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Thu Oct-27-05 09:34 AM
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Could Meirs have been a "setup" ? And are we going to |
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Edited on Thu Oct-27-05 09:35 AM by saracat
regret her withdrawal ? Is someone much worse waiting in the wings? How much will this distract from the inditments?
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Thu Oct-27-05 09:37 AM
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It will get air time today, but when the papers are served, I'd say media attention will go to Fitzgerald and the people who are indicted. Attention won't come back to the SCOTUS until another nomination is made. And frankly, I can't see Bush being allowed to make another nomination on his own, as this one was obviously done. The trouble is, if he chooses someone to appease the far right, like Priscilla Owens, she can be painted as being too extreme. And Bush can be portrayed as being interested in only a small faction of his own party, as the DNC's email stated.
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Thu Oct-27-05 09:37 AM
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2. Ann Coulter? Laura Ingram? Sen Sessions, John Cornyn? |
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How about (if W follows form nd runs ro Daddy) -- James Baker?
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Thu Oct-27-05 10:00 AM
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8. At least James Baker is OLD. |
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Not only that, he's not as much of an insane idiot as most of the people Dumbya could nominate. Baker would probably fly through confirmation 100-0. Of course, nominating James Baker would make entirely too much sense for George W. Bush's little pea-sized brain.
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Coastie for Truth
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Thu Oct-27-05 10:03 AM
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9. The other suggestion - Sen Fred Thompson |
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He has the gravitas, he plays a District Attorney on TV's "Law and Order" and he is a respected former Senator ---- and he looks like a Supreme Court Justice.
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Thu Oct-27-05 09:38 AM
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3. She was a decoy to distract from all the other bad news.... |
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I think Rove planted this one from the get go.
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Thu Oct-27-05 09:40 AM
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4. Two separate questions there |
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Was this a setup?
-No, I don't think so. This has done major damage and the GOP should have seen this coming. Shrub didn't vet this one with his base first.
Is there someone worse?
-Absolutely. Brace for it.
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Bernardo de La Paz
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Thu Oct-27-05 09:40 AM
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5. No regrets. She was unqualified, period. |
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Thu Oct-27-05 09:53 AM
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6. If Miers was a setup it backfired horribly. We still have the |
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filibuster if bush puts up a worse nomination, and Democrats will have much more political capital to push a filibuster because we didn't spend any on the Miers nomination.
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Thu Oct-27-05 09:56 AM
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7. This was like when he appointed Kissinger to head the 911 commission |
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They have pulled this several times--they make an outrageous choice and then whoever their real choice is sort of slips in under the radar because they have already taken the edge off with the first contrived *scandal*
Yes, I think this was a set up from the get go.
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Thu Oct-27-05 10:09 AM
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10. I absolutely believe it was a set-up! n/t |
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