***Here is old Loven provided all sorts of info on those darn conservative judges Bush intends to nominate.***
July 25, 2003 Friday
SECTION: WASHINGTON DATELINE
LENGTH: 715 words
HEADLINE: Bush Nominates Conservatives As Judges
BYLINE: JENNIFER LOVEN; Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
President Bush on Friday nominated as federal judges a conservative California Supreme Court justice and a White House staff lawyer who helped impeach President Clinton.
Both nominations to the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia brought immediate condemnation from the liberal advocacy group People for the American Way and Sen. Charles Schumer, who is leading Democratic revolts against other Bush judicial nominations.
If approved by the Senate, California Justice Janice Rogers Brown and Brett Kavanaugh, an associate of former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, would join the court often considered second in the federal judicial hierarchy behind the Supreme Court. The 12-member court now has five Republican and four Democratic appointees.
Kavanaugh's nomination was expected. He was a deputy to White House counsel Alberto Gonzales before he recently moved into the job of White House staff secretary, in charge of overseeing all paperwork that crosses Bush's desk.
As associate counsel, Kavanaugh's portfolio included helping get Bush's judicial nominees approved by the Senate, tort reform and presidential records.
Before coming into the White House with Bush, Kavanaugh was an associate independent counsel on the staff of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. He was known as a top lawyer in the two cases that dogged the Clinton White House, the long-running Whitewater investigation and Clinton's impeachment in 1998.
Brown, who has frequently been mentioned as a possible Bush nominee for the Supreme Court, has served on the California high court for seven years and is considered among its most conservative justices.
A black woman from the segregated South, Brown supports limits on abortion rights and corporate liability, routinely votes to uphold death penalty sentences and opposes affirmative action...
*** Well, you get the idea... Later follow quotes from leftwing whack jobs like Ralph Neas, head of People for the American Way. Okay, I'll include it and as a bonus Loven puts in some classic Senate Schumer quotes. Good comdeic value.
"Ralph Neas, head of People for the American Way, said in a statement that his organization strongly opposes the two nominations. "Once again, President Bush has nominated individuals who embrace an extreme right-wing judicial philosophy," Neas said. He said Bush "has yet again chosen confrontation over bipartisan consultations."
Schumer, D-N.Y., said the nominations "are further proof, as if any were needed, that the administration has no interest in putting forth judges who are moderate representatives of mainstream America. Instead, they seem intent on filling the bench with the least mainstream and most ideological judges around."
"I'm not prejudging them, but from what I know, they both look like they're coming straight out of the ideological judicial activist factory."
-T
More great quotes from an article written on the eve of 2002 midterm elections.
October 31, 2002, Thursday, BC cycle
SECTION: Political News; Washington Dateline
LENGTH: 787 words
HEADLINE: Bush undertaking election-ending tour in search of history-making GOP wins
BYLINE: By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: SOUTH BEND, Ind..
"His final, grueling sprint, mapped out by political strategist Karl Rove, will have Bush stumping in 15 states in five days - with two visits to South Dakota - by the time he touches down at his Texas ranch after dinnertime Monday.
Aides said Bush was already complaining about the late nights expected of him, and his grumbling spilled into the open before his South Dakota audience.
"Next time you get me to come back, let's go pheasant hunting," Bush suggested to much approval. "I can't go today. I got to work. I'm traveling the country."
***Whiny, grumbler Bush. What a wuss.***
"Also Wednesday, Bush aides set up a white tent on the White House driveway, where conservative talk radio hosts opened their microphones to a stream of top administration officials who offered the president's election-season take on the issues.
Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri called it "appease-the-right-wing day" at the White House"
***Loven is so helpful in getting out the Dem talking points.***
*** Here some hope springs eternal language on the eve of elections. She cites how unlikely it is BUsh will gain seats and she notes how few seats the Dems must flip to take control. Guess that one did not work out for her...
"The party in power in the White House has lost House seats at every midterm election except three since Abraham Lincoln was president, and last gained Senate seats at a midterm election in 1982. Bush wants midterm gains that deliver full control of Congress to the GOP, knocking down Democratic roadblocks to his tax, homeland security, judicial and health care policies.
House Democrats, eight years out of power, need to gain seven seats to be assured of control. The Senate breakdown is 49 Republicans, 49 Democrats, one independent and one vacancy - created by Sen. Paul Wellstone's death in a plane crash in Minnesota."
-T