Posted on 10/27/2005 11:13:19 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
...biting lip and nodding head...
Thanks for this link.
Brown was only confirmed 56-43 to her current appointment. Because this time it would be for a Supreme Court seat, I could see some spineless RINOs getting cold feet and deserting her. Brown wouldn't have much margin to play with.
I think that the President will play it safe this time and nominate a more moderate conservative than Brown. Not my wishes, just my prediction.
I with you 100%. When another hopefully comes up then I would go with JRB.
Rumors today are ALITO....will be picked....
McConnell looks like Phil Donahue, judging from that photo.
Do we really want a SCOTUS judge who clerked for Brennan?
Exactly who in the Senatate will fight the 'good' fight with President Bush? There are some really important decisions coming up-parental notification, partial birth and a couple of campaign law cases (one of which could affect Free Republic). Now while we fight the 'good fight', Sandra will hear these important cases-no doubt she will consult foreign law. Miers would have been conservative, and she would have been in place in time: timing is everything. I wouldn't be surprised if the Dems blocked a Supreme Court judicial nominee until after the 2006 elections. I think 'pure' conservatives spoiling for a fight with Dems betrayed President Bush and severely weakened him. This sort of behavior will not help conservatives in the end.
She will not, unfortunately, be confirmed.
Great, we lose Miers (conservative) and gain a Clinton appointee. What a great deal.
There is never hell to pay for these boys and girls-unfortunately. The only member of the gang of 14 to pay a price is Lindsey Graham.
Miers was killed off by the far right. Don't blame her withdrawal on the Democrats.
Last time his nominee had her head handed to her. I doubt that Bush will stray from the expected path this time. If I was betting then I'd probably put money on Jones or Clement.
The Democrats where the only ones who said they didn't have a problem with Miers. She had more vocal support from Leahy than from Brownback.
I certainly don't. He's a southern Republican, not a conservative.
Liberal. What the hell are you doing on this forum?
Congressman Billybob
Congressman Billybob
"United States Air Force Academy, 1975-1977"
Why did Gonzales leave the Air Force Academy?
If the President can't rally the Republicans in the Senate to fight for him, then what's even the point of electing Republicans? Our choice at election time seems to be this: Either vote for a Democrat who will aggressively promote the leftist agenda, or vote for a Republican who won't do anything to stop the Democrats from aggressively promoting a leftist agenda.
If those are our only choices, the country's doomed no matter what so we may as well not even vote.
If the President had appointed someone like Brown, Owen, or Luttig to begin with, what do you think would be happening right now? I think that all the energy we expended fighting within our own ranks over Miers would have gone into fighting for the nominee. The Democrats would have thrown a hissy fit, threatened to filibuster, unleashed their attack dogs with howls about the nominee's alleged radicalism. But unlike with Bork in 1987, we could have fought back. We now have alternative media to take our case to the people. Do you really think that the American people would rally around the likes of Schumer, Biden, and Kennedy if they abused Brown or Owen (for example) during hearings? Quite the opposite.
If the Rats filibuster, force them to go 24/7. Conservative groups, instead of buying ads to oppose Miers, can now buy ads informing the public that the Rats are filibustering to protect partial birth abortion and to promote gay "marriage".
There's something badly wrong when conservatives win nearly every referendum on volatile social issues (in recent years alone, in Michigan & Florida on abortion, in California on affirmative action, and in a dozen states on gay "marriage"). Yet, a judicial nominee who would allow those popular referenda results to stand can't be enthusiastically supported by a party which supposedly stands with the people on those issues.
The President botched a HUGE opportunity when he appointed Miers, who may be a nice lady but who has also swung like a pendulum in the past. It'll be harder now to confirm a clear constitutionalist judge, but we have to try. The Democrats captured the term "judicial mainstream" during the Bork hearings. We need to capture it back from them. We need to make clear that a judge who FOLLOWS THE CONSTITUTION and allows the American people TO GOVERN THEMSELVES on issues where the Constitution leaves such matters to the voters is mainstream.
But that's not what we've been doing. Instead of challenging the Democrats who control the gate blocking us from the Supreme Court, we try to sneak around them. We say, "Hey look, Democrats....our nominee isn't out of the mainstream. Why, he's never once denounced Roe or written anything negative about gay marriage!" Then, we hope and pray the nominee, once confirmed, turns out okay. Usually, they don't. Miers might have turned out okay, but then again she might have started going to coffee & bridge parties with Ginzburg and turned hard left. We just don't know.
And then when the next vacancy came up, we'd have the same problem. Gee, can we find someone that won't ruffle the Democrats' feathers and who has never criticized liberal judicial activism in a speech or in print, and yet who will be a constitutionalist once confirmed?
Good luck!
I'd rather take my chances on a real fight.
We'll need a hell of a lot better reason than that, like, his actual understanding of the Constitution. Now is NOT the time for a partisan food fight that has no constitutional dimension to it.
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