Posted on 10/27/2005 5:54:48 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
just breaking!!!!!!!!
Pray for W and Our Troops
And it will still be blamed on President Bush, even though this would be the Senate failing to support a constructioinist. He's darned if he does, darned if he doesn't.
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It won't make any difference. People who live in hatred and scorn aren't affected by character or truth.
No, you're wrong there. This is not a solitary moment. I distinctly remember thinking I'd won something when Bush was re-elected in 2004. Alas, I was wrong. They'll be angry again tomorrow
I've never been angry, just dismayed. So far, I like the score for those of us in the tiny, powerless minority. That would be:
Tiny Powerless Minority 1
Bushbots 0
I'm and evangelical and a conservative. Which "camp" do I fall into?
That means we get......something moderate?
In the end, IMHO, it will be an apparent moderate who will tilt one way or the other once on the Court.
Fine - big league play also gave us a Kennedy, Souter, and O'Connor in the first place, so be careful what you wish for.
I've been reading Bill Kristol, who staunchly supports the Presidents war on terror, for over 15 years. The above hardly an accurate description of him.
If the President nominates a good conservative ALL REPUBLICANS, including Kristol, will rally around the President and he will look stronger than ever.
So Bush could have chosen her but did not......that makes his choice of Miers seem more and more rushed and irresponsible. What it all comes down to is that President Bush wanted to take the easy route, but I guess he's found out that this wasn't it.
Not if he nominates someone in the mold of Scalia and Thomas, as he pledged during the 2004 presidential campaign.
I think a spectacular revelation in Cardin's case would be that he shaved his head. (The shine from the stage during a Cardin-Steele debate will be rather glaring.) Cardin's amazingly dull, but he's been on top of some ethics issues, and he's got a long liberal track record that should be appealing to a big sector of Maryland. This from his bio:
"From 1999 to 2005, he was the leading Democrat on the Human Resources Subcommittee where he introduced legislation that would bring welfare reform to the next level by helping those who leave public assistance get the skills they need so they can work their way out of poverty. His bill to increase education and support services for foster care children between ages 18 and 21 was signed into law in 1999. He has authored bills to expand child support, hold fathers more accountable, improve the welfare-to-work program and increase the child care tax credit."
Frankly, I didn't know which way to go with this nominee.
On the one hand, I heard she lacked credentials and all we had was "Trust me on this." so that had me leery.
On the other hand, Rush brought up how we've got those squishy, linguini-spined moderate RINO's in the Senate who probably wouldn't have the intestinal fortitude to support a strict constitutionalist so this pick may have been a good thing.
I don't know but now, all I'm hearing is the disappointment from the rabid Left (not here but on Rush's show in soundbites) about how "the far-right wing" of the Republican party destroyed this nominee and when they get upset, that makes me go "Hmm. Now if she was such a strong conservative as the President claimed, why are these guys so upset?" I have to say that I'm pleased to hear that she did withdraw. And this nominee had the approval of "The 14"? Ugh. No thanks.
Haven't we been burned already by a "stealth" justice in the form of David Souter? Not much was known about him either and look what we got. Ick! Not sure I want to take that chance again.
I fear though that a strict constitutionalist won't get through the Senate, not with those yellow-bellied, "lips-planted-firmly-to-the-Democrat's-butt", spineless jellyfish RINO's. But I'm of the opinion that it's way past time to take it to the Left. For all their caterwauling about putting a "right-wing extremist", these same hypocrites have no problem placing a left-wing extremist on the bench. Ruth Bader Ginsburg ring any bells!
No, it's time to fight! We worked hard to get the President elected so he would nominate someone on the bench who won't legislate from it. It's time to hold him to his promise!
They have acted exactly like liberals..........down to the name-calling and ridicule.......and now they have gotten their way and denied her her hearing.
They should be ashamed and not proud.
I certainly hope for your sake the next nominee is the right one.
Is your definition of a "good conservative" one who has said all the right things to the Federalist Society, etc., but once confirmed, turns into a Souter?!
No.... It has to be LUTTIG!!!!!
No, he was reminded of his promise to appoint Supreme Court judges in the mold of Scalia and Thomas by those who put him in office. If he does so, his supporters will rally around him. Your opinion on this is shite.
These stupid constitutional lawyers are the problem. We need somebody to clean house in the judiciary with a flamethrower and nobody -- especially not a Fed society member -- who depends on the corrupt and maddeningly asinine cabal of Constitutional law "scholarship" is going to do it. They are the ones who sway because they are hip deep in the idiocy of these people.
No one is unqualified to be a Supreme court justice. We are all subject to the laws, this is a Republic of the people and if the laws are too arcane for a reasonably intelligent person to grasp, then we are not a nation of laws, we are a nation of lawyers. A judicial oligarchy.
Well, at least we can look forward to more dissents by Scalia.
I want Luttig or Alito, but mostly Luttig.
Stop trying to convince yourself that what you did doesn't go against what we as a nation is supposed to stand for. That your limitations in this country is only controlled by your inability to dream high enough. That you don't have too have an ivy league education in your pocket to make it in this country.
She deserved to have her day...she was denied it.
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