Posted on 10/27/2005 5:54:48 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
just breaking!!!!!!!!
To use your own quote...stop banging your spoon on the highchair.
Amen.
I actually think if Bush had wanted Gonzales, he would have nominated him when O'Connor first announced retirement. While I am not sure that I trust Bush to nominate a better person this time, I don't think it will be Gonzales.
You're still thinking about the past.
Prayers for Ms. Miers & family, W, and our nation. The fear wasn't that the Republican Senators would reject Ms. Miers.
For her to win it would be the Democrats who voted overwhelmingly to confirm.
Particularly Mark's analysis here: (italics mine)
Lest we forget, Majority Leader Bill Frist and the overwhelming majority of his Republican colleagues were poised to defeat the unprecedented and frequently used (or threatened) filibuster tactics that had been unleashed against President Bush by the Democrats to weaken his appointment power.
The big media editorialized against it. George Will wrote at length (albeit unpersuasively) against it (see here and my response to him here). And Bill Kristol's favorite presidential candidate in 2000, John McCain, the leader of the Gang of 14, was all over the media making clear he would torpedo such an effort.
And that's exactly what he did. This in no way excuses the president's blunder in choosing Miers. But the ideological confrontation with the likes of Senator Charles Schumer and the Democrat left that many of us believe is essential, including Will and Kristol, was made much more difficult thanks to the likes of McCain and the unwillingness to change the rule before any Supreme Court vacancy arose.
This president has been poorly served by his Republican "allies" in this regard. Bush is the first president who has had to deal with an assault of this kind on his constitutional authority. And unless and until the filibuster rule is changed, a liberal minority in the Senate will have the upper hand.
Today the president would have to persuade seven of the most unreliable Republican senators to trigger the so-called nuclear option in order to clear the way for an up-or-down vote for, say, a Luttig. It is not at all certain or even likely that Lincoln Chafee, Olympia Snowe, and/or Susan Collins — the most liberal of the seven — would have voted for the Senate rule change for the purpose of confirming a solid originalist.
And it's likely the Democrat leadership would have succeeded in convincing at least some (if not most) of the seven Democrat moderates to oppose a rule change.
I have no doubt that this was part of the White House's political calculation. And it's possible the president didn't want to limp into this fight. That's no excuse. But McCain — who wants to be president and has now endorsed Harriet Miers — and his cadre must not escape scrutiny for their blunder.
Worth repeating as we get set for the'post mortem' by MSM. . .
[— Mark R. Levin is author of the best-selling Men In Black, president of Landmark Legal Foundation, and a radio talk-show host on WABC in New York.]
Excuse me....but, I think that the pundits coming out the very first day just blasting her....put the Senators on "notice" that anyone that backed her was going to get similar "attention"....
Plus, the Senators job was to have the hearings, first in the Judiciary Committee.....they could have listened and voted her down...
If he does that then he can contact McCain and the other RINOS and give his nominee the "moderate" test.
Who needs a Constitution? And who needs a President? Any old plebiscite of chosen cognoscenti will do.
what's a Mulligan? Frankly, when I heard the news this morning I sighed a big sigh of relief - hate to see the family fight - this is not the battle to fight over (conservatives among conservatives). I was neutral till the hearings, but just sick of all the gnashing of teeth. Let's hope GW's bold this time. If you heard Rush yesterday say what he would do now - it was awesome! Rush '08!
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Where have you been? Miers own words have been posted everywhere for the past month. Not that you could ever figure out where she actually stood.
Back that up with cites, or take it back.
Roberts’ CV
Legal Education
J.D., Harvard Law School, 1979.
Legal Experience
– Law Clerk to Judge Henry Friendly, U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit.
– Law Clerk to Justice William Rehnquist, U.S. Supreme Court.
– Associate Counsel to President Ronald Reagan.
– Deputy Solicitor General under President George H.W. Bush.
– Senior Partner, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, D.C.
– Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Not bad, huh?
You are full of it. I don't give a crap about your analysis of how or what I will do about this. I repeat, I will never forget what was done to this woman by the conservative media who have lost my respect by their all out war against a nominee they did not want.
Mighty weapon? Explain how they have been handed a mighty weapon? The proponents arguments always contain bluster but not much else. Please do explain.
To win a Senate showdown, all the conservatives have to be on board.
Ahh :)
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