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To: Tulane; Bush_Democrat
Say what you want about Bush, but he has appointed 2 very good justices to the bench.

Yes, he did. But in my opinion he only deserves credit for one. Why? Because only one was voluntary. Anyone here recall the Harriet Miers fiasco? Want to venture a guess as to how she'd be voting????

142 posted on 04/28/2008 12:20:54 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: ChildOfThe60s; Tulane; Bush_Democrat
Yes, he did. But in my opinion he only deserves credit for one. Why? Because only one was voluntary.

Man, that's such a lame, trite argument. Try to follow this train of thought based firmly in our Constitutional form of government:

The President is free to nominate whomever he wishes for posts that require Senate advice and consent.

The Senate is free to vote as it sees fit on any nomination.

The people are free to weigh in on any nomination using the wide array of means available to them in the early 21st Century: emails, phone calls, text messages, snail mail, walk-ins to district offices, call-ins to talk radio, blogging and posting on political forums, participation in associations and groups that lobby congress, and so on.

When the collective weight of the senate's and the people's feedback act to defeat a nomination, either before or in a senate vote, that's just an instance of how our system is supposed to work. We would have a problem only if a President did NOT listen to the will of the people, or if the people are too indifferent to make their opinions known. President Bush and Harriet Miers did listen. She withdrew and he nominated a wonderful candidate in now-Justice Alito. And yet people like you keep whining about what might have been but never was.


160 posted on 04/28/2008 1:49:48 PM PDT by Wolfstar (Politics is the ultimate excercise in facing reality and making hard choices.)
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