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Harriet Miers: Conservatives Can Take a Flying Leap (SATIRE)
The National Ledger ^
| 10/14/2005
| Chris Davis
Posted on 10/14/2005 11:27:43 AM PDT by writer33
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Chris Davis is the author of two political thrillers: Elective Decisions and In Defense of Liberty, available at Whiskey Creek Press.
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posted on
10/14/2005 11:27:49 AM PDT
by
writer33
To: Diva Betsy Ross
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posted on
10/14/2005 11:28:43 AM PDT
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: writer33
If this is satire, it isn't satire enough, and if it isn't, it can't be accurate.
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posted on
10/14/2005 11:30:38 AM PDT
by
prion
(Yes, as a matter of fact, I AM the spelling police)
To: writer33
Miers has more gray matter in her pinky finger than Anns got in her entire cranium. And thats one large cranium. Shes nothing but a blowhard stick figure. Bring it on, Ann! Miers is ready!LOL!!
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posted on
10/14/2005 11:31:08 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(My mind works like lightning. One brilliant flash and it is gone.)
To: writer33
Well done, once again:)
But..."Harriet Miers was brazen and defiant"??? I haven't seen or heard a peep from her since she was introduced to us. Which may, or may not, be a good thing.
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posted on
10/14/2005 11:31:22 AM PDT
by
SE Mom
(Keep an open mind; nothing will fall out.)
To: prion
If this is satire, it isn't satire enough, and if it isn't, it can't be accurate.That's what makes it such awesome satire! We can't decide whether to be ticked off, or to fall down laughing.
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posted on
10/14/2005 11:31:48 AM PDT
by
Shalom Israel
(Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
To: writer33
not asking President Bush to withdraw her nomination to the Supreme Court despite sharp criticism from some of Bushs conservative alliesWhy should she cave in to people having a temper tantrum?
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posted on
10/14/2005 11:32:10 AM PDT
by
My2Cents
(Dead people voting is the closest thing the Democrats come to believing in eternal life.)
To: writer33
" as well as abortion and other lame conservative issues."Stopped reading right there. This writer is a moron, or worse.
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posted on
10/14/2005 11:32:19 AM PDT
by
drt1
To: writer33
""Scott McClellan. They should just shut their mouths and be thankful Bush is in office.""
Tell me he didn`t say this.
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posted on
10/14/2005 11:33:33 AM PDT
by
Peace will be here soon
(Liberal definition of looting: " Self-help Humanitarian Aid.")
To: cyborg; Petronski; blackbart.223; Gabz; StarCMC
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posted on
10/14/2005 11:34:05 AM PDT
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: My2Cents
Why should she cave in to people having a temper tantrum?Could My2Cents have a valid point? Possibly. :)
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posted on
10/14/2005 11:35:14 AM PDT
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: SE Mom
Thanks for reading, SE Mom. I appreciate it.
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posted on
10/14/2005 11:35:51 AM PDT
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: Peace will be here soon
If this is true IT AIN'T GOOD
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posted on
10/14/2005 11:36:42 AM PDT
by
brooklyn dave
(Allah is a Moon god)
To: Peace will be here soon
Well that's how they act.
And, if anyone believed Bush when he said she was the most qualified he could find, is not being true to themselves.
And those that belive the White House charges that those who oppose this nomination are elitist and sexist are demagogues.
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posted on
10/14/2005 11:37:00 AM PDT
by
Sometimes A River
(Serving on a Meals-on-Wheels program is NOT a qualification for a SC nominee. Call your Senators!)
To: writer33
Harriet Miers record
The Los Angeles Times:
The written record of President Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court is meager. But her musings in the Texas Bar Journal in 1992 and 1993 offer a window into a different era for Miers.
At the time, she was perched atop a fractious organization of 55,000 lawyers that included law-and-order prosecutors, boardroom advisors and legal clinicians paid in chickens on the border. The crosscurrents were fierce, and Miers fought them by choosing a path that could safely be described as politically moderate and, at times, liberal by Texas standards anyway.
She called for increased funding for legal services for the poor and suggested that taxes might have to be raised to achieve the notion of "justice for all."
She praised the benefits of diversity, called for measures that would send more minority students to law schools, and said that just because a woman was the head of the state bar did not mean that "all unfair barriers for women have been eradicated."
She was upset that although poverty was rising in Texas, impoverished families received a disproportionately small share of welfare and Medicaid benefits.
And she was an unapologetic defender of her profession, even the oft-maligned "trial lawyer."
"Lawyers are about seeking the truth, preserving a system to achieve fairness and justice and protecting the freedom of individuals against the tyranny of the majority view," she wrote.
Still, her emerging record as a lawyer in Texas could foment concern among conservatives that she would not be a reliable ally and maybe it should, said Jim Parsons, a state district judge from Palestine, Texas, a friend of Miers' and a self-described "dyed-in-the-wool Democrat" who supports her nomination.
"I've never known her to be either a bra-burning Democrat or the comparable Republican," said Parsons, who was president of the bar in 1990 and 1991. "She's just not an ideologue."
To: drt1
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posted on
10/14/2005 11:37:20 AM PDT
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: writer33
......many of whom wanted a nominee with a clear record of understanding of the Constitution, as well as abortion and other lame conservative issues. Lame conservative issues?? Interesting terminology for murder of innocents.
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posted on
10/14/2005 11:37:47 AM PDT
by
Mogollon
To: Peace will be here soon
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posted on
10/14/2005 11:37:49 AM PDT
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: drt1; writer33
Is this true Chris? Are you a moron? I thought you didn't believe in polygamy.
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posted on
10/14/2005 11:38:04 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
(The modern Democrat Party - a toxic stew of mental illness, cultism, and organized crime.)
To: writer33
In a testy exchange with reporters Thursday, McClellan complained that coverage of the nomination has ignored Miers record and qualifications Which are?
to focus on side issues such as her religion
Uh, it's the White House who brought that up as a qualifications.
or Constitutional law.
God forbid we discuss constiuttional law when discussing a Supreme Court candidate.
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posted on
10/14/2005 11:38:25 AM PDT
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
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