Gentlemen, start your engines!
This is what's really at stake. Republicans must maintain control of the U.S. Senate even if they don't desesrve it.
If he's sentenced to DEATH, any further trials are moot and we are again reminded of why our troops are in Iraq - depose Saddam (or REGIME CHANGE as it was referred to when Clinton adopted it as policy, but did nothing more than lip service). DUmocrats wanted the election to be about Iraq, and so it is.
1. Jean-Fraud Kerry infers that soldiers in Iraq are dumb.
2. Soldiers respond
3. NYT admits Saddam had nuke program.
4. Families of fallen visit Iraq (no quagmire)
5. Saddam sentenced (death by wood chipper)
News cycle seems to be working for GOP advantage thus far. DUmocrats today counter with "Rusmsfeld must resign" and "recruiters caugh lying" stories. Wow. That's new....NOT!
In addition to Saddam sentencing, Fox will be running OBSESSION - THE MOVIE, and we get to see the face of the enemy today and tomorrow. Fox is also showing "waterboarding" (Steve Harrigan, a Fox reporter volunteered to show how it is done) all day today.
I don't know what Monday brings, but I've got a good idea about the day after.
Crucial that we don't lose any votes in the Senate.
Also, we can't afford the perception that the Democrats are more popular with the voters than the Republicans, or it will be much harder to lean on them to confirm the next judicial appointees.
Bush succeeded with Roberts and Alito because many Democrats didn't dare be seen as obstructing them purely on the basis that they might vote against abortion.
It the Democrats pick up too many seats, it will change the political dynamics and make court appointments more difficult again.
Let's hope and pray. We need at least one more SCOTUS appointment, and preferably as many as we can get!
Ruth Bader Ginsberg is going going gone
Heavens, Go Kean Jr. go!
This is the reason we all need to get out and vote!
Stevens has said he since he was appointed by a Republican President he wants to retire when a Republican is in the White House. He may very well retire at the end of the current Court term.
Stevens has said he was appointed by a Republican President will resign under a Republican President.
It's the usual rumor, but who cares? If it gets a few more human conservatives off their behinds on election day to help tthe rest of us save the nation from the scumbag Democrats and their agenda to turn America into a French-style, secular-socialist welfare state, then good.
BUMP!
Let's hope we don't have a Harriet Meirs redux or a stealth Byers.
I hope if the reps lose the Senate they remember how the minority acted.
Could this be the first time something from the real world intruded into DU LOL?
Whatever, there is a good chance there will be an opening on the Supreme Court before the next elections.
I have been saying this was coming down the pike forever. Stevens is more liberal thatn the Republicans that we have now. But regardless Judges and many memebers of the Court respect tradition. He was appointed by a Republican and I ahve thought he would want to go out under Republican
I was surprised he didn't pack it in during the summer.
Here's another important column.
/johnny