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80% of Potential SCOTUS Nominees on W's List Decline His Offer
Fox News | 10-11-05 | freedom4me

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.


TOPICS: Government; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: bush43; judicialnominees; miers; nothanks; rove; scotus
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

By the way, I won't tell anyone I was dumb enough to vote for McCarthy just to go against my parents, if you won't :)


561 posted on 10/11/2005 11:36:51 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

yes...she now along with with 50% of the GOP, a large(?) number of freepers, most known conservative writers etc

have all collectively lost their minds according to the rather loud Bot chorus here


562 posted on 10/11/2005 11:36:53 PM PDT by wardaddy (Save a cow......eat a vegetarian.)
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To: Cboldt

Haven't read all 550+ posts, but is anybody buying the idea that Janice Rodgers Brown backed down from a fight with the lib Dems?


563 posted on 10/11/2005 11:37:16 PM PDT by Steve_Stifler
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

I was referring to the over the top wack jobs for the last week on free republic that have come up with ever accusation and lie you can imagine to trash the nominee. Krauthammer is not always right sometimes he is very wrong like when he trashed a Beautiful Mel Gibon Movie about the Crucifixion of Christ as anti Semitic. That was horse manure and his ramblings about Miers are the same crap. When he is good he is very good, but when he is bad he sucks. Michelle Malkin has been going off the deep end for the last six months, and I stopped watching her and reading her. It is a shame because she has been brilliant in the past. She seems weird ever since that scumbag Chrissy the sissy Mathews practically assaulted her, the cowardly jerk. None of these people are perfect and they are in love with their own notices. We put them on these pedestals and they do not want to get off.


564 posted on 10/11/2005 11:37:19 PM PDT by samantha (cheer up, the adults are in charge! Soldier in Bucket Brigade Reporting for Duty.)
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To: sageb1

"Affirmative action Republican" should theoretically be an oxymoron...


565 posted on 10/11/2005 11:37:31 PM PDT by nerdgirl (just say NO to posters who are "stuck on mean")
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To: Kryptonite
Rush isn't going to compromise himself over BS

No. Over success. He walks a line between cheerleading conservatives, and cheerleading GOP. TO the extent those lines diverge, his job gets pretty tough.

I wasn't buying his "the conservatives and GOP will prevail" bluster today. I wanted to - but I knew he was trying to spread confidence out of thin air.

566 posted on 10/11/2005 11:38:00 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Dolphy
"Nobody is afraid of their questions. They are not interested in having every aspect of their life, every word they ever uttered, every person they rubbed the wrong way, every word of faith they have professed, etc. etc. etc. paraded through the process..."

What? Every politician has to go through this process, and all of those presently sitting on the Supreme Court had the courage to face potential slander and dredging up of past events. But after all the partisan character assassinations and gossipping is done by the Senators, they are the ones who look bad before before the American people, not the SCOTUS nominee.

Beyond all that, consider what our brave soldiers and marines are going through to serve our country right now. It takes guts to stand up and do something for America that requires a possible sacrifice. Our troops are facing real bullets and real bombs, not some cheap verbal shots from washed-up windbags like Teddy Kennedy and Patrick Leahey.

567 posted on 10/11/2005 11:38:22 PM PDT by TheCrusader ("The frenzy of the Mohammedans has devastated the churches of God" -Pope Urban II, 1097AD)
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To: Cboldt

well...this fight continues to simmer....10 days later (more or less)


the PC defenses coming from the White House were unfortunate

i can't believe Laura Bush played the sexist card...is that really true?


568 posted on 10/11/2005 11:39:02 PM PDT by wardaddy (Save a cow......eat a vegetarian.)
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To: Jim Robinson

"So let them drag out the embarrassing dirty laundry. Who cares? How many millions more are we going to allow the Democrats to kill in the womb before someone steps up to the plate?"

Well yes, from OUR (the public) viewpoint it is best to get the paper-trailed qualified judge up there, despite whatever is brought out, pubic hair, devil worshipping, eating cute animals, whatever. It is time to BEAT the dnc once and for all and establish that the president can put his judges in place with his senate. That still has not happened.

For many of us the judge issue is one of the biggest reasons to put up with many of the domestic antics of this administration. I am not sure what your views are on the ones I am thinking of (border control/lack of, breathtaking deficit spending with huge spending increases, no child left behind, senior drug plan) but there are valid conservative concerns (or outrage) on any of the above. Re-establishing conservative voting majority on scotus would almost be worth all of that, despite the huge forward spending the senior drug plan is going to bring in.

It is another issue to be the judge(s) who are actually being asked to be burned at the stake with NO guarantee the GOP senate will actually push them through. From the viewpoint of the sacrificial lamb I can certainly understand some hesitation about going to the altar. I bet we don't know a quarter of what some of the appelate judges who were on hold for years went through, if it was enough for some to withdraw their acceptance of appelate nomination.


569 posted on 10/11/2005 11:39:02 PM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: JCEccles
"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."

Well, we knew she hadn't done it all by herself but WOW!

As to your last sentence, John Fund made a simlar remark. Miers seems to have impeccable timing.

BTW, coincidentally, she became a Born Again Christian and a Republican around the same time she first met GW (They met in 1989).

570 posted on 10/11/2005 11:39:06 PM PDT by TAdams8591 (A Reagan Conservative and mighty proud of it.)
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To: Steve_Stifler

"Haven't read all 550+ posts, but is anybody buying the idea that Janice Rodgers Brown backed down from a fight with the lib Dems?"

NO


571 posted on 10/11/2005 11:39:07 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite ( Mike Pence for President!!! http://acuf.org/issues/issue34/050415pol.asp)
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To: nerdgirl

I don't think it had anything to do with the fact that Blanco is a woman. Bush hesitated because the federal government cannot just walk into to any state and take control.


572 posted on 10/11/2005 11:39:30 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: Mike Darancette

Of course you are right. In fact, pretty much everything is voluntary nowadays. But "the call to duty" comes upon you in many different ways. You can turn away from many such calls. And sometimes most folks would be none the wiser. But they are calls to duty, just the same.


573 posted on 10/11/2005 11:39:40 PM PDT by Iwo Jima
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To: samantha
We put them on these pedestals and they do not want to get off

It couldn't possibly be that you've put the wrong person on the pedestal, now could it?

574 posted on 10/11/2005 11:42:15 PM PDT by garandgal
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To: Arizona Carolyn
"I was sitting here working and thinking the direction our country is taking (in general) really scares me for the younger generation."

Oh yeah! I have 5 grandkids and boy, is this on my mind every single day.

575 posted on 10/11/2005 11:43:00 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: voteconstitutionparty

Well, if that's true we best find that out right away.


576 posted on 10/11/2005 11:43:12 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: sageb1
That's a fair point, I had only read some articles that suggested otherwise, and they could certainly be wrong.

I do wish he wouldn't have caved to the pressure to nominate a woman and only a woman.

577 posted on 10/11/2005 11:43:34 PM PDT by nerdgirl (just say NO to posters who are "stuck on mean")
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To: Steve_Stifler
Haven't read all 550+ posts, but is anybody buying the idea that Janice Rodgers Brown backed down from a fight with the lib Dems?

In this diverse group, you can count on somebodies typing thatthey believe that - and they may in fact be being honest.

Or, maybe she wasn't on the short list.

I think the story is cover. Best person for the job - the President said Miers is it. He didn't say "best woman for the job." ANd it's going look sexist -AND- not honestly exploring the field for "best" if the "short list" only had women on it. Would you admit that "women only need apply for this opening."?

578 posted on 10/11/2005 11:43:58 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Jim Robinson

I have seen the names in other publications, like "USA Today." I would love to see the list being used by the Inner Circle. Might be more than the 12 I've listed.


579 posted on 10/11/2005 11:44:48 PM PDT by jonrick46
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To: TAdams8591
Until I see a report specifically naming the other candidates who withdrew, I will consider the above story, a bogus CYA story concocted by the Whitehouse to manipulate sympathy from the Republican base, many of whom are quite angry with them at the moment.

Agree and was mulling that over.

But how could they possibly put that out there if in fact it was inaccurate? These nominations come few and far between. It's not like a top potential nominee would forever remain quiet after being passed over, due to the administration implying that top potential nominees chose to opt out before a nominee was even chosen.

And how could they not reveal the names? If in fact it were true, would it not help their position to reveal the names?

580 posted on 10/11/2005 11:45:25 PM PDT by Black Tooth (The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.)
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