Posted on 10/28/2005 4:30:00 AM PDT by linkinpunk
Edited on 10/28/2005 6:49:30 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Exactly. Pass it on. Reenergize the base; tell them she would have been borked anyway even with 100% support, it simply was DOA. Disprove a lie; rip the "right wing puppet" argument straight out of the left's mouths, no more fooling moderates about the "evil right". I truly think it's vitally important to pass this message on. Please help me do so.
I want to see another Scalia or Thomas on that court! No more “modern day interpretations” by a some liberal judge.
Red6
I will do.
Yeah. It's amazing to see ppl still mocking the reaction to Miers, even though it has been completely vindicated. It's funny, too, that they say on the one hand, GW didn't nominate a conservative because he didn't have the votes, and yet, now this nomination gets pulled because he didn't have the votes, and they're mad about it. They seem to want Bush to get what he wants more than they want to get what they want. Kooky.
And conservatives will never be able to scream "We've been borked" ever again.
If Specter and Schumer are unhappy, then it must be a good thing.
I disagree that we, the people owe any president "deference" on his choice of nominees.
The concept of "deference" applies to the SENATE. It is a political deference, meaning simply that Senators should defer their political agendas when giving advice and consent on a qualified nominee of the president.
What happened here is only business as (should be) usual in our representative democracy: if an issue sufficiently riles the people, politicians---being representatives of the people---take note.
E.J., another boneheaded, anti-intellectual piece, devoid of sound reasoning and historical and constitutional context.
And conservatives screaming "We've been Borked" was soooooo effective in the past.
What many of these bots do not understand is that the natural inclination in government is for everyone to simply play nice and go along with each other. Its only when the peasants start screaming that they take notice. Does anyone really believe the Senate would have rejected her based on her non-existent qualifications if we did not speak up??????
What litmus test did she fail?
When the libs are upset at something the President has done, you can rest assured it was the correct thing to do. :)
you gotta love it when libs warn us that we're making a mistake. We must be doing something right!
E.J. Dionne is always wrong, especially when he tries to give the GOP advice.
Much appreciated. Thank you so much. :)
Why it do the Rats consider this a striking defeat for Bush/conservatives?
Yeah, nominating Miers was a boneheaded move, but it's a new day. Bush made a mistake. He fixed it. He's still The Man.
Now, the WH strategerists are smart enough to look at everything that went on with the Miers nomination as a FREE TRIAL BALLOON.
THEY know how much support there is out there---where it counts, with the people---for a top-notch, unafraid, unabashed origninalist.
Moreover, they know that THE RATS now know how much support there is out there for same.
Bush has more cards in his hands than ever!
If the stupid RINOs give him grief, he now has proof the base will turn on them, too.
If the Rats give him grief and start that crap about a nominee who "unites," he now has proof that the political capital is on the side of nominating an originalist.
If the Senate judiciary committee gives him crap over an origninalist nominee, HE knows and THEY know that this time we'll have his back.
Of course, no one on Bush Team intended this, but the fact is that the Miers nomination focused the conservative mind wonderfully. There's real power in that fact and that power is on Bush's side (so long as he gets the nominee right this time).
Now we made it up to US to get the next nominee (assuming a good one) through.
Let's roll!
"Harriet was done in by Executive Privilege."
YES!!!!!!!!!!
You have no idea how happy I am you said that. :)
ONE MORE TIME, FROM THE TOP!
"Harriet was done in by Executive Privilege."
The day conservatives start taking political direction from the likes of Dionne is the day we implode. The only use this column serves is to lay out the plan of attack the liberals plan to use.
That's a lie.
I don't know about Krauthammer, but the other three are Catholics.
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.