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Originally posted by Penske_Account
From Federalist #76 (as cited in today's WSJ):

"To what purpose then require the co-operation of the Senate? I answer, that the necessity of their concurrence would have a powerful, though, in general, a silent operation. It would be an excellent check upon a spirit of favoritism in the President, and would tend greatly to prevent the appointment of unfit characters from State prejudice, from family connection, from personal attachment, or from a view to popularity… He would be both ashamed and afraid to bring forward, for the most distinguished or lucrative stations, candidates who had no other merit than that of coming from the same State to which he particularly belonged, or of being in some way or other personally allied to him, or of possessing the necessary insignificance and pliancy to render them the obsequious instruments of his pleasure." [emph. added]


I pray that the Senate does not succumb to the President's misguided and ill conceived arrogant spirit of favoritism. Amen.

I thought that Mr. Bush had a mandate as of November 2, 2004, and anyone getting in the way is obstructing the Will of The People.