Posted on 10/11/2005 9:08:44 PM PDT by freedom4me
During the 11:00 p.m. (CST) newsbreak, Donna Fuducia reported that Karl Rove told James Dobson that 80% of the potential SCOTUS nominees on the President's list declined his offer because of they didn't want to undergo the grueling confirmation process. Perhaps this sheds new light on the reason why W chose Miers.
"This idea that we have strong conservative justices that have waited years willing to go through hearings to get an circuit court appointment but that the same judges wouldn't be willing to go through one for a Supreme Court job is not believable."
I agree, that is something I initially thought of.
The democrats are counting on a Rove indictment, high gasoline prices, and a raging war in Iraq which they hope will give them a senate majority in '06.
They'd love nothing better than to delay this SCOTUS appointment. Then we could do no better than Alberto Gonzales.
Miers deserves her hearing and an up or down vote.
Ease up, Tex. I specifically replied to JimRob that any recess appointment this year would expire in January 2007. Nothing can stop the President from making such an appointment to SCOTUS, but why do it when the 'Rats would block a vote and the Republican Moderates would back them up?
Recess appointment of Bolton worked. For SCOTUS, bad idea for the reasons I mentioned.
OK?
If Miers goes down due to fear by of the political damage done by confirming her, Bush is certainly not going to be dumb enough nor will the Republican Senators let him put forth another candidate that alienates the base.
Not sexism? Ah, I see. So, I was right, it's not sexism afterall.
That would be nice to see, but that would mean Miers would have to be defeated, then Bork nominated, and then Bork filibustered, pragmatically speaking.
Not saying that it could never happen, but the President vowed today to push Miers through the process.
Sometimes, it's just so easy...lol.
:)
LOL
Why it is believable when circuit court nominees have waited through years of filibusters and brutal hearings for a chance for a job on the circuit courts? If one can go through that, I see no reason why the same judges wouldn't go through a brutal hearing for a job on the highest court.
"Cronyism" is just a simple word for doing something for a friend. Sexism, on the other hand, has much farther reaching implications because of the chip-on-the-shoulder that all feminists carry. Plus, there are so many woman who do not understand that someone can be pro-woman and anti-feminist at the same time.
This is going to be long, hard slog for Bush.
I just hope the RNC has come up with some better talking points since this weekend.
However politically improbable, it is possible. And, it would certainly eliminate some of the shrillest complaints.
By the time she came up for the second go at confirmation, she'd have a paper trail and a track record. :-)
No kidding!
Myers is on The Senate's Daily Executive Calendar.
SHow me where Saad has been withdrawn. These nominations are languishing in the Senate, and could be used to confront this cloture abuse next week, if the GOP-lead Senate wanted to.
THe President isn't making direct appeals to the public to have nominee Myers, nominee Boyle, nominee Haynes, Kavanaugh, Saad given an up or down vote. The public "gets" the idea of "up or down vote," and YOUR vaunted GOP is mute.
My point is, you pre suppose that the dems would be telling the truth. I am saying they are more than willing to lie on camera regardless of your good name. The dems have a distinct history of doing that... and people think about their families and children at that point. The dems believe we are evil so what ever means they need to go to to win they will believe it is justified. In the same breath they will demand we follow our moral rules to the letter.
My priorities are in order my friend, it is your preception of reality that is not.
That is why they declined, to keep people from snooping in their business any longer. Look at the lies that were spewed against the nominee by the so-called allies. They have said nicer things about Bin Laden.
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