Posted on 07/19/2005 5:12:34 PM PDT by Bogeygolfer
WASHINGTON - President Bush chose federal appeals court judge John G. Roberts Jr. on Tuesday as his first nominee for the Supreme Court, selecting a rock solid conservative whose nomination could trigger a tumultuous battle over the direction of the nation's highest court, senior administration officials said.
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I can dream can't I?
I hope that's it. Then I hope that they "save the big guns" for the third nomination. And then I hope that they decide to "save the big guns" for the fourth nomination...see where I'm headed...?
Nope. Didn't pay SS on the little kid from down the block who he hires to mow the lawn.
abc reports that he is a practicing catholic, white man and a conservative, like it was some sort of f-king illness
"That contradicts his other comments about Roe v. Wade as being 'wrong.'
Great! (I hope the libs take this bait)
If the Dems can play both sides, why can't we?
..bite into a "Tootsie Roll Pop", before he got to the center...or some someother liberal nonsense.
I knew Dubya wouldn't let us down.!!!
FR leaked it some time ago on several threads.
After Roberts accepted, the President called Frist, Reid, Specter and Leahy. My leak money is on Leahy.
I wonder if that was the strategy? What did he gain by the extra six hours. I'm more concerned the the White House surfaced Clement to test the waters and received such a hugh backlash by the GOP base that it scared the hell out every GOP leader even thinking of running for office in 2006 and 2008.
I further believe that they ran to the White House and begged that Bush reconsider based on their political futures and possibly in return offer to fight and put up some backbone. If Bush had a strategy, I would suspect that he surfaced Clement for this very reason, to get the GOP Leadership behind him on this nomination and the only way to do that was to let them hear the roar of the lion.
We need to keep their feet to the fire. I'm worried that Roberts may find himself upfront without full GOP backing so that he sinks and then the GOP can say "well, maybe we ought to put someone in that can survive the battle".
My Promise still holds and will hold to bitter end. This GOP leadership better take the necessary steps, including the nuclear option to change the balance of SCOTUS or I will refrain from voting GOP in 2006 but 2008. I will also be a constant reminder for the base of the GOP that the GOP leadership failed after they were given the majority and after having won 7 of 9 of the last Presidencies.
I think that watching the GOP base crumble today with the notion that it could be Clement sent the right message. The right is not bluffing or playing politics. Pro-Life first, whomever will offer it.
As said by another freeper today: "I'm not Pro-Life because I'm Republican, I'm Republican because I'm Pro-life".
Surprisingly, the DUmmies have a rather neat little compendium of his record. Of course, they gnash their teeth over it, while we cheer...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
Oh, and I guess it came from this site:
http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/John_G._Roberts_Jr.
He was in the Reagan administration, a law clerk for Renquist, worked in the Bush administration. Has a solid conservative record and you bitch. Priceless.....
An appeals judge is bound that way, a Supreme Court Justice, is not.
The other quote, "we continue to believe that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and should be overruled.", came in a brief he wrote for President George H.W. Bush's administration in a 1991 abortion case, may not necessarily reflect his personal beliefs either.
As soon as possible we should all write, fax, e-mail and otherwise let Judge Roberts know that Americans are behind him 100%.
We should let him know that it is only the socialists, lefties, minorities and other anti-Americans who want to stop his confirmation.
Judge Roberts is a brave man. The socialists, led by such cretins as Senators Durbin, Schumer, and Kennedy will lie with every breath to stop Judge Robert's confirmation.
Let's hope he isn't another Souter.
Iguess he'll support whatever they make law.
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