Posted on 10/27/2005 5:54:48 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
just breaking!!!!!!!!
Yeah, and they're going to kick themselves right out of a job, and out of the majority. What a great idea.
Well, sure as heck wouldn't let Harry Reid make the pick.
Supposedly, we "know" that we have 55 Republican votes and the VP to break ties. That means we can lose only 5 votes and no more. There's no chance of picking up a democrat vote on a partyline fight.
Who are the most conservative of the McCain 7? Supposedly, need only two of them to get a victory.
Republican Senators John McCain (Az.), Lindsey Graham (SC), Mike DeWine (Ohio), Olympia Snowe (Me.), Susan Collins (Me.), John Warner (Va.), and Lincoln Chafee (RI),
However, here's the real truth. This was the group rumored PRIOR to the actual nuclear option deal to be willing to vote AGAINST any nuclear option
(Link) Susan Collins (Maine), Chuck Hagel (Nebraska), Arlen Specter (Pennsylvania), John Warner (Virginia), Mike DeWine (Ohio), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), John Sununu (New Hampshire)
In short, there are actually 11 Republican senators more than willing to vote AGAINST the nuclear option.
That means that SIX of the most conservative of that group must become converts.
I don't think it's possible to get anyone to the right of John Roberts confirmed, AND they will have to have nearly the same credentials and ability as Roberts.
Well it shows that we can be just as nasty as the Dems.
I read his opinions and writings extensively prior to his hearings, and his performance before the Judiciary Committee was a tour de force.
I am entirely comfortable that he is a genuine conservative.
Not a bad official reason...better than "ya, sorry guys, we goofed".
This Halloween nightmare is over!
I am in complete agreement with everything you said.
The voters put the GOP in charge of the government. The GOP needs to fight for the will of the voters, win or lose.
Picking nominees simply to avoid a fillibuster is the same thing as refusing to fight for the American voter.
Needs to be said again..!!
Nice post..!!
To be honest, I'd like to see a mind like Charles Krauthammer's on the Court. Why not draft him?
- John
Aw, poor sinky, your precious nominee went bye-bye, so sorry!!!
More from the Fred Phelps wing of the conservative movement.
See #823. It will be VERY hard.
Mr. President, you were nominated and elected for such and opportunity as this. Put away the Rove's political chess board strategy for a moment and make us proud. Here is your nominee:
She was born Janice Olivia Allen in Greenville, Ala., in 1949, five years before the Supreme Court struck down public school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education. After returning from service in World War II, her father grew cotton, corn and peanuts on a 158-acre (0.6 km²) plot he leased about 25 miles (40 km) away from Greenville, before reenlisting in the military, said Havard Richburg, a friend of the family. Her parents separated, and she was raised primarily by her grandmother, Beulah Allen, until her teenage years, when her mother, a nurse, took her to Sacramento, California. (Her mother remarried, adding the name Rogers.) Her family was involved in the voting rights movement in Alabama and became liberal Democrats. She was inspired to become a lawyer by the career of Fred D. Gray, the Alabama civil rights lawyer who represented Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. Brown has said she initially shared her family's views, but over the years became more conservative in her thinking. In California, she made her way through Sacramento State University in part by working at the Department of Corrections, where she met her first husband, Alan Brown, an administrator there. Soon after the birth of their son, Mr. Brown died of cancer, leaving her to finish college and then law school at the University of California, Los Angeles as a single working mother. She earned her B.A. from CSU Sacramento in 1974 and her Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the UCLA School of Law in 1977. In addition, she received a LL.M. degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2004.
Time to rally and galvanize support around Brown.
As Mao said, "Let every flower bloom". The President now knows just who supports him and who doesn't. Lets hope he applies that knowledge for the benefit of the country. Let the Billous Kristols, and George Willies take notice.
The Dems refuse to trust any war; save their own. . .when you are 'anti-America/anti-Military; they have only themselves to engage. . .
ABSOLUTELY! I'm reminded of Joshua Chamberlain at the Battle of Gettysburg. Out of ammunition, battered and tired. When his troops were at their lowest point, he ordered them to fix bayonets and charge. They swept the Confederate troops from the field and held their critical part of the Union flank.
Even to a man raised in the south, this is still an inspiring and instructive story. This is the time to take back the initiative and not just get someone on the court, but defeat and demoralize the enemy!
I am surprised at how few people seem to understand this. We have just handed leftists very powerful ammunition, to use against us in all future debates.
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