Bush seems to be leaning towards Gonzales

[link|http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-07-04-bush-usat_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA|USA Today]

President Bush said Monday that special-interest groups running TV ads and mobilizing supporters for a fight over his choice of a successor to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor should "tone down the heated rhetoric." He forcefully defended Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, a prospect criticized by conservatives.

Conservative groups have criticized Gonzales, who, as a member of the Texas Supreme Court, backed exceptions to a state law requiring teenagers to notify a parent before getting an abortion.

Bush defending Gonzales against the right wing of his own party means that Gonzales is high up on the list.

This could be an interesting fight, because Gonzales is exactly the person the Right Wing Christian part of the party doesn't want to see nominated. He is the sort of semi-moderate socially and pro unrestriced government that the neocons and buisness types like but the right wing wants out. They feel they where promised an anti-abortian hard liner and they want him now.

Jay

Post #213,588 by JayMehaffey 7/5/05 12:22:26 PM Reply	Bush seems to be leaning towards Gonzales [link\|http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-07-04-bush-usat_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA\|USA Today] President Bush said Monday that special-interest groups running TV ads and mobilizing supporters for a fight over his choice of a successor to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor should "tone down the heated rhetoric." He forcefully defended Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, a prospect criticized by conservatives. Conservative groups have criticized Gonzales, who, as a member of the Texas Supreme Court, backed exceptions to a state law requiring teenagers to notify a parent before getting an abortion. Bush defending Gonzales against the right wing of his own party means that Gonzales is high up on the list. This could be an interesting fight, because Gonzales is exactly the person the Right Wing Christian part of the party doesn't want to see nominated. He is the sort of semi-moderate socially and pro unrestriced government that the neocons and buisness types like but the right wing wants out. They feel they where promised an anti-abortian hard liner and they want him now. Jay
Post #213,589 by tuberculosis 7/5/05 12:24:07 PM Reply	Hey, at least he's pro-torture. "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
Post #213,601 by Ashton 7/5/05 2:39:30 PM Reply	Admirable summing-up - but Bushie IS a lame duck now .. and wants his place in History.. just a few pegs ^{^above Dear 'Ol Dad's^} No?
Post #213,614 by mmoffitt 7/5/05 3:32:48 PM Reply	What makes me sad. Is that I am actually hoping Rehnquist does not step down until after 2008. I can't believe I just typed that, let alone thought it. bcnu, Mikem It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
Post #213,617 by jb4 7/5/05 4:01:53 PM 7/5/05 4:02:15 PM Reply	It's just an astute (if sad) observation... ...of how much damage one complete moron in the wrong position can imbue... [edit: tyop[sic]] jb4 shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub* + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf.* BULLSHIT Edited by jb4 July 5, 2005, 04:02:15 PM EDT Expand All History

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