Posted on 07/01/2005 7:14:03 AM PDT by SueRae
The problem is that O'Connor was already on our side in Kelo, and Bush signed McCain-Feingold.
we will soon find out the real guts of the deal McCain and the gang of 7 cut with the Dems - especially given that OConnor is the one leaving and not Rehnquist.
my opinion is - go for an Hispanic to replace OConnor - Garza or Alito. Make the Dems and McCain and his 7 vote to filibuster the first Hispanic nominee. Don't replace OConnor with a white male.
Good points, but I could not forgive a Gonzalez nomination. Al the other names mentioned would be acceptable, though I have my favorite (Janice Rodgers Brown).
I agree with Ms. Lopez.
I don't doubt G.W. He has given no reason to believe anything other than he is committed to a constitutionist driven Judiciary.
My only question is what tricks they have up their sleeve to help passage of their candidate against RINO's and DEMS, and whether conservatives will jump the gun in condemnation while he helps pass a constitutionalist through using these methods.
I second the last. We need to pray.
See post #1077 for a short synopsis --- I want to read the transcript, because a poster on another thread had a different response, more favorably than mine...
But, he did hit those "talking points", which just really ticked me off, so I listened with a "mad ear", if you know what I mean!
As my Grandmother always said -- praying never hurt and to me this is the perfect time to pray for President Bush's wisdom in naming a Supreme Court Justice. I am hoping for Brown because it was be hilarious to see the RATs on that one.
Say you are the leader of nine persons. You get to choose who decides where to have dinner. Do you think that the person to whom you appoint to make this decision might either favorably or adversely affect others in the group?
Simmer down. I made an error.
uh......what?
Um....yeah. I think I better get rid of that number.
I think the Dems and those seven Republicans already got tricked into confirming Janice Brown and the others. I am beginning to think that Rove had a hand in this through Lott -- beginning to make sense to me. Get Brown confirmed and then nominate her or one of the other to the Supremes. I could be wrong but something about that agreement made no sense especially when my two Oklahoma Senators didn't hit the warpath against it instead saying at least we got some judges confirmed.
Now with Warner being a jerk, maybe he thinks they got snookered as well. That would be poetic justice. I really think he will name a woman to replace the first woman on the SCOTUS and I hope it is Brown but I will be more than happy to have Owens too. I have wondered why Brown was not named to the 9th circus court.
prayer bump
I am absolutely convinced it will not be Gonzales -- he just went to DOJ and they will not want to name someone else there and frankly he was horrible during the nomination process.
My money is on Brown or Owens.
I didn't hear any of what you heard. I heard Warner chastise someone for insulting the integrity of the senate's advise and consent. He said he hadn't intended to mention anything negative, but he'd been in the senate _____ gazillion years, and this senate, by God almighty humumma humma, is not corrupt, blah blah. I just want to know who got him so exorcised?
Well, try the other one. That is the one that is listed on the results.gov site as for Rove's office.
I just posted the other one because I found it in Google.
If you aren't kidding that that got you to the WH situation room, that is just freaky...hopefully folks are calling the second number.
Go out it the garden............
Warner may get it yet -- if Pres Bush nominates Brown or Owens to the SCOTUS then Warner and company were had in making that agreement to confirm the two females that were nominated and then Pres Bush names one to SCOTUS. McCain never counted on that! :)
Warner is a clymer IMHO! Today didn't change that opinion.
I wish I could be as optimistic as you about this. Here's my take on this issue....I am 39 years old, and I don't realistically think that Roe V. Wade will ever be overturned, and certainly not in my lifetime. Sadly, I don't think that there is anyone who wears or will wear that black robe that will have the decency, moral conviction and willingness to interpret the US Constitution as it was meant to be interpreted by the Framers.
For the past 30+ years, millions of innocent and defenseless children have been forgotten and left to be slaughtered by the very people that are supposed to care for them and bring them into the world. This barbaric crime has become an accepted part of American life for decades now. We have a society that thrives on recklessness and selfishness. Folks want their "night of fun" and then the freedom to go and "take care of the problem" afterwards. We watched a defenseless woman being dehydrated to death in Florida, and a majority of Americans polled thought that the courts did right by ordering her feeding tube removed. When I sit and think of what so many of my fellow Americans approve of and condone, it breaks my heart. We are so lost, and it's the innocent and defenseless that are paying the price.
I hope and pray that someone will come to the rescue of those that cannot speak for themselves. I pray that President Bush will do the right thing here, but I'm not counting on it. The pressure and protest is going to be so great from the pro-death side that it will take a very good and strong human being to resist it.
Some days I hate them ALL.
dubya, read 1077.
Have faith. POTUS has been waiting for this fight.
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