Posted on 07/02/2005 8:04:07 PM PDT by CHARLITE
"But in the area of constitutionalism, conservative goals have been thwarted, and the key moment of failure, from which conservative constitutionalism has never recovered, was the Bork defeat in 1987."
Char:)
I don't like Kristol, but this is a good read, Thanks for posting it
The lines are drawn. The expectations are set. This is it.
Bork the senate, sounds good to me!
Why can't President Bush just do a recess appointment to cover the O'Conner retirement? Seems like the most direct way to do it ...
I disagree with Kristol about McConnell's Conservative credentials. I believe Luttig is far more Conservative than McConnell
I don't think he can because O'Connor said she would serve until a replacement is confirmed
Is there any reason Bork cannot be nominated? :-)
I don't care what Kristol says, he is the McCain of the media. A useless self promoter who gets press out of stabbing his friends in the back.
?! Biggest farm bill in the history of the country, biggest expansion of medicare since it was founded (senior drug benefit), $15 billion for AIDS to the sinkhole known as Africa... He's not quite the spendthrift that Reagan was. I wish Bush was more economical with our money.
Reagan was a spendthrift??
Since when has that made a difference? The demorats will filibuster whenever and whereever they feel like it. Always have, always will. Nothing has changed to change that.
President Reagan may have alway proposed balanced budgets, but he ending up literally signing on to the biggest relative expansion in the size of the federal budget since the Second World War. Sadly, no president in our lifetime has had the courage to make the needed reductions in the size our federal government.
If he nominates Attorney General Gonzales, I am going to become an independent.
Because of the Bork travesty, we got Anthony Kennedy as his replacement, and then Souter was nominated to avoid that kind of situation. The Dems were very effective in their lying about Bork. Now is the time to bring all of that garbage to an end.
Correct.........but I would personally LOVE to see Bush appoint Luttig to take O'Connor's place and then Janice Rogers Brown as Chief Justice.....within HOURS of receiving Mr. Justice Rehnquist's notice of retirement!
That's my idea of a double whammy......and it would indeed be "supreme" retribution for the Bork disaster!
I don't think that I will ever get over how pliant our Repubicans were in voting Ginsburg IN, while still (and forever) stinging from the Bork rejection.
IMO, our Republicans in both house of the Congress need to grow some TEETH.......quickly!
Thanks for your great comment!
Char :)
They will attempt to filibuster. They'll throw everything they have, but the Dems cannot make it stick. Yes, things have changed. The Constitutional option push made a difference.
The Democrats will viciously fight any nominee Bush gives them, no matter how moderate. As long as we are going to have a fight, we might as well be fighting for the best candidate we can, and have a battle worth winning. There is no use fighting over the moderates.
Democrats lost the House, Senate, majority of Governorships for a reason, or better: multiple reasons.
Let the majority select, recommend, and vote along with the minority to fill this Supreme Court vacancy.
Everything else would be disenfranchising a majority.
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