To: sourcery
---Former Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, a Republican, laments that the Miers controversy empowered "the bloggers and pundits far beyond the president and the Senate, which should be the ones that decide on the suitability" of a nominee.---
how dare these lowly citizens question what their betters in washington are doing!
3 posted on
10/30/2005 11:14:33 PM PST by
flashbunny
(Ask yourself why some posters here use the term "uber conservative" like it's some kind of slur.)
To: flashbunny
the citizens are becoming more informed than the senators.
To: flashbunny; Stellar Dendrite
how dare these lowly citizens question what their betters in washington are doing!Indeed. "Their betters" or their infallible leaders?
7 posted on
10/30/2005 11:38:31 PM PST by
DTogo
(I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
To: flashbunny; All
I think all these Wash D.C. people need to read the Declaration of Independence AND MEMORIZE IT - it says,"of the PEOPLE, by the PEOPLE, for the PEOPLE" .. not some smarmy liberal idiot's decision.
And .. it wasn't just the "bloggers and pendits" it was TALK RADIO TOO!!
39 posted on
10/31/2005 9:05:07 AM PST by
CyberAnt
(I BELIEVE CONGRESSMAN WELDON!)
To: flashbunny
---Former Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, a Republican, laments that the Miers controversy empowered "the bloggers and pundits far beyond the president and the Senate, which should be the ones that decide on the suitability" of a nominee.---
What is the source of this quote (where/when)?
It is astonishing!
48 posted on
10/31/2005 5:11:49 PM PST by
pointsal
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