Posted on 09/06/2005 4:14:43 PM PDT by RWR8189
Yep, and besides it matches what I have been saying.
Good post. I am often amazed at the disparate groups of people who misunderestimate the President. Nearly everyone does...over and over again.
Precisely. And, if Bush doesn't name an originalist and conservative with a proven track that is pro-life, all political hell should be unleashed on the Republican party.
There is absolutely NO reason for anything but someone that verifiably has the views of Rehnquist, Scalia or Thomas to be nominated. If conservatives don't demand and get anything less, we're wasting our time supporting the Republican party and nothing is going to significantly ever going to change in this nation.
It's not up for debate with me.
Yep. Per Kristol, we're entering the second term of the unbeatable President McCain....oops...guess that didn't happen.
Because Roberts is undeniably a brilliant legal mind and is well liked even by his adversaries. Roberts was a brilliant pick to replace O'Conner because he has a boy scout background and is untouchable by his opponents. I don't think there is another real conservative who could get the free ride that Roberts got. Bush may very well go with a conservative, but the fight will be as bloody as they come. If it were the Rehnquist replacement, it would have made it much easier. It seems silly, but it is a fact. Liberals have been setting up this arguement to maintain the balance on the court for years now.
I mean, GW appears to have a close personal relation with AG Gonzales, and it is obvious that the AG could not be counted on to counsel in the manner which we would believe appropriate. So, my question is, who is it that is close to the President and whom we can be counting upon to be making the case to the President?
And some people don't have enough faith in him.
Olsen, if I had a vote, which I don't.
I mean, GW appears to have a close personal relation with AG Gonzales, and it is obvious that the AG could not be counted on to counsel in the manner which we would believe appropriate. So, my question is, who is it that is close to the President and whom we can be counting upon to be making the case to the President?
I'm predicting Clement. She's got all the conservative credentials, the real deal, she's a woman, and she's from Louisiana..what great timing. I don't think Senate democrats on the committee can attack her without hurting themselves.
Well, some people just hate the President for their own misguided reasons that sound good in their head but sound stupid to everyone else.
While Some people refuse to believe he's smart. This includes people from both aisles, as with the previous example, that are constantly humiliated when the "simpleton" shows them up. This only makes them hate him more.
Then there are others that seem to thirst for betrayal. Say they trust the President, then look for ways he'll sell them out. The President doesn't generally sell people out. He lays his cards on the table. May not like all his positions, but rarely does he ever track from them. That is not a sell out. Having a different position, alerting people to it, and sticking to it is not a sell out. A sell out would involve promising one thing, encouraging trust, than delivering another.
I don't live my life expecting betrayal. I assess the nature of the people involved, then make a judgement call. In the President's case His Judges have been rock solid. he's never wavered from a Judge that would respect the three branches role and stick to strict interpretation of the Constitution.
It is not reasonable to think he'll do differenlty based on established record. And I refuse to join those that prefer to live their lives expecting a knife in the back from everyone. It's paranoia, it isn't attractive.
Let it be,
Michael Luttig or
Edith Jones or
Emilio Garza or
Janice Rogers Brown
"What about James Rogan ?"
You are so right on ! That guy rammed it home during the Clinton impeachment hearings. The Clinton guns and pimps made sure he lost his seat in California.
Sadly, his totally HONEST and forthright presentation of the charges against Clinton makes him PC kryptonite.
Impassioned (ala Bork ) and bold leaders need not apply.
I'm so tired of the squooshy eggshell walkin' republicans who wouldn't back up a man of principle like James Rogan.
Clement is unacceptable to most conservatives.
"President McCain ... didn't happen."
Everyone is entitled to be wrong now and then. Novak made a terrible blooper in July when he predicted Rehnquist's imminent retirement, right down to the day, hour, and minute. But he's still much better than most conservative pundits.
Get real. Gonzales was in charge of vetting all of Bush's nominees during the first four years, and there was not a single complaint from conservatives on the type of judges being selected.
And if Gonzales was so liberal and awful, why did he allow such good judges to be nominated?
I myself sent a letter to President Bush and reminded him of how Hollywood's left has trash talked him throughout his Presidency. It's now payback time! I expect President Bush to certainly go with Conservatives.
Bush rattled? LMAO!!! What a stupid comment!!
Clement is not unsatisfactory to me.
"Edith B. Clement
Biography
Judge Clement was sworn in as a United States District Judge in 1991 and is presently serving as Chief Judge of the Eastern District of Louisiana. She was a maritime attorney in the New Orleans firm of Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre from 1975 - 1991.
Judge Clement received her undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama in 1969 and her J.D. from Tulane Law School in 1973, and served as law clerk to the late U.S. District Judge Herbert W. Christenberry. She is a member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States, the Federal Bar Association, the American Law Institute, the Federalist Society, the Tulane Law School's Inn of Court, the Committee on the Administrative Office of the Judicial Conference of the United States, and she serves as the Eastern District of Louisiana Representative on the Fifth Circuit Judicial Council.
She is married and has two children."
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