[Reagan Man]

You will find some FReepers who will support your position, but there are many who will disagree with you. Check out this entiire thread. No one blames Bush for Pickering not getting nominated. After all Daschle and the Dems control the Senate and the committees. It's pretty hard to get a floor vote when the Senate leader says, NO WAY!

This will continue, as long as the Dems are in the majority. But you're not quite right about "Rehnquist and O'Connor... hanging in there". Lott and Daschle have a deal, that all of Bush's USSC nominees will get a floor vote before the full Senate. It's a leftover from last years power sharing rule.

Bottom line, this entire nomination process for federal justices, has become another Wash-DC bloodsport.

[Brundledan]

---"You will find some FReepers who will support your position, but there are many who will disagree with you. Check out this entiire thread. No one blames Bush for Pickering not getting nominated. After all Daschle and the Dems control the Senate and the committees. It's pretty hard to get a floor vote when the Senate leader says, NO WAY!"---


Oh, I completely agree - Daschle and the committee Democrats have once again displayed themselves as the small, intolerant slimebags they are.

But my point is, who knows how this would have turned out if Bush had fought for his nominee from the beginning? If he'd taken his case for Pickering straight to the public from day one, instead of throwing him to the wolves, and then meekly withdrawing from the fight he had to know would ensue? This isn't the first time he's displayed this kind of cowardice - recall that he all but abandoned Linda Chavez, and barely even spoke a word in defense of his nominee for Attorney General when that nominee was being raked over the coals!

The Dems are pushing President Bush around because they know they can. It's what bullies do to those who show weakness. What happened to Pickering today only reinforces that notion.

If George W. Bush knows what's good for him - and the country - he had better grow a spine, quick. Right now, I'm even angrier at him than I am at the Dems.

-Dan