When I give my word on something, it gets done. We've held our breath and our nose for years now, through CFR (which I got excoriated for predicting exactly what would happen on this very board), soaring spending, and a majority with as much spine as a cuttlefish.
We are principled and moral, and we all realize that the Supreme Court is where the buck stops in this country at this moment. It is far too important to trust a wishy-washy 'conservative' who clearly values avoiding confrontation above all else.
Miers is a lightweight. Period. As Robert Bork says, she should not have been put up. Our ideology is to try to save this country, though I think it is too late anyway.
Bush got a pass all this time, and it's over. There is no intra-party fight. The wimps and the neocons have already won. We're fighting to get the country back from the moonbats, idiots and commies who are playing hardball while you and the rest of the people on my side lob grenades inside the tent.
I believe in the end I will probably stay home in disgust for the mid-term elections. You should try to prevent that.
Bump. I'm right there with you. You a beer drinker?
The GOP-hack side of this debate, the neocons, or "base" or whatever label they think is most glorious, they do not have my respect, and the approach they are advocating for this nomination, hide data to develop a subjective sense of the nominees judicial philosophy and legal acumen, is anathema to the Republic. I'll have nothing of it.
Don't get me going on letting the 60 vote barrier stand as one of the criteria for limiting selection, not the "DEMs are so mean, good people won't serve" arguments. Those are fabrications out of whole cloth. Even the wimpiest conservative would stand up the these lying DEM scum. This is a Republic we are fighting for. Better this way than the other one.