When's the next recess?
Posted on 09/16/2007 3:25:02 PM PDT by paltz
President Bush has settled on retired federal judge Michael B. Mukasey to replace Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General, two sources familiar with the decision said Sunday.
The appointment of Mukasey, 66, considered a law-and-order conservative and authority on national security issues, could come as early as Monday morning, the sources said.
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Happened in 2000, because of contested GOP nomination. Will happen the next time there is such a contest. If too unpleasant, I suggest staying off of threads about GOP candidates.
When's the next recess?
Rove is not a college graduate, much less a lawyer.
I just think that there are more constructive arguments to be had, in the end we are in this fight together.
I'm sure that you're wrong. I highly doubt that Greeley supported abortion on demand, was endorsed by militantly homosexual/deviant groups, marched in parades with deviants and child molesters, had several affairs, a divorce, and abandonment of a wife, bragged about confiscating a hundred thousands guns even those from law-abiding citizens, turned a islamic terrorist incident into a reason for calling for national gun control as proposed by the opposition party, dodged the military draft, or surrounded himself with corrupt cronies with ties to organized crime. Although his embrace of Marx and Engels does mark him as a liberal, Greeley still doesn't hold a candle to Giuliani in the liberalism department.
Different issues for different eras. In any case, in 1872 being a liberal meant having the opposite position from what it means today on most of the issues you mention, assuming they were issues at all.
In the end (by the spring thaw) we will be.
“Mukasey has received past endorsements from Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer”
What I’ve gotten real tired of is people automatically dissing the President for something they don’t like that he’s supposedly done, when all they’re basing their displeasure on is rumor.
No guts, no glory...
“but the President reportably wanted Ted Olson “
But we will never know if that was true.
Ok, Harry....... what’s your excuse for obstruction gonna be NOW?
This does not please me.
As long as the "G"OP continues to lead with its left foot, it's going to find fewer and fewer "broken-glass dance partners" willing to go the distance.
I've served MY time. I've pulled the "R" lever so damn much over the years that my thumb hurts. When the hell do I get "represented"? When do MY interests start to count?
When does sucking up to the opposition stop being the prime consideration?
When does compromise take a back seat to principle?
At the rate things are going, I'd say "never."
I will be real surprised if I bother voting very much anymore, if at all. I'd much rather sit back and read a decent book. More entertaining than politics, with none of the heartburn. (Hint to the like-minded: Thrift shops and annual library sales are your friend!)
Aw, but that'd be confrontational.
Nice Guys don't get confrontational!
He's A Uniter Not A Divider, after all.
That's an awful grand, sweeping "etc." you've got there pard.
Are you aware of the world-class gutting of the Second Amendment that's currently making the rounds of the Hallowed Halls as we speak?
Or perhaps you just don't care?
I don't know how this guy would come down on something like that, but given the little bit that's known from the recent news drop (NYC-centric judge, loved by Chuckie), I rather suspect he'd be as lousy as Gonzo the Former.
Man, how I'd love to see Ashcroft still holding that job...
I'm old enough to recall having heard similar sentiments expressed about another candidate in a previous election. That candidate went on to win the election, and balance things out by losing several other things (i.e., the economy, our national prestige, a major chunk out of the aggregate lives of the Iranian hostages, and so forth).
I remember talking... no, we were arguing, actually -- with an old friend, who was a hardcore Carter supporter. He was hardly alone. And that's why the argument ended with me telling him that he sounded like a typical Christian Carter supporter, and him snapping back that I sounded like a typical Christian Reagan supporter.
I think that my position has been vindicated over the years, but the sad reality is that the "religious man" label has, and apparently still does, fool an awful lot of people.
For brownie points, name the "religious leader" that Jimmie Carter admired, and hailed as a very spiritual man.
That by itself shows Mukasey is the wrong man for the job. And it reveals President Bush to be a closet liberal.
Great post Star and sums the situation up exactly IMHO
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