Trump's other picks over the past week fall into two categories: unqualified and extreme.
But while neither party should be in the business of obstructing judicial nominees, unless they are unqualified or unacceptably extreme, a retaliatory response based on politics hurts all who rely on courts to protect their rights and uphold the law.
MODALITY is 'a form of participation by the speaker in the speech event' (Halliday 1970, 335) and creates various intermediate degrees between the categorical extremes of unqualified positive and negative.
On one extreme, to use the terminology of Segal (2000), we have the unqualified acceptance of the extreme externalist.
Too extreme, too unqualified.
An attempt at privatising the bus transport system in 1992 merely compounded the problem, with inexperienced operators plying poorly maintained, noisy and polluting buses on lengthy routes, resulting in long waiting times, unreliable service, extreme overcrowding, unqualified drivers, speeding and reckless driving.
"We went from an extreme of selling to unqualified people, and their dogs, to not selling to qualified buyers," Rabottini said.
Friedman is "unqualified for the job" based on his "extreme, radical positions," the letter says.
Some of his choices are unqualified; others are so nakedly partisan or ideologically extreme that they unnerve even conservative lawmakers.
I watched the hearings, and it was evident to all but the most extreme partisans that Ms. DeVos is unqualified, unprepared, and unfit for the responsibility of running this important agency.
And, we saw John McCain place America's future in jeopardy by selecting the unqualified Sarah Palin as his running mate to appease his extreme base.
