The DUers are organizing an Activist Group who commit to railroading the president's next USSC appointment. They want a minimum of 500 participants. I don't know that we need to organize, but FRers need to get actively involved. This is what they're up to:
WE ARE LIKELY TO DO THE FOLLOWING:
Voting in online polls.
Signing petitions.
Writing letters to Senators.
Writing letters to the Editor.
Sending emails to media.
Sending emails to friends.
WE ARE UNLIKELY TO DO THE FOLLOWING:
Go to protests.
Hold local events
I oppose any nominee about whom this could be said.
Read the article, but there didn't seem much substance to it. What has he said, where does he stand? What speeches has he made?
NO!!!
""Mark Levin, author of "Men in Black," a new conservative critique of the Supreme Court, sees no conflict and is a fan of Roberts. "In the short period he has been on the court, John Roberts has shown he does not bring a personal agenda to his work. He follows the Constitution, and he is excellent."""
But to LIberals, following the Constitution is an agenda.
Recent buzz besides Garza is Senator John Cornyn of texas. Several have said he was called to the White House this morning.
Ted Olsen, who lost his wife on 9/11, gives the Democrats nightmares.
They object to any 9/11 linkage and Bush stating:
"The Democrats would deny a man who lost
his wife in the tragedy of 9/11."
What could they say? Uncle?
No thanks. Janice Brown for SCJ !
He wants a "Strict Constitutionalist"! That's it! Not liberal, not conservative, just a strict constitutionalist!
He doesn't want any activist judges at all!
Not Edith Jones or Brown, but Roberts looks pretty good to me. Bush kept faith with his supporters, IMO.
Let the SMEAR campaign(s) begin from the "tolerant" bunch.
The Scotus pick by Dubya! :)
I dunno.. he seems ok. But there was this in a Washington Post story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/16/AR2005071601049_pf.htm
Of the two, Roberts spent more time practicing law in Washington, where he has networked with many Democrats. When Roberts was nominated for the D.C. Circuit in 2003, Clinton's former solicitor general, Seth P. Waxman, called Roberts an "exceptionally well-qualified appellate advocate." "He is a Washington lawyer, a conservative, not an ideologue," said Stuart H. Newberger, a lawyer and self-described liberal Democrat who has argued cases against Roberts.
I'd rather have JRB:
http://www.neoperspectives.com/janicerogersbrown.htm
Sounds like another Souter.
Anything Senators Leaky, Shumer & Kennedy are against can't be all that bad.
He's not a woman so that's a strike against him. I don't like his eyes or his phony comb-over but he seemed a fairly smooth talker.
Your thread just made the rounds all across Michigan. I just got it emailed to be by our state GOP.