Harry Reid: "I Cannot Abide Competence."
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What is it about Harry Reid? I guess unless you're willing to employ his kids and kick back money from Nevada land deals, there is just no value in you.
He's declared his dislike of Petraeus because the good general has actually managed to make and hold gains for the U.S. in Iraq.
Now, he says he'll block Ted Olson from becoming Attorney General.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid vowed on Wednesday to block former Solicitor General Theodore Olson from becoming attorney general if President George W. Bush nominates him to replace Alberto Gonzales.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Ted Olson is a good, decent, and competent man. He was a highly respected Solicitor General of the United States. He was well respected in his law practice. He knows first hand the costs of 9/11.
Harry Reid and the Democrats have bitched and moaned about the incompetence of AGAG. Now the White House is considering a thoroughly competent gentleman to take AGAG's place. Reid's reaction? "How dare you consider someone competent."
Mr. President, you *should* appoint Ted Olson and just watch as your base returns to you en masse. Oh, you and I both know Reid cannot block Olson. The public would not tolerate it. You would be laying another defeat in Harry Reid's lap.
A Ted Olson appointment would be a win-win for the everyone in the GOP.
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His statement basically boiled down to "Olsen's a partisan. We can't appoint a partisan." This is absolutely asinine. What about, oh, Janet Reno? Ramsey Clark? They were acceptable, non-partisan Attorneys General? Oh, wait... they were far-left Looney Tunes. Nevermind, then.
Reid's level of disingenuousness is palpable and infuriating. He is not the President, he isn't permitted to select the person who the President appoints to be the Attorney General. What he wants is to circumvent the Constitution, the very same thing he accuses virtually any Republican in any position of power of doing.
If this doesn't scare people, it should. Elections have consequences, and, in this case, we got a lunatic as one of the most powerful men in Congress. The Democrats didn't win because of their policy objectives; they won because they hid their objectives. And for them to claim a mandate because of their current position of having 49 Democrats in the Senate is laughable.
One can only hope that Lieberman puts a kibosh on Reid's nuttery by breaking ranks on this one.
"I don't understand why the same newspaper commentators who bemoan the terrible education given to poor people are always so eager to have those poor people get out and vote." - P.J. O'Rourke
Wow, I need to spell-check a bit when I go on rants like that.
"I don't understand why the same newspaper commentators who bemoan the terrible education given to poor people are always so eager to have those poor people get out and vote." - P.J. O'Rourke
In this post, I challenge Harry Reid to name anyone inside the Beltway who isn't partisan.
It's laughable that the strongest argument Reid could make was that feeble. He's pathetic.
I've got a call into Reid's office to see who he'd consider suitably liberal...er...nonpartisan enough. I'm not holding my breath on that.
Harry the Insult Comic Senator strikes again!
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
That's what the Kossacks and all their scummy ilk are.
If the Democrats refuse to confirm Mr. Olson, then it should be made clear that they are obstructing the War on Terror by refusing to allow for a new Attorney General to do his job.
And then Bush should give Olson a recess appointment at the first opportunity.
They don't have the votes to do anything until they stop obstructing. If they obstruct, then McConnell should filibuster everything that wouldn't pass 100-0.
He represented Paula Corbin Jones in her suit against Bill Clinton. The last thing Hillary wants is people being reminded of Bubba's sexual misbehavior, right on the heels of the Hsu matter's reminding people of the Clinton's financial misconduct.
I think Bush should nominate Olson and say to Harry Reid what the one and only true Dirty Harry said to some lowlife, "Go ahead. Make my day."
that his late wife, Barbara, authored two books, "Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton", and "The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House". But let them dare start trashing Ted Olson. There are several passages in the latter book that will lay a lot of the blame on the Clintons for what happened on 9/11/01, resulting in Barbara's death at the Pentagon. Bring it on!
As a realist, however, I doubt that his nomination will get out of the Senate Judiciary Committee, now that Reid has said it's dead on arrival.
She freaked out Schumer by voting Southwick's nomination out of judiciary committee. (She also voted for school vouchers for D.C. because she thought it was the right thing to do for the kids.) She's got so much seniority there's not much they could do to "punish" her.
not for political reasons or to stick it to the Dims, but, he's the right man for the job.
Too many Repubs need to grow a BACKBONE. This might qualify for one vertebrae.
I don't care for McCain, but I do credit him for sticking to his guns REGARDLESS of the blow back.
Nominate Olson, it's the right thing to do. Let the Dims create their own circular firing squad.
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You say "The public would not tolerate it." Forgive me if I don't give the public much credit for alertness or political prowess, but frankly I doubt that most Americans will give a rip. I seriously doubt there will be a roar of indignation by the American people if Reid blocks the nomination. Democrat obstructionism is a given - it's a "ho hum, so what?" to most folks.
The thing to do is to put up the nomination, let Reid throw his little hissy fit, and do a recess appointment. There's not a single thing the Dems can do about it, and by the time Olson's term ran out, GWB is out anyway...so who cares if he ticks them off? It's so much fun to watch them writhe in pain over such things!
...when they see me they'll say, "There goes Loren Wallace,
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If the 'R's would get behind Olsen it would restore alot of my faith in the Party!
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