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.
Hmmm. Well, in balance of powers, when the president appoints, the judge ... I dunno waht O'Connor would do. But she should step aside despite the literal language of her retirement letter.
While I think a recess appoint is mostly theoretical, I think it is not entirely theoretical. It's a Constitutional power of the President, as impeachment is for Congress. Not often used, but awesome in power. Tends to keep the others guys performing their Constitutional functions, if you know what I mean.
Our politicians don't know how to use the COnstitution. They are mired in legislation and regulations and minutia and winning elections (buying votes with cash).
COnservatives have to change that, you know, if we are to get the country straightened out. We can joke about it, but this is ernestly serious stuff.
Neither do I. As a matter of fact, my remote is broken. I don't get up to change the channel to listen to any leftist.
If Harriet were Harry, she might've merited a district court appointment.
That's why I asked....if she was on Lauer for Meirs then she knew what she was doing....she is not dumb.
on occasion the past 5 years I have seen icky PC drifts from this White House a number of times....
of course with Clinton it rained PC
but why must we have to be satisifed always by weighing the alternative?
is a real conservative impossible?
we shall see
From Freepers.
I hate excuses, such as this line about nobody but Miers wanting the job. How many conservatives did all they could to trounce the filibuster when it was first concocted by Kennedy, Clinton, Schumer et. al?
Conservatives MUST lead out front on the filibuster in order to gain credibility on the nominations. Otherwise, I see more excuses in our future.
Sad.
I do not think so. Nothing will convince you because you do not want to shift out of neutral. You honestly do not think that these women do not want an anal exam from the Democrats after the crap that has been spewed in the media on Miers in just the last week, and all the crap on these threads from the so called allies. You have to be joking. They accused John Roberts little boy Jack of being gay, they do not care if it is true just put it out there and see if it sticks. I would not put up with the crap two minutes and you know what Janice Brown said to Rush and the way she said it told all of us that she was through for now. You did not have to go through the crap, and all those potential nominees saw what they put Robert's *the shoe in) through and they said forget it. Miers is he only one with the guts to handle those dirty Bass-turds.
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.
It's simply not true that all of the sitting justices went through the character assassination that now prevails. The MSM gives a pass to Rat nominees, and the level of slime that occurs now was nowhere near the same level before the Thomas confirmation. In Thomas, the wackos went nuclear to try to keep off the court a black conservative who shattered all of the lies the MSM and the left had been feeding the American people for decades.
Is everyone done ranting about how these judicial nominees should be prepared to wade ashore at Omaha Beach, go over the top at the Somme, etc.? If not, then keep going until you get it out of your system.
The reality is that the current character assassination gauntlet IS in fact keeping people who are outstanding originalist, constitutional legal scholars and who would make excellent Supreme Court Justices from the point of view of FReepers, from being included as potential nominees.
Let's focus on the real enemies, it's not the nancy boy legal scholars, but the vicious left-wing smear machine.
ANyway. Event blown pretty far out of proportion, IMO. And I stress the IMO. Gillespies "elites" offense is pure crap.
Yes, it is. Sickening.
If the GOP drops this ball, the GOP will lose elections. It's the GOP's problem to handle, and it is emphatically not cutting the mustard.
I never saw all of that....some of the homo stuff...which would surface were the nominee a 60 year old never married male too
but....often the FReepers harshest on other women here are
...women freepers
just look how they slice and dice Coulter and Malkin now that they are on the FReeper Female Posse's shitelist
*not all prolific freeper women do this (see, I'm skeered of them too..lol)
I was thinking since none of the candidates know which particular candidates withdrew their names and which didn't, the ones who didn't think the whitehouse was referring to someone else. None of them has the means or the opportunity to question all the other candidates to learn the truth and each one is blind about the actions of the other.
The above is the best I can explain it, this time of night, LOL!
Do we even know all of the potential nominees on the President's list? Or is only the Whitehouse privy to each and every name on their list?
Samantha is correct. I have read those things too. If I have time tomorrow I'll find them and send you a link.
You better be.
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