dUSt Posted October 3, 2005 Posted October 3, 2005 [quote name='Theoketos' date='Oct 3 2005, 11:47 AM']Pretty much...And so I will not vote republican. [right][snapback]744530[/snapback][/right][/quote] What does Bush's screw ups have to do with voting Republican? Should I not vote Democrat because they all cheat on their wives?
Jaime Posted October 3, 2005 Author Posted October 3, 2005 [quote name='Brother Adam' date='Oct 3 2005, 05:25 PM']On what do you base that belief? [right][snapback]744950[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Bush has been historically supporting of friends. If you've done good things for him in the past, you get part of the spoils. I don't necessarily fault him for this. (In some cases I do but not all) He threw the name of Alberto Gonzalez around to get a temperature on it for both nominations. Gonzalez is prochoice but he is a Bush loyalist and friend.
Nicole8223 Posted October 3, 2005 Posted October 3, 2005 I'm pretty nervous about this. Hopefully Bush didn't punk out on all those who voted for him because of the platform he ran on. I have a bad feeling...
curtins Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 (edited) I'm sorry but this woman, from what I've heard, is deffinatly not conservative enough. Us republicans gotta stick it to these libs. (Happy New year ) Bush screwed up on this one. Fair and square. Edited October 4, 2005 by curtins
SarahB Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 [quote name='Thumper' date='Oct 3 2005, 03:46 PM']It seems like a big contrast between Roberts' nomination during prime time, and this nomination announced mid-afternoon right before Bush runs off to Roberts' investiture. Not sure what to make of that. Just seems odd. And perhaps a little disrespectful of her, whatever her judicial positions as contrasted with the big hoopla for Roberts. [right][snapback]744724[/snapback][/right] [/quote] I was watching the news this morning when Bush announced he was nominating her and the reporters were speculating that he announced it this morning because that's when the majority of women are watching TV. All those morning shows apparently draw in a lot of women so he did it then to catch all the women viewers. Don't know if I buy it, but that's what people think.
Colleen Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 Interesting article on Yahoo!: [url="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051003/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_miers_abortion_1;_ylt=Ass1p9dldtbqMAylgurOQVJuCM0A;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl"]here[/url] Miers Led Bid to Revisit Abortion Stance WASHINGTON - President Bush's choice to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Justice and moderate abortion rights supporter Sandra Day O'Connor was a leader in an unsuccessful fight to get the nation's largest lawyers' group to reconsider its pro-abortion rights stance. ADVERTISEMENT As president of the Texas State Bar in 1993, Harriet Miers urged the national American Bar Association to put the abortion issue to a referendum of the group's full membership. She questioned at the time whether the ABA should "be trying to speak for the entire legal community" on an issue that she said "has brought on tremendous divisiveness" within the ABA. Miers was among a group of lawyers from the Texas bar and elsewhere who had argued that the ABA should have a neutral stance on abortion. The ABA's policy-making body overwhelmingly rejected the Texas lawyers' group's 1993 proposal to put the issue to a referendum by mail of the ABA's then-roster of about 360,000 members. "Our current position (in favor of abortion rights) has no meaning unless it is endorsed in fact by the membership," Miers said at the time. The ABA's position, adopted in 1992, endorses the basic outlines of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade ruling that women may choose to have an abortion without state interference prior to the point at which a fetus could live outside the womb, and after that point if the woman's life or health were threatened by the pregnancy. Although Miers' personal view of abortion was not explicit in 1993, Leonard Leo, a White House adviser on Supreme Court nominations highlighted her efforts as part of the reason that "conservatives should be very happy with this selection." "As a leader of the bar, Harriet Miers was a fearless and very strong proponent of conservative legal views. She led a campaign to have the American Bar Association end its practice of supporting abortion-on-demand and taxpayer-funded abortions," Leo said a memo on the Miers nomination. Miers was very active in the ABA, and senators will probably question Miers about deep divisions within the organization about the abortion question and the ABA's role in taking policy positions. The ABA briefly held the neutral position Miers and others supported — from 1990 to 1992.
Thumper Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 [quote name='SarahB' date='Oct 3 2005, 08:16 PM']I was watching the news this morning when Bush announced he was nominating her and the reporters were speculating that he announced it this morning because that's when the majority of women are watching TV. All those morning shows apparently draw in a lot of women so he did it then to catch all the women viewers. Don't know if I buy it, but that's what people think. [right][snapback]745049[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Well, I know that's why hot stuff watches all the morning shows . . . to hang with the ladies. That's an interesting theory, though, and I hadn't looked at it from that angle.
Socrates Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 A choice motivated by cronyism, political correctness, and cowardice. Bad Bush!
SarahB Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 Someone remind me why I voted for him because I'm having trouble remembering. I plead temporary insanity.
Socrates Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 [quote name='SarahB' date='Oct 3 2005, 08:26 PM']Someone remind me why I voted for him because I'm having trouble remembering. I plead temporary insanity. [right][snapback]745126[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Call me cynical, but something tells me Kerry wouldn't have picked better nominations.
dspen2005 Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 [quote name='zabbazooey' date='Oct 3 2005, 10:07 AM'] Hope she's ultra-conservative [right][snapback]744344[/snapback][/right] [/quote] she has been described as a biblical-literalist... so we can safely assume that she is at least conservative, without the 'ultra-'
Brother Adam Posted October 4, 2005 Posted October 4, 2005 [quote name='Socrates' date='Oct 3 2005, 09:32 PM']Call me cynical, but something tells me Kerry wouldn't have picked better nominations. [right][snapback]745130[/snapback][/right] [/quote] cynical. that's a load of crock. if kerry was in office he would appoint nominees that would have Roe v Wade stamped on the foreheads of every child in America "so they are aware of their constitutional rights"
Socrates Posted October 5, 2005 Posted October 5, 2005 [quote name='Brother Adam' date='Oct 3 2005, 10:29 PM']cynical. that's a load of crock. if kerry was in office he would appoint nominees that would have Roe v Wade stamped on the foreheads of every child in America "so they are aware of their constitutional rights" [right][snapback]745291[/snapback][/right] [/quote] I know. I was being facetious. There's all these Dems on here who blame Republicans for voting for Bush when they themselves voted Kerry.
Jaime Posted October 5, 2005 Author Posted October 5, 2005 If anyone saw the press conference this morning's press conference the word of the day is Opine
Cam42 Posted October 5, 2005 Posted October 5, 2005 [quote name='hot stuff' date='Oct 4 2005, 10:02 PM']If anyone saw the press conference this morning's press conference the word of the day is Opine [right][snapback]746310[/snapback][/right] [/quote] So true......
dspen2005 Posted October 5, 2005 Posted October 5, 2005 put up Janice Rogers Brown -- she's the one!!!
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