The calls to withdraw are serious, and they're going to increase. The more that we heard from the nomination's defenders, the more people became convinced that there was no substance in the nomination and that her friends were her worst enemies. |
The left is trying to send a message to the White House: Don't send us anyone more conservative than this. |
The nomination of a nominee with no judicial record is a significant failure for the advisers that the White House gathered around it. However, the president deserves the benefit of a doubt, the nominee deserves the benefit of hearings, and every nominee deserves an up-or-down vote. |
The president really defeated the ogre of stealth nominations. This is a great accomplishment for the presidency. |
The reaction of many conservatives today will be that the president has made possibly the most unqualified choice since Abe Fortas who had been the president's lawyer. The nomination of a nominee with no judicial record is a significant failure for the advisers that the White House gathered around it. However, the president deserves the benefit of a doubt, the nominee deserves the benefit of hearings, and every nominee deserves an up or down vote. |
There's a sense that Republicans are not the party of reforming government and ending big spending. Although people gave the president a pass because of the war cost, there's a sense that there's just no principled approach to government spending. |
These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher paying jobs to work in public service. |
We are entitled to a great national debate, ... and we shouldn't shy away from it. |
We come to this country to work; we are not here to hurt anybody. |
We want the president to pick another solid conservative, and that's what we expect him to do. |
will rightly think that she is certainly unqualified. |