Posted on 10/10/2005 10:35:47 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
Precisely.
O'Connor, Kennedy and Souter should be good enough examples of how hopes get dashed.
Can anyone post examples of Dumbocrat president's accidentally nominating conservatives to the court?
Great post. Thanks for the ping.
LOL!
The pitch was:
"Vote for me and I will nominate a strict constructionist in the mold of Scalia and Thomas to the court."
Now, I demand one. Miers *may* be one. But, I can't go with *hope*.
I trusted him since 2000 and I got the education bill, swiss-cheese borders, campaign-finance reform, the farm bill, the highway bill, etc. I think I'm all trusted out. Also, it doesn't help when we have GOP senators telling us to "Shut up"when we ask questions.
Also, I'm not totally against this woman, I'm just irritated that it should even be to this point.
Some of the Republicans are not people Bush and Rove recruited and helped put in office.
In a knife fight in the Senate do you think we can count on
Chafee?
Collins?
Snowe?
Spectre?
McCain?
etc.
That gives us 50 votes at best for a highly-charged, die-hard conservative nominee. And we need 60 to block a filibuster.
The MSM bias toward the Demcrats gives them a 17 point edge in any election, according to Evan Thomas of Newsweek.
The fraud in most important elections gives the Democrats a 2-5% edge.
We have to overcome these odds to win. It isn't enough to have a majority of Republicans in the Senate, we need "control" and we can't get control without overcoming a stacked deck. And to overcome a stacked deck, you have to play your cards exceptionally well, with savvy, not just convictions.
Coded language, don't ya see?
You know, like when Mel Martinez promised to be a rip-snortin', fire-breathin' right-winger who was going to put a stop to all that nonsense his Islamist-lovin', tax-raising, baby-abortin', Castro-huggin' Dem. opponent was spewing, then decided that Al Qaeda terrorists detained at Gitmo just needed a big group hug in ordered to be fixed.
How could you possibly miss that?
Wow! Very hard hitting comments echoing the sentiment of many true believers that are very skeptical about this nomination.
All I can say about this woman is, if she turns out to be another ginsberg, the Republican Party is going to take a severe beating.
Nobody knows the future, only time will tell who is right and who is tossed out of office.
Sounds like a plan.
And use it to prep herself perhaps? This argument is very odd indeed. Because she knew what Bush wanted does not make her qualified in and of itself. Shucks, Ted Kennedy knows what Bush wanted.... (shiver).
2. Harriet Miers may be a very good lawyer (in fact, I'm sure she is) but her familiarity with constitutional law is likely very scant,
And this matters how?
Who is to over-rule her? Familarity with past ruleings only matters when you are are in a position to be overruled by a higher authority.
Besides I point out, this familairity with constitutional law has not stood us in very good stead with the liberal judges on the bench. Maybe someone who actually reads the constitution rather than what some prior liberal judge wrote about it will bring back the intrepetation that its supposed to have?
I mention this as a point of discussion, and have not made up my mind on Meirs yet - waiting for the hearings...
I blame Bush and Rove for Specter. We could have had Toomey.
Thanks for reading.
Looks like I'll need to put on another layer of asbestos. I can hardly believe that anybody around here missed my 50+ posts of raw venom about this nomination that I posted on various threads over the past week, but there you go....
1. Trust Bush
2. Trust Bush
3. Trust Bush
Can we have a reason that doesn't amount to that? Can we use our independent reasoning skills to support this nominee one bit? I sure haven't seen it.
I voted for Toomey. He will be back, believe me.
What it really comes down to is this: Bush trusts Miers. Can WE?
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