Posted on 10/06/2005 11:21:55 AM PDT by wcdukenfield
McCain will go nowhere in 2008. His campaign is an MSM fabrication that only he thinks is an actual possibility.
Coulter nominated for the Supreme Court.?. What a concept..
LoL.. NOW that would be a fight worth seeing..
Oh the hyperbole from both sides..
Oh the lovely beautiful sound bites..
Oh the repartee with the Senate democrats. Ann would murderize them..
(Dreamin) *sigh*..
That might me even make me entertain Bush as a conservative even though I know hes isn't..
It would take balls as big as Janet Renos to pull that off..
Frist has the votes for some Circuit Court nominations. Graham and DeWine are on record, naming names of judges that Reid would filibuster, that they would vote for the nuclear option.
Giuliani never intended to run with McCain, but with a conservative (likely a social conservative.) I am convinced that he will be on the ticket as either the P or VP, with someone like a Pence or Pawlenty or Allen(but he's really fading, though not as fast as Santorum, and IMHO not Presidential material.) And frankly, a Giuliani+conservative ticket is the only one likely to win, given all the dynamics. It would hold all the southern states and win at least NY, and probably NJ, to offset the likely loss of OH and possibly NV or CO (CA diaspora infections.)
The burden of proof would have been on them to indicate why the nominee did not deserve to be seated on the Court. Now the burden of proof is on the Administration to indicate why the nominee deserves to be seated on the Court -- other than the basic lines we've been fed so far.
If Bush Jr. doesn't have the guts to take on the likes of Schmucky Schumer, Kennedy and Feinswine now, then when, exactly?
Are buttwipes like them going to remain unchallenged and unrefuted until the day they die in their chairs?
Or is Bush Jr. waiting for something important to challenge them?
Gee I thought the Roberts hearings were very enlightening in that regard.
That's not what you want, you want the bloody fight, admit it. LOL.
Now we have a nominee who is a cipher
Could we at least hear from her before we judge her, that would seem fair to me?
They concluded she was qualified for the position she got, nothing further.
No!!
Let's judge her quick, fast, and brutally.
Yes. The current state of the matter. The nuclear option is again armed, depending on what constitutes "exceptional circumstances."
In this chess game, the GOP should bring out Boyle and Myers (they are presently on the Senate's executoive calendar) for a vote. Now is a great time to confirm them. Then hustle to get Haynes, Kavanaugh and Saad out of committee, and do the same.
Maybe all of them would be voted on, up or down, without the abuse of cloture; or if the DEMs dared to filibuster, the nuclear option would be "easier" in the context of a Circuit Court nomination than a SCOTUS nomination.
The Senate won't do it. Chicken, if you ask me.
The right nominee chosen by Bush plus the bully pulpit actively used by Bush plus a strong leadership role by Frist....
The gang of 14 would have folded like a fancy silk suit.
JMHO...I guess its something we'll never know for sure.
McCain's BlunderSSSSS
It's plural, varied, and would take most of FRs available bandwidth, but if you are going to discuss things, you should try to do so correctly.
Excuse me if I think you've already done that.
Ah, I was joking.
I haven't judged her at all; I'm saying let's wait and see. And I've said that from the first.
Essentially, that's what Bush is doing. It's NECESSARY to fight now... it was BEST to fight the Friday before that spineless gang-of-7 made their deal with the devil.
Sort of off-topic I know, but I am not sure that a Civil War in 1840 would have worked out any better for the South; in fact I think it would have been a more dramatic defeat. The rail network in the North was much smaller in 1840, but there was a network; the South reall didn't get into the rail and industrialization business until the mid 1840s. So you would have had a weaker but still numerically and industrially stronger North facing a South with comparitvely less population and industry than they had in 1860 compared to the North.
Of course, none of that stopped my local wargaming group from using that very scenario as the background for six miniature wargame tournament sessions back about 10 years ago. Wars are very entertaining in 25mm scale; much less pain and bloodshed all around.
The burden of proof would have been on them to indicate why the nominee did not deserve to be seated on the Court. Now the burden of proof is on the Administration to indicate why the nominee deserves to be seated on the Court -- other than the basic lines we've been fed so far.
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