Originally Posted by Pidge
Many Americans' first look at him came when he presided over Clinton's Senate impeachment trial in 1999, wearing the black robe with gold chevrons that he had designed himself, modeled after a Gilbert and Sullivan character.
RIP
"If there is a future, it will be Green." - Petra Kelly.
Just announced on SkyNews-Roberts to be nominated to become next Chief Justice.
Hmm - this was probably the most likely outcome. Bush would (naturally) have wanted Antonin Scalia to be the next CJ - but there was no way in hell that he would have gotten it with his record.
The Democrats (and a fair sized proportion of the Republican party) would have gone berzerk
"The IRA Army Council have a history of telling the truth. If they say they didn't do it, then I believe them" - Bertie Ahern, speaking after the murder of Det. Garda Jerry McCabe
Boooooool-************************.Hmm - this was probably the most likely outcome. Bush would (naturally) have wanted Antonin Scalia to be the next CJ - but there was no way in hell that he would have gotten it with his record.
The Democrats (and a fair sized proportion of the Republican party) would have gone berzerk
Might it not have something to do with the fact that Roberts is 50, and Scalia in his late 60's?
Now, Janice Rogers Brown for the other seat. If he does that, watch as the the entire Demonratic Party implodes with racism.
mcguirkj you old beast - where have you been lately?
Is it a ghost?
Wouldn't it be racist if they didn't oppose her?
Failed liberal traitors:
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WTF?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4304684.stm
Here's her bio. Apart from the fact that she's young, like Roberts and will therefore provide a long term conservative position on the Supreme Court, she really doesn't seem to have done anything yet that would justify her getting such a high level position (though she's certainly on the road to something important).
http://usinfo.state.gov/special/tran...ees/miers.html
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She's 60, which is old enough considering Sandra Day O'Connor is retiring in her mid 60s. He couldn't have picked anyone much older then her.
Her bio is very interesting. She gave money to Al Gore in 1988 and Lloyd Bentsens senate re-election campaigns. Altough this was after she found Christ, it was before she defected to the GOP. And in a 1989 questionner when running for Dallas City Council, she was asked about her attiture to gay right and responded that she believed in equal rights, but didn't support repealing anti-sodomy laws.
A very unusual choice. The country is left confused wondering who the hell she is, and is Bush trying to hide something, and the GOP is split because of the two candidates for the Supreme Court, none have been to their likening.
Can that man do anything right?
The country is left confused wondering who the hell she is, and is Bush trying to hide something, and the GOP is split because of the two candidates for the Supreme Court, none have been to their likening.
Can that man do anything right?
It could all be part of his cunning plan.
Remember he will never have to face an election again, so he can be a bit blase about irritating the rightwing Christians now.
His political ambitions from now on are to ensure that a Republican is elected to succeed him in the White House, and to help the GOP in the mid-term elections.
Selecting two hardline conservatives for the court would raise the possibility that Roe v. Wade could be reversed in a future court case. If that happened, there is a significant risk that a portion of the Republican vote which is pro-choice might peel off the Republican party and switch to the Dems, and his aim at the moment is to prevent that.
I know that pro-choice Republicans are probably a small group, but in the US at the moment, where the two political parties are so evenly matched, their defection could be the difference between the Republicans winning the next Presidential election and not.
Therefore, at the moment, while Bush talks the talk about being pro-life, for political reasons it would actually be to the Republicans disadvantage if two strong pro-lifers were to become Supreme court judges.
The conservative Christian Republicans are probably unhappy with him right now, but all they can do is resolve to stay at home in the next election.
That has been the pattern between the Republicans and conservative Christians since his Bush Senior's time: to tease the Christian right with hints that if the GOP are elected they will give them some red meat (like a pro-life Supreme court) and then force the bible thumpers to swallow a vegetarian mush once they get their votes
Anyway, the way Bush's govermnment is going at the moment, I would say he is more worried about borderline Republicans deserting the party over unhappiness with the war and his response to Katrina than anything else.
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