Posted on 10/09/2005 3:28:25 PM PDT by Pukin Dog
Many, many thinking people agree with you.
With the squishy Republican Senate and an ineffective and super squishy Frist, the Dems would have won big time.
So now that we've got the majority in both houses AND the White House is ours, we now have to purge the rinos.
jmho
I disagree.
President Bush has always made good choices.
He acts on reason and practicality rather than emotion.
He made a campaign promise to us about SCOTUS twice, and he was not going to go back on it.
Maybe NOW some of you will take it seriously!
Yeah, the last week has been smooth as silk - no embarrassment whatsoever to the party or the conservative cause.
A good borking might have been less disastrous.
Thanks for coming back Pukin, we need you.
I don't care how many times you go or come back. If it would bother me I just wouldn't read the posts.
You seem to have good sources and if W gets more chances to pick others, how could he ever consider a strict conservative?
"She has a visceral biblical hatred of abortion"
still looking for actual evidence that this is true... (other than naming what church she goes/went to or something her pastor believes)
Flash...leave it.
I like you, we've had a couple of good discussions—but you are barking up the wrong tree here. Or hopping down the wrong hole...or whatever.
It just doesn't matter. So leave it alone.
These same zeros in the Senate were there when, this time last year, the big Bush/Republican theme was "It's all about the judges! Let's give 'em hell!"
If the real theme then, as now, was "Our party is principle-free, stands for nothing except acquiring power and spending money, is populated with weak sisters and I don't even have the guts to fight Arlen Specter or Jim Jeffords" then it would have been the American thing to do to admit it.
They lie, they backtrack, they obfuscate - on any number of things, not just judges. What they don't do is deliver on the many promises, even after seizing all the reins of power.
Bush can't beg his base to support Specter, then use Specter as the excuse for why he can't/won't do what he promised to do.
indeed, the better strategy would have been to nominate a "2nd tier" conservative - Edith Jones, Batchelder - not one of the "controversial" picks like Owens, Luttig, Brown, etc. Let the RINO gang vote one of them down. Use the forum to expose the RINOs, let's see McCain vote an otherwise qualified person down strictly over abortion and then come back in 2008 and tell people he is pro-life.
Bush could then have come back with Miers after the first choice was rejected. at least, had he done this, we could have exposed these people and gotten them on the record.
And I still want to know why, if Specter is supposedly adamant about not voting for someone who will toss Roe - why is he supporting Miers? what does Spector know about Miers on this issue that allows him to vote for her?
Let me help you with some of this. Being on SCOTUS 30 years after being a party animal in college, is different than flying a jet as a young man, having indulged as a young man. Gephardt back when was sort of apolgetic about his clean living ways, when the subject came up. In any event, the point is that the comment that this could in any way be a skeleton is ludicrous. If it were made an issue of, there would be a huge backlash.
Now, you're sounding really stupid.
"daring" to to question another poster or what the administration is doing is what you SHOULD be doing.
The pissing match is what you're trying do to PD, me, and so many others.
I guess discussion boards are only for when you want to agree with someone.
You guess dumbly again. Boards are for discussion issues. Pissing matches are for children.
Jimmy Carter always put the blame on the people, too.
"All the above have skeletons eh?"
Don't know about skeletons, but they do have a paper trail, on the record.
I don't believe that anyone with a very Conservative paper trail would be confirmed.
John Roberts was lucky that his judicial appointment was short and neutral. Had he been confirmed under Bush 41, he would not be CJ today.
No one made it through the process eh? Did Specter have a veto power? What does your birdie say about that?
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