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Originally Posted by lookout123
VSP, your view on things may indeed be accurate, but is it possible that maybe just maybe - they renominated these people not jab someone with a stick, but rather they truly believe these are the best people for the job.
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Which is all the more reason for those who _oppose_ what the Bush administration believes is the "best thing for America" to stand up and fight this.
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Originally Posted by lookout123
it seems like you get to wrapped up in your idea of D= flawed protector of our freedom, R= evil, nefarious schemer.
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Oh, eat me. You have no idea what I think.
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if that is how you filter every piece of info out of washington, you will be missing 50% of the picture every single time. there are a few people on each side of the aisle that truly do have the people and the future of the country as their prime consideration, the vast majority are only there for their personal benefit, a few on each side really do want to reshape the country for less than honorable intentions.
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Yep. And some of those presumably were among the 95% of Bush's nominees that were cleared without opposition, no? Looking at the track records of Owen and Brown, on the other hand, it's obvious to me why the Democrats and their constituents find them offensive, and if they WEREN'T fighting to keep them off the bench I'd be outraged. I expect Bush to nominate his share of knuckledraggers; that's the constituency to which he frequently plays. I DO NOT expect the Democrats to smile and wave the most troglodytic of them through without a brawl.
If they try to ward them off and fail because they can't sway the likes of Specter, I can live with it; they gave it the old college try. But the Democrats represent a hell of a lot of people in this country, myself included for the most part; they may be in the minority, but they are not
irrelevant, as the DeLays and Frists and Santorums and Cornyns and Hatches of the world would like to believe. Are there more moderate Republicans? Sure, but they're not the ones setting or driving the agenda. If they need to take drastic measures to remind Frist and DeLay and Bush that their (and their constituents') opinions matter, so be it.