Democrats warn on next pick (Boston Globe)

[Nightwing]

It's great to see the Dems with renewed backbone standing up to *. Give em hell guys!!
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WASHINGTON -- Democrats argued yesterday that the right wing of the Republican Party had pressured Harriet E. Miers to withdraw her nomination to the Supreme Court, and sent a message to an embattled President Bush that he should not pick a conservative ideologue to appease his political base.

''Whether we're going to have a political battle or a political struggle is all in the hands of the president of the United States," said Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat who is a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. ''If the president wants a political struggle, a political battle, he can have one here."

Miers's withdrawal buoyed conservatives, who were unsure of her judicial philosophy, and also Democrats, who seemed to have been pleased at the spectacle of a Republican Party engaged in internal struggle. But like Kennedy, many Democrats seemed to be bracing for a fight against a more openly conservative nominee.

''The radical, unrelenting right wing of the Republican Party killed the Harriet Miers nomination. Apparently, Ms. Miers did not satisfy those who want to pack the Supreme Court with rigid ideologues," said Senate minority leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat who had supported her nomination.

''In choosing a replacement for Ms. Miers, President Bush should not reward the bad behavior of his right-wing base" and ''should reject the demands of a few right-wing extremists," Reid said.

Link: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/10/28/democrats_warn_on_next_pick/

[MadJohnShaft]

1. Ted Kennedy says 'Bring it On'!

[C_U_L8R]

2. Right Wing Extremists

These pathetic cretins constitute a true hate group.
A hate group. And there is no difference between
their ideologies and those espoused by the KKK.
And there is no reason on earth (or in heaven) to
yield one inch to these christo-facist fundie fckrs.
They are false in every respect and we must beat
them back to the darkness where true evil belongs.

I've had it with the crooks, cronies and false christians.