Broder yesterday in the WaPo, and now the LA Times today. I hope to God we don't get another Souter or Kennedy.
Even if the Donks vote for him, they will have revealed themselves as "nothing more than self-defeating obstructionists."
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Oh, the Times ..they are a'changing:
Kinsley leaves the Times
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1484275/posts
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The other perspective on this is that the MSM toilet rags made a choice to side with the radical left. They have put all their chips there -- at the same time, they are worried about how radical and non-sensical the far-left Dims have become.
Trashing Roberts would be the MOST STUPID thing they can do -- the rags know it. Just like the highly calculating, power-centric Marxist Medusa knows it. He will be confirmed with the radical Dims hating every minute of it...
I agree. they know this battle is lost.
Fall back and prepare for the next nomination.
But they have no guarantee they will do better the next time.
I'm thinking of political things.
Evaluating O'Connor and Alberto Gonzalez, I'd say that on a 10 point conservative scale (10 high) that Gonzalez is a closer to a 10 than was O'Connor. I consider O'Connor to be a wishy-washy 5...maybe even a 4+ Gonzalez, though, is a 6- or maybe even a solid 6.
This concession to the president is made strategically. IF the president will use his 3rd choice for a strong conservative, then I'm willing to gamble. My reasons:
1. There is a real possibility of another vacancy on Scotus. Some are ill, some are aged, some might just be tired. Many, though, are Republican. The most eligible of them could be given the back-channel message that it's time for them to take one for the team and step down.
2. The midterm elections need something to fire up the base. A knockdown dragout fight over crucial conservative issues would do just that. That would turn out the base and conceivably lead to a filibuster proof Senate after Republican gains. OR...in order to avoid just such a thing, the Dems could back off and let the 3rd selection glide on through.
Given the above, I'd support the president naming Alberto Gonzalez to the Supreme Court with his 2nd selection. It has some possibilities for misfiring, but strategically it makes sense, AND Gonzalez is more to the right than is O'Connor....which is not hard to do. Gonzalez would get quick confirmation.
This would open the way for a quick vacancy if one of the remaining Scotus team-members would play with the team. This could be determined before this step is taken.
Marc Steyn says Schumer looks like an accountant for the Mafia. If Schumer votes "yes," he'll get whacked by the people who actually run the Dim party.
So am I. I have a nagging feeling that we're being given another Souter.
Let's see, Ann Coulter is against him and the Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Los Angeles Times are for him.
Wasn't that the case with John Kerry?
NARAL is gonna be PO'ed.
A stopped clock is accurate twice a day. The rest of the time it is wrong. That is my view of these dinosaur media newspapers.
Of course: he is absolutely committed to his core to voting against ANY Republican nominee, yet realizes there is absolutely no sane argument for voting against Roberts, and he'll look like a whiny brat if he fails to approve Roberts.
Bush: dumb like a fox.
The MSM is raising the White Flag of Surrender, hoping it will make them look more reasonable as they try to Bork the next nominee.
The hypocrisy is so thick you could cut it with a chainsaw. First, the LA Times decries voting for or against Roberts based on political considerations, and then in the next breath they attempt to direct their party toward the best strategy for Borking the next nominee. I truly hope Bush nominates Janice Rogers Brown for the Supreme Court. The Democrats can drop dead. We won, they lost.
When Bush nominates a conservative to replace O'Conner, who will alter the 'balance', look for the real opposition to emerge; the left in full cry and attack ..
scary. A man is sometimes known by those who admire him.
And the LAT and the others are just giving them cover (and gritting their teeth doing it).
Ok, the L.A. Times is a bridge too far...time to pull Roberts.