Brownback Skeptical on Miers Nomination

Associated Press ^ | October 4, 2005

[toddp]

Brownback would make a great president!

[toddp]

Brownback would make a great president!

[JedForbes]

Ironically I think the left will have a subdued reaction to this nomination. Obviously they feel the need to blindly oppose anything the President suggests, but on this one, I have to say I think they are being handed victory of a sorts on a plate. Not that she ain't conservative - but who knows??

[toddp]

Brownback would make a great president!

[toddp]

Brownback would make a great president!

[ARCADIA]

This feels like 2000, when the Chinese down and captured one of our combat aircraft and crews, and Bush apologized and compensated them.

[toddp]

Brownback would make a great president!

[JedForbes]

Brownback would make a great president! stop it! I'm getting deja vu.

[safisoft]

Brownback would make a great president!

With good conservative credentials, our next President could be the one who opposes this nomination in the Senate - and in the process save the Republican Party from almost sure defeat in 2006 and 2008.

Without true and passionate conservatives, the Republican Party is a minority party. Someone forgot to remind Bush of that. You'd think his father would have.

[toddp]

Brownback would make a great president!

[Txsleuth]

We also forget what Clarence Thomas had to go through...

but, I will say this much...I have been listening to Mark Levin tonight...and he gets really mad whenever a caller even insinuates that his might somehow turn out okay...

He says that there is NO WAY that this will be okay...and that it is just another time that Bush hasn't had the courage to do something...like vetoing a spending bill, closing the borders, forcing the dems to have to vote AGAINST the private accounts for SS....

IOW---he and Buchanan agree that this has spoiled any chance of Bush having even a successful presidency, let alone a great one...

which is SO IRONIC, considering that the reason that so many have given for him choosing a "safe" nominee, is because he wants a good "legacy" as a POTUS, unlike his father, whose legacy was fraught with failures...

Seems to me that he has accomplished the very thing that he has sought most to avoid...repeating his father's mistakes.

[Dolphy]

And who exactly do you see ready to roll up his sleeves and stand with the Pres? Arlen "Scottish Law" Specter, maybe?

Nobody, they are a bunch of stinking weaklings holding the majority only because of Bush's intervention in the selection and campaign for Senators. This chest thumping nonsense about a conservative fight in the arena of ideas...where does it come from? Republicans are the ones who stand up in tears over the Bolton nomination, make their way through the Sunday talk shows to bash the President or gang up with equal numbers from the other side to control the nomination process.

And now I'm supposed to take note of one them named Brownback, the guy angling for a presidential bid?

[Txsleuth]

You are sooooo cute when you are repetitive!!!

[stop_fascism]

As Leo Deroucher said, "Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." Losing on principle is a great excuse for do nothing losers who like to stand around with their heads up their butts feeling sorry for themselves. Leaders, like Bush, lead to wins.

[Jim_Curtis]

Does anyone who is ready to knock him for his selection know anything at all about Harriet Miers? I thought so.

I think Bush is too easily mislead. That is what is scary about this nomination.

It's asking a lot of conservatives, kind of inconsiderately so, to say "trust me with the unknown". It's one thing if he asks me to believe that Rafael Palmeiro never took steroids, it's not a life and death matter.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

The problem is that this nominee-even if she turns out to be a clone of Scalia-will have none of the intellectual depth to buttress a philosophy that she might very well be in full agreement with.

We need a voice, not merely a vote, on that court.

We need to make it clear to our enemies that their view of the Constitution is not only a minority view among the American public-which any leftist with an ounce of integrity will readily concede-but a fundamentally incorrect one.

Fifty years from now the Scalia model-even though far superior to the ad hoc, politically expedient Breyer approach-will have ceased to exist, not because of any inherent flaws in its reasoning, but because no one will be there to defend it.

[joyspring777]

Who says conservatives are divided?...we are being done in by RINOs and "self professed" conservatives in the Senate leadership! The Senate leadership has never really been worth anything, and the House leadership has seemed to surrender to the Big Gov spending deal.

Soon in 2006...it could be true conservative leadership. Frist is a fair-weather conservative, not an in-the-trenches, bust-their-chops, take-no-prisoners, this-is-our-time conservative.

I am yearning for true conservative leadership. I am hopeing people like Paul Weyrich and others out there know the head/heart counts in the Senate, and have a clear idea of what can happen if we get two more or so in 2006.

Have you been following his series on the Next Conservatism AFTER Bush? Good thought provoking stuff.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/8/30/13129.shtml

[stop_fascism]

Great analysis. I agree completely.

WHY IN GOD'S NAME WOULD HE MAKE A CONTROVERSIAL NOMINATION?

I was hoping he'd nominate Ann Coulter. I know she'd never get confirmed, but the hearings would have been fun. I can imagine her interrupting Biden in the middle of his half hour 'question' and saying, "Would you please shut up".

[Brass]

A good friend of mine was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor which was judged to be fatal if not removed.  He was faced with the decision of choosing which doctor to perform his lifesaving surgery. He narrowed his choices to:

1. A very talented brain surgeon who was highly experienced in this type of surgery and would be capable of thinking on his feet should any complications occur.  This surgeon was expensive, had a terrible bedside manner, and some of the nurses griped when they had to work with him. However, he was recognized by everyone in his field as the best brain surgeon around.  or
   
2. A very talented pediatrician who had been the first female doctor on staff at the hospital. Most recently, she had performed admirably as an assistant to the administrator of the hospital. The administrator strongly recommended her to my friend explaining that he had known her for years and was confident that she could handle what he judged was a critical but routine procedure.
   

My friend accepted the recommendation of the confident hospital administrator and had his surgery performed by the pediatrician.  During the surgery, complications arose, the surgery took much longer than expected, and my friend died on the operating table because no experienced surgeons were available to help the pediatrician.

[joyspring777]

Hey!!!!!!! Once is enough already! We heard you, five times is obnoxious.