02.07.2008
Topics: economics, faith based, politics, judicial nominations, ministers and politics
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Well, I would start with Chief Justice Roberts and Associate Justice Alito. We now have two young, healthy conservatives on the Court, and the Court has gone from having a 5 to 4 majority that was moderate to a 5 to 4 majority on most issues that’s conservative. That’s a huge thing. 1
When Bush leaves office, 35% of the federal judiciary will have been nominated by George W. Bush. He has kept no promise more faithfully than only nominating strict-constructionist, original-intent jurists to the Supreme Court.
I would also say that faith-based initiatives have dispersed about six billion dollars to religiously affiliated charities and faith groups that would have been excluded from the process and were excluded from the process prior to President Bush becoming president. Six billion dollars is a lot of money that has gone to religiously affiliated groups to help them deal with social issues in their areas.
I would say to you that we have probably more Christians—in our Baptist understanding of born-again Christians—in the Congress than we’ve had at any time in my adult lifetime. We certainly have more in the executive branch than we’ve had at any time in my lifetime.
[We’ve seen tax reductions that] a family of four making $44,000 a year has had a $1,975 reduction in their tax bill over the last five years. That’s money that goes from the government’s pocket to their pocket to spend on their families. 2
It is also worth keeping in mind that, had George W. Bush lost to John Kerry in 2004, the balance of the Supreme Court would currently be 6 to 2 in favor of liberal judicial philosophies with Judge Scalia holding the position as the 9th ‘swing vote.’ One more judicial appointment in the tradition of Alito and Roberts will set the stage for over-turning Roe v. Wade.↩
Additional conservative principles bearing fruit in DC include the partial-birth abortion ban and the restriction of federal funds for life-destroying embryonic stem cell research.↩
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