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On Roe and the Court | 125 comments (125 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

I'm with BooMan (4.00 / 2)

There really doesn't seem to be anything there. You've got a conservative white guy with a very establishment resume and a short paper trail. I don't see any kind of toehold with which to create leverage stop the nomination.

So I think we're better off flipping the situation back to Rove and TraitorGate. Don't waste energy on Roberts, but put it into an area where we can have a bigger impact.

by Hoya90 (hoya90jmk@yahoo.com) on Fri Jul 22nd, 2005 at 03:17:59 PM EST

Re: I'm with BooMan (4.00 / 4)

But what more impact can there be than a wingnut on the Supreme court for thirty+ years?

Frodo failed...Bush has got the ring.

by alohaleezy on Fri Jul 22nd, 2005 at 03:22:25 PM EST
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Much More than 30 Years (4.00 / 3)

40 only puts him at 90. For that to be a limitation presumes that the planet shuts down all medical and genetic research for the next half century.

Could be 60, 80, or retirement out of screaming boredom maybe a century from now.

We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy.... --ML King, "Beyond Vietnam"

by Gooserock on Fri Jul 22nd, 2005 at 04:39:00 PM EST
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Re: I'm with BooMan (none / 1)

How does one go from "conservative" to "wingnut"?

by rba on Fri Jul 22nd, 2005 at 04:06:57 PM EST
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Re: I'm with BooMan (4.00 / 3)

by drinking the Kool Aide...lol! Thought we could use a little humour.

Frodo failed...Bush has got the ring.

by alohaleezy on Fri Jul 22nd, 2005 at 04:30:38 PM EST
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Re: I'm with BooMan (4.00 / 8)

No offense meant, but some of us value our rights as women. The Supreme Court makeup ultimately determines which of those we are allowed to keep. Not to mention whether we have clean water to drink, air to breathe, protection of endangeered species, and so forth...

it is a very big deal.

"Life is always better with clean pants."

by CabinGirl on Fri Jul 22nd, 2005 at 04:11:31 PM EST
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Arguing Different Points? (4.00 / 4)

I don't think the argument was over the value or the meaning of the issue; I read it as being about its amenability to political action at this point.

It's more important to keep the ship afloat than to have lots of lifeboats, but once the deck is slipping under, there's nothing we can do about that more important issue.

I'm equally concerned about corporatism, because the Court is going to be attacking the Constitutionality of any pro-people policymaking. But I no more know how to resist the nomination on this issue than on reproductive rights or any other issue.

They seem to have us beaten both above board with the compromise of the gang of 14, and under the table (via the nuclear option).

The Hail Mary pass to my thinking is the Rove blowup and its trace odds of rendering the Administration itself unable to lead. It's got almost no chance of working, and there's not much we can do to influence it, but what else can we do that won't result in the same loss with another nominee that we'll have without a fight on this particular one?

We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy.... --ML King, "Beyond Vietnam"

by Gooserock on Fri Jul 22nd, 2005 at 04:35:38 PM EST
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Re: Arguing Different Points? (4.00 / 2)

I didn't really mean my comment as an argument. I think we have so much shit flung at us by the Repugs that it seems impossible to know which attack to try to ffend off at any given time. Even when it seems like we might be making progress (ie, Rove's criminal nature coming to light), where can it go? We're a long way off from getting the rest of the criminals out of there, and who are we going to replace them with? I know they're in the minority and can't fight off alot of this stuff very effectively, but it doesn't help that the Dems have gone corporatist to a great extent (I'm thinking about the bankruptcy bill, among other things).

Sometimes it feels like we're rearranging those deck chairs on the Titanic, doesn't it?

</rant and defeatist attitude>

"Life is always better with clean pants."

by CabinGirl on Fri Jul 22nd, 2005 at 04:44:45 PM EST
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I'm worried about women's lives... (none / 1)

women are going to die because of this...

Young women, uneducated women, poor women, women in red states...

I feel as if it's time to stop voting for any Democrat who won't stand up and fight. I certainly won't give money to the party.

by Coral on Fri Jul 22nd, 2005 at 11:46:09 PM EST
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Re; I'm worried about women's lives... (none / 0)

^
|
|
what she said

Our Word
Binti Pamoja nobody takes care of them, they take care of each other

by bayprairie (bayprairie<et>gmail <dot>com) on Sat Jul 23rd, 2005 at 12:49:46 AM EST
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