Saturday, May 31st, 2008
I’ve never been much of a Bob Dole fan and he did nothing to boost his standing with me by making the money grab after the ‘96 election pimping for Pfizer. But the erectile-challenged octogenarian rose to the occasion yesterday with his e-mail to former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan:
There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don’t have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues. No, your type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years, then quits and, spurred on by greed, cashes in with a scathing critique.
Bob Dole doesn’t mince words. Just in case there was anything left inside of McClellan, Dole returns with more:
In my nearly 36 years of public service I’ve known of a few like you. No doubt you will ‘clean up’ as the liberal anti-Bush press will promote your belated concerns with wild enthusiasm. When the money starts rolling in you should donate it to a worthy cause, something like, ‘Biting The Hand That Fed Me.’ Another thought is to weasel your way back into the White House if a Democrat is elected. That would provide a good set up for a second book deal in a few years.
What a sardonic missive! I am a direct person, but pale in comparison to Dole’s gutting.
Who says politics isn’t exciting?
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
Right now President Bush is announcing that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is being replaced by Robert Gates.
One has to wonder how different elections would have been yesterday if this change had been made a month ago. My wife, among many others, would have been very happy.
The Republican Party, both nationally and here in New Jersey has moved so far away from its principles it has deserved the beating it took.
During the last eight weeks of this year, I will document my move away from the Republican Party and spell out my position on issues. The GOP needs a wake up call.
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Monday, October 10th, 2005
But only a disingenuous pundit will argue that it is better to lose ground in the elections of 2006 than to maintain or gain grouynd then. And only a self-deceiving individual will argue Hillary-Obama is getting hurt by this intra-party melt-down.
The above is Hugh Hewitt’s latest argument for why conservatives should not block Harriet Miers’ nomination to SCOTUS.
This is the wrong angle to take. Nominating a justice to SCOTUS needs to rise above mid-term elections. The justice filling Justice O’Connor’s seat will be an integral part of the next generation. That is not something which should be taken likely. The candidate needs to demonstrate more than loyalty to POTUS. Mrs. Miers has no constitutional law background. That is what the job entails: applying the US Constitution.
Clause 1: The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;–to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;–to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;–to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;–to Controversies between two or more States;–between a State and Citizens of another State;–between Citizens of different States, –between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.
Even if Mrs. Miers is a brilliant lawyer, capable and decent, to say she is the best person available discredits others who have worked a lifetime studying the Constitution.
There is zero advantage and plenty of harm in defeating Miers, including the very obvious encouragement of the previously fever-swamp argument that Bush was a lame duck.
It is not so much trying to defeat Mrs. Miers. Rather, it is heralding a call for excellence at every turn, despite poll numbers, mid-terms, and other politically motivated initiatives. SCOTUS deserves the best justice available. Americans deserve the best justice available. Is a White House lawyer who has been in the president’s entourage for the past 15 years the best person available? If not, stop bloviating about what is politically expedient and hold the president, even if of your own party, to the highest standard.
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Friday, July 22nd, 2005
This should be interesting. Would-be Governor Corzine confirmed Mr. Roberts to the DC Circuit Court. Corzine says he doesn’t like the President Bush’s philosophical views for the Supreme Court. But it appears that Bush and Corzine are in agreement that Roberts is a good judge.
It looks as though Corzine spoke too soon in bashing Bush on this issue.
Corzine was trying to link Forrester to Bush when the senator was criticizing Bush’s views. So is he being critical of his own vote? Is he saying that Forrester is correct in backing Bush? Is Corzine making no sense whatsoever with this point?
How can the senior senator vote not to confirm a man he has already voted to confirm? And if he can’t, how do we reconcile his comments that he doesn’t agree with the president when Corzine confirms his nominee?
Is this the kind of leadership New Jersey wants?
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