Senators reject Miers critics (RINO DeWine's launches tirade at conservatives)

The Washington Times ^ | 10/26/05 | Charles Hurt and Ralph Z. Hallow

[flashbunny]

last ping before bedtime ping.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Manuel Miranda, who has helped organize much of the opposition to Miss Miers, said this battle will not be forgotten by the Republican base.

"Mike DeWine is going to lose in Ohio, and he should be more aware of grass-roots sentiment," Mr. Miranda said. "Mike DeWine doesn't have a great deal of conservative support in Ohio and ham-fisted remarks aren't going to help with that."

From your lips to G-d's ear, Mr. Miranda.

[beyond the sea]

Let DeWine breathe.

[SteveH]

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[JeffAtlanta]

Mr. DeWine said Republican senators facing challengers in the 2006 election -- such as himself -- need not worry that their positions on the nomination will be held against them.

Are the GOP senators really that out of touch? No wonder they govern in such a bizarre fashion.

As I said earlier today, I don't mind if the party is weakened if it is heading in the wrong direction. It seems like we need to start over with our senators.

[JeffAtlanta]

DeWine is right though.

About what exactly?

[AntiGuv]

Maybe DeWine should resign, and then no one will care what he does with his newspaper.

[Steve_Stifler]

Now we know DeWine's son acquired his political tone-deafness honestly.

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"This is absurd," said Sen. Mike DeWine, the Ohio Republican who sits on the Judiciary Committee. "We need to move on to hearings."

The Bush fans have been accusing Miers opponents on this fourm of being RINOs on this issue. Interesting to see that DeWine, RINO-extraordinary, is parroting the same arguments as the pro-Miers crowd here.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Boy, am I going to enjoy watching Sherrod Brown beat that bespectacled, gun-grabbing, vacillating clod one year from now.

You reap what you sow.

That's a lesson that the Taft-tax Republicans in the buckeye state are going to learn the hard way.

[SteveH]

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[Steve_Stifler]

The intra-party fight between Brown and Hackett will make for an interesting primary. They may very well bloody each other up so well that DeWine can sneak through again. Then again, maybe McEwen will decide to file for the Republican Senate seat.

[coconutt2000]

WE SUPPORT THE TROOPS, BUT NOT HARRIET MIERS!

There, I fixed the broken record and patched together the proper words in the proper order.

I'm in favor of Harriet Miers reaching the hearings. I find it more odd that so-called Republicans are trying to scuttle a nominee before she reaches the hearings, after all the complaining that goes on when the Democrats attempt to do the same thing.

From here on out the Democrats are going to point at this sorry example of backstabbing activism on the part of conservatives and justify their borking of the next nominee...

Think about it.. If Harriet Miers is as incompetent or unqualified as everybody claims, wouldn't she be equally capable of sinking her own nomination in the hearings? Wouldn't a simple, "Sorry Mr. President, but we won't support you on this one." have been enough? Instead we got the vitriolic, name calling that we normally associate with the Democrat's, not to mention the gleeful manner that conservatives dug into her records misconstruing and misquoting out of context every potentially controversial statement, or grouping of words that ever left her mouth or her pen.

Then again, I'm just a Bushbot to be dismissed out of hand.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

I wish Kasich had run against him in the primary.

This is the same deal that unfolded with Abraham and McCain, where there were two perfectly capable anti-immigration challengers-with impeccable conservative credentials-who refused to step forward.

Sometimes you need to buck your party, regardless of the political repercussions.

[NapkinUser]

I'm almost at the point where I hope that democrat who fought in Iraq who lost to Schmidt for the house seat and is running for the senate again Dewine in Ohio beats him.

That's a real mouthfull.

[Cold Heat]

I agree.

This is all nonsense and any Senator that allows himself to be swayed by public opinions is not doing what Senators are supposed to do. they would be acting like Congressmen.

There is a damned good reason why the Senate does this work.

They are to be deliberative and thoughtfully slow, taking into account the constitution and the balance of powers.

You, the voter gave the Senator that power and he must use it in good faith and not stick a political finger in the air to test the waters of the next election.

This is why Senators were appointed and not elected at first. It may have been a big mistake to change that. i have wondered about that frequently, especially when some idiot like Shummer or Clinton is running for president while working as a senator.

I have seen a awful lot of partisan stupidity of late, and I find it to be damaging to the party and the coalition. You cannot take good governance and throw it out the window just because you don't agree. Democrats and useful idiots do that. Not conservatives in my humble opinion.

[Cold Heat]

One of the better rants I have seen today!

I'll join you in those thoughts.