Posted on 09/05/2005 12:15:18 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
sorry but i believe this is a bad idea. not only does it give the liberals something else to whine about pertaining to the scotus selection, i'm unsure exactly how conservative he is. i would much rather see one of the sitting conservative justices nominated
PRISCILLA OWEN (born: 1954), for Associate Justice! She is a very pricipled woman. She is a member of St. Barnabas Episcopal Mission in Austin, Texas where she teaches Sunday School and serves as the head of the altar guild.
I think Dubya's hoping that by nominating Roberts for Chief Justice, some of the namby pamby libs on the court will retire. Maybe their noses will be out of joint and they'll leave. We can hope can't we?
"Now that the president has said he will nominate Judge Roberts as Chief Justice, the stakes are higher and the Senate's Advice and Consent responsibility is even more important," Reid said. "If confirmed to this lifetime job, John Roberts would become the leader of the third branch of the federal government and the most prominent judge in the nation. The Senate must be vigilant in considering this nomination."
We all know what that means--the 'Rats will try harder to find an excuse to obstruct the nomination. Still, nothing the left has thrown at him has stuck yet. I think that Roberts will still be confirmed, with 60 to 70 votes. Now, the nomination to succeed Sandra Day O'Conner will have higher stakes sill.
This is going to hurt the arguments some were making that the President was looking for the easier choice due to the hurricane.
No, as many of us had reason to believe, the President figured Roberts because he hoped he could be a 'consensus' builder. I LOVE Thomas, I like Scalia, but I have to admit neither is likely to be able to successfully reach out to kennedy and *maybe* bring them back on the Constitutional reservation.
Well, uh DUH!!
This is the only article I've seen recently that mentioned Janice Rogers Brown as a possibility...nice to see!
Unfortunately, that is exactly why she would never get approved. RINO's would wimp out.
I feel the exact same way, albeit for different reasons. I really don't care if the Dummycrats get one more excuse to whine. I think that if all the Republicans stopped being and doing for the entire next year, they would still be able to while about at least 1 new thing a day. That is what it means to be a liberal.
I also would like to see one of the sitting conservative justices nominated. Most of all, I would like that race carpet yanked right out from under their sanctimonious behinds. The way to do it is - Clarence Thomas. Of course, they would whine about that too. If you took away whining, you would take away the essence of what constitutes Democrap. What other raison d'etre could there be? So let them whine. Honestly, we wouldn't recognize them if they didn't.
Thomas as Chief Justice, Dr. Rice for the Presidency in '08. Let them stick that in their whiny pipe and smoke it.
I am with you. I'm so pissed off at Bush I can't see straight. Not only is Roberts a unknown but he's young and will be there forever if he goes the way of an O'Connor or Sutter. I voted for Bush to change the courts and get rid these horrible extra constitutional decisions like Roe and Lawrence...if Roberts turns out to be a dud I'm leaving the party forever.
Definitely!
And then where will you go? To the Dimocrats?!
Dubya is his father's globalist.
"We all know what that means--the 'Rats will try harder to find an excuse to obstruct the nomination. Still, nothing the left has thrown at him has stuck yet. I think that Roberts will still be confirmed, with 60 to 70 votes. Now, the nomination to succeed Sandra Day O'Conner will have higher stakes sill. "
Now you appoint either Owen or Brown since the RATS had their panties in a bunch that we didn't replace O'Connor with a woman.
At some point they will need to enlarge the Court to accommodate all the groups that aren't represented yet...Asian Americans, Alaskan Natives, Slovak-Americans, Basques, Mormons, Sikhs, philatelists, vegans...
I don't agree on that point. They're too controversial and haven't had time to serve in the positions they were cnfirmed in.
The ideal candidate is Diane Sykes of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. She's an intelligent, youthful (42), and experienced judge with strong conservative views and no paper trail on controversial issues. What more could you ask for in a SCOTUS nominee?
"I don't agree on that point. They're too controversial and haven't had time to serve in the positions they were cnfirmed in. "
Not the point. Sykes would be good. However you would take months gathering information for the hearing. How can the media knock someone that is fresh in the minds of America and was just confirmed? Inexperience? What circuit court was Ginsburg on?
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