Since they are doing a Do-Over on this, can we get one for some of the other things, like the failures to veto some of those gross spending pork bills? The Let's Make Friends With Fat Ted Kennedy Education Bill? The highways bill? The fat Farms bill? Well, the reason I have always given for letting Bush get away with these questionable activities is that he needed to do it in order to get the really important things done, like making good judicial appointments. That was my bottom line.
Now that he has nominated a doubtfully conservative, undistinguished and almost unknown second-rater for the Supreme Court, it puts everything else into question too.
We all paid a lot one way or another to get to this point, and we don't appreciate getting kicked in the teeth just as the goal is within reach.
"..Well, the reason I have always given for letting Bush get away with these questionable activities is that he needed to do it in order to get the really important things done, like making good judicial appointments. That was my bottom line. Now that he has nominated a doubtfully conservative, undistinguished and almost unknown second-rater for the Supreme Court, it puts everything else into question too. We all paid a lot one way or another to get to this point, and we don't appreciate getting kicked in the teeth just as the goal is within reach..." The above statement may be the most accurate summation of the state of the party base that I have heard yet. The only improvement possible would be to add to the first sentence the additional task of winning the war on terrorism. Well stated, Cicero...