Well, at least there's one principle this WH won't back down from...
All the above have skeletons eh? Sitting on the bench must be pretty racy. Miers seems more likely to vote against Roe than some of the above. She has a visceral biblical hatred of abortion. But she will just slip through the traitorious Specter net eh? I don't know whom you are talking to, but it ain't Moses.
By the way, I viewed your opus as self therapy. My best advice is to write an opus, revise it, think about it, maybe discuss it with significant others, or professionals in the therapy field, and then hit the delete button.
When I go, there will be no opus. It will be like that guy in the Phantom of the Opera. The body will just fade away, quietly in the night, and all that will be left is the mask.
Supporting her or not is irrelevant. She will be confirmed and she's certainly not going to withdraw or be withdrawn.
Only history will tell us if she was a good choice.
As you and/or Rumsfeld said, you go to war with the Senate you have, not the one you want....
Bottom line is I trust Bush more than anyone with super secret inside information posting on a web forum, and that ain't saying much. Nice try though.
And by extension one might speculate that they might also have been forced from the bench altogether.
Interesting rant. I'm still waiting for this Repulican Senate to get a collective spine and stop acting like the minority party. I still am opposed to the Miers nomination.
Viva la Reagan revolution. I want him back, he had balls.
If the Senate will not back Bush, it is our fault
Welcome to the light.
Dog, this has been in the back of my mind ever since Pres. Bush said Meiers "was the best person I could find." I was willing to bet that many or all of the people we would have wanted (JRB, Luttig, etc.) had their reasons for not wanting to go thru the hell that the confirmation process has turned into.
The republican senate is chock full of spineless wimps!
I'd always known our misrepresentatives didn't have the cojones to get any of the others through. How many times did Frist say "we're getting close to the nuclear option" during the filibuster? There was no hope they'd ever do it then, and even less now that they let it slide.
When we congratulate ourselves for recruiting social liberals into the Republican fold, think about how weak the party has become as a result. Total wimps afraid of a few words. WORDS!!
I can't say this makes me feel any better.
I notice you don't say that "we" are responsible for Arlen Specter being in the Senate. No, that was personally engineered by Rove and Bush. Many of us strongly objected at the time. I also pointed out that as time passed, Specter would be less and less accountable to anyone but himself, and that the one to suffer would be Bush. Hell, Bush not only twisted arms to get Specter re-elected, but he probably wrecked Rick Santorum's re-election prospects in the process.
There are ways to make RINOs toe the line, and they don't depend entirely on the Republican leadership in the Senate. How many bills has Bush vetoed? How often has he disciplined dissenting RINOs by taking away their pork? How often has he punished his enemies when they got out of line? No wonder he can't control the party.
Ditto for the presidency.
The DemocRAT party gets most of its campaign contributions from those who hate America and all we stand for. When the RATS are able to get elected, they must come through for their base.
They know that the vast majority of the American people will reject leftist ideas at the ballot box, so the only way they can "come through" for their base and get the anti-American left's agenda enacted into law, is to install as many left-wing activist judges as possible. They must do an end-run around the constitutional legislative process, rule against the will of the people and impose that agenda on us.
The fact that they get most of their funding from the leftist extremist blame-America-first crowd - our avowed enemies - is THE reason why we must never allow DemocRATS to obtain political power either locally, statewide, or at the federal level. They never give up in their efforts to undermine our Constitution because they have to.
The Constitution stands in their way. bttt
What momentum? We've spent the past 25 years fighting to get control of both the White House and the Congress at the same time so we could put in justices that wouldn't legislate from the bench, and now Bush acts like we are in the minority.
I guarantee you if the dems were in the same position of power that we are, the head of NARAL would have been their nominee.
Our Democrat opponents have been quite busy, especially after John Roberts embarrassed them, searching for any information that would allow an open personal attack on a nominee. Sadly, many of the folks we wanted badly would have had their lives destroyed had they attempted confirmation to the bench, and wisely declined.
I wondered if this might be contributing to it. After the way they went after the Roberts family you can bet on the nominees families dirty laundry being spread out in public.
Miers has one big advantage over most other nominees. No family to be affected.
I still am waiting for the hearings to decide about her.
But one thing is clear, this attacking of nominees and their families has got to stop or no one will want to serve.