Posted on 07/01/2005 7:14:03 AM PDT by SueRae
I thought it was Danny Glover.
How do you think Rehnquist got the job of chief justice? Reagan elevated him from associate justice to chief justice.
Similarly, how are the RATS gonna oppose Scalia's promotion when he was confirmed 98-0 in 1986?
Your mother would be proud of you :)
"Whats wrong with Phyllis Schafley or Noonan or Ingraham, or Coulter or Hughes?"
Or Monica Crowley
Dang! Why couldn't it be Breyer? How long is he going to hold in?
"children, children, children..."
Great intellectual imput! So what does that make you.........something to think about ;>))
I certainly hope so. I believe history will view this Supreme Court nomination as a more significant event than 911.
""ignorant" is not a name, it is a state."
I have certainly heard many, usually on the left, use it as an insult, an adjective, not a noun.
I really did not mean to beat this into the ground but there is no question that prolifeconservative used the phrase not as a friendly directive to become more informed but to intimidate Cajungirl and to appear superior.
"Your mother would be proud of you :)"
Well, now she's going to be mad at me, somebody goaded me into another response. Well, not so much goaded as simply brought up the subject.
Why can't I stop!
David Boren was the Dem behind Clarence Thomas and he was from OK -- Thomas was not from here. He was picked by Pres Bush because of his ability to move people in the Senate and it worked. Then Clinton became President, Boren resigned from the Senate (we got Jim Inhofe) to become President of The University of Oklahoma here in Norman, and then got rid of Anita Hill from the OU Law School falculty. Doesn't get any better than that.
How's this for a list of objectives for the President to consider when he makes the nomination (in order of priority):
1. Get a solid Conservative-Originalist-Federalist on the bench (nominated AND confirmed).
2. Raise the morale of the base and the Republican Party generally with an outstanding pick.
3. Rally the faithful Senators with a pick that will give them heart.
4. Put tremendous pressure on the wobbly Republican Senators with a pick that makes it difficult to them to go along with any filibuster and convinces them to go nucular if necessary.
5. Make a selection that will make the 'Rat Senators look horrible if they filibuster.
6. Put the 'Rat Senators in the uncomfortable position of either objecting to a perfectly sound nominee or infuriating their base.
7. Make the Liberal Moonbat Senators like Kerry and Boxer and Kennedy go absolutely nuts with the pick.
8. Select a nominee who will cause the moonbat Left organizations to go completely over-the-top in their objections so that they look like fools to sober citizens.
9. Demoralize and embitter the Left with the pick and confirmation so they move to Canada, seek therapy, quit politics, do an Abbie Hoffman, take it out on the 'Rat politicians, stay home next election, or decide to bathe even less frequently than they already do.
10. Make sure the nominee has ONE decision in their background that will offend the Bush-hating Conservatives so that they'll be happy to have something to complain about. You know -- the type of people who aren't happy unless they aren't happy.
I didn't know any of that. Very interesting.
Maybe you could tell her you have that "I have to have the last word" gene--and that can't be your fault! I hope it didn't get you into trouble with her when you were younger:)
Long time ago -- back then the filibuster was not a series option. Nobody seriesly suggested filibustering Thomas, for example.
It makes me a grandmother with a sense of humor--
Potential Nominees to the Supreme Court (according to NARAL)
During his second term, President George W. Bush may have the opportunity to nominate two, three, or even four justices to the Supreme Court. Their decisions may affect the lives of Americans for generations to come. The list of potential Supreme Court nominees reveals a group that is hostile, not only to women’s reproductive rights, but to a variety of civil and constitutional rights.
Samuel Alito: Sitting on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, he is nicknamed “Scalito” because of his ultra-conservative, anti-choice views.[1] Alito has concluded that “time delay, higher cost, reduced availability, and forcing [a woman] to receive information she has not sought,” did not qualify as undue burdens on women’s reproductive rights, and he supported the spousal notification provision in Casey.[2]
Janice Rogers Brown: A “loose cannon” who writes with a “poison pen,”[3] Brown is currently a justice on the California Supreme Court. She is anti-choice, and widely known as the most conservative member of the court, dissenting in cases to oppose privacy and reproductive rights.[4] Brown twice failed to receive a “qualified” rating from a state bar commission due to her lack of impartiality and clear bias.[5]
Emilio Garza: Judge Garza of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is also anti-choice, often concurring in cases to state that Roe v. Wade is unconstitutional.[6] He wrote that “Roe and its progeny, including Bellotti II, have always stood on precarious constitutional footing… after Casey, these cases may not even be constitutional law.”[7]
Edith Jones: A judge on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals whose opinions “bespeak a withering contempt for the rights of the riffraff,”[8] Jones has consistently voted against reproductive rights. She wrote an extremely anti-choice concurring opinion in the case by the original Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade, which attempted to reopen that landmark case.[9]
Michael Luttig: As a judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, he has written two very anti-choice decisions, one of which upheld a Virginia abortion ban nearly identical to the one the Supreme Court subsequently struck down in Stenberg v. Carhart.[10] He also authored the original decision striking down part of the Violence Against Women Act.[11]
Michael McConnell: He is currently a judge on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, to which he was appointed by George W. Bush. Before his appointment McConnell denounced Roe v. Wade and endorsed a constitutional amendment reversing the doctrines of Roe and Casey and banning abortion nationwide.[12]
John Roberts: Robers was appointed by President Bush to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. As Deputy Solicitor General in George H.W. Bush's administration, Roberts asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.[13]
J. Harvey Wilkinson: Currently a judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Wilkinson is a staunch conservative on the most conservative court in the nation. Wilkinson voted anti-choice in a divided decision upholding the Virginia parental notification law.[14]
(Thanks kcvl).
it's either Brown or Garza
semi
Still you must acknowledge that McCain has one big advantage -- name ID, and for many of the uninformed or underinformed, that means everything.
The the rapid rate of expansion under the GOP Senate, House and Presidency, I'm thinking gridlock sounds like a good thing.
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