[Don'tMessWithTexas]

If your control of the Senate is as tentative and unstable as you say, then why don't you and your ilk tone down your attacks on purist conservatives who dare to question this nominee?

[wide meadow]

From the WSJ column this morning--The primary reason Alexander Hamilton gave for requiring senate approval of judical nominees was to "prevent the appointment of unfit characters ... from family connection, from personal attachment. . . . He would be both ashamed and afraid to bring forward, for the most distinguished or lucrative stations, candidates who had no other merit than that of coming from the same State to which he particularly belonged, or of being in some way or other personally allied to him..." Federalist Papers No. 76

[nopardons]

MY "control"? Gee, if only ! LOL

Just WHERE did I "put you down"? I'm not the one calling other posters "horseface" and piss ant. YOU DID THAT.

And if you and your ilk can't have a civil debate, then perhaps you should be treated as you treat others, with nothing but contempt, insults, impugnations, and disdain.

You aren't just "questioning" this nomination...you're foaming at the mouth and throwing hissy fits!

I haven't said that I am for or against Miers. What I am against, is the fulminating hysterics.

Were you also against the Roberts nomination?

[Cboldt]

If your control of the Senate is as tentative and unstable as you say, then why don't you and your ilk tone down your attacks on purist conservatives who dare to question this nominee?

The short answer is "because it's a chat room." But I've had similar questions in my mind, when a poster labels Christian conservatives, for example, "insignificant influence" on the political scene; and at the same time bemoans the criticism that comes from this "insignificant influence." If "whatever faction" is insignificant, then the opinion of that faction is also insignificant, ergo, nothing to bemoan.

In general, one-note cheerleaders (clique-leaders) are not good at reaching out or coalition building. But at the same time, that doesn't mean their votes and energy aren't valuable, because they are.