Posted on 10/03/2005 7:04:43 AM PDT by buckeyeblogger
Have faith Nick. We have to see how this plays out. Take heart that the senators are in the dark too, but that POTUS knows more than all of us combined. GWB is not his daddy's son. No paper trail cuts both ways. She's a serious lawyer and a GOOD Christian.
The only thing more pathetic than party loyalists making excuses for Bush is any comment that labels Bush a "conservative".
There were fine originalists available to choose from. Bush continues with his bewildering array of decisions, from allowing an invasion to go answered to our south, to spending more on Africa than some agencies in the USA (like NASA), to picking unknown and likely liberal SCOTUS nominees, when outstanding originalists were available.
Bush is afraid of a fight, or is simply a bad actor pretending to be a conservative when he is not.
This is beyond pathetic. If I were a Republican Senator, I would filibuster the nomination.
Batter-up!
No she did not. You need to cite your lame source.
That's a good clue to what this administration is about: The Marriage Amendment was rushed to a vote in the Senate too quickly, before its proponents had a chance to build support for it, because Rove and company wanted to run ads saying that Kerry and Edwards voted against protecting marriage from the homos. Well, whoops, there were only 48 votes for the Amendment, so two democrats got to stay home and not vote against it, and you know which two got that privilege. And now, oddly enough, the Amendment has evaporated completely. This gives away the game -- it was never sincere. Just a bone to throw to a restive base during a close election.
Another classic issue that they are not sincere about is the flag-burning amendment. Just as it looked like it would pass the Senate, and then the States, Sen. Mitch McConnell (Tobacco-R) switches his vote and gives a pious speech in favor of freedom of speech.
Abortion too, I am afraid to say, is also just a wedge issue to these people. It keeps the conservatives coming out to vote. But you can be absolutely certain it will never pass. This would be a disaster politically. There were plenty of people who voted for Bush who would never have voted for him if they thought Roe v. Wade would be overturned. Everyone is opposed to abortion but want it legal just in case their 14-year-old daughter gets pregnant, or their sister gets raped. (How many times have you heard a politician say they're against abortion "except in cases of rape or incest"? The only argument against abortion is that it is murder and it's just as much a murder in cases of rape or incest. The Republican leadership is unclear on the concept or else entirely insincere on this issue.)
I had not yet married at 40 and my own experience militates against my suspecting the single folks of alternative "affectional" preferences. I was firmly resolved to marry no one who was not trustworthy as to divorce. So far so good with no reason to suspect future changes.
Again, if anything I said seemed insensitive, I did not intend insensitivity and apologize for inartfulness in posting. On a number of matters, I insult others around here with the best of us, but this is not one of those matters.
As to Harriet Miers character and fitness, I will believe little or nothing of what I hear and about half of what I see. Generally, I have a good deal of trust in this president. My default position is that, if he chose her, I am going to be happy with Harriet Miers until SHE proves that I should not be. I would rather have had Janice Rogers Brown but no one elected me to make the appointment. I wish Harriet Miers the very best in her nomination and in her confirmation and in her tenure on SCOTUS.
I want her to help Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, CJ John Roberts and at least one more new justice to overrule Roe vs. Wade so bad that I can taste it. In the best case scenario, we will still need to persuade Anthony Kennedy or get another appointment to replace a pro-abort justice (Stephens? Ginsburg?). 45 million slaughtered is more than enough.
Miers and Roberts are going to be making their first Supreme Court decisions and writing their first opinions sometime around June of next year -- right in the middle of the 2006 midterm election cycle. I find it hard to believe that the GOP would invite the kind of election disaster that would be brought down upon them if these two justices turn out to be anything remotely close to a David Souter.
And if the SCOTUS would just so happen to reverse a court decision that favored the Liberal agenda just prior to the midterm elections such as the "Eminent Domain" case, then a 2006 Republican victory could be well in hand.
I would love to be a fly on the wall at the White House today.
And I am willing to take Dubya's word for his nominees until THEY prove unworthy. I would have preferred Janice Rogers Brown or probably ten other potential nominees but Dubya was elected. I wasn't.
Anyone who thinks that GOP senators are going to torpedo Miers (without some major unforeseen development before the vote), that the Democrats will try but fail to save her, and that Dubya (now chastened) will nominate and see confirmed Attila the Judge who will right every wrong we have ever suffered must be using awfully effective hallucinogens.
The woman is apparently a strong Evangelical. I am Roman Catholic but her faith as a nominee works for me, particularly on the life issues. She is not going to decide by what means we may be saved: grace, Scripture, faith (each somehow alone) or three yards and a cloud of dust until the moment of death as we Catholics may see it. The perfect is the enemy of the good. Let's not be foolish as so many here are dying to be.
She has never married which is what probably bothers some folks here. Yet each of us has known perfectly respectable folks who never married (Souter is certainly not one of them). There is an awful lot of purely disingenuous BS being posted against her.
Dubya's momma is undoubtedly more pro-death than Laura but I want both on my side when the switchblades are opened in the alleyway and the fight for the rest of civilization begins. The mutual enemy will be Ted the Swimmer, Biden the Prevaricating image of Neil Kinnock, Schmuckie Chewmer, Dick Eddie Haskell Turban, Madame Arkansas Antichrist, BaaBaa Boxer, et al., not Dubya.
It may well be that the sorry Carswell was done in by senatorial knowledge of the reputation that he earned in the men's rooms of Florida country clubs and which eventually led to his arrest in those dear, dead times.
Waaaah, we didn't get the one we wanted. Waaah, this nomination will not p.o. half the country so it is bad. Waaah, (fill in the blank with another dumb comment) so she is bad.
It is remarklable the simularity between the comments of alleged conservatives and DU/Pelosi/NAARL/NOW etc. Must be because of a shared view of the Constitution and Court.
If I want to hear dumbassed KnowNothing comments about Bush I can just go to DU why listen to the B-team's bitching here?
There are a number of KNOWN conservative women that haven't married either .. (Ann .. Laura .. etc)
I'll be waiting for the slams on them
Oh wait .. what's that I hear ???
crickets
This is total BS. So far all the Antis/Perpetually P.O.ed have to rest their whines upon are political contributions almost twenty years old. Oh, and SUPPOSEDLY Harry Reid said she was acceptable.
There are few things more tiresome that listening to the whines of the KnowNothings and DU wannabees.
Most of the opposition is based upon lies such as yours. She was never a FoB. Not even close but that will not stop you from repeating that lie every chance you get I will wage.
Simply put you have no clue as to her qualifications. Nor has anyone else pointed to anything which would support your opinion.
Given the tendency of Bush's alleged friends to attack him over everything there is little doubt that he would go with someone he implicitly trusts and knows well.
The same ridiculous comments were made when Bush selected Cheney for VP by the same mindset, self-proclaimed conservatives who act more like denizens of DU. They do little but bitch and whine so who cares what they think?
Well, yes, take heart -- Cheney told Rush that we'll all be very happy with this pick in ten years. Just have to be patient, I guess -- after all, conservatives have waited all these decades, worked our arses off, and urged to hold our noses and vote for Rhinos so we could win the all-important prize: Supreme Court nominations. Now we'll get to see the fruits of our efforts in ten years, when the present administration is ancient history and who-knows-what inhabits the WH and Congress.
In the meantime, let's work to prevent Hillary from gaining the White House, and re-elect all those rhinos in Congress -- because there really is a world of difference between Arlen Specter and Harry Reid, though it might be hard to see sometimes.
Yessir, I'm pumped.
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