Posted on 10/11/2005 5:30:20 AM PDT by conservativecorner
"The definition of insanity is doing the same things and expecting a different outcome."
-attributed to Albert Einstein
I didn't ask a question. You must be confused.
Again, we should've pulled the trigger when we had a chance on the constitutional option. I don't know why the president wouldn't knock heads and go to the matresses and get it done, because he was stronger then than he is now. Not that he's impotent, but the reality is that in a second term, any president, regardless of party, becomes more of a lame duck literally with every passing day. I know why Frist wouldn't, he has the backbone of a chocolate eclair, to steal a line from T. Roosevelt.
Of course like Bush. He is the "compassionate conservative" who nominated her.
Well, we should know.
We will have to trust GWB. The inability to trust the president appears to be the largest drawback so far, eh?
As I've said before, trusting politicians is for the feeble-minded and Russians.
I don't see much difference at this point.
I'd like to hear what the pundits think.
I'd like to see each pundit hand out a ranked list of their top 5 preferred candidates and have them specifically tell us why they choose those candidates and how they would label the "judicial philosophy" of each of those candidates.
They won't. She's toast and will withdraw.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Well, the Republicans aren't doing anything with them. Except, perhaps, for amassing power, squandering money and appointing cronies.
You're right. O'Conner is leaving. It' the Old Woman's Seat. And after all, how many old-woman cronies does Bush have to choose from?
His hands were tied. So we all just need to shut up, pay up and reelect.
Yep. Now. Today. Before he does something even more stupid.
Suppose he does not do it? What do you want to do?
Ensure the Senate throws her out on her ass.
vote Democrat? Stay home? or vote for a third party? F***ing do it and stop whining.
Ok, then. Will do.
Bush Jr. is doing exactly what Bush Sr. did - pissing off his party and destroying many years of work and progress. Not that he's done a hell of a lot to fulfill all his campaign promises up to now.
Correct, all the way up to the Oval Office sometimes.
I just think the political pressure to dump her will become overwhelming this week and even Jr. will realize he's toast along with her if he stays stubborn on a stupid choice.
One down, one to go.
People who have sincerely confronted their own beliefs and failings, can be firmly committed to conservatism.
Clarence Thomas, "I Am a Man, a Black Man, an American," 29 July 1998
In the final weeks of my seminary days, shortly after Dr. King's death, I found myself becoming consumed by feelings of animosity and anger. I was disenchanted with my church and my country. I was tired of being in the minority, and I was tired of turning the other cheek. I, along with many blacks, found ways to protest and try to change the treatment we received in this country.... I was being consumed by the circumstances in which I found myself, circumstances that I saw as responding only to race.
My feelings were reaffirmed during the summer of 1968 as a result of the lingering stench of racism in Savannah and the assassination of Bobby Kennedy. No matter what the reasons were, I closed out the '60s as one angry young man waiting on the revolution that I was certain would soon come...The intensity of my feelings was reinforced by other events of the late '60s: the riots, the marches, the sense that something had to be done, done quickly to resolve the issue of race. In college there was an air of excitement, apprehension and anger. We started the Black Students Union. We protested. We worked in the Free Breakfast Program. We would walk out of school in the winter of 1969 in protest.
Of course it will. I mean, one of the defining qualities of his Presidency is how he has so often reveresed course based on polls and public pressure. That's why we left Iraq 4 months ago. /sarcasm.
"Again, we should've pulled the trigger when we had a chance on the constitutional option. I don't know why the president wouldn't knock heads and go to the matresses and get it done, because he was stronger then than he is now."
If I recall correctly, right about the time the whole issue wasd available to vote on, we decided that doing SOMETHING to save Terri Schiavo was far more important than getting nominees appointed to the Supreme Court.
Neither Frum's grousing nor Litte Ray's torpor has any bearing on whether Miers is a suitable candidate for the Supreme Court.
If Frum was cheerily positive and Little Ray a dynamo of activity Miers would still be a mediocrity and a cipher.
How about trying to convince us that Miers is a pick that advances the conservative cause?
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