The Nuclear Option: Or How Bill Frist Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb.
The Nuclear Option: Or How Bill Frist Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb.
Alas, RINOs prevent nukes from being deployed.
If the RATS are going to filibuster anyway, Dubya should go the whole nine yards and nominate Janice Rogers Brown.
Pick the fight. Give the Rats the big F bomb. ;-)
Searchlight Harry is going to need that light to get out of his dim liberalism.
Let me put this delicately...pound sand Harry.
I think I have a name the Democrats shouldn't *dare* filibuster if Bush were to nominate him. He's a white male Republican and yet he's a minority.
He's been on the Texas Supreme Court and is presently serving as the state's Attorney General. His name is Greg Abbott.
While Abbott is no better than many other qualified jurists Bush could pick, he has one advantage that could force the Dems to hold back their venom. He is confined to a wheelchair - partially paralyzed after a tree fell on him while exercising.
Are the Democrats going to allow themselves to be seen "beating up on a cripple" - particularly the first mobility-impaired American to be nominated to the Supreme Court? Surely, the ever-so-sensitive Democrats would rather lynch another black nominee than have to destroy a man already bound to a wheelchair.
Even if the Dems succeed in killing his nomination, they are going to lose more voters if they do, particularly women who instinctively have sympathy for those with physical limitations.
Unfortunately, I don't know enough about his positions on pro-life issues but, other than stem-cell research, the handicapped are often among the strongest pro-lifers because they realize how quickly the slippery slope of "quality of life" arguments falls down to their level when it comes to who gets to live or die.
It would be the sort of nomination that would so throw the liberals off guard that they would either overplay their hand opposing him or stand back because of the PR damage such attacks might cause.
It would once again show Bush outsmarting the Dems by thinking outside the box. While nominating Brown, Owen or an Hispanic creates problems for the Dems, they already have their opposition research done and will be loaded for bear as they were when these were previously nominated for appellate positions. Abbott will be somebody they'd have to scramble to find dirt on.
All the more the reason to name Janice Rogers Brown! Let them slit their own throats!
Surely.
Which, in and of itself, is sufficient proof that Gonzales should NOT be nominated to the position.
There is nothing else left for the rodents to do.
I for one don't give a flying rats butt if the filibuster, but make them DO a REAL filibuster, not the spineless Republican way where they let business continue but take no action on nominees.
They would filibuster Kermit the Freakin' Frog. Bring it on, you dirtbags!
"Go ahead Reid, you punk,... make my day!"
Heck, if they'll (try) to filibuster Owen we should go with a better pick (one they'll hate even more) like:
Edith Jones
Janice Rogers Brown
Michael Luttig
Michael McConnell
Emilio Garza.
These Republicans need to each grow a pair and start enjoying the advantages of majority. They were elected for a reason and it wasn't to just spend our money like drunken democrats. Get busy!
NOMINATE MAURA CORRIGAN!!!
Do the Dems want Bush to nominate another woman for SCOTUS or not? It shouldn't matter what her beliefs are, she's a woman, surely NOW should be supportive....
So make them filibuster her already. These are the pro-Hillary folks who, three years hence, will be sneering that the Republicans are "afraid of strong women." Let them explain that one away.