September 29, 2005
22 FOR ROE:
Roberts Confirmed by Senate (Fred Barbash, September 29, 2005, Washington Post)
The Senate confirmed John Glover Roberts Jr. as chief justice of the United States, replacing the late William H. Rehnquist, the mentor for whom he clerked. The vote was 78-22. [...]Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told reporters after the confirmation, "I believe that there's a very decisive bipartisan flavor to this vote. Judge Roberts -- soon to be Chief Justice Roberts -- got half of the Democrats and Senator Jeffords," an independent. "And to come away with 78 votes, considering where the Senate was in such contentious straits earlier this year, I think is really remarkable."
Could Democrats make themselves seem any more marginal to American life? Posted by Orrin Judd at September 29, 2005 12:48 PM
Possibly during the next confirmation hearing? Please, please let the nominee be Janice Rogers Brown!
Posted by: Rick T. at September 29, 2005 1:10 PM. . . sure they can. Watch and see. (No chortling or guffawing aloud allowed.)
Posted by: obc at September 29, 2005 1:11 PMThe roll call vote at the Times is interesting. Clinton took the low road. I'd expected she might show some courage and vote yes. Byrd and Rockefella voted yes. So did Patty Murray.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/29/politics/politicsspecial1/28rollcall.html
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Posted by: Genecis at September 29, 2005 2:01 PMCantwell is more interesting than Murray, because she's up this time. Odd to position herself outside the mainstream.
Posted by: oj at September 29, 2005 2:18 PMNothing Cantwell does is going to get right leaning Washingtonians to vote for her or those that lean left to vote against her. The middle will vote for her on name recognition alone unless Rossi runs against her. Organized labor and the mega-rich Indian tribes will spend all they can to keep her in office. I hope she's as broke as as you say she is or she is likely to get reelected quite easily.
Posted by: Patrick H at September 29, 2005 3:23 PMOj--I thought that was odd too, but I figure that she needs to pay the piper. Seeing as she's broke, she can't afford for the MoveOn-ers and their money to abandon her.
Pat--I don't know about that. McGavick is filthy rich and is polling pretty well for someone who has no name recognition--recognition he can buy easy. Her polling numbers are poor to mediocre. She's beatable, especially if we can get people like McCain & Giuliani out here to campaign.
Posted by: Timothy at September 29, 2005 7:52 PMTimothy,
You're more plugged in to the local scene than I am so you could well be right. I cancelled the P-I 3 years ago and the times 6 months ago. I couldn't take the early- morning rise in blood pressure. Perhaps I had better start hanging around soundpolitics.com before I become totally ignorant.
Too much success and media attention has turned the heads of some of the oldest and heretofore most sensible bloggers, so I'm looking for new blogs to replace them. I'll give SoundPolitics a look-see and I'd love suggestions of other blogs I may have missed.
Posted by: erp at September 30, 2005 9:04 AMerp;
Come on, OJ was this loony from day one.
Posted by: Annoying Old Guy at September 30, 2005 2:18 PM