Here's the next guy right wingers are gonna beat up on

[Bucky]

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6367.htm

According to Information Clearing House a sweet 71 yr old judge, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals' Guido Calabresi, is comparing how Bush got into power with how Mussolini got into power. It's not a flawed analogy, but man is that old dude gonna get skewered.

Audience gasps as judge likens election of Bush to rise of Mussolini

WASHINGTON — A prominent federal judge has told a conference of liberal lawyers that President Bush’s rise to power was similar to the accession of dictators such as Mussolini and Hitler.

"In a way that occurred before but is rare in the United States…somebody came to power as a result of the illegitimate acts of a legitimate institution that had the right to put somebody in power.That is what the Supreme Court did in Bush versus Gore. It put somebody in power," said Guido Calabresi, a judge on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, which sits in Manhattan.

“The reason I emphasize that is because that is exactly what happened when Mussolini was put in by the king of Italy,” Judge Calabresi continued, as the allusion drew audible gasps from some in the luncheon crowd Saturday at the annual convention of the American Constitution Society.

[LuminousX]

1. My kind of guy

doesn't seem to be grinding an ax, just seeing current events through the eyes of history.

[MnFats]

2. I believe they already have started....

....in my usual 90-second visit to Michael Savage's show (all i can take before having to punch another button, any button, he was ranting about this guy, wanting him fired, he violated every canon of ethical judicial practices etc., blah, blah, fuggin' blah.

[Justice]

3. Fortunately, He is A Person Who Can Take It - Check It Out

He Was Dean of Yale Law School for 9 years before becoming a Circuit Court Judge; taught at Yale from 1959 to 1994.

http://www.law.yale.edu/outside/html/faculty/gc3/profile.htm

Education B.S., Yale, 1953, LL.B., 1958; B.A., Cambridge, 1955; M.A., Oxford, 1959; M.A.(Hon.), Yale, 1962.

Professional Positions Note Ed., Yale L.J. Admitted to bar: CT, 1958. Rhodes Scholar, Oxford, 1953-55. Law Clerk, Justice Hugo L. Black, U.S. Supreme Ct., 1958-59. Asst. Prof., Yale, 1959-61; Assoc. Prof., 1961-62; Prof. 1962-70; John Thomas Smith Prof., 1970-78; Sterling Prof. 1978-96; Dean, 1985-94; Sterling Prof. Emeritus and Professorial Lecturer in Law since 1996. Judge, U.S. Ct. of App., 2nd Cir., since 1994. Member, Am. Philosophical Society. Fellow, Am. Academy of Arts and Sciences. Corresponding Fellow, British Academy. Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

Honors and Awards Over thirty-five honorary degrees (LL.D., Dr. Hum. Litt., D.Phil., Dott. Jur., Dr. S.D., and Dott. Sci. Pol.).

[King Of Paperboys]

5. You know they'll say

"See? LOOK at that resume! This America-hater can't keep a JOB!"

[Justice]

8. Ahh, What?

He was at Yale from 1959 to 1994 - moved up from Assistant professor to Dean. Same place.

10. rhodes scholar, just like Clinton AHA!

:)

[smirkymonkey]

4. Would you mess with someone named

Guido Calabresi? I wouldn't.

[Nay]

6. Gonna be alotta knees broken here before long!

I wouldn't mess around with the guy, either!

[bubblebuttbeauty]

9. I was thinking the same thing!

Too funny...visions of a horse's head in my bed.

[El Supremo]

7. Yes but...

where was he 4 years ago when the Gang of Five ignored the Constitution?

11. probably shaking his head in disbelief and fear

:)

[Lostnote03]

12. Support The Constitution Society.....

......Maybe this is just what is needed to mobilize the legal community......