You mean the senators that have voted for every single Bush judge so far? McCain, who voted to confirm Luttig in the first place I assume? A group of senators who ruled out ideology as an appropriate reason to filibuster? Would vote against a widely respected judge like Michael Luttig?
Preposterous.
"You mean the senators that have voted for every single Bush judge so far? McCain, who voted to confirm Luttig in the first place I assume? A group of senators who ruled out ideology as an appropriate reason to filibuster? Would vote against a widely respected judge like Michael Luttig?
Preposterous."
Hey, Johnny Z, you could be right. But you could be wrong. Has McCain never shocked you by going against the right? Had not he and the Gang of 14 kicked the pins from under Frist just as we were about to go nuclear? You can disagree, of course, but I think "preposterous" is going a bit too far.
As far Voinovich, any man that would cry on the Senate floor over a nomination like Bolton could never be trusted, in my eyes, to take my back in a fight when the going got REALLY tough.
If you wanted to, couldn't you put together a list of Republican senators who could conceivably vote against Luttig, thereby embarrassing the President?
Beside, there were 4 other points to my decision to support the President in his pick of Miers, it was not based on this alone.