that is completely to the President’s liking. When one party controls the White House and the other party controls the Senate, the automatical result is that the Prsident will most likely choose a compromise candidate. Not all Republicans are ultra right wing, by the way. When the ultra right wing nominee Robert Bork lost in the Senate in 1987, John Warner voted against him. He’s not a senator who regularly votes against the nominees of his own party.

Had John Kerry been elected and the Republicans retained their Senate majority, the nominee would automatically have been a moderate centrist. I think this was what Kerry counted on and that’s why it was so easy for him to promise to appoint a compromise candidate.

This new guy looks like he’s an ultra right winger but he’s also a persuasive wheeler-dealer type so I don’t think the senators will be able to pin him down on anything. He’s exactly the kind of guy people like Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby would vouch for. Right wing yes but in a secretive way, not the vocal activist type and that’s why someone like Ann Coulter is initially puzzled.

Is Roberts a member of the Federalist Society? His right-wing supporters say yes, that’s why he should be nominated. His more moderate supporters say wait a minute, why should he a member of that society? Is he really? Federalist Society membership lists are secret so if he’s into a more activist approach, he’s not doing it in the public eye.

Personally, I think this whole situation just shows how much of a joke the U.S. Judicial system really is. We have ultra left-wing and ultra right wing judges? Aren’t they all supposed to be unbiased and just interpreting the law? The same law? You’d think there were two different sets of law books, the Dems law books and Reps law books.

No. But in what sense does the fact that I’m not familiar with “the Daily Show”, make the Ed Helms quote less of an example of the fallacies of “right wing logic”?

Actually, I heard it comes on satellite. Viasat or something. So that must be how I watch it.

Hehehe, you’re right. But I shouldn’t be watching the Daily Show cause I don’t have satellite or cable TV!! ..so how should I know?!?

By the way, Phil, shouldn’t it be Jon Stewart, not John?

OK, if you want to demonstrate how stupid Ed Helms is, then you’ve made a point. Otherwise I don’t see a point. If they WERE outraged for WEEKS, due to the fact that “they wish the President pick someone they want, not someone he wants”, then clairly they ARE clairvoyant.