Dana Bash, CNN Whwite House reporter agrees with John King, that Bush will move quickly naming O'Connor's replacement.
this is historic moment. I hope (probably in vain), that conservatives will support the President's pick, rather than one-issue bashing him to death, along with what he's going to get from the left. Now's the time for unity.
I hope people remember that without doubt, Bush will also get another supreme court pick when Rhenquist retires.
Fox is reporting that this is the last day of the session a Supreme can announce retirement....is that true?
Bush statement at 11:15, no announcement of replacement at that time.
If you're suggesting we should be happy with a pro-choice moderate, I disagree.
We will support the President's pick if he chooses the kind of judge he promised when we elected him.
And I think he will.
One issue. This is THE ISSUE.
The pro-life constituency has been the GOP's most important element for nearly thirty years. Without "Reagan Democrats", the GOP would be non-competitive rather than dominant.
Elementary politics suggests that every once in a while, you have to deliver for your own. Taking pro-lifers for granted at this point is about the dumbest thing the GOP Can do. A GOP which is responsible for putting the homicidal likes of John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor, Potter Stewart, William Brennan, Herod Blackmun, David (Confirmed Bachelor) Souter, and Anthony Turncoat Kennedy on SCOTUS to keep the abortion toll rising doesn't need to ask for understanding and patience. It needs to just name the justices who will drive the wooden stake through the heart of the abortion industry, surround its coffin with garlic, douse its corpse in Holy Water, expose the corpse to sunlight and hire Buffy just to make sure.
No more baby-killer "mistakes." No anal marriage "mistakes." No more "whoopsies" of any kind as to SCOTUS nominations. Use recess appointments as necessary and repeat as necessary. Nuke the filibuster.
We need a nominee who can read (the Constitution itself not foreign court decisions or the delusions of Herod Blackmun or the law review articles of Lawrence Tribe) and if such a nominee is confirmed it would be helpful if the new associate justice would actually apply the constitution as written and to refuse to apply parts of the constitution that aren't there at all and never were like homo"marriage" and babykilling and any make-believe "right" of any gummint to violate the Second Amendment RTKBA and any make-believe "right" of gummint to take anyone's private property to give to some other private party as a gummint tax-revenue raising scheme, among several hundred other usurpations by SCOTUS.
If the Senate Demonrats want to get in the way, trample them by any means necessary and by every means convenient and entertaining. Republican "moderates" likewise. Allowing the babies to be saved is the price that the RINO materialists will have to pay to keep their tax cuts secure.
Lest there be any misunderstanding, I have supported Dubya from Day 1 here and will continue to do so but he REALLY needs to deliver on SCOTUS each and every opportunity with an absolute vengeance.