Posted on 10/15/2005 3:58:03 PM PDT by NapkinUser
The conservatives' noisy split over the Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination has largely obscured the fact that Senate Democrats could control her fate in a way that was never possible in the confirmation battle over Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.
While the turmoil on the right offers Democrats a tantalizing opportunity, party strategists said, it also will confront them with a difficult choice: Confirm a conservative with close ties to President Bush, or oppose her and join ranks with hard-right activists who historically are their arch enemies.
For now, Democrats and liberal groups have been content to stay mostly quiet and watch Bush tangle with a restless corps of usually supportive conservatives who oppose Miers's nomination. But with Senate Judiciary Committee hearings beginning next month, Democrats acknowledge they will eventually have to move off the sidelines and begin making a case for or against the president's personal lawyer and White House counsel.
That decision will be far more difficult -- and decisive -- if the conservative schism persists and prompts a handful of Republicans ultimately to oppose Miers's confirmation. If six of the Senate's 55 Republicans do so, the nomination would fail if all 44 Democrats and the chamber's Democratic-leaning independent also voted nay.
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If I listened long enough to you
I'd find a way to believe that its all true
knowin that you lied straight faced, and I cried.......
still I look to find a reason to believe
This time, this is BUSHE'S FAULT.
Charlie is a bit simple minded.
sheeee..it
The WH focus should be what effect this will have on the 2006 House elections. Could the Republicans lose the House over this, I wonder?
A strategy for the Democrats is outlined on the NOW web page.
There are some important abortion cases coming up soon. So - oppose Miers quietly but let the Republicans do much of the dirty work in keeping her off the court; then O'Connor gets to rule on the abortion cases. Then, if Bush nominates someone else with a big conservative paper trail, tie the Senate up with filibusters.
Actually, I think it is our (the Conservatives) fault. If we had pitched a b*tch about Roberts, as we had every right to do, because he is just as much of an unknown as Miers (maybe more), then Miers would have never been nominated.
Charlie is a bit simple minded.
Note to Chuck, don't play chess with Karl Rove,
or Texas Hold'em with GW.
Then again maybe you COULD beat them next hand, maybe.
You can literally read the drool.
If all that the hard work gave us is a Democrat qualified SCOTUS nominee, it's all over for the Republican Party.
There would be a total demoralization of the base and probably a third party exodus from those conservatives who would still have the strength to continue fighting.
No, it's the extreme right's fault.
Could the Republicans lose the House over this, I wonder?
Really doubt it. In the next couple of days ask friend, neighbors, co-workers, anyone you meet. Do you know who Harriet Miers is, and what do you think for her? I hazzard a guess that it will be an eye opener.
There are 231 Republicans 202 Democrats 1 Independent members. Do the math.
And when she turns out to be a pretty good Justice?
Bush went all in with seven deuce off suit.
Some of us might argue that perhaps we could have had a GREAT Justice.
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