Waiting for Fitzgerald

[Captain]

When was the last time a President couldn't get a Senate controlled by his own party to confirm a S.Ct. appointment? Roosevelt?

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Just below disco and tab collars.

2.

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
He'll appease all the conservative types and is very confirmable.

And yes, it is preferable to go younger.

I invented nominating Olson as the safe choice.

[SlaveNoMore]

Captain
When was the last time a President couldn't get a Senate controlled by his own party to confirm a S.Ct. appointment? Roosevelt?

1) When was the last time a President nominated such an obviously unqualified crony to the position?

2) The harping from the Left makes it clear that either (a) they are royally upset that they couldn't derail her themselves during public hearings, or, more likely (b) they are disgusted because the conservative outcry against a Bush nominee flies directly in the face of their constant accusations that the GOP follows every Bush word like a bunch of lemmings.

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Brown yes. And the rest of them were down around 10-15 on his list.

You are a fucking liar. Care to retract that post?

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Originally posted by spookyfish
FWIW, I completely agree with this reasoning.

Congrats you and cooter can keep yourselves company in loserland. Say hi to Chuckie Schumer.

The babyjesi have shown their power. Bush gives us a conservative anti-Roe proponent or he gets cockblocked again@@!

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
You are a fucking liar. Care to retract that post?

I am neither. I have a bad recollection. But you ought to look at your original list, which had a lot more names on it.

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
2) The harping from the Left makes it clear that either (a) they are royally upset that they couldn't derail her themselves during public hearings, or, more likely (b) they are disgusted because the conservative outcry against a Bush nominee flies directly in the face of their constant accusations that the GOP follows every Bush word like a bunch of lemmings.

I really was unaware of much harping from the "Left", whomever is encompassed by that term. There seemed to have been much greater and vocal opposition from the religious wingnuts, who were licking their chops over the possibility of a "final showdown" with the liberals over the SCOTUS nomination in the Senate.

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Originally posted by Spanky
What was done to the Japanese sucked and was wrong. No question. But that is a side issue.

The point is that during WWII, any German that might have Nazi sympathies was thrown into a concentration camp by the US government. In addition, Nazi sympathisers were interviewed and asked their political views during the 1930s when we were not at war. Not a complaint from the liberals.

During the Korean War, when American fighter planes were being shot down by Soviets, and we were fighting the Chinese communists on the ground and there was a massive espionage campaign by the Soviets in the United States, some hollywood employees had to face a committee and lost their jobs because of their affiliation with the communist party. A party that was siding with the North Koreans against the United State and was being run by Moscow. And this was the crime of the century? This was a witch hunt?

Nothing happened to these people. If they had worked for me I would have fired them and told everyone I knew not to hire them.

The bottom line is, who cares? It's time for real Americans to rally around the President in his war on Terror. Instead of worrying about past enemies we need to worry about putting the same type of hurt we put on the Nazis and Japanites onto the Syrians, Iranians and radical Islamists, including but not limited to the Gitmo detainees.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
1) When was the last time a President nominated such an obviously unqualified crony to the position?

1991.
Before that,
1972.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Penske_Account

The babyjesi have shown their power. Bush gives us a conservative anti-Roe proponent or he gets cockblocked again@@!

Justice O'Connor may never get to retire.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
1) When was the last time a President nominated such an obviously unqualified crony to the position?

2) The harping from the Left makes it clear that either (a) they are royally upset that they couldn't derail her themselves during public hearings, or, more likely (b) they are disgusted because the conservative outcry against a Bush nominee flies directly in the face of their constant accusations that the GOP follows every Bush word like a bunch of lemmings.

The Left is whining because the Right is falling apart, but even as it falls apart, giving the Left what should be its greatest opportunity in years, the Left can't capitalize because nobody wants the pile Big Govt shit its selling.

The Conservative Revolution has begun to splinter. The Big tent of the GOP is unraveling because everyobdy's beginning to look to 2008, and the conventional wisdom is that the best sales pitch then will be "I'm nothing like Bush." The unity is gone, the "vision" derailed in Iraq and NO.

The Dems stand facing a great vacuum they'd like to, but can't, fill. They're stuck pining for LBJ's Great Society, which nobody wants - or should want - anymore.

We have a vacuum, into which only a moderate, cost cutter who favors well-run small govt will be able to make headway. You're as likely to find that in DC as you are to find Elvis and Jim Morrison sharing crumpets and mimosas.

The Left is whining for the same reason it will always whine - because moderate America refuses to listen to it.

[SEC_Chick]

Originally posted by Spanky
What was done to the Japanese sucked and was wrong. No question. But that is a side issue.

The point is that during WWII, any German that might have Nazi sympathies was thrown into a concentration camp by the US government. In addition, Nazi sympathisers were interviewed and asked their political views during the 1930s when we were not at war. Not a complaint from the liberals.

Most of the Germans not identified as Nazi sympathizers faced only very mild persecution. My grandmother, whose parents had immigrated through Galveston and joined one of the tightly-knit German communities in Texas, was a schoolteacher in a German-speaking school. Well, it was German-speaking until the war started and they made her teach in English becase it was otherwise subversive.

Oh, and this was the grandmother who attended the teacher's college in San Marcos with LBJ and would regale us with the stories of him getting caught breaking into faculty offices to steal exams.

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
I am neither. I have a bad recollection. But you ought to look at your original list, which had a lot more names on it.

Wrong again.

Other than JRB, please explain how any of the other top ten on that list fall into the wacko category? Also, please explain the opposition to JRB, a jurist qualified to sit on a Fed App Ct? Is it racism or sexism or the combo? Certainly bad form to have a republican nominate someone who is a member of two of the demos' largest plantation hostage demographic groups, right?

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
1991.

Do you know what the word "crony" means?