Posted on 10/22/2005 9:19:11 AM PDT by Calpernia
And you posted it in Frickin' BIG Type too!!
hahahah can you believe this??
Pithy.
In a utopia, the best person for the job, regardless of age, gender, skin color, "should be" everybody's desire. It doesn't happen, however, for one reason or another. Forcing it to be so creates as many problems, imho, as allowing it to come naturally. And, for example, many smaller companies, this doesn't happen because of familial reasons (i.e., the son takes over from the father, etc.). Perhaps the son isn't the best to take over, but that was the father's perogative...to keep it in the family....it's not always about prejudice.
Absolutely. Immediately.
::rolls eyes::
I'm supporting my own agenda, as I always do. I don't blindly follow any one.
I'm sure they'll all give flowery little speeches outlining their reservations, etc, but in the end, I think Miers will pass with virtually unanimous R support.
Now, don't get me wrong, I would've picked someone else. But after watching the MSM attack Bush over Katrina, Iraq, watching the attacks on Delay and Frist, and listening to Chris Matthews and the other froth-at-the-mouth leftists on Plame-gate, I'm feeling a lot more like a team player.
That means I'm not going to help the other side by attacking our own quarterback, whether he throws an interception or not, at least not right now, at this time.
Call me a Bushbot if you want, but I expect almost ALL of the R Senators will make the same political calculation.
Nominees with no discernable position are per se unacceptable.
We do not run government by guess.
Plus, I can't replace my clock. I voted for it, so I'm not allowed to admit that it can ever be wrong. To question the accuracy of my clock would be disloyal, sexist, traitorous... uh... well, you get the idea.
And are we allowed to use the word "azimuth"?
Harmless, yes . . . until those darned FR Communists wind up defeating Miers and we wind up with JRB, Luttig, McConnell or Alito as the next SC justice, and suddenly it's not so funny ;-)
Did you used to cause as much trouble at St. Dominic's Academy as you do here? ;-)
Is there anyone who doesn't support the Constitution and the President's right to nominate a Christian woman if he decides to?
I'm not supporting her because of YOUR qualifications. I'm supporting her because there is an all-out full-court press right now to make Republicans appear weak and corrupt so Hillary! can be President.
Now is not the time to argue amongst ourselves.
Besides, I believe she'll do a good job.
ALCOA - not Reynolds. You're using the wrong brand.
Putzhead.
>>>>Forcing it to be so creates as many problems, imho, as allowing it to come naturally.
Absolutely agree! That is the EOE quotas.
Goals for guidelines aren't the same. I believe a freeper stated that pretty well earlier on in this thread when he used the example of computer companies and speaking Chinese. This thread is getting way too long to backswim on though and I am signing off shortly to run errands.
Good points all, Like21. IMAO we need to be more like Spartans and less like Athenians, that is, a little less emotion and a more dispassionate thinking with this nomination.
Like a deficient infant, she's `lame' and should be left to the elements. I'm sure she's a great gal but it's certain President Bush approached her, she considered accepting and then did accept.
She should withdraw her nomination on her own motion instead of doing a Clinton: "Waal, I guess we gotta win then . . . " (We're still suffering as a nation from his self-serving decision, but then it's always been all about Bill where Clinton's concerned.)
The Athenians lost, recall. The stakes here are too high.
Calpurnia, a little less lefty-like heat and a little more light, por favor.
"The best lack conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Yeats
Yeah, you. You're demanding that Bush accede to your idea of "qualifications," and that he withdraw his nominee because she doesn't fulfill your "qualifications."
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