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80% of Potential SCOTUS Nominees on W's List Decline His Offer
Fox News | 10-11-05 | freedom4me

Posted on 10/11/2005 9:08:44 PM PDT by freedom4me

During the 11:00 p.m. (CST) newsbreak, Donna Fuducia reported that Karl Rove told James Dobson that 80% of the potential SCOTUS nominees on the President's list declined his offer because of they didn't want to undergo the grueling confirmation process. Perhaps this sheds new light on the reason why W chose Miers.


TOPICS: Government; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: bush43; judicialnominees; miers; nothanks; rove; scotus
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To: freedom4me

DRUDGE REPORTING TONIGHT:

GOP AIDES JOIN RESISTANCE OVER MIERS NOMINATION
Tue Oct 11 2005 20:52:44 ET

As the White House seeks to rally senators behind the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet E. Miers, lawyers for the Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee are expressing dissatisfaction with the choice and pushing back against her, aides to six of the 10 Republican committee members tell Wednesday's NEW YORK TIMES.

"Everybody is hoping that something will happen on Miers, either that the president would withdraw her or she would realize she is not up to it and pull out while she has some dignity intact," a lawyer to a Republican committee member said.

Developing...

I just cannot understand why Bush followed up the unknown Roberts with a FOB (Friend of Bush) crony named Harried Miers? What ever was he thinking. Geez!


361 posted on 10/11/2005 10:31:32 PM PDT by Cautor
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To: VRWC For Truth
I felt of wave of nausea seeping up from the pit of my stomach when I first came across them.
362 posted on 10/11/2005 10:32:03 PM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham ("We don't want a Supreme Court justice just like George W. Bush. We can do better.")
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To: skr

No matter the cost to family and friends?
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OF course not. That's my one caveat.


363 posted on 10/11/2005 10:33:36 PM PDT by BamaGirl (The Framers Rule!)
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To: Howlin

I think he was banned from his own site at one time!


364 posted on 10/11/2005 10:33:59 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper ("Don't Get Stuck On Stupid!" - Lieutenant General Russell "Ragin' Cajun" Honore)
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To: jonrick46
Well, if that's true (and I don't believe a single word printed in the Washington Compost) then I guess they'll have to start a new list.
365 posted on 10/11/2005 10:34:28 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: Ol' Sparky
"Heck, nominate someone like Mark Levin who would love to take on Senators in such a hearing."

Pay per view, battle of the titans, to the death. My money is on Mark.

Mark would be a great pick too.

366 posted on 10/11/2005 10:34:35 PM PDT by jpsb
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To: Jim Robinson
Well, I'm talking about the RINOs in the US Senate. There are NO RINOs on FR. We're all battle-hardened, right-wing wacko conservatives!!

Bump to that!

367 posted on 10/11/2005 10:34:38 PM PDT by AZ_Cowboy ("Be ever vigilant, for you know not when the master is coming")
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To: jveritas
This site must not be hijacked by bitter Buchananites, moronic third party voters, and trolls.

Preach it brother jveritas! Gave them that fire and brimstone brother, else we all burn in Hades((Aaaaah believe))!

368 posted on 10/11/2005 10:34:40 PM PDT by Black Tooth (The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.)
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To: Jim Robinson; Brad's Gramma; Wolfstar

We do some pretty good work and have fun doing it too. I know that I like and admire all of the 100-150 or so FReepers I've personally met, including YOU. :)

That was one great and fun trip we made to RWR's Library.




369 posted on 10/11/2005 10:34:40 PM PDT by onyx ((Vicksburg, MS) North is a direction. South is a way of life.)
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To: jonrick46

The next confirmation battle. I get the impression that the current one is not over yet. Do you?


370 posted on 10/11/2005 10:35:23 PM PDT by gpapa (Boost FR Traffic! Make FR your home page!)
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To: Cboldt
THis capitulation without a fight to a 60 vote supermajority is probably a big part of the cause of this "whatever." And it is going unchallenged.

Agreed -- but it can only be fixed in the Senate, per the Constitution. Each House sets its own rules.

Frankly, the 60-vote supermajority is so outrageous that it would justify the President vetoing every appoipriations bill until there were up-or-down votes on nominees -- including Bolton. Unfortunately, the President might lose doing that as well.

371 posted on 10/11/2005 10:35:24 PM PDT by You Dirty Rats (Lashed to the USS George W. Bush: "Damn the Torpedos, Full Miers Ahead!!")
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To: RobbyS
Easy to say. But what do you do with a divided caucus?

You nominate a person without regard to whether that person will draw an unconstitutional filibuster, and without regard to whether your majority is only 55 instead of 60.

372 posted on 10/11/2005 10:35:35 PM PDT by Kryptonite
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham
Our nation's system of justice is left up to quotas imposed according to race, sex, and religion.

Quota ???

You have a problem with a women being on the bench?

373 posted on 10/11/2005 10:35:41 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: freedom4me

I don't believe this.


374 posted on 10/11/2005 10:35:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway (I'm Only Alive, Because a Judge Hasn't Ruled I Should Die...)
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To: Fabozz
The Republican party is split between pathetic liberal squishes taking potshots at the President for their own political gain, and stiff-necked wingnuts who would rather wallow in ideologically pure defeat than sack up and play the game of politics intelligently.

Deserves to be repeated.
375 posted on 10/11/2005 10:35:47 PM PDT by birbear (Admit it. you clicked on the "I have already previewed" button without actually previewing the post.)
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To: Mo1
Well ... I see I hit a nerve

No. The nerve was hit when the nomination of Miers was announced.
376 posted on 10/11/2005 10:36:32 PM PDT by counterpunch (Save the GOP - withdraw Miers now)
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To: jonrick46
Forget the WashPo. Bush has made it clear that he ONLY considered women for this slot. Laura helped make up his mind on that point and Harry Reid sealed the deal by suggesting Miers.

I would guess that he queried five women and only Janice Rogers-Brown said, "Send me!" She's that feisty and will NOT back down.

But he has since cooled to Rogers-Brown because, among other tings, Reid served notice that a Rogers-Brown nomination would be a declaration of total war, the Democrats would shut down the Senate if necessary to derail her nomination.

I firmly believe that the ensuing battle would have resulted in far more hurt on the Democrats' cause going into next year's elections. I know that Bush's base would have been FIRED UP in a way that they are not with respect to Miers' nomination.

377 posted on 10/11/2005 10:36:34 PM PDT by JCEccles
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To: unsycophant

When I think of crony, I tend to think about Harry Truman's or Warren Harding's poke-playing buddies, not Harriet Miers. Tom Clark also comes to mind.


378 posted on 10/11/2005 10:36:57 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: Jim Robinson
Well, I'm talking about the RINOs in the US Senate. There are NO RINOs on FR. We're all battle-hardened, right-wing wacko conservatives!!

As Sheets Byrd said once, "Extreme! Outside the mainstream!"

379 posted on 10/11/2005 10:37:04 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper ("Don't Get Stuck On Stupid!" - Lieutenant General Russell "Ragin' Cajun" Honore)
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To: Arizona Carolyn
It's become so nasty, so partison, that no one wants to submit themselves to the nightmare

Don't know how much was humor, since I only read part of the transcript, but during his interview yesterday, Scalia said he wasn't sure he would be willing to go through the confirmation process again.

380 posted on 10/11/2005 10:37:09 PM PDT by Racehorse (Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
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