Posted on 07/04/2005 9:20:24 PM PDT by GOPGuide
What makes you think that they were. The media was caught off guard because they can't remember what they reported just two years ago.
The Media said the adminstration was caught off guard when the Soviet Union collapsed. No one on the inside of the Reagan administration, as was George H.W.Bush, was surprised when the Soviet Union collapsed. Reagan had predicted it and based our foreign policy on that prospect. But the media was surprised when what Ronald Reagan said was going to happen, happened and said that Bush 41 was surprised as well.
What is proved over and over is that the media can lie to us and we believe it. There were many stories in 2003 that said O'Conner wanted to to retire. There were several stories that said Bush asked O'conner to wait until 2005 to retire so there would be more Republicans in the Senate to confirm her successor.
The question was never is O'Conner going to retire in 2005. It was all over the media in 2003 that she was!!!! Every one with who could remember something for more than a year and a half knew she was going to retire after this term. They also knew it she was staying until the end of the 2005 session at the request of the President.
The only question was the timing. If the President asked her to wait until 2005 to retire and she agreed... Do you think it likely that the President knew she was going to retire in 2005?
It was so reported in 2003 by both NOVAK and Krauthammer.
You are precisely correct in that Cornyn has a lifetime Senatorial average of 93%. Thanks for pointing this out.
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