Bush RECESS APPOINTS Pickering!

January 16, 2004

[Timesink]

WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush sidesteps Congress and names Mississippi Judge Charles Pickering to federal appeals court, sources say.

[the invisib1e hand]

just to mollify his conservative campaign contributors.

you don't think he's capable of doing something because, in his judgment, it is the best thing for the country he serves?

[Texasforever]

I love all of the "constitutional conservatives" that demand the constitution be violated to protect it.

[rmmcdaniell]

The rantings of a derelict.

Until you, mcdaniell, can figure a way to get 60 votes to get around a filibuster, you ought to shut your ample yap!

You must lead a pathetic existence. I've seen many a thread on FR polluted with your mindless personal attacks against those you disagree with. You need to find yourself a hobby.

[Texasforever]

Just make fun of them. It is futile to take them seriously.

[PhilDragoo]

It's plausible to me that Richard Cheney, at age 63 with his remarkable career and accomplishments, may not wish to serve another stint as V.P. It's a hectic slot post 9/11, being shuttled back and forth to secure locations etc. Wouldn't it be something if in his stead, President Bush announced the selection of Condi Rice as his running mate and the first female, African American Vice President on Monday ... Martin Luther King holiday?

. . . but that would mean in 2008. . . .

[F16Fighter]

"Congress will defeat the Amnesty proposal - we hope. Nice of Bush to wave that offering at the Mexican vote which will go to the Democrats anyway, and anyone but an idiot would know that."

As an edge, Dubya's hoping his metaphoric flashing of a wad of twenties somehow lures as many southwest Mexifornia voters in this coming election as possible, but hey -- if some GOPers are going to fall for the Wag-The-Dog Pickering appointment, Mexifornians could take Bush's bait.

"It's the New World Order, though. I used to wonder about his father's use of that phrase, but with Dubya's acceptance of open southern borders and rewarding the invaders, I'm starting to see the hard truth."

The inexplicable refusal to enforce the Mexican border + the inexplicable Amnesty For Illegals plan = New World Order agenda.

Connecting the dots is getting easier all the time.

"But why worry, we're going to the moon again, and Mars.....we're off to see the Wizard."

LOL -- And I hear the rest of "humanity" is invited to "join us." Painting 'Spaceship Mars' pastel blue would be a nice touch.

[BOBTHENAILER]

but that would mean in 2008. . . .

You're Karl Rove in FReeper drag.

Wicked, wicked strategery.

[PhilDragoo]

ArneFufkin enunciated what many of us have only dreamt. . .

As in, "I have a dream"--

A forty-year-old rhetoric device is on the threshold of flesh.

We now have a president who goes beyond rhetoric and dreams.

[Lancey Howard]

Welcome to the new federal judiciary, exactly as the scumbag Democrats have decided it must be. There will be no more lifetime appointments except for stealth, nondescript "centrists" who have scant, unremarkable records and/or can't really be pinned down on anything important. Like David Souter for example.

The federal judiciary is now one where Democrat Presidents will "recess appoint" liberal activists who will "interpret" the Constitution according to the chic political correctness of the day and who will write laws and mandate taxes from the bench, and Republican Presidents who will "recess appoint" conservatives who will honor the original intent of the Constitution and honor the rule of law.

It's going to be quite a roller-coaster ride in the judicial branch of the federal government from this point forward. The toothpaste is out of the tube. It's really going to get funny watching the Supreme Court turn over completely every few years.

But this is where the scumbag Democrats have taken us. Oh well....

[F16Fighter]

"What was the "wag the dog" scenario that time?"

Nonewhatsoever. Did he need one then?

The point is NOW Dubya makes a recess appointment. NOW he announcing the big Manning Martian Exploration news...

...Coincidently just AFTER the natives are getting restless, there's mutiny on the Bounty, and the sh*t hit the fan.

With the foolishness of proposing his Amnesty Program, he managed to:

Disrupt his base

Undermine their confidence in him

Cause his base to question his principle

Caused his base to question his committment to American sovereignty

All in one fall swoop.

[Texasforever]

I haven't seen this much straw grasping trying to link two unconnected events since the 911 conspirators. You are embarrassing yourself.

[Lancey Howard]

By the way, what will REALLY be interesting is when (if it ever happens) there is a President of either party who has 60 dependable votes of his own party in the Senate. If the Democrats get there first, that will be the end of the United States as we know it and I predict that a brutal, guerrilla-style, sniper-dominated civil war would soon follow.

If the Republicans get there first, the country will flourish.

[Lancey Howard]

You are not thinking long-term.
The Bush family thinks long-term.

Have you ever heard of young (half-Hispanic) George P. Bush?

[sinkspur]

So. You've got no way to get to 60 filibuster-proof votes.

As I thought.

Your ad hominems indicate you're clueless.

[Charles Henrickson]

Well, this is good. I was wondering when he was going to do something on the conservative side again. Everything lately has been liberal--spending, spending, spending on unconstitutional areas (education, health care), not enforcing the immigration laws, caving to the Dems. . . .

[rmmcdaniell]

So. You've got no way to get to 60 filibuster-proof votes.

There have been several ideas given on this forum and elsewhere to overcome this hurdle, none of which have been tried by Republicans in the Senate or White House.

Your ad hominems indicate you're clueless.

Your initial response to my post was a vicious personal attack. I will not waste any more time responding to your nonsense, you’re simply not worthy of debate.

[ArneFufkin]

She's President Bush's most trusted advisor. She is tough, resolute, proven, articulate and seasoned. The GOP will be facing a Hillary Clinton media and corrupt institutional P.R. power machine in 2008. Designed to exploit a successful two term Administration with no institutionally empowered candidate for succession but 67 year old Dick Cheney. For all the American Constitutional freedom vs. Socialism marbles. Hillary will represent everything we fear and hate ... and MORE. Everything happening today ... in Iowa, DNC Headquarters, George Soros' gay bathouse ... is being designed for a Hillary Clinton coup in 2008.

Call another nubile Moveon.org lubrication boy, Mr. Soros, you're getting rubbed out. Condi is going to be just the right woman, at the right time in our history. See, we're going to win in 2004, the RATS know that, and during the second Bush service we will largely thwart and prevail over our ongoing Islamist/Anarchist terror threats We will we fall into a societal satisfied torpor from our renewed, economic prosperity. We will win unprecedented GOP legislative mandates and historic conservative progress. Things will be mahvelous.

After all that hard won benefit, with the sacrifice required and neccessary sea change, our citizen pendulum of moderation will want a NEW look. A Hillary look? NAH!!! A Condalezza Rice look! Meet the new boss! Same as the old boss! But Condi will be Americas first female President. She'll be Americas first African American President. She's Hillary bane, and Americas blessing. We won't let down our vigilance against enemies Domestic and Foreign (sorry Travis). We won't let greed rule. We're going to all set up a America that we are proud to leave our children and grandchildren. That's gonna take 50 years, not eight.

And, I don't consider this Vice Presidential/President track selection ANY empty, expedient gesture of pandering to any group. I love and admire Richard Cheney. But he has had three coronary episodes. The VP slot, given the nature of our War, given our Terrorist murderous assasin enemy, is one that will be stressful and vitally requiring of agile movement, physically demanding regimen and emotionally stressful vigilance. Cheney's invaluable consul to our President does not require his locus in a fortified Bunker. Dr. Rice's brilliant insights, advice and management skill does not require her proximity to the President.

I want Dr. Rice as VP. I want it announced Monday. Let's overturn the applecart. Bush is just freeping audacious, and wise, enough to do it.

Or not. :>)

[MeekOneGOP]

haha ! Yeah, that too !

[MeekOneGOP]

ha ! That would be an interesting matchup alright. Condi versus the Wicked Witch !

[ArneFufkin]

The President wanted to take a look at the outrage, grievance and insult his recent immigrant regularization proposal has caused here, but he soon abandoned it after he became annoyed and weary of what Administration spokesman called an "annoying graphic Smilodon."