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I would like to have seen a good, knock em down, drag em out fight for this nomination. It has been way too easy for the liberals with Bush in charge. This was a good time for a fight and the re-emergence of faith and trust in the Republican Party, but Bush seems to cave every time. Clinton's AG didn't serve the people, leaving a trail of dead bodies from Waco to Ruby Ridge and a young boy kidnapped at gunpoint by communist-like thugs so he could be shipped back to the worker's paradise in Cuba. |
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Reasons Bush does what he does...neocons are liberals in Republican clothing. They are about the farthest thing from conservative that you can be. |
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Lewis:
"What Bush fails to realize is that when you are right, picking a fight with an unpopular enemy can actually make you more popular with your base."
There's Politics, and then there's Governance. As several other people have pointed out above, 'picking a fight', especially in these circumstances, is pandering to the former and ignoring the latter.
Mr Lewis & his supporters may not have noticed, but the DOJ is SERIOUSLY F--KED UP at the moment. It's not such a good place to play 2008 electoral politics.
Judge Mukasey seems to be respected by both sides of the legislature, and he seems very competent and experienced. He seems like the kind of person who could actually heal and improve DOJ over the next year & change, without wasting alot of time in political controversies.
Maybe a 2009 Republican administration (perhaps even a Democratic one) would keep him on!
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to stand up and fight Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi, they are not worth the effort. Besides he's shown them and the rest of Amerida that when he really wants something from Congress, he usually gets it. So what's to fight? Democrats and and a lot of our own Republicans are always selling Mr. Bush short and then end up with their shorts around their ankles. Give the man credit for his ability to lead quit listening to the leftist propaganda that he is a dunce. Remember the old adage, 'tell a big enough lie enough times and people will come to believe it.' |
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This is another example of President Bush being gun shy after a few shots from liberal Democrats. If he would stand up and fight these slim from the left his approval rating would go up significantly.
This guy has let the people down that voted for him again, his base, to placate his political enemy’s.
Another lose, lose situation for our side.
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Why would anyone want to work for this stupid pc government, and this cocky pres. He starts fights he can't finish or does not have the will to even try. Our government is broken! |
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God forbid! Just wait for tanks in the street just before he's sworn in and for Judy's coronation as Queen of America. |
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"While Rudy's maneuver may have made him less popular among the Left -- it most certainly bolstered his popularity with the conservative base."
Yes, because what we've learned about the rightwing base (nothing "conservative" about it) is that they'd rather back a vicious, left-baiting thug than deal with the fact that he's a vicious thug who was instrumental in the deaths of many a rescue personnel on 9/11, and used the tragedy for his own gain. Who in their right mind gets paid thousands of dollars to give speeches that exploit the 9/11 tragedies? Why, Guiliani, of course! (And soon enough, Bush).
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According to Rudy, "Freedom is about submitting to authority"
When President Giuliani (or Clinton) is done with us, we will be the Totalitarian States of America.
We don't need to defend ourselves, the Fed will take care of our security. Anyone who disagrees with them *must* be terrorists or linked to terrorists.
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in BOOSH a long time ago, and come to realize he doesn't give a rats' a** about the conservatives of the party.
BOOSH and Rudy are "birds of a feather", .....RINOs, IMO.
I won't vote for Rudolfus or the other RINOs in the top "anointed" herd.
Tancredo or Hunter for me!
At this point, I don't care who BOOSH nominates for AG, no matter who's in there, BOOSH still won't enforce existing laws against illegal immigration. |
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The guy's first SCOTUS choice was another less-than-qualified in-crowder, Harriett Meiers.
Bush is just one huge disappointment after another.
Anybody who likes RINO Rudy, take a look. Bush is Mr. Conservative compared to Giuliani.
You're unhappy now? Just WAIT for a Giuliani administration.
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from importing some common sense to this page. Moral at Justice is at its' lowest ebb since the Nixon admin. The five top jobs there are vacant. It's good to see this administration is finally abandoned the tactic of ruling like they were running a political campaign.
And lily is absolutely correct, the Justice Dept. is there to serve the nation, not just Bush's political base. |
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But Dubya lives in a parallel universe and he never cared anything about the conservative base in the first place. All he has to do is just pick a relatively safe nominee to slide by the Democratic Congress as a care taker until 2009. That's all folks!!!! |
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He's not another Bush flunky without a shred of ability. And he's an actual and true conservative, not a CINO like BushCo.
Matt, you're very naive. It shows in most of what you write. |
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You guys seem more interested in picking a political fight than actually getting the DOJ back in working order. Mukasey may be less ideologically "pure" than Olson but he also will fly through confirmation and still function as a "law and order" conservative. The last thing Bush needs to do is try and confirm another one of his personal legal team. Without an independent voice it would just be Gonzales all over again. |
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Can anyone blame Ted Olson if he wanted no part of the abysmal failure that is the Bush administration? |
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Bush has no clue of what's going on with his party. It seems he cares much more of the Democracts.
Or, it maybe that Olson has quietly rejected the proposal.
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This time Dubya has to play it safe--he no longer has a rubberstamp Congress at his disposal. Anyhow, who cares--he's just going to be a caretaker lame duck Attorney General at best. He'll just be minding the store until Hillary is sworn in January 20, 2009. |
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A win for Harry Reid is a loss for true conservatives.
Check out today's quote from Dingy Harry:
“I’m glad President Bush listened to Congress and put aside his plan to replace Alberto Gonzales with another partisan administration insider,” Reid said in response to the nomination.
Thanks Jorge. And the hits just keep on comin'.... |
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Matt Lewis,
You prance around like a peacock, but the fact is, you don't know any more about what went on behind the scenes than we do.
As SGRivette wisely points out, maybe Ted Olson didn't WANT the nomination.
And as SonnyJim points out, we don't know that Olson was necessarily the President's preferred choice for AG.
I would also add that Olson is believed to have been on the President's short list for each of the last two Supreme Court nominations which were ultimately filled by Roberts & Alito.
It is possible that the President is 'saving' Olson in case a Supreme Court seat opens up.
That's much more preferable than serving one year + a few months as AG.
Also, Matt, since you publicly admit to admiring Olson's CONSERVATIVE credentials so much, it now makes it much less credible of you to whine and carry on in the future about "what type" of judicial appointments that a President Rudy Giuliani would select.
That's because Ted Olson is the Giuliani campaign's ADVISER for judicial appointments.
That's an important bit of information you keep "forgetting" (cough, cough) to write about in all of your posts on Ted Olson and Rudy Giuliani.
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centralguy writes: "Yeah, Bill Clinton showed us "what his office is SUPPOSED to stand for""
We weren't at war then.
When America goes to war like we have done now, there's a time for partisanship but there's also a time for statesmanship.
We would have lost World War II if it had been perceived only as FDR's war or only as the Democratic Party's war. FDR had to sell all the American people on the war so both Dems and Repubs would believe it was THEIR war and have a stake in it.
America will lose the War on Terror if it's perceived as only a concoction of the GOP and nobody else.
A Commander-in-Chief of a nation at war cannot be a nonstop partisan. It's the whole nation that's at war, not just his base or his party.
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LuckyRock2 writes: "Any Republicans willing to take a stand on principle and force the battle, will be loved and celebrated with the campaign bucks to match. Rudy gets it."
But Bush isn't running for anything anymore. He's a lame duck who just wants to finish out his term as successfully as possible.
There's no point in Bush becoming more popular with the GOP base. Bush is so unpopular with the rest of the American electorate that whoever gets the GOP nomination at the 2008 convention won't want to be associated with him or campaign with him anyway.
For Bush, the time for partisanship ended with the November 2006 congressional election.
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Right on the money, Matt. Once again, Jorge Arbusto doesn't want to fight for the Conservative base.
"Mommy I can't do it...it's toooooo hard!"
And that's the Cold Hard Truth. |
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but its pretty childish to view it as a snub. Did Mr. Bush ever give any indication who his top choices for the post were? Why does he have to select someone just because you think so? What if the original choice(s) said no to him? You assume a lot for yourself Matt. You ought to think less of yourself, especially in print. That would be better. |
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To find a way to blame this nomination on Bill Clinton!
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Yeah, Bill Clinton showed us "what his office is SUPPOSED to stand for". I guess he could have been standing, but are we really sure what position he was in when Monica came calling? |
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Here's news: Bush is supposed to President of the United States, not President of the Conservatives. Maybe he's starting to get the idea. For seven years he has governed for the benefit of his base and ignored everybody else. He has politicized the Presidency far more than any previous President, and most of his initiatives have turned out to be disasters. If he has now put the kibosh on nominating a right-winger named Gonzales II, aka another crony to turn the Department of Justice into an arm of the GOP, then, high time he started getting the point of what his office is SUPPOSED to stand for. |
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Ted Olson didn't want it. Just because the media pushes a possible nominee's name around doesn't exactly mean the possible nominee is even interested.
Why would Olson want to deal with that crap doing the nomination process? Is it really worth the work for Olson if he's only going to be the AG for maybe a year? |
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Ever occurred to you guys that when Bush appeases liberals over and over and over....that maybe he really is a liberal deep down? Surely he's realized by now that he's not going to win their affection. |
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Another major vacancy, another cowardly appointment by President Bush. Perhaps tough-talkin' Bush missed the memo that you don't cow-tow to the Dems' wishes just to avoid a fight. Do you think the soul-less brain trust at MoveOn.org would've done the same?
Any Republicans willing to take a stand on principle and force the battle, will be loved and celebrated with the campaign bucks to match. Rudy gets it. Do you get it FDT, Mitt, and Huck?!? |
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Ted Olson would have been an amazing choice. Let us not forget he lost his wife on 9/11. Could you have imagined the soft of terrorism party attacking a man who lost his wife on 9/11? |
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