Guess that just means Repub women....right?? [grin!]
Posted on 10/09/2005 3:28:25 PM PDT by Pukin Dog
If you had a great job, would you risk it all with such certainty for disaster?
It takes a big man to admit his mistakes. For that I applaude you.
You have made the same points many of us were making a week ago.
Welcome home Pukin Dog - and thanks for taking the time to talk some sense into the disenchanted.
Our President, knowing full well how important this nomination is and that he's got this bunch to deal with, did the best thing he could have done...nominate someone he KNOWS will do the job correctly.
These Senators and those that complain should take a nice long hard look in the mirror and then ask themselves the question, "Why did the President choose Harriet Miers?" IT'S THEIR OWN DARN FAULT!
Sorry if this looks mean to Ms. Miers, it's not meant to. I'm sure you are a fine woman, quite capable of doing this very important job. Why? BECAUSE I TRUST OUR PRESIDENT...I always have.
Ten four good buddy. You made a wise decision.
But the thing to remember, is that it was not Bush's weakness, but our own, and that of the people we have elected to Congress that made this happen.
Plenty of weakness to spread around. I am chapped by what seems to be ratification of the 60 vote hurdle in the Senate -- without so much as a peep.
Just a reminder. The Senate is sitting on qualified Circuit Court nominations - Myers and Boyle. Has the GOP invoked -THEM- as a matter of principle?
No. It hasn't.
Weaklings.
Bill was continuing his 'disgust' with the Harriet Miars nomination...
... and Brit informed him that one of the reasons Miars got the nod is that he specifically knows ..(he named a woman, but you will have to go to transcript to get the name)...has too much history of activisim..
...activism was the word he used...
..and this woman is someone Kristol specifically wanted....
..and Hume inferred/suggested ...to my understanding...that others had turned down the 'honor' for the same reason/
Specter said he would send all nominees to the floor. So that pukin dog won't hunt. And of the 7-8 others, only a couple were more likely to vote against Roe than Miers. She thinks abortion is a grave sin, for biblically based reasons. It is the one issue she really seems to care about, consistently. If that isn't hard wiring, I don't know what is.
I think you are spot on.
MEIRS -- NO CONFIDENCE
Guess that just means Repub women....right?? [grin!]
I'm aware of the scum in the Congress.
I'm also aware at a certain point bullies need to be confronted.
Giving you the assumption for sake of argument this is true,
Taking this abuse on their behalf prevents them from being held accountable to their constituents for their actions. We have enough states that want a strong strict Constructionist Judge on the Court that will destroy any Senator that stands in their way, if given the option to do so.
Bring the roaches into the light and squash them once and for all.
What are they going to do? Withdraw their support from the WOT? They just did that by protecting the right of terrorists, didn't they? That is what they are incrementally inching toward. They are moving towards cutting and running, and every day their non defense of this President leaves him weaker. When they do call for the cut and run, he'll be unable to stop it.
I am thinking ahead here, but honestly, the future isn't good if someone doesn't expose these cretins to their constituents and give them an alternative to vote for.
IMO, you stand in their face, give the bullies the best candidate, and provide the American people evidence of their intentions. A strong offensive attack, similiar to what Delay is in process of doing.
But, I'll say this. At the current point, in '06, the only person I will assure a vote for is my House representative. I hate the Senate, and I won't be blackmailed into replicating a Faux Republican Majority. And I damn well guarentee I'll be donating to whomever I have to defeat people like Chafee and DeWine in '06. Lindsey in '08.
haha....well, at least you came around. For that, I'll apologize for being such a bitch to you the other night. Takes a good dog to crawl back up on the couch after chewing a hole in it.
I think she would have been.
But if you want some evidence of the fact that the dim strategy was to smear the candidates personally, on Tuesday just the day after Miers was nominated some nasty little radio rumor monger began to plant the idea that she was gay.
That seems to be the line of attack now. During the hearings for John Roberts, in one of the most disgusting displays I have ever seen, it was insinuated that Jack his four year old son was gay.
Unless we can protect the families we are going to have the people we want saying thanks but no thanks.
Ya, with his students as a law professor, when 45 years old. Infra dig, any way you cut it.
Great post as usual Pukin Dog. Welcome back!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.