Breaking- Bush announces new SCOTUS nominee in am

[carolinalady]

Fox news-no link

[rsmith6621]

1. Just In Time

To defuse the Shit that is Flying around WDC these days.....How Figgin predictable.......

Impeach all the Bastards....their not worthy of overseeing the handle on a toilet bowl.

[carolinalady]

5. It may backfire-depends on who the nominee is.

I hope the dems stick to their talking points and use them often.

[cantstandbush]

26. After the airing of 60 Minutes tonight, it won't matter who he nominates

American should not take their eyes off the Plame scandal. And it is now time of Sibel to make some more noise.

[oioioi]

29. SC Justice Richard Cheney?

...so to cut a long story short, after a long search for potential candidates, somebody said "Hey Dick, what about you?"

... Lynne and I have been thinking about a lower profile position and the work we've done on Iraq makes me more experieced with constitutional law than the former nominee. I've also passed all the necessary security clearances and have a residence in Washington, making it a relatively simple matter for me to just move on over once the Senate OKs me on Tuesday...

[Brundle_Fly]

42. I heard that bugger

has a gay daughter!

let the fun begin.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

2. Well, since Miers was the most qualified candidate

I wonder how un-qualified this one will be...

[skipos]

23. He is going to pick someone who fires up his base.

I hope no one here is expecting him to pick a moderate. My guess is that we will wish we had Miers instead of whoever he names tomorrow.

[ElectroPrincess]

24. Well since they have Condi THERE salivating over the dead body

of Rosa Parks, I predict Chimpy will name "Janice Rogers Brown" ... they're so shallow they think if they scream *racism* to any negative critiques, it will work as good as it did with Clarence Thomas.

They think WRONG! :puke:

[Journeyman]

3. Breaking news that something may happen tomorrow? . . .

Ah, that Fox news. . . they're on the bleeding edge of obfuscation . . .

[Brundle_Fly]

47. I am glad someone else picked up on that....

fuggin' msm.

[msongs]

4. David Duke - he's white, christian, nazi, moderately young...all the

perfect extremist republicans could want. dobson, fallwell, hell they all could get behind david duke.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

[VegasWolf]

14. Yes, or maybe Ralph Reed. nt

[Pirate Smile]

6. The Republicans have been saying the second term starts Monday.

I figured this was what they meant by that.

[thinkingwoman]

21. and then the implosion

resumes Tuesday or Wednesday (or whenever it is that Libby is actually arraigned).

This is a good show. :popcorn:

[MrModerate]

33. Help me out on this one . . .

WTF are they talking about? Do they really think there's a reset switch on reality?

I guess maybe they do. So let me rephrase -- do they think EVERYBODY ELSE thinks there's a reset switch?

[Pirate Smile]

49. It is just their spin. A new PR campaign or way to change the subject.

It won't fly.

[bluestateguy]

7. That's nice. Now back to that CIA leak, and the indictment

Keep your eye on the ball people. This is a petty distraction. If we have 50 threads about it, then we are playing into the right's hands.

[Mr_Spock]

8. FUCK's "News"

Swell :eyes:

at least you were first with the scoop!

Faux "News" my ass :eyes:

[carolinalady]

9. Not my news of choice but not much selection on Sunday.

[JoFerret]

30. Why post such non news tripe.

.

[rsmith6621]

10. Sad Fact As Of Now

Any selection that Shrubya makes from this point forward is not nearly the quality of the first......I believe it took 6 rejections before shrub tapped Miers.......I wonder how many request it took from bush to get the nominee he is going to bestow on us tomorow.

[sallyseven]

11. 45 becasuse ths smell turns them off.

[NYC Liberal]

12. Even rightwingers don't want to be associated with Bush now.

Miers wasn't the first choice...he asked the ultra conservatives (Owens, etc.) before he got to Miers, and they turned him down.

[Catchawave]

41. Even Va.Gov GOP candidate Kilgore

bagged out on Bush when he came to Norfolk last week. And Rove too, a week earlier...heh...we still can't figure out who was avoiding who for those missed photo ops! Kilgore's running a really smutty campaign :sigh:

[xxqqqzme]

51. off topic...now that old woman

is one scary ass Halloween mask.

[fearnobush]

13. Who gives a shit. These nominations are old news now.

They have become boring news, important but boring.

[Marlie]

15. I think the Dem's should just keep their mouths shut

Until the actual hearings begin - then the news folk can't flap
about it constantly. The Dem's should just keep their cards close
to their chests. Does not do them any good to scream instantly
because we know this nominee will get to the committee.

[MrModerate]

34. I disagree . . .

Scream bloody murder if he puts forth one of the tin-pot Torquemadas he has waiting in the wings.

Our meme should be, "shut up and govern, you stinking goniff. In case you didn't notice you are -- sad to say -- the American President, not the Republican President or the Right-wing President -- so act like it."

And of course he can't. Digging the hole deeper.

[brooklynite]

16. This suggests that the new nominee...

will be as fully vetted as Harriet was.

[KittyWampus]

32. took a minute for your statement to sink in. When it did, I laughed.

you're probably correct. :D

[deadparrot]

17. Oh, goody.

Can't wait to see the nutcase.

[VegasWolf]

18. Don't think Brain is going to Harry Reid for this one. nt

[lonestarnot]

19. You know it's going to be nuclear, he needs the distraction.

[VegasWolf]

20. Bush to announce a young fundie that will be on the SC for 50 years. nt

[mallard]

45. Tried a fundie...

Maybe time for a fifty-something neocon.

[ElectroPrincess]

22. Could this Executive Branch be any more transparent and shallow?!? n/t

[oioioi]

27. What choice do they have?

By this time next week, there will be nobody in the * admin with enough public credibility left to nominate anybody.

Edited - On reflection, I'd say that Miers was nominated precisely because she could be withdrawn at pretty much any time and a new nominee could be rolled out to take some of the spotlight off the Fitzgerald indictment announcements when the timing suited them best.

Something about the Aspens being connected by the roots.

[leesa]

25. Which criminal will it be...hmmmm...

[DemAmericans]

31. Not good....

Buzz says it's Samuel "Scalito" Alito.

[fleabert]

54. we shall see, and

welcome to DU!
:hi:

[Little Star]

28. Wonder who the base forced him to nominate.

Wonder how it feels for a Resident to get spanked over his real choice. Maybe he'll have a few of these :beer:

[Pirate Smile]

35. WP: President Poised to Pick Court Nominee

President Poised to Pick Court Nominee
Allies on Right Are Consulted on Conservative Judges

By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 31, 2005; Page A01

President Bush appears poised to announce a new Supreme Court nomination today, moving quickly after a weekend of consultations to put forward a replacement for the ill-fated choice of Harriet Miers in hopes of recapturing political momentum, according to Republicans close to the White House.

Judging by the names the White House floated by political allies in recent days, Bush seems ready to pick a candidate with a long track record of conservative jurisprudence -- one who would mollify the Republican base, whose opposition to Miers's nomination helped scuttle her chances. Several GOP strategists said the most likely choice seemed to be federal appeals judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., with judges J. Michael Luttig and Alice M. Batchelder also in the running.

Any of the three would draw support from many conservative activists, lawyers and columnists who vigorously attacked Miers as an underqualified presidential crony. At the same time, the three have years of court rulings that liberals could use against them. Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) said yesterday that he has already warned the White House that nominating Alito -- who is often compared to Justice Antonin Scalia -- would "create a lot of problems."

Republican lawmakers and strategists said a swift nomination with a consolidated party behind Bush would represent an important first step for the president in a strategy to pull out himself of a political ditch. With the withdrawal Thursday of Miers's nomination, the mounting death toll in Iraq and the indictment Friday of top vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Bush has hit an all-time low in public approval ratings and wants to start a new chapter in his troubled second term.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/30/AR2005103000910.html

[skids]

36. BTW, who called it first?

Some DUer called it first during the Fitmas mayhem.

Step up and get your props.

[Greeby]

37. Whoever it is

Expect them to come goose-stepping down the hallway soon :mad:

[More Than A Feeling]

38. Here we go...

Time for that "final showdown" radical conservative activists keep yakking about. Wonder what the "Gang of Fourteen" will do if it goes nuclear? Anybody think that the country still has the stomach for that fight, given Bush's loser ratings?

[pinto]

39. So, SCOTUS nomination is about "pulling Bush out of a ditch"? How

freaking weird is that take? Think about it. A lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court is framed in a national newspaper as a function of shoring up Bush's popularity. God save us.

[jmowreader]

40. Of the three, I'd say Batchelder is the preferred choice

He's going to get slammed if he doesn't choose a woman.

If I was advising Dubya, here's what I'd tell him to look at: no less than 10 years experience at the appellate level and moderately right-leaning. IOW, a drop-in replacement for O'Connor.

Bush is probably thinking in the Janice Rogers Brown/Priscilla Owen frame of mind.

[adigal]

43. Can't wait to see America's reaction when Bush, MR. 39%,

nominates a wingnut, and the Republican senate goes nuclear over it. Sure, just what Bush needs to gain back the support of moderates and independents that he's lost. Great planning.

Karl Rove is NOT a genius. Karl Rove is an IDIOT. Bush = 39%.

[carolinalady]

44. I think they will wait and put their finger in the wind. If the party

doesn't protest too loudly they may let it ride. We may be surprised. The moderate base may support him just to blow over the scandal stuff because they hate the fact that they have to "eat it" that they made a horrible decision when they voted for him.

[carolinalady]

46. New Link--

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051031/ap_on_go_su_co/bush_scotus

[MelissaB]

48. Recommended because many days I only get to read the "greatest".

[Julius Civitatus]

50. It will make Attila the Hun look like a peacenick hippy in comparison

Make no mistake. Whoever he nominates, it will be a sanctioned firebreather of the worst kind.

[Up2Late]

52. Bush expected to announce Supreme Court pick Monday (Reuters)

(Here's a different source perspective.)

Bush expected to announce Supreme Court pick Monday

Sun Oct 30, 2005 08:16 PM ET

By Steve Holland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush is expected to announce his new nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday as he tries to battle back from a series of difficult developments last week. White House officials were not talking about who Bush had in mind for the nomination to replace loyalist Harriet Miers, who withdrew from consideration last week under withering attack from conservatives within Bush's own Republican Party.

But Republicans close to the White House expected Bush to pick from a short list of highly credentialed, solidly conservative judges. Among the candidates most talked about were appeals court judges Michael Luttig and Samuel Alito. Bush considered candidates over the weekend at his Camp David retreat, aided by Miers, who is staying on as his White House counsel, and White House Chief of Staff Andy Card.

In addition to Luttig and Alito, Bush was also said to have been looking at appeals court judges Michael McConnell, Edith Jones and Alice Batchelder. The nomination for the lifetime job is to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, and a conservative choice was bound to trigger concern among Senate Democrats who want to see O'Connor replaced by a moderate justice like her.

Those close to the selection process have said avoiding a battle with Democrats would not be the president's top priority, as he tries to satisfy conservatives who fought Miers hard by accusing her of lacking the credentials and conservative pedigree they would like to see on the highest U.S. court. Bush, who will also meet Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Monday, is seeking to rebound from one of the toughest weeks of his presidency.

<http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=10099335&src=rss/topNews>
(more at link above)

[dchill]

53. He could appoint Mark Freakin' Twain...

and it wouldn't help him a bit.

[nolabels]

55. What the heck is so important about nominating judges anyway?

It quite obvious he, his administration and all the right wing tag alongs don't follow the law anyway. Most of them laws were written to aid the right wing ownership society side (they forget this point). I say let them play stupid, the traitors are in the spotlight and even if the corporate news editors don't want to cover the story many more people are now watching. Gossip and drama has a way of living it's own life when substantive issues surround it.