Posted on 10/31/2005 3:12:28 AM PST by kcvl
Per Fox News...
LOL! That's great! Thanks!
Yes he does.
Has he learned his Miers lesson?
I will never be in that camp. I abhor government by guess, and prefer a transparent decision making process, even (maybe especially) where I don't like the result.
Court nominee expected as early as today, Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, warned President Bush yesterday not to pick Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr ...
I'll try to be NICER, if you will try to be SMARTER.
Alito has a judicial history, and Harry Reid doesn't want him named. Those are two things already in Alito's favor.
Now, when Kerry, Kennedy, Pelosi, Boxer, and hClinton decry naming Alito, we will know he is a much better choice than Miers was.
Almost certainly not.
I disagree. Graham has already said he would oppose a filibuster of this nominee. We just need a couple more of the gang of seven and we can nuke the filibuster.
Create a phony strawman and then rail against the choice. On what basis do you infer that conservatives are or are perceived to be against a woman being nominated to the SCOTUS? Conservative opposition to the Miers' nomination had nothing to do with gender. Re Brown: From what I have read and heard, Janice Rogers Brown was not the Conservatives overwhelming choice for the nomination. Rather, we wanted to most qualified person with a proven conservative judicial philosophy and track record. Sex, ethnicity, and race didn't matter.
Who cares? Whether Catholic or Protestant Evangelical, he's a believer, almost more importantly today, he's NOT a Muslim, and is a constructionist for all we can see.
What more do you want?
And that is not an accident...
Well, let's us all help get judge Alito through the Senate.
Write or call your Senators everybody.
I wasn't happy about the meanness of the attacks about Miers. I think on some issues she brought experience from private law and executive branch during the WOT that could have been very valuable for the other justices.
But I wasn't happy about that recently uncovered speech from the early 1990's either. That kind of became the deal breaker for me. I was willing to give her a chance in the hearings even so, but despite the embarrassment for President Bush, this new nomination is one the conservatives can't fault him on. Only history will tell if he works out as they hope.
Now we face the Senate. Gird your loins.
But Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) warned that a nomination of Alito, or any other candidates too far to the right, could run into trouble.
"This is not one of the names I've suggested to the president," Reid said yesterday of Alito on CNN's "Late Edition."
"In fact, I've done the opposite," he said. "I think it would create a lot of problems."
You know, I find your negative attitude a little off-putting today.
Bush made a mistake with Miers.
He was given a mulligan.
And he has now hit a HOLE-IN-ONE to win the Masters (to maintain the golf metaphor...)
or if you prefer baseball metaphors:
He has hit a GRAND SLAM HOMERUN to win the World Series.
Let the Dimocrat Baying begin.....
Congratulations to Mr. Alito and to President Bush, and come to think of it, to all Americans!!
So this is what standing up for what you believe and freedom feels like.
Man is it going to get ugly. The lies and projections are going to be jaw dropping from the left. The unchallenged comments against this administration and the nominee are going into heavy rotation on all MSM outlets.
I see this as nothing short of a battle for the soul of our country. The founding fathers must have stopped turning and smiled today.
Huh?
Thank you President Bush!
Oh. We have a one-man confirmation/rejection process now, eh?
I don't think so.
McLame, Chaffee, Warner, Collins and Snowe WILL join him. ... Result: 49-51 against.
So be it. If the Senate votes on the nomination, and it goes down, the process will have worked. Hopefully the Senators will be on record regarding their justification, and the people can consider that at the next election.
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