Posted on 09/21/2005 1:55:53 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
leaky's support is just show biz. Dusty will give co(m)rade and wooden head nelson a pass to vote yes. This fool from the AP thinks he's telling us something. He aint. These mutts had this worked out after day one when they saw they had no chance of beating Roberts. The rest is show biz. The next one will be all smoke and no real fire. They will ALL vote against the next nominee in the committee. wooden head and bennie nelson will vote right. that will be enough to pass whomever comes up without at least two rino defections. The funny thing is that wooden head won't fool anybody. Harris will kick his ass anyway. Ben will be gone as well. Comrad Conrade will go down no matter how he votes on either or both of these judges.
Naiveté is so cute!!! Demoncrats can do whatever the MSM will let them get away with, which covers a lot of hypocrisy. They have already started to do this by saying (in previous interviews and speeches) that an appointment to the appeals court is one thing, but a lifetime appointment to the SC is another. I think Leahy announced for Roberts only because he can then say that whoever else gets nominated is an extremist - after all, he voted for the conservative Roberts, didn't he?
No way! We waited for years on a couple of lower court appointments so forget it Specter. Get these people through the BS known as the Judicial Committee.
Gonzalez is a left-leaning moderate La Raza skunk whose main qualification is his ethnic heritage.
He will be confirmed quickly and he is slightly to the right of O'Connor.
O'Connor was a left leaning moderate whose main qualification for the job was a vagina. Once the dust clears she will go down as one of the all-time worst SCJs. A legal gymnast if there ever was one.
This president said he would nominate justices in the mold of Scalia and Thomas. Another dopey affirmative action nomination will be the last frigging straw.
Gee...from watching his shows, who would have thought he was a television producer?
Anyone know when the actual vote is scheduled for or does each Senator now just announce their vote to the press and bypass the formalities?
Karl Rove, I know, had the Ohio organization and perhaps several other state organizations actively going after the religious right. What most people don't understand is that half of the religious right are Registered Democrats. When Bush volunteers contacted chruch members we did not even ask party affiliation. Rove's research showed that 70 percent of church members would vote for Bush, but less than 50 percent of them were Republicans.
Two thousand five hundred Registered Democrats showed up for a week day Bush rally in Ross County Ohio. I was held about 3 weeks before the election. I know how many because we checked voter registration on every person that got at ticket to the rally. Every Democrat that got tickets to that rally, was asked why they wanted to attend a Bush Rally. I was one of two people interviewing the Democrats who applied for tickets. Think about it.. In THE bellweather county of ohio, one out of every eight attendees to a Bush rally was a Democrat.
The Democrats who attended gave us 3 reasons for supporting President Bush. About a third supported President Bush becuase of the war in IRAQ. But 2/3 of those 2500 Democrats were supporting President Bush because of gay rights and/or abortion. They voted for Bush to change the direction of the supreme court. They were well aware that the only thing a president could do on those two issues was appoint people to the supreme court.
Natioal Democrats are not stupid.. If they fillibuster the bush supreme court nominees, they will convert somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to 14 million registered Democrats into Registered Republicans.
Democrats can't afford to do that. They now know that defeating Bush Surpreme Court nominees can cost them the presidency again in 2008, and remove any chance of winning the senate or the house.
People who think that Democrats are saving up to bork the next nominee are mistaken. If the political cost were not so steep they would have borked Roberts. They dare not do so... The problem is far too many Registered Democrats do not believe in abortion and do not believe in gay rights. Even the most rabid democratic senators do not want to remove all chances for the Democrats to regain political power.
Democrats like Ried are playing to the Democratic base. But they are not playing real loud. Several Democrat Senators in states where all the Democrat votes are needed to win, Democratic Senators will vote for Roberts.
Karl Rove, I know, had the Ohio organization and perhaps several other state organizations actively going after the religious right. What most people don't understand is that half of the religious right are Registered Democrats. When Bush volunteers contacted chruch members we did not even ask party affiliation. Rove's research showed that 70 percent of church members would vote for Bush, but less than 50 percent of them were Republicans.
Two thousand five hundred Registered Democrats showed up for a week day Bush rally in Ross County Ohio. I was held about 3 weeks before the election. I know how many because we checked voter registration on every person that got at ticket to the rally. Every Democrat that got tickets to that rally, was asked why they wanted to attend a Bush Rally. I was one of two people interviewing the Democrats who applied for tickets. Think about it.. In THE bellweather county of ohio, one out of every eight attendees to a Bush rally was a Democrat.
The Democrats who attended gave us 3 reasons for supporting President Bush. About a third supported President Bush becuase of the war in IRAQ. But 2/3 of those 2500 Democrats were supporting President Bush because of gay rights and/or abortion. They voted for Bush to change the direction of the supreme court. They were well aware that the only thing a president could do on those two issues was appoint people to the supreme court.
Natioal Democrats are not stupid.. If they fillibuster the bush supreme court nominees, they will convert somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to 14 million registered Democrats into Registered Republicans.
Democrats can't afford to do that. They now know that defeating Bush Surpreme Court nominees can cost them the presidency again in 2008, and remove any chance of winning the senate or the house.
People who think that Democrats are saving up to bork the next nominee are mistaken. If the political cost were not so steep they would have borked Roberts. They dare not do so... The problem is far too many Registered Democrats do not believe in abortion and do not believe in gay rights. Even the most rabid democratic senators do not want to remove all chances for the Democrats to regain political power.
Democrats like Ried are playing to the Democratic base. But they are not playing real loud. Several Democrat Senators in states where all the Democrat votes are needed to win, Democratic Senators will vote for Roberts.
What a life.
All I could think of when I read this post was some twisted version of the "Bad Idea Jeans" sketch on SNL.
Guy #1: "Well, he's an ex free-base addict, and he's trying to turn around, and he needs a place to stay for a couple of months.
BAD IDEA
Guy #2: Normally I wear protection, but then I thought, "When am I gonna make it back to Haiti?"
BAD IDEA
G.W. Bush: I think I'll nominate Alberto Gonzales to the Surpreme Court. He should provide a reliable conservative vote on the Surpreme Court for years to come.
BAD IDEA
I had seen Sept 29th somehwere but don't quote me..
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Considering they hold a majority of the MSM talk and print puppet strings, They may be fools but they aren't all DUmmies. ;-)
btw , Good info re: dem turnout at President Bush's events, Thanks.
Brown or Owens, and let the radical left implode...
Shhhh... If you go around spouting off the strategy, the Dems might be able to defend themselves.
Or maybe they won't because they think they're smarter than Bush.
Ok, per Leahy's inference, does Leahy mean there are 3 or 5 justices with a leftist ideological agenda?
save you popcorn, I expect they will fillibuster O'Conner's replacement... and fail holding in it.
But isn't that exactly what they will do? After all, they have no respect for the constitution, do they?
Reid, Kennedy and Kerry are shown to be the horses a##es they are.
Now that you're warmed up, could you tell us what you think of Ginsburg? LOL
I still say, if Roberts gets the 66 votes of approval that Justice Rehnquist received in his floor vote for Chief, it will be a significant success. Rehnquist garnered 67 votes back in 1972 in his first set of hearings.
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