548 posted on
01/22/2004 9:45:55 AM PST by
deport
( Owen, Kuhl, Brown, Pickering, Pryor, Allen.. [Estrada, they won])
Brit Hume reported that the very night Pickering was appointed.
But I guess he's a liar, too.
One of the talking heads(maybe Fred Barnes) said that there were more offers, Judge Pickering was the only taker.
Well, inasmuch as I can determine, you seem to be citing this post as your evidence:
One of the talking heads(maybe Fred Barnes) said that there were more offers, Judge Pickering was the only taker.
You know, this isn't even worth the time to demolish. I recognize that there was one recess appointment offered and one accepted. Freddy Barnes can manufacture any rumor he likes and I'll take it about as seriously as the same kind of stuff that the libmedia whores and Klinton spokesmen used to spin about how Clinton wanted to be more liberal but just couldn't be.
That Fred Barnes, a party-aligned journalist and GOP media fixture, may (or may not) have hinted that more recess-appointments were offered is completely irrelevant. Apologists and do can float all sorts of rumors.
Were you here in 2000 when we were told so many times how, if for no other reason, we should vote Bush if only for the judicial appointments? Well, okay, fine. Many of us bit on that one. But when we get right down to it, Pickering is the only Scalia-style judge we've gotten. The rest are shot down. Of the other 170 confirmed appointments, the Dims liked them just fine.
The judges we need are the ones the Dims won't approve.
I want my judges. And I ain't gonna shut up about it. Bush still has time to do it, right now. If he wants my vote, give me the damned judges.
One Scalia-style judge isn't a good enough reason to vote for Bush again. Let alone his lovely speeches about how much he wants to renew the assault weapons ban. Or his big domestic spending agenda to fund exactly those things that I have personally fought against for years.