Posted on 10/28/2005 3:23:24 AM PDT by WaterDragon
OVER the last two elections, the Republican Party regained control of the United States Senate by electing new senators in Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota and Texas. These victories were attributable in large measure to the central demand made by Republican candidates, and heard and embraced by voters, that President Bush's nominees deserved an up-or-down decision on the floor of the Senate. Now, with the withdrawal of Harriet Miers under an instant, fierce and sometimes false assault from conservative pundits and activists, it will be difficult for Republican candidates to continue to make this winning argument: that Democrats have deeply damaged the integrity of the advice and consent process.
The right's embrace in the Miers nomination of tactics previously exclusive to the left - exaggeration, invective, anonymous sources, an unbroken stream of new charges, television advertisements paid for by secret sources - will make it immeasurably harder to denounce and deflect such assaults when the Democrats make them the next time around. Given the overemphasis on admittedly ambiguous speeches Miers made more than a decade ago, conservative activists will find it difficult to take on liberals in their parallel efforts to destroy some future Robert Bork...(snip)
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("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")
Shake it, Hugh! WORK dat thang! WHOOOOOOOOOO -- !!!
Yeah, we all voted for Bush because of the up or down vote issue...right...and by withdrawing the worse candidate and making the best decision in weeks, NOW we will turn on him
I like how Schumer makes public statements saying Miers doesn't have the votes to be confirmed, and is upset when she is pulled because 'she didn't get a chance'
Now, come on Hugh. Be a man. It's easy: "I---Was---Wrong."
"Absent a miracle of Senate efficiency, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will cast one of her last votes on the most important abortion-rights case in a few years. And then the accounting will begin in earnest."
We didn't even make the liberals show their beliefs on this one.
She should have been allowed to testify, then those "conservatives" you site, that are so strong, should have stepped up and voted against her, if she was truly what the National Review and others were saying about her.
Truth is the conservative in Congress aren't strong, as you'll soon see.
I cant wait to see how polite and accomodating the democrats are going to be when President Bush appoints Janice Rogers Brown! Im sure they will be full of nothing but praise
It's like they live in a parallel universe.
Will you stand with him if you don't like the next candidate he nominates?
Haven't we proven that we, too, have a litmus test, just like the Dems?
Shouldn't we have the "cajones," as another poster said of Hewitt, to admit we have a litmus test?
I'd like to see you specify exactly what this "litmus test" consists of.
("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")
("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")
"Absent a miracle of Senate efficiency, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will cast one of her last votes on the most important abortion-rights case in a few years. And then the accounting will begin in earnest."
I hope to see the Children of the Corn over at NRO/Confirm Them/Red State held to account when this happens.
Hi, WD! Long time no see!
So...what do you think of all this?
If another feddie is nominated, the dems will react the same.
If the pubs try to force it, the dems will shut down the Senate.
Lame duck republicans.
The point is that the Left will not like ANYONE Bush sends up---here he gave them a stealth candidate who was pro-Affirmtive Action, pro-feminism, probably pro-Roe, and who might have been recused on ALL "war on terror" cases, and they STILL couldn't restrain themselves. So they won't ever allow any Republican to come in without savage attacks. We need to realize this and prepare, then WIN.
No, not at all. I just wanted dawn53 to specify what the conservative "litmus test" actually is.
I have my own ideas, and so do you, and I find nothing shameful in either.
But dawn53 seems to think there's a problem with it. So I'd like to know what that problem is.
We STILL have a democrat filibuster threat, we STILL have the same group of Republican senators who won't vote for the nuclear option, and I assume George Will STILL thinks that the nuclear option is unconstitutional.
So, what makes you think that Brown or Luttig or Owens will get past this group? And how many of your acceptable candidates are going to want to go before the firing squad?
It will be a rare nominee that won't be filibustered by the left or picked to death by the right.
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