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.
I couldn't agree more. It seems the Katrina disaster was also affected by the president's reticence to be perceived as usurping the power of a woman governor (although clearly her being a democrat was also a consideration). If women are ever going to achieve true equality, it won't be through affirmative action selections to the Supreme Court, and presidents who tiptoe softly around female governors.
The stakes are many, many times higher for the Sup. Ct. than for the lower court levels.
It's not so much that the hearings themselves are so brutal (although they became so for Thomas)- it's that the entire nationwide left-wing wacko character assassination slime machine (which includes, but is not limited to, the MSM) focuses all of its vast resources on destroying this one person. That simply doesn't happen in the case of lower court confirmations.
I don't believe it. At this point they'll say anything.
Ashcroft may be on the next list.
Remember the defense made on behalf of Miers, that she was instrumental in getting an army of fine, conservative justices vetted and appointed to the the federal appellate bench? Well, it's bunk.
On Prof Eugene Volokh's blog someone has done some fact-checking and discovered that of the 14 such appointments that have been made since Miers took over the job in February of this year, 11 of them were approved just a few days after she took over the job. And, no, that DOESN'T mean she had anything to do with it. It was far too late for her to do anything meaningful at that point.
It means her timing was impeccable in that she was on watch when someone else's hard work paid off. She was and is basking in the light of reflected glory.
That's been Miers all along. She has amazing timing to be in the right place at the right time, working for the right person.
That doesn't mean that I have to swallow the garbage being foisted upon me by toadying crap-weasels and yes-men like Andy Card, Ed Gillespie, among other parts of the GOP spin machine.
The line that everybody but Miers turned down the fight that Rush Limbaugh et. al. wanted isn't sitting well with me at all.
I don't expect Rush is pleased with this either, assuming it's not just fog and really is coming from the Republican establishment.
Fine. I've been registered as a Republican since 1988, and I don't put "party" at the top of my list of priorities.
I agree.
That 20% may be hard as nails but it doesn't necessarily follow that they are more or less Conservative than Miers.
and PC blaming (elitism and sexism) coming from the White House
but....this thread is encouraging
been awhile
Hold on big guy. Just because Rove's spinning Dobson sure as hell doesn't make it true. I don't deny Pukin Dog was communicating accurately his sources. BUT the story smells like SPIN. I guess we'll have to wait a decade for the FOIA documents and memoirs to really understand why Bush made this boneheaded decision.
Then the Republican "establishment" is really going to feel the heat.
The RATS are completely and totally to blame for this.
That sure is a depressing message - certain to energize the base. "We aren''t trying to restore COnstitutional government because the public is too stupid and lazy."
I see a BOHICA coming, whether I work for it or not, in your scenario. Is this the best the GOP can do? Seriously? This is IT? This is really really the BEST? And I don't mean ultimate best, I mean best under the circumstances.
If so, it's all downhill from here. Because this BEST falls far short of my reasonable expecations. I've heard the salse pitch here for a week, and it falls f-l-a-t.
My thoughts exactly; You are so right!
" How many millions more are we going to allow the Democrats to kill in the womb before someone steps up to the plate?"
In addition to ROE, the KELO decision is of great importance, the abolition of private property is one of the goals in the communist manifesto.
imagine waco style attacks on property owners who refuse to hand it over to the government.
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