[Congressman Billybob]

Here's my contribution to the post-Miers discussion. Whether it is Judge Brown or some other woman judge, I feel strongly that this time the President will not make any effort to avoid a fight, but will put up a hard-wired judicial conservative.

John / Billybob

[saveliberty]

Word is that they want someone already vetted and the odds are for McConnell.

[Guenevere]

bttt

[Rodney King]

Awesome. Please God let it happen.

[stylin19a]

Death by a thousand cuts ? more like nibbled to death by ducks.

[unixfox]

Why is everybody so hell bent on having a woman on the court. I thought we wanted the "Best Qualified" person for the job.

Sounds like a quota thing to me, but that's just me.

[medscribe]

Next nominee: Hillary Clinton

[Blood of Tyrants]

Some of you were here in 1992, when the last Amendment – one that came from the hand of James Madison – was declared ratified by Congress.

1992? Have I missed something?

[boomop1]

Time to get the traitors 9 aside and threaten to remove them from any committee or leadership position and make them jump if necessary.

[AbeKrieger]

http://img.slate.msn.com/media/1/123125/2065970/2114372/2118551/050511_N1_JudgeJudy_tn.jpg

I am a woman with plenty of bench experience and a lengthy paper trail. Maybe not the best qualified, but HEY I'm a woman !

[FreedomPoster]

From your pen to GWB's ear. Or something like that.

[Oatka]

I feel strongly that this time the President will not make any effort to avoid a fight, but will put up a hard-wired judicial conservative.

If he doesn't, and goes for another non-entity, his base will abandon him.

[You Dirty Rats]

John, do you think JRB will be filibustered? Do you think the 'Rats and moderate Republicans will have 51 votes to defeat the "nucular" option?

If the answer to both questions is "yes", what is the point of starting a fight that we'll lose?

[HostileTerritory]

I am Woman. Hear Me Roar. Senators, I Am Too Big To Ignore.

[Nam Vet]

We're on the same page Billybob. Excellent contribution, as per usual. Let's just hope this or something like it reaches the proper eyes and hearts.

Nam Vet

[George Smiley]

From your mouth to God's ears.

I have already posted my thoughts on why JRB would be an excellenet strategic choice for Bush to make:

It'd be good poker of the highest order as

1) It'd force the Dems to attack a black female

2) Who was re-elected by large margins in the well-known bastion of right-wing extremism known as Kah-lee-four-nyah.

3) Who they have voted for mere months ago to confirm to a seat on the D.C. Circuit Court.

1 and 2 just make them look bad when they attack.

3 makes them look either stupid or hypocritical; they'll make verbal pretzels in the air explaining why she suddenly became a maybe from a yes.

[edcoil]

I don't think the President or the Republican party can depend on any Republican in Congress to show any backbone and fight for the Presidents nomination.

[deport]

Whether it is Judge Brown or some other woman judge, I feel strongly that this time the President will not make any effort to avoid a fight, but will put up a hard-wired judicial conservative.

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Interesting take but I have a different view. I think the President will take the pragmatic approach and nominate someone that will be supported by at least enough of a mix from both sides of the aisle that confirmation will be secured without a knock down fight.

JMO and obviously yours differs.

[hosepipe]

Bush already has one RINO confirmed, appointed another one, and the next one will be one too.. Why?.. Rinoisimus Maximus is the name and the son of "read my lips" is the game.. thats why the boy is goin for a Dame..

[absolootezer0]

why doesn't someone bring up that maybe the best nominee would be someone withOUT judicial, or even legal experience? the vast majority of the people here would make a better justice than many "qualified" potentials. it would be a "common sense" approach to the constitution, reading what it says, not looking for other meanings to create an interpretation to fit what's expediant.

[prognostigaator]

Remarkably, her judicial philosophy puts her even further to the right than the most far-right justices now sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.

In August, People For the American Way and the NAACP released a joint report opposing Brown's confirmation. In recent weeks, her nomination has met increasing opposition, both in her home state and nationally, from groups including the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the Alliance for Justice, AFL-CIO, Alliance for Retired Americans, Americans for Democratic Action, Feminist Majority, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., NARAL Pro-Choice America, National Bar Association, National Council of Jewish Women, National Organization for Women, National Senior Citizens Law Center, National Women's Law Center, Natural Resources Defense Council, Planned Parenthood, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, and the Sierra Club. Brown's confirmation hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee has been scheduled for Wednesday, October 22.

from people of the American way.........