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Julian Sanchez | January 17, 2006

Conservatives have been railing for years against what they believe is an out-of-control, despotic judiciary. Matt Welch suspects that Samuel Alito could allow them to return to complaining about out-of-control, despotic Democratic presidents.

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|1.17.06 @ 3:22PM|#

Matt,
Conservatives don't have to worry about your scenarios. Alito will consider the President in those deciscions - if Bush is President he will decide one way, if Hillary Clinton, another. That is why he is liked by conservatives.

Warren|1.17.06 @ 4:12PM|#

Coach,
Right, now that the conservatives have control of the SCOTUS, we need Democrats in the White House. Oh and don't forget to make sure the House and Senate are split.

Gridlock: The only thing standing between us and autocracy.

|1.17.06 @ 4:31PM|#

theCoach probably isn't wrong.

|1.17.06 @ 5:26PM|#

Warren

I think that would be the most winnable liberaterian platform.

|1.17.06 @ 11:35PM|#

I also suspect that the Coach is right.

|1.17.06 @ 11:53PM|#

The coach has stolen my plan... let the meme spread.

R C Dean|1.18.06 @ 12:02PM|#

Gridlock: The only thing standing between us and autocracy.

This is a tautology. Competing interests are the only thing that has ever stood between any society and autocracy.

Which is why the Founders built competing institutions into the design of the American state.

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