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Bush Judicial Nominees Withdraw
AP via SFGate ^ | 1/9/7 | David Espo

Posted on 01/09/2007 9:49:04 AM PST by SmithL

WASHINGTON (AP) --

In a concession to the Senate's new Democratic majority, four of President Bush's appeals court appointees have asked to have their nominations withdrawn, Republican officials said Tuesday.

These officials said that William Haynes, William Myers and Terrence Boyle had all decided to abandon their quest for confirmation. Another nominee, Mike Wallace, let it be known last month that he, too, had asked Bush to withdraw his nomination.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: judges; mikewallace; nominees; terrenceboyle; williamhaynes; williammyers
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To: processing please hold
I know all that and more. He will get my vote IF he's the GOP nominee.
221 posted on 01/09/2007 11:54:11 AM PST by onyx (DONATE NOW! -- It takes DONATIONS to keep FR running!!)
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To: DM1

>>>this is what those of you who stayed home get and it is going to get worse.

This is what those who drink the GOP cool-aid get when they pursue liberal Democratic policies (spend-spend-spend and open borders). What we have now are Socialist Party A and Socialist Party B.

The GOP was caught selling performance (spending and immigration) that only the RINOs and party operatives want to buy. Now that our National Guard is "cutting and running" at the border, the turn out will be even worse.

Its like there's a RINO-GOP pilot holding the controls of the jumbo jet called "the US of A" and he's pointing the nose in a hard dive down. Blame the RINOs: they have the choice to pull the plane back up, but they refuse to do so.


222 posted on 01/09/2007 11:54:33 AM PST by Hop A Long Cassidy
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To: onyx
Then you'll get what you vote for. A traitor.
223 posted on 01/09/2007 11:55:46 AM PST by processing please hold (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: SmithL

Pres. Bush will strighten this out.


224 posted on 01/09/2007 11:58:35 AM PST by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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To: Howlin

You wouldn't vote for John McCain?

What if he were running against Hilliary?

Ed


225 posted on 01/09/2007 11:59:00 AM PST by Sir_Ed
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To: processing please hold

We diagree there. I think he's a patriot and I know he's pro military.


226 posted on 01/09/2007 12:00:52 PM PST by onyx (DONATE NOW! -- It takes DONATIONS to keep FR running!!)
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To: onyx
Then we disagree.

Nothing in this world or the next could make me vote for him.

227 posted on 01/09/2007 12:05:08 PM PST by processing please hold (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: onyx

Yeah, I "get it."

I've been a GOP party activists for decades, since I was a teenager and went door to door in Newport Beach, California, passing out flyers for John Schmitz.

I have programmed countless databases of voters, printed, distributed and walked hundreds of walking lists and made countless phone calls at phone banks for every election since Reagan, but I see the Grand Old Party I love so much moving steadily away from me, and there is nothing I can do about it.

I cannot follow Rove, Mehlman and Giuliani where they are going, it violates my long deeply-held principles of old-fashioned Republicanism.

Ed


228 posted on 01/09/2007 12:05:32 PM PST by Sir_Ed
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To: Sir_Ed
...McCain is so far outside the pale that I see no difference between him or Hitliary.


You need a new eye doctor
229 posted on 01/09/2007 12:05:39 PM PST by Blackirish
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To: Sir_Ed

I'm going to be "out" that day.................

Hell, I do NOT know; I'm of the mind that he won't make it out of the primaries.

I do NOT want to be put in that position; so, as Jim Robinson says, it's our JOB to make sure we have a better candidate!


230 posted on 01/09/2007 12:08:24 PM PST by Howlin (Don't blame me, I voted Republican!)
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To: onyx
You're going to vote for a man who puts the rights of terrorists over American lives?

Senator John McCain's Bill of Rights for Terrorists

231 posted on 01/09/2007 12:09:49 PM PST by processing please hold (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: SmithL
Don't hate me but.....It`s very clear to me who`s fault this all is,ie judges withdrawing.

The (so called) Republicans, that got bent out of shape over immigration, to the point that they joined in on the Bush bashing that lead to the Democrat victory last Nov.The so called Republicans that voted Democrat or that did not vote at all are responsible IMHO.

Perhaps you voted Republican, but continued to Bush bash along the way.

Republicans that voted for Web in Virginia are responsible,or the folks that fell for Conservative Democrats of any type are responsible IMHO.

These same people I hope, will hang their heads in shame when President Bush is not able to get a high court judge confirmed.

Now come and tear me a new one
232 posted on 01/09/2007 12:10:09 PM PST by thepresidentsbestfriend (SAM BROWNBACK FOR PRESIDENT or Hunter . Only thing worse than a Democrat,is a moderate Republican)
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To: Blackirish

"You need a new eye doctor"

McCain's CFR was one of the most destructive bills ever written. His upcoming attempt to extend that to political forums like Freep will be tyrrany like Vlad Putin and Hugo Sanchez are attempting with their seizure's of their countrys' media, and his self-centered Gang of 14's betrayal of President Bush make it clear to me that my vision, while admittedly astigmatic and myopic, is nonetheless, politically speaking, 20/20!

Ed


233 posted on 01/09/2007 12:12:40 PM PST by Sir_Ed
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To: Howlin

"I do NOT want to be put in that position; so, as Jim Robinson says, it's our JOB to make sure we have a better candidate!"

Heh heh heh, we agree on that!

Ed


234 posted on 01/09/2007 12:14:02 PM PST by Sir_Ed
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To: Sir_Ed

I imagine after the next two years, if it's anything like the last two months, we'll all be "Yellow Dog Republicans."


235 posted on 01/09/2007 12:15:51 PM PST by Howlin (Don't blame me, I voted Republican!)
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To: TitansAFC

"Stop blaming Conservatives for a slight - statistically within the margin of error - drop in turnout."

They have to have some reason that doesn't point to the Republican Party as the problem.


236 posted on 01/09/2007 12:20:03 PM PST by Scarlet Pimpernel
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To: onyx
A lot of the time it is more about voting AGAINST the other candidate.

Show me please where in the American system you are allowed to cast a vote against a candidate.

The fact is, the only voting that counts is that which is cast FOR a candidate. Any candidate who wins your vote assumes that means you want more of whatever he is offering.

For example, Arnold Schwarzenegger ran on the platform of running full tilt leftward and avoiding any association with conservatives like the plague. Now, he feels that to be his mandate, even though we were told time and again the reason to vote for Arnie was to vote against Angelides. Instead, the message he got was that he and the GOP aren't ENOUGH like Angelides, and so we now need abject apologies for the special election agenda and a slate of new socialistic programs.

237 posted on 01/09/2007 12:21:48 PM PST by LexBaird (98% satisfaction guaranteed. There's just no pleasing some people.)
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To: onyx

xsteen voted [for George Allen] in her first ever election. she has been accepted into all of the college she has applied to and is most likely going to choose the U of Dallas. her criteria was small, conservative, southern and authentically Catholic.


238 posted on 01/09/2007 12:28:53 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: LexBaird
The fact is, the only voting that counts is that which is cast FOR a candidate

That may be the intent, but it is not the reality of democracy. This is the weakness that comes with the system. The pettiness of people. The tendency to devolve into populism and vindictive voting without thinking or caring about the consequences.

After all, you were just one vote of many. The mistake is shared, if it is even accepted.

this is why our founders had the foresight to institute a Republic, and not a Social Democracy. We adopted our Congress and method of elections, to include the most important Electoral College that has been under assault and rendered nearly worthless in recent years. The college insures that highly populated areas do not totally control the direction of the country, the judges, the issues and the future.

Yes, voting should be based on a knowledge and experience, and qualifications. But it is not. not by a long shot.

Somehow we have survived thus-far, but i would not give you a plug nickle for our future, if the Electoral college is defeated by the states refusal to participate, and populism begins to rule at a time when we are so vulnerable, both economically and physically.

239 posted on 01/09/2007 12:34:35 PM PST by Cold Heat ("Ward!.........Go easy on the beaver"!)
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To: dirtboy

Such as the primary in Arizona where the national congressional committee butted in to an election where there was no incumbent and supported one candidate over the other? And where the retiring incumbent refused to endorse the winner of the primary?

That works both ways.




So because of your anger and because you didn't get your own way, your only thought after the primaries was to make the rest of the US citizens who vote republican suffer......probably for the rest of their lives.

That is the attitude of a two year old lying on the floor screaming in a grocery store because they can't get the candy they want.



240 posted on 01/09/2007 12:41:28 PM PST by AmeriBrit
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