So Bush wants only one female justice on the Supreme Court

[Erika]

He likes to keep the court all male and right wing fringe. Let's keep the gals barefooted and pregnant. The Republican and Taliban men really like that. The GOP women get into being subservient to their "non girly" men. They love the males beating on the chest as they drop another baby.

[Kenroy]

1. well

a couple of the women he COULD have appointed are probably far more right-wing than Alito.

And... he WANTED another woman on the court. His own party torpedoed that.

[Erika]

2. Yeah but Laura Ingraham coming out and saying that

thank God the men had the right to beat their chests at the submission to men and the women orgasiming in response showed their true family values. True nutsos, but they are entertaining.

[jobycom]

8. You don't think he really wanted Miers, do you?

I think she was a plant so he could get Alito. Miers was supposed to go down in flames as too unqualified, so he could then appoint Alito and everyone would say "Wow, he's experienced. Good choice."

He was hoping the Dems would filibuster her, and then they'd have to approve Alito for being all the things Miers wasn't. But his own party missed the wink, and shot her down before the confirmation hearings.

That's my interpretation. Probably wrong, but I'm sticking to it, anyway. :-)

[hollyh1985]

10. Meyers was a scam

Chimpie knew she wasn't smart enough to survive senate hearings!

[SeattleGirl]

17. Welcome to DU, hollyh1985!

:hi:

[hollyh1985]

65. Thanks!

Y'all are great! I just wish I found you back in 2004! :)
This is such a great resorce! Like, ya know Chimpie doesn't want women on the supreme court, but its hard to explain that to my puke neighbors.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

25. Welcome hollyh1985.

[Sandpiper]

3. SCOTUS is a club for white, male, Ivy Leaguers

With the occasional token gal, token black, and token jew thrown in for the sake of appearances.

I guess Bush has decided to dispense with the charade that SCOTUS resembles or should resemble America.

[XemaSab]

4. But there's already a token

Italian Catholic on the bench. :shrug:

[AspenRose]

5. Poor Alberto. No respect.

:sarcasm:

[win_in_06]

64. white, male, catholic, ivy leaguers

[JohnnyRingo]

6. He probably thinks that women justices can't be trusted to

ask their husbands advice.

[Sandpiper]

9. Those uppity, educated women tend not to get on board

With the whole "submit yourselves to your husbands" thingy.

And thus, Bush turned to a man who firmly believes in the principles of patriarchy.

[jobycom]

7. I doubt it. He'd get rid of her, too, if he could without getting caught.

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[NMMNG]

12. 5,4,3,2,1

See ya :hi:

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[Heidi]

15. Welcome to DU.

Enjoy your stay. :hi:

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[NMMNG]

23. Well if you're not looking to expend any significant amount of brain power

I have just the site for you: Free Republic. Although something tells me you've already heard of it.

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[Crazy Guggenheim]

29. Yeah and they weren't there were they ..........

[NMMNG]

42. Speaking of educating

Here is a list of the evil perpetrated by your hero--and this is just through October of 2003. I shudder to think how much longer the list would be if it were current: Scorecard of Evil



Some highlights:

9-28-2003


Washington Post

Bush discloses undercover CIA agent's identity as retribution against her husband. When Joseph Wilson revealed that the Bush administration had used false intelligence to justify the war in Iraq, a smear campaign against him was predictable. But it was impossible to predict that the White House would reveal that Wilson's wife was an undercover CIA agent who worked on weapons of mass destruction -- supposedly the reason we went to war in the first place -- just to get back at Wilson.

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9-11-2003


Washington Post

Bush uses the September 11 attacks to justify all his policies. Why should we pass tax cuts for the rich? The September 11 attacks. Why should we clear cut forests and let polluters write environmental policy? The September 11 attacks. Why has America lost millions of jobs since Bush took office? The September 11 attacks. Next thing you know, he'll be saying we went to war with Iraq because of the September 11 attacks! Nah, he wouldn't go that far...

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6-7-2003


New York Times

Bush overstates the case on weapons of mass destruction. When the military found two trailers in Iraq that might have been used for biological weapons production sometime in the past, President Bush was quick to jump on the find as evidence of WMDs, declaring, "We found the weapons of mass destruction." Unsurprisingly, that assessment came a little too quickly. First of all, there were no weapons. Second, many analysts dispute that the trailers were used in the production of biological weapons. But the question remains: even if Bush was right, did we really go to war to defeat two trailers?

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6-7-2001


CNN
Bush signs his enormous tax cut. "Tax relief is an achievement for families struggling to enter the middle class," says the president as he signs the bill containing a $1.35 trillion tax cut into law. Of course the president's bill doesn't help anyone trying to enter the middle class. The most a family not already in the middle class can receive under the cut is $600 plus $500 per child a year, and most will get a fraction of that amount. That's far from enough money to move anyone from one class to another. The wealthy, on the other hand, will net thousands, and in some cases millions of dollars from Bush cuts. "The surplus is the people's money, and we ought to trust them with that money," Bush says, ignoring the rather obvious principle that surpluses obtained during boom times should be applied to deficits incurred during slower economies. The federal debt, after all, is the people's debt, and someone has to pay for it.


There are well over 100 more at the linked site.

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[Heidi]

24. Just a couple of questions.

Do you generally support progressive ideals? Do you support Democratic candidates for political office?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

28. Some when are you signing up to go to Iraq?

:popcorn:

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38. Liar! You took too long to answer that question! One thing I am

doing is trying to get the Moron out of the Whitehouse.

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[Fridays Child]

30. "...thanks for the greating..." Hey, it looks like we snagged a genuine...

...moran, this time, kids. :woohoo:

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[SeattleGirl]

18. Interesting points, j4sonl33

And welcome to DU!

[FuzzySlippers]

20. Did you check out his hobby?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=user_profiles&u_id=177266

:rofl:

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[FuzzySlippers]

26. Ummmm... you got links to those quotes?

I see from your profile you're still kinda upset Clinton wasn't removed from office. Stop living in the past. He only lied about having sex....not about why we needed to go to war.

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[FuzzySlippers]

37. I can google a date.....Dec. 19, 1998.....

the day Clinton was impeached. The day you'll "never forget" according to your profile. I'm just inferring from this that you're upset he wasn't removed from office. Perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps you're upset he was impeached in the first place.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

40. He's also claiming he's in the military too!

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[FuzzySlippers]

49. Good!!! He's very popular around here.

You'll fit in just fine.;)

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[Azathoth]

58. Gee, the coincidences are really piling up...

Another coincidence: I'm the only one who provided a reasoned response to your original post, and coincidently, my post is the only one you refuse to respond to.

[drhilarius]

61. Same here...

After admonishing people for not "doing their research", he tells me to "get a life" after I spend all of 1 min. and 30 secs. doing actual research in order to debunk his talking points.

[Azathoth]

62. No doubt he'll slink back to whatever GOP site he came from

and complain to his fellow wingnuts how the mean liberals refused to debate him. :rofl:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

32. He didn't invade did he!! So when are you signing up to go??

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[drhilarius]

39. Curious thing about doing research...

"Quote mining" is considered poor methodology. How about some context, compliments of Snopes.com

Quote 1: "On 16 December 1998, Nancy Pelosi, a Congressional representative from California and a member of the House Intelligence Committee, issued a statement concerning a U.S.-led military strike against Iraq:

'As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I am keenly aware that the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons is an issue of grave importance to all nations. Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

The responsibility of the United States in this conflict is to eliminate weapons of mass destruction, to minimize the danger to our troops and to diminish the suffering of the Iraqi people. The citizens of Iraq have suffered the most for Saddam Hussein's activities; sadly, those same citizens now stand to suffer more. I have supported efforts to ease the humanitarian situation in Iraq and my thoughts and prayers are with the innocent Iraqi civilians, as well as with the families of U.S. troops participating in the current action.

I believe in negotiated solutions to international conflict. This is, unfortunately, not going to be the case in this situation where Saddam Hussein has been a repeat offender, ignoring the international community's requirement that he come clean with his weapons program. While I support the President, I hope and pray that this conflict can be resolved quickly and that the international community can find a lasting solution through diplomatic means.'

(In this statement Rep. Pelosi was not urging that action be taken against Iraq in order to destroy its WMD technology; she was expressing support for attacks that had already begun with that purpose as their stated objective.)"

Quote 2: "On 23 September 2002, former Vice-President Al Gore addressed the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco on the subject of Iraq and the war on terrorism. Among the comments he offered there were the following:

'Moreover, if we quickly succeed in a war against the weakened and depleted fourth rate military of Iraq and then quickly abandon that nation as President Bush has abandoned Afghanistan after quickly defeating a fifth rate military there, the resulting chaos could easily pose a far greater danger to the United States than we presently face from Saddam. We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.

We have no evidence, however, that he has shared any of those weapons with terrorist groups. However, if Iraq came to resemble Afghanistan — with no central authority but instead local and regional warlords with porous borders and infiltrating members of Al Qaeda than these widely dispersed supplies of weapons of mass destruction might well come into the hands of terrorist groups.'"

As with the Pelosi quote, Al gore was not stating a case to go to war, but rather he was suggesting that we follow through with stated, carefully planned, objectives, rater than, say, take an ad hoc approach to administering a warzone.

Quote 3: "On 27 September 2002, Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts delivered a speech to the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. An excerpt from that speech includes the following statements:

'We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction. Our intelligence community is also deeply concerned about the acquisition of such weapons by Iran, North Korea, Libya, Syria and other nations. But information from the intelligence community over the past six months does not point to Iraq as an imminent threat to the United States or a major proliferator of weapons of mass destruction.

In public hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee in March, CIA Director George Tenet described Iraq as a threat but not as a proliferator, saying that Saddam Hussein — and I quote — "is determined to thwart U.N. sanctions, press ahead with weapons of mass destruction, and resurrect the military force he had before the Gulf War." That is unacceptable, but it is also possible that it could be stopped short of war.'"

Again, this was not an argument for war, but rather a suggestion for a more diplomatic and international solution, precisely because Iraq, though it may have been pursuing weapons, did not pose an immeadiate threat.

BTW, great "research", that chainmail you sent was debunked by snopes some time ago (I know, I know, part of the "lie-beral media"). With research like yours, though, you could probably get a job with the CIA.


on edit: link to the page <http://snopes.com/politics/war/wmdquotes.asp>

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41. I think he left to get some talking points. LOL.

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54. "get a life"...devastating retort.

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[SeattleGirl]

21. Maybe YOU can learn something!

:evilgrin:

[Azathoth]

31. I sense an impending tombstone, but what the hell...

Maybe, just maybe, the President nominated who he believed to be the best qualified person for the job, like he's supposed to do.

Following this logic, Alito was actually the second most qualified person the president could find. He nominated Miers first because she was the most qualified, and when she withdrew, he nominated the next most qualified, right?

Because we all know that if one person is given a job over another person simply because of race, religion, sex, nationality, etc it would be discriminative, right?

Err, yes. Except when an existing pattern of discrimination has created an imbalance, in which case it becomes an effort to make sure that all groups are proportionally represented the way they would have been had the original pattern of discrimination never existed.

So how could any President sleep soundly if he knew that he nominated an underqualified woman and overlooked an adequately qualified man?

Your implication is that Bush could find not a single woman with comparable qualifications to Alito.

Besides, since you obviously don't read much, the President DID nominate a woman FIRST. She withdrew her nomination. And I don't recall her being "barefooted" or pregnant.

Barefoot and pregnant? No. Mildly retarded? Possibly. Thoroughly unqualified? Absolutely.

And don't forget.....we're all created equal (except for women, minorities, illegals, and homosexuals. They need help from the government.)

In no small part because of the way they have been treated for centuries by people like you.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

34. So where did the chickenhawk go off to?

:popcorn:

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[bunkerbuster1]

47. I know how the Boy King sleeps soundly

a bottle of Jack's.

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[NMMNG]

60. Another one bites the dust

That didn't last long at all. :evilgrin:

[Spinzonner]

13. He's in a Pickle now

or maybe not

[donheld]

59. I hope Ms Ginsberg gives * hell as much as she can

She's the only woman, but I hope she gives them all as much hell as she can.

[zbdent]

63. No, he doesn't

he wants Ginsberg to be gone . . .