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Bush White House Is Nicer To Enemies Than It Is Loyal To Its Friends (Rush)
RushLimbaugh.com ^ | 7/12/05 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 07/12/2005 6:04:01 PM PDT by NeoCaveman

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There was a breakfast meeting at the White House today, and the president came out and discussed it. His meeting was with -- Let's see, who did he meet? -- Arlen Specter, Harry Reid, Patrick Leahy and Bill Frist. Yeah. So he met with Specter, Leahy, Frist and Senator Harry Reid about the current vacancy and what might be an up-coming one.

Just to set this up: last week, the president sort of smacked down some conservatives for daring to suggest that the attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, would be an unacceptable Supreme Court nominee because of substantive issues. One was an opinion he wrote in a Texas parental-notification case when he was on the Texas Supreme Court, and the other was his role as White House counsel in watering down the administration's brief against reverse discrimination in admissions policies at the University of Michigan.

Now, the conservatives didn't attack Gonzales personally; they were very respectful, but they nevertheless said publicly they had problems with him, and the president slapped them down -- and today has a meeting with his enemies, along with Frist and Specter. I don't even know that you'd call Specter a friend in this fight, and it just seems that on occasion the administration here is far more friendly to its enemies than it is to its friends. It does appear that way. I don't know why he's meeting with these people. It's not going to change what the Democrats say about him. It's not going to change how they act in the Senate. It's not going to change a thing -- unless, of course, they gave him a list of names and he names one of them, in which case, you know... I can't imagine that. So we'll just have to wait and see, but we do have these audio sound bites. There's some public opinion out there that does not look good for the Democrats, and you'd think the administration could capitalize on it.


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 109th; appeasement; bigstick; bush; gonzales; gonzalez; rush; scotus
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To: dubyaismypresident
What more need be said?

Wait until the President names his choice. He campaigned in favor of judges like Scalia and Thomas.

21 posted on 07/12/2005 6:20:15 PM PDT by af_vet_1981
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To: hgro

And how is ignoring, insulting and castigating your friends a way of keeping them close?


22 posted on 07/12/2005 6:20:21 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Remembering our Heroes today and every day.)
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To: La Enchiladita

well it has worked thus far.


Bush has not broken any promises he made during the campaign,. I see no reason for the lack of confidence in the President.

the base was so sick of clinton in 2000, they overlooked the obvious signs that GW Bush was not a bitter partisian, they over looked his Medicare Drug Plan and he track record of workign with DEMS.

I dont care if he has DEMS up to the WH, so long as he doesnt listen when he makes his pick


23 posted on 07/12/2005 6:20:31 PM PDT by atlanta67
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To: technomage

The problem with the Republicans winning elections is, they are doing it by being liberals of the sixties. The day will come when the pendulum will swing, the Democrats will be more conservative than the Republicans. That is the biggest danger of the R's move left. They have left a huge opening to the right. Of course rhetoric means nothing to how we are governed, but it will be for fooling the voters.


24 posted on 07/12/2005 6:21:10 PM PDT by jeremiah (Patrick Henry said it best, give me liberty or give me death.)
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To: datura
The libs are losing at the hands of the voters - never to the administration's actions

Right. I believe that is what I posted. And, at the end of my post I noted that Republicans do not know how to handle this.

Are you just affirming my post, or pointing something out to me that my lowly little brain cells cannot comprehend?

25 posted on 07/12/2005 6:21:29 PM PDT by technomage
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To: dubyaismypresident

I thought Brownback met with Gonzalez today?


26 posted on 07/12/2005 6:21:48 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: God luvs America

What others?


27 posted on 07/12/2005 6:21:54 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Remembering our Heroes today and every day.)
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To: technomage

No - I was agreeing with you.


28 posted on 07/12/2005 6:22:40 PM PDT by datura (Molon Labe)
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To: technomage

Why was President Bush unable to get 7 judicial nominees confirmed?

Why were the three that were confirmed only because the Democrats allowed them to be confirmed?

Why was John Bolton confirmed as u.n. ambassador?

Why was the tax cuts made permanent?

Why haven't the Senate Republicans been informed that we are winning?


29 posted on 07/12/2005 6:22:46 PM PDT by sport
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To: dubyaismypresident

""And the Mr. Nice Guy strategy has really pacified the Left (/sarcasm)""


you dont get it at all. it isnt to pacify the left, it is to marginalize them..

you also seem to forget that RWR use to have Tip O neil to the WH all the time.


you want the Pres to behave like Michael Savage, it aint gonna happen


30 posted on 07/12/2005 6:22:48 PM PDT by atlanta67
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To: atlanta67

Give us an example of what you call a "bitter partisian." (although I believe you mean "partisan")


31 posted on 07/12/2005 6:24:02 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Remembering our Heroes today and every day.)
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To: dubyaismypresident

I could care less if President Bush butters up Harry Reid and Teddy Kennedy all day long, just as long as he does the right thing when it comes down to it.]

Polite words cost nothing as long as you do the right thing, and they may make a good impression on the voters.

If he nominates Gonzalez, however, that's it. Finished.


32 posted on 07/12/2005 6:24:05 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: atlanta67

There are going to be a millions of people more than frustrated if Bush breaks his word. He'll regret the day he become a politician and have a legacy of failure greater than his father if he doesn't appoint a known Scalia-type originalists. No more excuses.


33 posted on 07/12/2005 6:24:06 PM PDT by Ol' Sparky
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To: gopwinsin04
I thought Brownback met with Gonzalez today?

Brownback to meet with Gonzalez.

34 posted on 07/12/2005 6:24:12 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (we should not hesitate to resolve the tension in favor of the Constitution's original meaning-Thomas)
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To: jeremiah
The day will come when the pendulum will swing,

Of course, that is seen throughout history.

That day is not yet here though.

What I am more concerned about is this lack of conservative backbone. They do not know how to lead.

This is why I am so anti-incumbent. Vote out the soy conservatives and vote in some conservatives with guts that are not afraid to USE their power, given to them by US, the voters.

35 posted on 07/12/2005 6:24:42 PM PDT by technomage
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To: atlanta67
you want the Pres to behave like Michael Savage, it aint gonna happen

Do not give up your day job to take up mind reading professionally.

36 posted on 07/12/2005 6:25:15 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (we should not hesitate to resolve the tension in favor of the Constitution's original meaning-Thomas)
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To: datura
No - I was agreeing with you.

I was hoping that was the case. :)

37 posted on 07/12/2005 6:25:38 PM PDT by technomage
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To: atlanta67

I want a President that keeps his word and does what he was elected to do.


38 posted on 07/12/2005 6:25:55 PM PDT by Ol' Sparky
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To: Ol' Sparky

why do you have so little confidence?

I find this lack of confidence on the part of the right to be quite amazing.


39 posted on 07/12/2005 6:26:01 PM PDT by atlanta67
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To: Ol' Sparky

""I want a President that keeps his word and does what he was elected to do.""

so far he has.


40 posted on 07/12/2005 6:26:38 PM PDT by atlanta67
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