Posted on 05/23/2005 9:53:10 PM PDT by Pikamax
A Modest Victory for Bush, but More Tests Lie Ahead By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
WASHINGTON, May 23 - President Bush won enough from the bipartisan compromise on judicial nominees on Monday night to claim a limited victory, but he now faces a series of additional tests of his political authority, with the stakes extending to the fate of his second-term agenda.
On the plus side for Mr. Bush, the bipartisan agreement among 14 centrist senators expressly called for up-or-down votes on three of his nominees to federal appeals court seats, all but ensuring their confirmations, though it left in limbo the fate of two more.
By explicitly exempting from the agreement two additional judges opposed by Democrats, it did not meet Mr. Bush's oft-stated demand that all his nominees get a vote, and it did not foreclose the possibility that Democrats could block an eventual nominee to the Supreme Court, a matter of intense concern to the White House. The split-the-baby outcome, moreover, did little to resolve a rolling series of challenges to Mr. Bush that in coming days and weeks could do much to set the tone for his second four years in office.
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Of course the Slimes is spinning this as a good thing for Bush and the conservatives....good that is from a liberal point of view.
What krap. We took it in the pants, pure and simple.
Our only hope is that the Rats run out of control again, thereby convincing the bend-over "Republicans" who love to "work with" them that they shouldn't.
But "working with" Rats is the RINOs' very reason for being. It IS their essential identity. The Rats will have to get even crazier than they have before in order to get any of these turd-brained mugs to change their "minds."
Sorry Slimes, I'm not buying it. You're not going to fool 80% of the people here.
What's a "centerist" to the NY Times?
Is that someone like McCain who makes deals with the Dems instead of using the moment to change rules in favor of his pwn party?
Aw, the NYT's wants to save the butts of the Traitors in the Republican Party and the vulnerable Dems? That is the only reason they would try to douse the fury by claiming this as a partial Bush victory.
Forget it, the 14 have targets on their backs.
Somebody several miles to the right of the NYT.
**What's a "centerist" to the NY Times?**
Lennin....Marx....Chomsky
80% of that 80% are to the far right in the Republican Party. Those folks are not representative of the Republican Party, generally.
Yeah, Bryd is a centerist.
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