She's the original stealth candidate. It was a shrewd choice for Bush. If you can't ram somebody through who's got a higher profile, you do an end run around the opposition.
His legislative achievement, particularly in getting legislation with a distinctively Republican stamp on it, is almost without parallel.
It's piling on time.
It's a very pointed message in a very public forum to someone about to assume the most important seat on the court, ... Whether he heeds it or not, Roberts can't be indifferent that the Senate is upset about the Supreme Court usurping the functions of Congress, second guessing them, and belittling their reasoning.
It's window dressing for the benefit of social conservatives, ... The president may feel that whatever support he will lose among fiscal conservatives, he will win from conservatives proud of him for bootlegging vouchers in the relief plan.
It's helpful for a member to be able to embrace a president. If not, they're very much alone.
There's a strange minuet going on. In some ways, even the activists feel they could do a lot worse than Roberts, but they can't say it. They have to put up some kind of fight.
His timing, I think, was unfortunate. A junior senator in the minority party doesn't get much of an opportunity to shine.
My sense would be that they're really saving their ammunition for somebody they think is beyond the pale, and they see a possibility of that happening.
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