Comments on: GOP Calls for Cooler Heads Regarding Gonzalez

By: Brock Pemberton

Brock Pemberton — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 01:45:41 +0000

When George W. needed campaign money, I opened my wallet. But since he floated his friend Alberto Gonzalez, he has essentially said to his base, "Shut up."
I may never shut my mouth, but if another moderate gets on the Supreme Court, I'll shut my wallet to the RNC.

By: Mark in Mexico

Mark in Mexico — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 17:33:49 +0000

Sen. Shumer - We are going to war over Supreme Cou

According to Drudge, Senator Charle Shumer was overheard during a long cellphone conversation saying the following:

By: Vote for Judges

Vote for Judges — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 15:45:19 +0000

The Coming Disappointment, cont'd

James Joyner senses the national GOP trying to temper the disappointment ...

By: Eaglet

Eaglet — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 15:37:46 +0000

Given that Bush supported every deficit spending increase that came his way, often as a result of his initiation, "moderate" is too generous a description for Bush's practical ideology.

By: Adam's Thoughts

Adam's Thoughts — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 15:35:26 +0000

GOP vs. Conservatives

The national Republican Party leadership (?) is trying to quiet conservative criticism of Alberto Gonzales as a potential Supreme Court nominee. They apparently want "subjects like abortion, public support for religion and same-sex marriage" off the ...

By: Jim O'Sullivan

Jim O'Sullivan — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 14:53:07 +0000

It is time to admit it to ourselves: Bush is not a conservative. He is a moderate.The fact that liberals scream the names "Bush" and "Hitler" in the same sentence every chance they get means nothing. Bush the younger is a part of a dying breed: a good old-fashioned northeast liberal Republican, like his father. There used to be plenty of them. Indeed, to be a Northeastern Republican was to be liberal almost by definition: think Rockefeller, Edward Brooke, Javits, (sorry if these names are unfamiliar to younger folks). Lincoln Chafee and Christine Whitman are among the last of them. The Bushes, senior and junior, are part of this tradition.Bush senior, please recall, was president only because Reagan selected him as his running mate as a liberal ticket-balancer. Bush 43 was transplanted to Texas, but educated with the Brahmins of the Northeast. He only seems like he should be conservative because of: (1) the Texas twang; (2) the Democratic party's movement so far left that even liberal Republicans are conservative by comparison; and(3) the Iraq war. But look at this record: he's for open borders, he's never once vetoed a spending bill, he teamed up with the despicable Ted Kennedy on an Education Bill after abandoning vouchers, the only conservative part of the original proposal, and,well, I could go on, but I don't want to try your patience. Stop being surprised that Bush doesn't fight for conservative causes. He doesn't believe in them.

By: carpeicthus

carpeicthus — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:45:46 +0000

Most of the opposition is smoke and mirrors to make Gonzales look like a moderate. At least from the leaders; I'm sure the flock is following, flock-like.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:41:29 +0000

A Gonzales appointment would mean balancing the Democratic opposition to gun rights with a GOP opposition to gun rights. Screw 'em all.

By: Danny Carlton (aka Jack Lewis)

Danny Carlton (aka Jack Lewis) — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:41:23 +0000

Bush asks Conservative groups to tone down criticism of Gonzalez

From LifeNews: President Bush on Monday encouraged groups who have launched attacks already in the first round of the battle...

By: Gay Orbit

Gay Orbit — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 11:24:06 +0000

Justice Gonzalez?

Since weâll never find someone everyone loves, wouldnât the next best thing be to find someone everybody hates?

By: bryan

bryan — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 07:09:53 +0000

I was always under the impression that liberals would oppose gonzales because of the "torture memos" during his time as atty gen.

By: anjin-san

anjin-san — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 06:11:44 +0000

A note for Rove:

"Just as the President has a right to nominate without assigning reasons, so has the Senate a right to dissent without giving theirs."

-- President George Washington, quoted in The Papers of George Washington, p. 401.

By: tribe.net: www.outsidethebeltway.com

tribe.net: www.outsidethebeltway.com — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 04:34:08 +0000

Are we getting played?

Does this seem staged?

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/0705/0...