Posted on 07/01/2005 7:14:03 AM PDT by SueRae
Hearing on Fox News
More than a few.
But, who knows, maybe they can learn something.
Which I why I voted against him in this last election. It was very sad to see him today. He is a very forceful speaker and he seemed to be having trouble getting his thoughts together, hesitating, seemed a bit unsure. Hope it's just a temporary effect of his chemo.
Your understanding is incorrect. Nixon was not impeached.
I am way over 55 dear. My children now include anyone under 60. LOL!
It isn't as though the Chief Justice gets an extra vote or anything...what IS the big deal about being Chief Justice anyway?
Re Kennedy -- and BTW O'Connor, when Mark Levin was on a local radio talk show about his book, a caller asked why they so often shift to the left once they're in (I've read that Kennedy in particular was a reliable conservative when appointed), he said his observation was that judges (esp. USSC) who center their social life in Washington with the "beautiful people" (as Howie Carr would say) tend to shift. The ones who don't -- like Scalia and Thomas -- don't.
Are you a lawyer or a legislator?
Would a lawyer please weigh in on the issue. I think impeached means accused or charged. Sittin thinks it means successfully convicted.
I am going on eighth grade civics and my memory of Watergate and the Clintons.
Coburn, who sits on the judiciary committee, was on the phone with Fox News just now and said he wouldn't tell the president who to appoint but that Pryor would be a good one.
Ah, the articles were never voted on, right!
thanks
Social conservatives are not going anywhere. The message of the last three decades in American politics is that right-to-life is the central issue of American politics. Its advocates are Republicans. Its enemies are Demonrats. AND the "moderates" will be roadkill.
Either RTL wins now or, from a position of controlling the GOP and its primaries and nominating procedures, we keep on the task of preventing "moderates" from nomination to the Senate or White House as Republicans, keep on electing RTL folks, keep on stripping Demonrats of electoral vgotes and Senate seats until RTL DOES WIN. This dogged determination (methodology) is in the ancient DNA of the GOP going back to the abolitionists who created the GOP.
If you want to leave the GOP and the conservative movement, leave. If not, not. Lead, follow or get out of the way on Right to Life than which there is NO MORE IMPORTANT ISSUE until permanently resolved in favor of the babies.
There are still plenty of people who, generally for reasons of ancestry or economic condition, STILL think themselves Democrats while being pro-war, pro-military, pro-life, pro-family, against taxes on people of modest means, pro-gun, pro-property, anti-regulation, pro-SMALL business and a lot of other things ordinarily thought to be Republican.
Every ancestral Muffy and Skipper at yacht club or polo club turned from the GOP into the Demonrat Party by the GOP pro-life and pro-family and pro-gun positions will be replaced by ten new "reagan Democrats" entering the GOP.
Don't be so quick to imagine that social conservatives will abandon the GOP to the soulless Muffies and Skippers. This is not Muffy's great, great granddaddy's GOP and it never will be again.
I am not digging, clarifying.
Geez louise! I don't need to be a lawyer to know how to read. Look it up for yourself.
I never said "successfully convicted" and don't misstate what I've said. I said Nixon was not impeached because you said Nixon was impeached.
Clinton was impeached.
I am going on eighth grade civics and my memory of Watergate and the Clintons.
Then find better sources.
I'll never see 70 again! And soon it will be 71--but it's been a great trip so far.
Senior momemt--should have said 72--guess my brain is failing after all :)
You won dear, now don't get your BP high right now.
Heh heh!
I think POTUS fully understands the gravity of his nominations. He's going for the gold.
That's the spirit Dan!
LOL! I like Coburn. Thanks for that info -- I need to go watch a little TV and do some packing.
The big deal is that the chief justice assigns the cases to various associate justices, thus trying to shape decisions by putting the right players in the right place.
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