Roberts Picks Up Democratic Support

ap on Yahoo ^ | 9/21/05 | Jesse J. Holland - ap

[NormsRevenge]

Senate leaders and the top two lawmakers on the Judiciary Committee speak with members of the media, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2005, after a White House meeting with President Bush to discuss the second vacancy on the Supreme Court. The meeting was similar to one Bush held in July, one week before he nominated Roberts to fill the shoes of the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. Left to right are Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter, R-Penn. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

[MNJohnnie]

Democrat, Patrick Leahy

Just bowing to the inevitable and positioning himself as a "moderate" to create political cover to justify filibustering the next one.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Is leaky up for reelection?

[NormsRevenge]

Yup, everything is proceeding "according to plan", the question is what plan? ;-)

[NormsRevenge]

[Bush gal in LA]

Thats exactly what I asked this morning when I heard this news!

[xzins]

President Bush should QUICKLY nominate his friend Alberto Gonzalez.

He will be confirmed quickly and he is slightly to the right of O'Connor.

Then they should get one more of the old republican justices to announce.

Bush nominates a person who tips the court. This will energize the base for the mid-term elections AND possibly bring us a filibuster proof Senate.

[Ninian Dryhope]

"confronted by television producer Norman Lear"

Gee, from watching his television shows, who would have thought that Norman Lear was a left wing democrat?

[FreedomSurge]

I still hope they fillibuster.

[hsalaw]

Arlene Spectre drives me crazy. And, by the way, where did this idea that a swing-vote (O'Conner) could only be replaced by a swing-vote? I don't recall seeing anything like that in any of our founding documents. Replacing swinging door O'Conner with a solid conservative would be the right thing to do.

[patent]

>>>>President Bush should QUICKLY nominate his friend Alberto Gonzalez. He will be confirmed quickly and he is slightly to the right of O'Connor.

Well, he'd get all the democratic votes, only people to oppose him would be a handful of non RINO-republicans. I, however, will stay home a couple years from now when the RINOs call to ask me to work again. I didn't bust my but to put Bush's liberal cronies on the court.

patent

[frankjr]

"Roberts is "very well credentialed," Landrieu said Wednesday."

She then added "unlike myself."

[NormsRevenge]

In 2010 if I did my math right. He is in his 6th term.

Biographical Sketch 2005

Patrick Leahy of Middlesex was elected to the United States Senate in 1974 and remains the only Democrat elected to this office from Vermont. At 34, he was the youngest U.S. Senator ever to be elected from the Green Mountain State.

[danmar]

I watched a judge with that look on his face sending a guilty dude to 25 to life in the slammer.

[smonk]

there isn't an exploded head in all of DUmmie land.

:)

[NormsRevenge]

Leahy, who has led filibuster fights against Bush's lower court nominees, said in a speech on the Senate floor, "I do not intend to lend my support to an effort by this president to move the Supreme Court and the law radically to the right."

But Roberts "is a man of integrity," said Leahy. "I can only take him at his word that he does not have an ideological agenda."

Other Democrats, including Tim Johnson of South Dakota and Max Baucus of Montana, also have announced their support. Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana are leaning toward voting for Roberts, and Kent Conrad of North Dakota is viewed as a possible vote for him as well.

Roberts is "very well credentialed," Landrieu said Wednesday.

The other six Judiciary Democrats — Joseph Biden, Herb Kohl, Charles Schumer, Dick Durbin, Russell Feingold and Dianne Feinstein — have yet to announce their votes.

[conservative blonde]

You are absolutely right. The constitution doesn't give any formula for the composition of the SC. I think Bush is again going to nominate a solid conservative and let the fight begin. They can say all they want about bad mouthing Brown and Owen but this senate confirmed them. They cannot now go back and say they are too far to the right and then filibuster either one.

[montag813]

President Bush should QUICKLY nominate his friend Alberto Gonzalez.

Gonzales is a legal lightweight, not withstanding questions regarding his positions regarding the 2nd Amendement, abortion and illegal immigration. He would be an inferior choice.

[NormsRevenge]

2 words re: Gonzales

La Raza