Posted on 10/03/2005 4:06:25 AM PDT by johnmecainrino
Farah hated Roberts, to the point of actually saying he was wrong about him... that Roberts was worse than Farah thought.
He's probably trying to figure out how to fit rabid shrieking into a column.
What is Football?
Do you think she is a football fan?
;-)
When push came to shove, it's my opinion the votes would be there for someone like JRB, Owens, et al.
That's not what the gang of 14 indicated. Those 14 determine a filibuster override. And it includes 7 Dems. So you need a nominee that is acceptable to those 7 Dems in order to ensure that the rest of the Dems will not attempt a filibuster. And you also need to get Snowe and Collins on board as well.
She lived in Dallas. She is probably not just a football fan. I would hope, (for her eternal soul), she is a COWBOY fan.
I really don't think your analogy works here. Forget about BEST qualified, I don't think Harriet Miers is qualified at all. Does that help you understand the disappointment? We could nitpick any of the competent, proven judges I've named to find the BEST candidate, but at least they have the minimal qualification of having served on the bench. She doesn't even have that.
Did you marry your husband/wife thinking he/she COULD end up being a good choice?
That's beautiful. With any muber of known quantities out there, let's go with the mystery pick for all the money, Alex.
The Gang of 14 made an agreement whereby the seven Democrats would no longer vote along with their party on filibustering judicial nominees (except in "extreme circumstances," which some interpret to refer to nominees to the Supreme Court), and in turn the seven Republicans would break with Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and the Republican leadership on voting for the "nuclear option."
Extreme circumstances - in other words, the seven Dems in the gang could bolt back to the party if they felt the nominee was too extreme.
And the Gang basically took power from Frist, Specter and Reid regarding nominations. They hold the cards now.
http://www.tnr.com/etc.mhtml?pid=2832
No, a few of the Republican members of the gang have said that if the Dems filibustered a qualified choice they would go "nucular". I think at least one of those would have stuck by that promise, and Owens-Brown-Luttig-Insert real Conservative name here, WOULD be confirmed.
muber=number
I need to go soak my head.
That's what I don't get. Why take the risk? If Pres. Bush would have picked a highly qualified judicial conservative maybe the Dems would have filibustered. So what? Frist drops the nuke and it's all over in a few weeks. And the Repub base is ecstactic and ready to turn out in 2006. What would have been the problem?
She said on tape on c-span this morning that she knows Alberto Gonzalez very well. Does that help out? 4/22/05 from Republican Trial Lawyers Assn. seminar. Cheney spoke at the same event.
I disagree. I think we could've pried the necessary GOP votes out of that group to vote in favor of a qualified candidate such as Brown or Owens. If a couple chose to defect and join the Dems, so be it. If the Dems decided to filibuster, then let them be seen to obstruct the nomination of someone like JRB - it only helps the GOP and ultimately we could've changed the Senate rules anyway.
Ever since the Dem contingent of the gang of 14 took Harry's nuts away from him, he's inclinded to pretend he's happy with a nominee, because he has no power to filibuster without their support.
Don't worry, Harry will wiggle into an anti-Miers position soon enough.
LOL, yeah, but it wasn't that hard to pull the wool over my eyes since that was pre-Free Republic. I was frightened by klintoon because I'm a Southerner and I intuitively knew what he was. I could sense it.
Hang in there and thanks from me!
Glad you are going outside......beautiful day.
Once again, the GOP wing of the Gang of 14 took that option off the table in this situation. That's the new reality in the Senate regarding nominees.
http://www.tnr.com/etc.mhtml?pid=2832
In 1990 Miers voted for a 7 percent property tax increase during her short tenure on the Dallas City Council. And Miers's long affiliation with the ABA will serve up lots of interesting tidbits that are unlikely to please social and legal conservatives. For instance, she apparently submitted the following report to the ABA's House of Delegates. Here are two of the report's recommendations:
Supports the enactment of laws and public policy which provide that sexual orientation shall not be a bar to adoption when the adoption is determined to be in the best interest of the child. ...
Recommends the development and establishment of an International Criminal Court.
I was a Dem myself in 1988 and Gore was my choice of all the other dems that were running. He was a different person then, he is certifiably nuts now. I voted for Bush/Quayle even though I was a Dem. The best, toughest,pushiest Republicans are former dems. I look around any Republican function, and have taken polls as to how many used to be Dems, and it is usually about 50% or better. I am always prodding long time pubbies to get in there and fight back. They just want to be left alone, and that is unacceptable.
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