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Senator Clinton Urges President To Select Next Supreme Court Nominee By Consensus
NY 1 ^ | October 27, 2005 | NY 1 News

Posted on 10/28/2005 7:00:23 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough

As the president prepares to select a new nominee for the Supreme Court, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton released a statement urging the president to select the next nominee carefully.

"I urge the president to take seriously the Constitution's charge and to engage the U.S. Senate – both Republicans and Democrats – in a process of genuine consultation in order to identify and ultimately confirm a consensus nominee," the New York senator said in a statement Thursday.

Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination to the Supreme Court Thursday amid escalating criticism about her qualifications for the job.

The president said he reluctantly accepted Miers' decision to withdraw.

Over the past few weeks, President George W. Bush has reiterated his support for the embattled nominee. He attributes her withdrawal to members of the Senate who have called for the release of internal White House documents.

Senator Chuck Schumer, who serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee, took issue with that defense.

"The White House offered a nominee who had no record except for the documents, and then said, we won't give you the documents," said Schumer. "It was sort of like saying, the president kept saying, the more you learn about Harriet Miers, the more you'll like her. And then said, I'm not going to let you learn about her."

Miers' current post is White House Counsel. She has never served as a judge.

The president has known Miers professionally since his days as the Governor of Texas.

Her rationale for withdrawing is noted in a letter to the president, which read in part: "I am concerned that the confirmation process presents a burden for the White House and our staff that is not in the best interests of the country."

A senior White House official said Bush is quickly trying to find a new nominee to replace retiring justice Sandra Day O'Connor.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: New York
KEYWORDS: democrathack; hack; hillary; miers; piaps; schumer; stfupiaps; vincefoster
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To: citizensgratitude
You feel better about Ted Kennedy and John Kerry because they are from your state?

Absolutely not.Both are disgusting pieces of excrement. But,unlike The Former Twelfth Lady and RFK,you can't accuse them of being carpetbaggers.

101 posted on 10/28/2005 8:16:08 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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To: MinuteGal

Thanks for the story. How did you last 6 months there !?!?


102 posted on 10/28/2005 8:17:56 AM PDT by citizensgratitude (Our Military, present & past, the Highest example of Brotherhood of Man and doing God's Will)
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To: citizensgratitude

Right back at you.
Back to the thread, it's way past time, I think, to shed being "respectful and kind" to Dems, even if brought up to be that way.
A lady or gentleman is someone who does not give offense without cause. We've got plenty of cause . . .

The result, in 2005, is that their attitude is:
"What's ours is ours; what's yours is negotiable."
Damcommies . . .


103 posted on 10/28/2005 8:19:25 AM PDT by tumblindice (Ginsberg, Souter, Kennedy, O'Conner--say no more, wink wink nudge nudge)
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To: fatnotlazy

Thank you. I know it is off this subject line here but any strong thoughts on 08 nominee around these halls ??

I like Dr. Rice a heck of a lot because she is smart and experienced. However, I don't think she will be in the running, I do not think she is even considering it(my gut tells me).

Who ? We should get busy on our 08 candidate at least within the parties. There are many qualified but unknown.


104 posted on 10/28/2005 8:24:07 AM PDT by citizensgratitude (Our Military, present & past, the Highest example of Brotherhood of Man and doing God's Will)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Ok

I can't say my fellow NYs won't get fooled again...I wish I could.

The problem being New York City always cancels the rest of the state,which is very right minded believe it or not !

In my immediate area it is all conservative. Lots of Bush/Chenney bumperstickers 'bout last year at this time.


105 posted on 10/28/2005 8:28:18 AM PDT by citizensgratitude (Our Military, present & past, the Highest example of Brotherhood of Man and doing God's Will)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

F her!


106 posted on 10/28/2005 8:28:51 AM PDT by funkywbr
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To: tumblindice

Ewww....you must have read my mind.

How to hoodwink the Dems without behaving like them ?


107 posted on 10/28/2005 8:34:22 AM PDT by citizensgratitude (Our Military, present & past, the Highest example of Brotherhood of Man and doing God's Will)
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To: Piquaboy
"Screw her!"

Uhh...You first.

108 posted on 10/28/2005 8:35:49 AM PDT by Designer (Just a nit-pick'n and chagrin'n)
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To: duckln
"Good idea from Hillary for a change. Janice is leading in the consensus department."

In that respect, I would agree. Go JRB for SCOTUS!!!!

109 posted on 10/28/2005 8:41:16 AM PDT by el_texicano (Liberals, Socialist, DemocRATS, all touchy, feely, mind numbed robots, useless idiots all)
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To: LurkedLongEnough
I'm surprised she didn't demand direct election of federal judges.

That's democracy for those of you in Rio Linda.

110 posted on 10/28/2005 8:41:52 AM PDT by Designer (Just a nit-pick'n and chagrin'n)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

To: Hillary Rodham Clinton
From: George Bush
Subject: Supreme Court

Thank you so much for your input. Rest assured I will give it all the consideration it deserves.


111 posted on 10/28/2005 8:50:32 AM PDT by Valin (Purgamentum init, exit purgamentum)
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To: citizensgratitude

good point: How do you parry their punches below the belt without using the same methods.

Note that we haven't seen the "kill/smear the messenger" methods used by the Clintons against Starr by President Bush and the WH against Fitzgerald, so I suppose it can be done.


112 posted on 10/28/2005 8:51:43 AM PDT by tumblindice (Ginsberg, Souter, Kennedy, O'Conner--say no more, wink wink nudge nudge)
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Isn't "consensus" the same as "majority rule"?

Stretching the limits of the press, Hillary's statement might be ultimately the first in a later rally against the Electoral College.


113 posted on 10/28/2005 8:57:34 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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To: tumblindice

public perception on these two different administrations in these same situations you mention are much different due to liberal media.

To the liberal media, Ken Starr was the bad one.

To the liberal media Fitzgerald is the good one.

You write the email.. I'm going to get lunch...

(sarcasm) Thanks my Freepers..


114 posted on 10/28/2005 8:59:27 AM PDT by citizensgratitude (Our Military, present & past, the Highest example of Brotherhood of Man and doing God's Will)
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To: citizensgratitude

I don't think it's ever too early to think about the next election.

I wouldn't mind Dr. Rice as President -- I think she is capable and qualified. I mentioned this in another thread -- she seems to know when to get tough and when to be soft. We need a strong President -- one who can give our enemies the what-for and be good to our friends and allies (our true friends and allies, that is -- not pseudo allies like France, Germany and Russia). And we will especially need a strong figure to beat up the Democrats...particularly if somehow (God forbid) we wind up losing majority in one or both houses of Congress.

But as for any other candidates -- I don't know. I've heard a few names, but I'm not too familiar with these individuals, so I can't stay whether they would be good as President or not. Some others mentioned who I do know -- such as McCain -- no way. And definitely not Santorum either.

Certainly, this is something to consider and not a moment too soon either.


115 posted on 10/28/2005 9:01:36 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: Valin
I agree with Tom DeLay's message to Hillary:


116 posted on 10/28/2005 9:06:16 AM PDT by demkicker (I BELIEVE CONGRESSMAN WELDON!)
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To: LurkedLongEnough
 


Diversionary tactic.
(The Estrich bomb on O'Reilly.)

THE DANGER OF RUNNING VICARIOUSLY
Bill O'Reilly chews up and spits out the hillary clinton candidacy
(clip included)


the clinton-clinton-Broaddrick kind of rape, according to Susan Estrich


It is important that all women, all voters, understand the truth about missus clinton's active role in the clinton rapes and predations.

CLINTONS' DOCUMENTED ABUSE OF WOMEN


ESTRICH BOOK EXPOSES STOCK HILLARY PLOY: EXPLOIT WOMEN


hillary clinton was then--and is now--no passive coattail-rider... and certainly no victim.

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: ED KLEIN AND SUSAN ESTRICH AGREE ABOUT HILLARY


retrograde feminist fraud positions herself as victim (again) in order to win White House
[FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU! FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME!]


 
We used to execute rapists and traitors. Today we elect them president?
What is wrong with us?
 


(viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)
 

 

"Crucial to this protective wall was the secret police, a group of private detectives hired to protect hillary and 'Saturday night bill.' Their tactics included digging up dirt on women who might be linked to bill in order to cow them into silence. There is even some evidence of possible physical intimidation."

HEAR DICK MORRIS




 

"I got the letters from Pellicano to these women intimidating them. I had tapes of conversations from Pellicano to the women. I got handwritten letters from the women."
[Pellicano played a critical role in Mr. Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign by "suppressing" "inconvenient" accounts from several women, by concocting fraudulent "proof" (later discredited) that Gennifer Flowers doctored the damning tape of clinton, and again inside the clinton operation in January 1998, four days after the Monica Lewinsky story broke, to falsely paint Monica as simply a lying stalker, a claim later discredited by clinton's own DNA.]

MARY MATALIN
1997, CBS




 

There is reason to believe that he is a rapist ("You better get some ice on that," Juanita Broaddrick says he told her concerning her bit lip), and that he bombed a country to distract attention from legal difficulties arising from his glandular life, and that... [f]urthermore, the bargain that he and his wife call a marriage refutes the axiom that opposites attract. Rather, she, as much as he, perhaps even more so, incarnates Clintonism

GEORGE WILL
SLEAZE, THE SEQUEL




Connecticut Rep. Chris Shays said on a talk radio show Wednesday that, based on secret evidence he reviewed during the impeachment controversy, he believes President Clinton raped Juanita Broaddrick, not once, but twice.

Talk-show host Tom Scott of Clear Channel Broadcasting, New Haven (WELI 960) asked Shays about the mysterious impeachment "evidence room," prompting the GOP moderate to say that Broaddrick "disclosed that she had been raped, not once, but twice" to Judiciary Committee investigators.

Shays, who is often hailed by the New York Times for his independent judgment and good sense, found the evidence compelling:

"I believed that he had done it. I believed her that she had been raped 20 years ago. And it was vicious rapes, it was twice at the same event." Asked point blank if the president is a rapist, Shays said, "I would like not to say that it way. But the bottom line is that I believe that he did rape Broaddrick."

HEAR CHRISTOPHER SHAYS
'Shays Shocker Clinton Raped Broaddrick Twice'
National Review Online
By NR staff
8/02/2000




The rape took place while Bill was running for governor. Hillary came bursting into the room to talk to two people, one of whom I personally know.

She said "You won't believe what this [expletive] did now. He tried to rape some b*tch."

It was the job of these two to squelch the story.

doug from upland to Sean Hannity,
WABC, 10/16/00




 

"Who is Juanita Broaddrick? I've never heard of her!" cried Betty Friedan, the founder of modern feminism. Friedan's outburst came at last Friday's conference, entitled "The Legacy and Future of Hillary Rodham Clinton." Held at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. D.C., the event offered a chilling microcosm of an angry, divided America.

For nearly an hour, a five-woman panel had been debating whether Hillary qualified as a "feminist heroine." I thought Broaddrick's claim of having been raped by Hillary's husband had some bearing on this point, so I broached the subject during the question-and-answer period. Friedan's dyspeptic denial followed.

Was Friedan telling the truth? Maybe. And maybe all those millions of Germans who professed ignorance of the death camps were telling the truth too. The problem is, having admitted her ignorance, Friedan showed no interest in exploring the matter further. And that was the problem with the Germans too.

Totalitarian impulses flourished at the conference. Taking a page from Soviet psychiatry, some Clintonites suggested that Hillary hating might be a mental illness.

Richard Poe
The Hillary Conspiracy




.In a letter to Mrs. Clinton recalling their meeting shortly after the reported assault occurred, she wondered about the significance of Mrs. Clinton's words to her at that time. Thank you, Mrs. Broaddrick says Mrs. Clinton told her, for "everything you do for Bill."

The not-so-subtle implication of the letter is that Mrs. Clinton is, in fact, her husband's enabler. Dealing with her husband's promiscuity and worse might keep her from dealing with the important issues facing the people of New York, namely her candidacy. One might call it a Faustian bargain except that even Mephistopheles might not lower himself to sign such a deal....

COMPLETE ARTICLE
Did he rape that woman, Juanita Broaddrick?
The Wall Street Journal
EDITORIAL
October 18, 2000





 

I remember it as though it was yesterday. I only wish that it were yesterday and maybe there would still be time to do something about what your husband, Bill Clinton, did to me. There was a political rally for Mr. Clinton's bid for governor of Arkansas. I had obligated myself to be at this rally prior to my being assaulted by your husband in April, 1978. I had made up my mind to make an appearance and then leave as soon as the two of you arrived. This was a big mistake, but I was still in a state of shock and denial. You had questioned the gentleman who drove you and Mr. Clinton from the airport. You asked him about me and if I would be at the gathering. Do you remember? You told the driver, "Bill has talked so much about Juanita", and that you were so anxious to meet me. Well, you wasted no time. As soon as you entered the room, you came directly to me and grabbed my hand. Do you remember how you thanked me, saying "we want to thank you for everything that you do for Bill". At that point, I was pretty shaken and started to walk off. Remember how you kept a tight grip on my hand and drew closer to me? You repeated your statement, but this time with a coldness and look that I have seen many times on television in the last eight years. You said, "Everything you do for Bill". You then released your grip and I said nothing and left the gathering.

What did you mean, Hillary? Were you referring to my keeping quiet about the assault I had suffered at the hands of your husband only two weeks before? Were you warning me to continue to keep quiet? We both know the answer to that question.

Yes, I can answer Brit Hume's question. You are the same Hillary that you were twenty years ago. You are cold, calculating and self-serving. You cannot tolerate the thought that you will soon be without the power you have wielded for the last eight years. Your effort to stay in power will be at the expense of the state of New York. I only hope the voters of New York will wake up in time and realize that Hillary Clinton is not an honorable or an honest person.

I will end by asking if you believe the statements I made on NBC Dateline when Lisa Myers asked if I had been assaulted and raped by your husband?
 
Or perhaps, you are like Vice-President Gore and did not see the interview.

DO YOU REMEMBER?
AN OPEN LETTER TO HILLARY CLINTON
BY JUANITA BROADDRICK
SUNDAY OCT 15, 2000




 

"If you look at white women, and I think that was the key to this election, Kerry won 45% based on the exit polls--but they're generally in agreement--Kerry won 45%, Bush won 55% of white women. By contrast, Bush won only 45% of white women in 2000, so he upped is percentages by 10 points. In 1996, bill clinton won 48% of white women compared to Bob Dole's 43%. That is a huge, huge difference. I don't think you can lay all that at the doorstep of moral values. I think that this president unabashedly and abjectly took the issue of terror and used it to terrorize... white women."

HEAR HAROLD ICKES
Washington Journal
Nov. 8, 2004
C-SPAN




 

"It's no longer acceptable to say that the abuse and mistreatment of women is cultural. It should be called what it is: criminal."

Hillary Clinton
addressing the UN, 3.4.99

 

 But even as the clintons fails to grasp the scandal's metabolism
they understand all too well its most significant byproduct.
You can see it in their eyes. 
Once reflecting a Machiavellian confidence,
they now dart back and forth reflexively,
searching futilely for approval,
attempting desperately to dispel their own certain knowledge
that their moral authority is gone. . .
forever
Mia T
 
It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope.
We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth,
and listen to the song of that siren
till she transforms us into beasts.
Is this the part of wise men,
engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?
Are we disposed to be the number of those
who, having eyes, see not,
and having ears, hear not,
the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost,
I am willing to know the whole truth;
to know the worst, and to provide for it.
Patrick Henry
 
In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
Theodore Roethke

THE DANGER OF RUNNING VICARIOUSLY
Bill O'Reilly chews up and spits out the hillary clinton candidacy
(clip included)

BEAUTY AND THE HILDABEAST
  • JEANINE PIRRO: 30-year career fighting for the abused woman
  • HILLARY CLINTON: 30-year career abusing women
CLINTONS' DOCUMENTED ABUSE OF WOMEN


hillary clinton is a "CONGENITAL LIAR"
("I am not a crook")


retrograde feminist fraud positions herself as victim (again) in order to win White House
[FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU! FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME!]


NOTE THE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN CLINTON REACTION TIME AND CONTENT TO THE TWO RAPE CHARGES


CATCHING THE CONSCIENCE OF THE KINGFISH
differential reaction to the two rape charges snares the clintons


THE DANGER OF RUNNING VICARIOUSLY
Bill O'Reilly chews up and spits out the hillary clinton candidacy
(clip included)


the clinton-clinton-Broaddrick kind of rape, according to Susan Estrich


ESTRICH IMPEACHED BY HER OWN WORDS,
EXPOSES STOCK HILLARY PLOY: EXPLOIT WOMEN
my amazon.com review


STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: ED KLEIN AND SUSAN ESTRICH AGREE ABOUT HILLARY


ESTRICH BOOK EXPOSES STOCK HILLARY PLOY: EXPLOIT WOMEN


OPEN LETTER TO SEAN HANNITY ON ESTRICH INTERVIEW, THE CLINTONS' RAPE OF BROADDRICK
(with additions, corrections, addendum)


HILLARY FLUNKED D.C. BAR EXAM
"the smartest woman in the world" sought less competitive venue



117 posted on 10/28/2005 9:11:45 AM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: LurkedLongEnough

Crinton - Foxtrot Uniform!


118 posted on 10/28/2005 9:18:43 AM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: LurkedLongEnough

Concensus of conservatives. Not you libe swine.


119 posted on 10/28/2005 9:30:46 AM PDT by jw777
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To: wvobiwan

stop your grinnin and drop your linen.


120 posted on 10/28/2005 9:31:37 AM PDT by jw777
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