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Miguel Estrada withdraws nomination
FOXNEWS
| 9/4/03
Posted on 09/04/2003 6:08:13 AM PDT by Thane_Banquo
Per Fox News, Estrada has withdrawn his nomination.
TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: gringohaters; mecha; miguelestrada; nocajonesgop; racistdemocrats
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To: PhiKapMom
I want to shout -- LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE! Going into 2004, the fact that the DemocRATs defied the will of the majority in the Senate on judicial nominations can be used against those same DemocRATs. And just WHO is going to use it against them? The media? Or maybe the Republicans themselves will drop the white glove routine and the "new tone" and actually bring it up themselves?
Like, FIGHT BACK?
To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com
All you do is critize. Bet you don't even vote Republican -- that seems to be the mantra on here recently -- a host of crticism is coming from folks that back in 2000 had no intention of supporting Pres Bush much less voting for him but now they want to tell the rest of us lifelong Republicans what we should do so we can lose elections!
The half empty glass or less than half folks can take it and shove it for all I care -- if they spent half as much time working for positive change instead of sitting behind a keyboard criticizing all the time, this Country would be a better place.
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posted on
09/04/2003 6:44:14 AM PDT
by
PhiKapMom
(Alpha Omnicon Pi Mom too!)
To: Thane_Banquo
I would have done the same thing if gutless Republican Senators and President Bush had forsaken me.
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posted on
09/04/2003 6:45:14 AM PDT
by
xrp
To: PISANO
this INJUSTICE will fade quickly There was never anything to fade. No one ever really cared. The news media sure isn't gonna stir it up either. It was a non story. The dems knew that from the start.
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posted on
09/04/2003 6:45:37 AM PDT
by
Huck
To: Consort
Many Conservative voters have serious "blind spots" and tend to act weird if they don't get their way.We are on the same page! Good points!
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posted on
09/04/2003 6:45:44 AM PDT
by
PhiKapMom
(Alpha Omnicon Pi Mom too!)
To: All; aristeides; BillF
I am not surprised by this. He made noises he was going to if it wasn't resolved soon.
It's only fair to Mr. Estrada to not permit him to twist in the wind like that. I think he made the right decision for himself.
It remains a shame that the DC Circuit is still short-staffed. I hope someone -- perhaps Maureen Mahoney -- is quickly nominated for the vacancy.
To: PhiKapMom
Those "weak" conservatives most likely are part of the millions of conservatives that stayed home and didn't vote in 2000! They want to know why the Republican Party is reaching out to bring in new people -- all they have to do is look in the mirror. Their threatening to sit out elections is what is driving the Republicans to look elsewhere. You can only threaten for so long before people get totally fed up....
Can't say it better myself. Like it or not, we have to work with and get control of the Republican Party. With the pace of politics now, and the advanced state of decline the nation's in, we can't afford to wait around 8 years for a party that is to our liking to rise up and rival the 'Rats like disaffected Whigs did in the 1850s.
...It is a travesty, but those are the rules of the Senate and I am not sure that nuking those rules for one nomination would be in the best interest of the Senate.
Even the Hispanic community did not get behind Estrada like I thought they would....
I hate to quibble, but it's more than one nomination. With Estrada now officially gone, the DemonRATs will do this to everyone they perceive as a threat from. The fact that this happened first to a conservative "minority" makes the blow even more painful and permanent. It truly signifies that, as long as there are not 60 conservatives in the Senate, no conservative jurist can ever hope to be anything more than a district judge.
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posted on
09/04/2003 6:48:02 AM PDT
by
steveegg
(I have one thing to say to the big spenders; BLIZZARD OF RECALL TOUR!)
To: PhiKapMom
If Bush and co. are willing to let down and let twist in the wind Miguel Estrada, an indivdual who they had so much political capital invested in (not enough apprenetly), why should I believe that they won't sell outthe conservative base and values as well?
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posted on
09/04/2003 6:48:15 AM PDT
by
KantianBurke
(The Federal govt should be protecting us from terrorists, not handing out goodies)
To: Consort
By weird do you mean disagreeing with you? Just asking.
To: Huck
I agree - the Democrats have won. They will push even harder for the pro-life judge. This puts every single conservative judge in jeopardy. No one will remember Miguel Estrada this time next year.
This represents incompetence of the highest order. The Republicans ought to be ashamed.
To: PhiKapMom
Right, as the Gipper would say, "Its your batting AVERAGE that matters, and nobody bats 1,000." It was, however, a very visible defeat for GW.
To: KantianBurke
If Bush and co. are willing to let down and let twist in the wind Miguel Estrada, an indivdual who they had so much political capital invested in (not enough apprenetly), why should I believe that they won't sell outthe conservative base and values as well? Uh it was the demos who let Estrada twist in the wind and threw out 200 years of Senate precedent.
Oh that's right you could never blame the demos.
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posted on
09/04/2003 6:50:06 AM PDT
by
Dane
To: PhiKapMom
You don't seem to understand who is the customer.
Is it the pubs who are our customers?
No.
We are the pub's customers.
If you went to the republican sandwich shop and they kept putting turds on your burger, you apparently would continue to shop there. Good for you, if you like the taste of turd burgers.
Some of us don't, and won't continue to shop there if they don't stop it.
To: Thane_Banquo
This is soooo frustrating!
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posted on
09/04/2003 6:50:36 AM PDT
by
MonroeDNA
(No longshoremen were injured to produce this tagline.)
To: Cboldt
Look for common ground, not divisive ground. Rather than dismiss the person making the threat, it's better, IMO, to assess the substance of their complaint.The common ground is that we all have the same compliant. It's the lack of solidarity/cohesion (neos, paleos, RINOs, metas, mesos, broken glass, etc.) and lack of resolve and persistence that pulls us apart.
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posted on
09/04/2003 6:51:43 AM PDT
by
Consort
To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com
If you went to the republican sandwich shop and they kept putting turds on your burger, you apparently would continue to shop there. Good for you, if you like the taste of turd burgers. Huh, I guess it never occurs to you that it is the demos who are putting the turds in your burger.
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posted on
09/04/2003 6:51:47 AM PDT
by
Dane
To: Dane
"threw out 200 years of Senate precedent."
You've belabored that point ad nausuem. It's been refuted and should be ignored. Unless you have something else to say kindly do not reply to my posts.
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posted on
09/04/2003 6:53:20 AM PDT
by
KantianBurke
(The Federal govt should be protecting us from terrorists, not handing out goodies)
To: WatchOutForSnakes
By weird do you mean disagreeing with you? Just asking.It means cutting off your nose to spite your face. Just answering.
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posted on
09/04/2003 6:53:55 AM PDT
by
Consort
To: Huck; PhiKapMom; Poohbah; Consort
That's their advantage. They can get away with this because they have the media on their side, and most folks still get their news from the big three. We've made inroads, but we still have a ways to go.
The next Democrat that gets in ought to see the same thing happen to his judges, though. As far as I am concerned, they need to receive this treatment.
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posted on
09/04/2003 6:54:46 AM PDT
by
hchutch
(The National League needs to adopt the designated hitter rule.)
To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com; PhiKapMom
Because they have betrayed and abandoned the ones who got them into office in the first place. Bolderdash!
The VAST majority of Republicans (over 90%) have continued to support President Bush. We do NOT feel 'betrayed' and 'abandoned' because we are not children......we are thinking adults.
We have a President who has made some decisions we don't like, but we are mature enough to understand the necessity of it in some cases, and in others that we still question, to see the BIG picture and like what we see overall.
And, IMO, anyone who doesn't see the difference between how George W. Bush has governed, and ANY democrat, is at least half blinded by ideology......or just plain stupid.
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posted on
09/04/2003 6:54:53 AM PDT
by
ohioWfan
(Have you prayed for your President today?)
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