BTTT
If you doubt the degree of the left's fear of JRB, check out some of their sites today. Interesting new tactic though..People for American Way and Save Our Courts websites are obviously made by the same designer. Content is also nearly identical.
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=12566
http://saveourcourts.civilrights.org/nominees/nominees/brown.html
http://www.now.org/issues/judicial/060305-TruthBrown.html
At least NOW, who uses the same recycled character assassination, has the decency to hire their own web designer. I keep thinking of two hairy legged, left-ette web designers sitting in their "life-partner" pad thinking of new names for anti-JRB sites. Maybe we'll find out the entire left is the same person? Or maybe Teddy Kennedy (the other white meat) ate the entire moderate left movement? Anyone seen Joe Lieberman lately????
Fred Barnes--Yet another Kool aid drinking Bushbot. (sarcasm)
It sounds like Fred is projecting but I hope it is true.
First question is whether Bush is still hellbent on naming a woman.
I'll once again make my darkhorse pitch for Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. The left would look like the bullies they are trying to beat up a man in a wheelchair.
Hasn't Rush been saying this for weeks, and didn't his Wall Street Journal op-ed say most of this?
Oh noooooooooooo, it might have been ugly.
What's it been till now Fred?
I am pleasantly surprised by this turn of events and sincerely hope the president now appoints someone with a proven conservative track record. I also agree this is an opportunity to reunite the party. Let there be no doubt, the Republican leadership is out of touch with a large portion of their base. Yet, they really do need us, the "extreme right wing," to get elected. I expect the Dems to support their base, and they rarely disappoint. So why are we wrong to expect our leaders to support us? Do our senators and representatives actually expect to win reelection by appealing to Dems?
"History will show . . . the radical right wing drove this nomination right out of town" -- Harry Reid
Boy oh boy, this is going to be even more fun to watch than the Miers lynching.
Wonder how successfully Democrats will be at using the radical right's rhetoric against the next nominee?
Can't wait for the fun to begin. Hurry up! Hurry up! Name somebody! Quick!
Being split will only cost the congress in 2006 and potentially the WH in 08. You can think what you want, way too many Americans vote not on issues, but with their pocketbooks. Even if the president has little control over oil and gas prices, he will get the blame and the elections are where it will be felt.
The CIA scandal mess may influence some, but will be blown over by time the elections come around, especially if the president distances himself from those accused.
Americans educated in government indoctrination camps (public schools) will only remember the 30-second sound bite last night or the recent headline on the front of the scandal rags called newspapers. Few will know the details, or even bother to read the details, those that can actually read above the 3d grade level. Therefore, they will assume all are guilty, the president is at fault for all the worlds ills, democrats will fill their pockets with money for doing nothing but voting for them, etc. So, yes, the president does need to bring the conservative base back together. If it is splintered in November as badly as it is now, loss of the congress is very possible.
[President Bush] He'll also have Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist with him enthusiastically--and prepared to impose the "nuclear option" to shut off a Democratic filibuster if necessary. Unfortunately I gotta disagree with you Fred. Senator Frist does not have the cojones necessary to herd the Republican RINOS. Thus I fear we'll never see the passage of the Constitutional Option, which is a shame. We really do need that.
Fred Barnes is on target!
Freddy "the Beatle" Barnes left out one thing. One Very important thing.
The rejection of Miers by conservatives, makes McAnus, and Grahams position as members of the Gang of 14 untenable if McAnus has Presidential Aspirations, and W only needs two to go Nukular.
If I understand the withdrawl reasons right, then this effectively nukes Alberto Gonzolez, too, as a potenital high court nominee. A two-fer.
I agree with everything Barnes wrote. I just hope Pres. Bush is smart enough to go this course.
Being a very spiteful man, if I were Bush, having been gutted by my own party, I would assign Traitor Kerry to come up with a nominee.
Then if Rove and Libby were indicted and considering that more than half of the citizens of this "once" great Country are now against the War, I would call ALL of our Troops home.
I would wait until I could give Rove and Libby a Presidential Pardon and then I would walk out to the Rose Garden and tell the American people that........... they can all KMA while they fight the terrorists in their own streets. Then, I would go fishing.............
Think about this. What if this was the plan all along?
President Bush has been losing support from the conservative base for a long time. The border issue has pushed a lot of us away from the Republican party (I no longer give any money to them), and they needed a way to get us back into the fold.
Now, the Prez pulls this crap with nominating a woman for SCOTUS who has no real qualifications for the job other than being his friend and having a vagina. Oh, and let's not forget all of her liberal speeches and writings, not to mention the fact that she gave money to Gore and Clinton. The conservative base is now totally put off, and wants nothing more to do with this administration, or perhaps even the Republican party.
The conservatives stew for a while. We do everything we can to get the nomination to be pulled, but to no avail for almost an entire month.
Suddenly, out of the blue, the Prez starts talking tough about illegal immigration. Wow! None of us expected that! But, there it was. He finally came out against illegals. Sure, we won't believe it until we see some action that doesn't involve amnesty, but at least he said something. Days later, the nomintaion of Harriet Meirs is withdrawn. Suddenly, we are pulling together. The Bush bashing has stopped. The conservatives are happy and are ready to work with our party again.
Absolutely masterful. By the '06 elections, we will all be solidly behind the Republicans again. I, for one, am very happy to now have a party I can get behind.
Just an opinion, as I am not one of the tinfoil hat crowd. But, this certainly smacks of a conspiracy to get us conservatives back to the Republican party where we belong.
If Fred means the next nominee, then he could be right.
If he means the "successor to O'Connor," then he's in a dream world. Rinos will not permit a real conservative on the court. JMHO.
Who's your pick, Fred? Or are you just going to wait and criticize?
This is just a hunch mind you, but if Miers had been confirmed, I think we might have had the first SCOTUS Bowling Team in U.S. history.
Okay, okay. I know that was bad, I'll stop.
[ However, I had heard rumors that Souter throws a mean 'back up' ball. ]
Okay, now I'm done :-)