Posted on 10/27/2005 5:54:48 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
just breaking!!!!!!!!
I respectfully disagree. I voted for GWB twice, and I would enthusiastically do it again. He has done a great job prosecuting the war on terror, and his tax cuts have spurred investment and growth which have kept us out of a deep recession. But, his nomination of Miers was an exercise in arrogance (for reasons that have been mentioned here countless times). I sincerely hope he will now nominate a true conservative and take the fight right to Schumer, Leahy, Kennedy and Biden, which is what he should have done in the first place.
I'd rather Sandy stay than to replace her with someone younger and either as liberal or moreso.
It should have been done in the Senate. If the Repubs in the Senate did not want her they should have just voted her down simple as that. Then we could have started again from scratch the right way. This woman should not have gone thru the hell she went thru. Now it looks like we are eating our own and don't care at all who we hurt in the process.
She may not have been incompetent, but I don't think she would have been allowed to disprove that in the hearings, thanks to the broken process we now have.
Then again, she might have been.
I feel a little bad for her, as it did get pretty rough.
But them's the stakes.
What is the name of the church?
Well, let me put it this way, I'm very optimistic!
:)
Edith Jones, Diane Sykes; in short, a conservative who has gone through in the last 5 years without being filibustered.
The usually erudite (K)rystol has been a big disappointment in analyzing this debaucle - surely, he knows more of the real story here; but you would not know it. ..listening to him.
I am not; however, disagreeing with his final interpretation re the indictments. . .
I can tell you: Blindly march in lockstep to whatever new action comes out of the White House.
My guess was this coming Monday, Oct. 31, at 5:00 pm.
I came close!
I think it was herself.
If she was picked because chuckie.S's brownshirts blackmailed a halfdozen more qualified jurists away form the SCOTUS, then she volunteered to illustrate that the SCOTUS is too important for "B" team nominees.
I give you justices Kennedy and Powell as exibit "A" of such 2nd-stringers.
Someone close to her called Barbra Streisand on that rumor.
I agree. Everyone saying Miers was an unknown, IMHO, that wasn't a bad thing. We could get a conservative unknown through (and let me say a conservative unknown who Bush said was an originalist, I don't care if she was pro this or anti that in the past, Bush said she is now an originalist), we can't get a KNOWN conservative through, mainly because of the RINOs in Congress.
Conservatives did the dirty work that we should have forced the Dems to do. We should have made them question Miers, call James Dobson as a witness, etc. Instead, the "pie in the sky" conservatives believe that JRB or Luttig can make it through the nomination process...maybe we should change the name of that faction of the party to the Cleopatra coalition.
Let's just have a big Democrat party-destroying fight. Send them to follow the Whigs and let a pro-American 2nd party evolve to replace them. Much better than the Neville Chamberlin 'Rat appeasing strategy of the GOP RHINOs. Finish off the 'Rats. End the plague of liberalism.
The same crowd will be yelling for the next crucifixion if a strong Evangelical is nominated.
From comments I have seen from this site alone, I think the ones who claim their are the biggest christians, seem to have the harshest words. It has sure opened my eyes to the ones who think they have the most power. Shameful imho. I stood beside President Bush for years and enver changed. This will backfire on the ones who think they are most supreme
1) the "up or down" argument is >only< relevant to the Senate vote.
2) I agree there was some whining, but if that's most of what you heard, then you weren't listening very carefully.
You've got that ass backwards. Look at the poll on FR.
Everytime someone who even suggested that Miers be heard before the committee...we took a hammering. I avoided all but maybe 5 or 6 threads about her.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.