You can be sarcastic all you want, but GWB is our President and we're at war. I'm as conservative as anybody here, and probably more than most, but he won the election, and he deserves to have his nominees confirmed.
No president deserves to have their nominees confirmed.
They deserve to be looked at and have a vote.
Obviously the GOP Majority can't get this through their head.
And we don't deserve to have promises made by Bush honored?
This is the straw that broke the camel's back for conservatives---that made them realize, after CFR, after prescription drug benefit, after open borders, after CAFTA, after the public fisc is floated away on a sea of debt---that Bush is going to do exactly ~0~ for them. And it's not going to make things better to taunt them that Bush isn't facing re-election----they got that, and it makes them realize more than ever how Bush snookered all of them.
Maybe Bush won't pay the price---although not facing re-election, i.e., being a "lame duck," is a two-edged sword for Bush and his acolytes---but other Republicans will. This story is evidence that the rest of the GOP is waking up to that fact.
No, he doesn't. He deserves to nominate people - after that, the bright lights of scrutiny come on. In this case, it looks like Bush boofed it again.
And we're going to be "at war" forever; it enables Big Stupid Government to grow endlessly and gives Party-Uber-Alles hacks an excuse to coerce mindless uniformity. Until the whole mess falls apart.
War Is the Health of the State - Randolph Bourne
Confirmed at conservatives expense???? Not hardly.
uh, not quite.
He deserves to have his qualified nominees confirmed. And even then with the advice and consent of the senate.
Furthermore, at no time since HST tried to get his 'cronies' on SCOTUS has what Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist #76 about the role of the senate in it's function in the nomination process been so pertinent:
"It would be an excellent check upon a spirit of favoritism in the President, and would tend greatly to prevent the appointment of unfit characters from State prejudice, from family connection, from personal attachment, or from a view to popularity. In addition to this, it would be an efficacious source of stability in the administration."
This descibes Miers nomination to a tee. And if Billy Jeff tried this stunt with his lawyer, we'd be at the gates of the WH with pitchforks!
Winning an election and being the President is not sufficient reason to blindly accept Supreme Court nominees. That's why the Constitution requires that the Senate confirm the nominee.