Did someone mention Arlen Specter?
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Posted on 07/19/2005 9:23:04 AM PDT by Howlin
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TICK TOCK...............
Oh cool, are you for the ten gun minimum?
You are exactly right. Remember when they were getting ready to announce the head of Homeland Security? Bill Kristol was adamant that it was Guiliani. He was positive, and said so with great force on Hume's show. He kept yapping about it all the way until the President named Ridge. HA! Howlin and I were convinced that Bush was looking for a leaker and fed Kristol (through the leaker) bad information.
Good move by Bush. The pack of wolves known as the MSM will now get off the Rove non-story for a few days.
Did someone mention Arlen Specter?
That's why I've set out a bunch of traffic cones in front of my house for the press. I hope they bring their own electricity, because I need all mine for the A/C.
Being late to the party, may I ask which channel has the most stuff? I'm on FOX, and it's a mix.
BUNCHA' stuff today: War, Hurricane and the Supremes
As a district judge, Clement presided over such high-profile cases as the 2000 trials of former Louisiana governor Edwin W. Edwards (D) and former state insurance commissioner Jim Brown (D) on fraud charges. Edwards was acquitted; Brown was convicted of lying to the FBI and sentenced to six months in prison.
Lawyers who know Clement or have tried cases before her describe her as a judicial conservative who leans toward the defense in civil cases, and as a no-nonsense judge who is strict about deadlines and insists on professionalism from lawyers.
NOT "I" was great, meant "it" was great.
Not that I'm not great, of course :^P
The Case for Alito:
Elevating a rock-ribbed conservative Italian Roman Catholic is the way to go. The Catholic vote is the swing vote-- Ethnic Catholics who aren't rigidly partisan is the key. The Dems would be loathe to filibuster an ethnic Catholic-- they know they need their votes to be even competitive. They all voted for Scalia and always say that Scalia is well qualified, etc. Trust me, they don't want to Bork an Ethnic Catholic. Lots of people who fit that description all over the country would find that very offensive.
I have not been this jazzed in quite a while. If the usual suspects are twitching and hollering, it just might be very good news at nine. Ya think?
You got two picks. I got one bottle :) But I want to be celebrating, Mr. President, not drowning my sorrows...Please, please, please....
Bush knows better than to enter the lion's den unprepared. He's got too much on his hands right now to prepare. Not a foolish move. FRegards....
So tomorrows morning shows will lead with the Presidents pick.
He gets the jump on the DEMS by 12 hours...to work the news cycle.
same picks I had in post 1008. I still think one of them
Danke!
:-)
Yes, and they must have proper sized magazines. 10 rounds in a Glock is a crime.
Well, being the pie-eyed optimist that I am, I'm warming up the ol' Happy Dance just in case :)
First of all I'm not young, but thanks for the compliment. I didn't exactly spend a lot of time in choosing my name here.
Second, I have plenty of basis and like I said, if you want to go there, bring it on. So far his domestic agenda has centered around creating (not expanding, but creating) a new entitlement....something that hasn't been done since LBJ, and signing McCain Feingold. He chickened out of the big fight in abolishing the IRS (which would have been truly visionary). Spending has generally gone through the roof. He has consciously adopted a truly open borders policy which is unlike anything we have ever seen inthis country (ie, he actually sent a treaty to the Senate - it's going to be killed - which allows illegals to get social security well before Americans). His domestic agenda is not only not visionary, it is downright hostile to everything that conservatives are about.
Third, this thread is obviously about his domestic agenda, not his foreign policy. I can probably live with his agenda in the Middle East but that is not the issue here.
Fourth, and again I don't think anyone is going to seriously contest this, the guy really doesn't have the capacity to be much of a visionary. He has no grounding in history, no sense of where this country has come from and very little sens of where it ought to go. The guy probably hasn't read 5 books in his adult life and he can barely string sentences together. It is embarrassing. (But he still got better grades than Kerry...which says more about Kerry than GWB!)
The second and fourth points are just off the top of my head and that is why I say that he does not have the capacity to be truly imaginative or visionary. He just doesn't. That doesn't make him a bad man, or even in itself, a bad President. Calvin Coolidge was a great President precisely because he had so little imagination and vision. FDR was a horrible President because he had way too much.
Now....GWB does have some outstanding qualities. He is a good interpersonal politicker, or so I'm told. He knows how to hire people. He does play good poker and he is a helluva good campaigner, that is, when he is not debating or trying to give a speech (in those cases he is an embarrassment). He has shown some courage and backbone in the war on terror. He has genuine compassion for people. He would make a good neighbor, a guy you'd like to have a burger with.
My opinion in this regard is entirely substantiated. It is not skewed, nor is it limited. If anything it is downright charitable...he is, after all, our President. The shortcomings I am pointing out are obvious to a fair observer who is a conservative.
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