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THE LAST LAUGH (Why Miers will be a very good justice)
Vanity
| 11 October 05
| Lancey Howard
Posted on 10/10/2005 10:35:47 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Checkers; dirtboy; dc-zoo
To: Lancey Howard
We voted Republicans in control of EVERYTHING. We shouldn't have to be listing hopeful reasons she'll be OK.
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posted on
10/10/2005 10:39:28 PM PDT
by
DC Bound
(Bono? Santorum? How did Rove do that?)
To: Lancey Howard
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posted on
10/10/2005 10:40:12 PM PDT
by
pcottraux
(It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
To: Hendrix; VRWC For Truth; Clintonfatigued
To: Lancey Howard
You assume she will even know which way on any given question is a principled conservative position. No, she will vote with Scalia a few dozen times, then hear other opinions from squishes in the middle on the court, and try to split the differences between them. Then she will get a few gushing articles in the NYT and discover "strange new respect". It takes intellectual steel to stand up to compromising sophists year after year and issue after issue, with every blandishment of fame held out the other way, and near universal scorn the wage of virtue. There is no evidence this woman can think her way out of a paper bag, let alone that her mind is made of such steel.
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posted on
10/10/2005 10:41:24 PM PDT
by
JasonC
To: Lancey Howard
So we are to support a consumate mediocrity to the Supreme Court because she owes Bush her place in history?
Is she going to call Bush before each vote and find out how he would rule?
Judging by Bush's positions on federalism, affirmative action, the bankruptcy reform act, I wouldn't want a Bush clone on the Court.
To: Lancey Howard
Hoping she may just possibly turn out OK wasn't the fundraising campaign strategy this time last year, as I recall.
"Vote for me, and I'll nominate a crony you've never heard of, because I'm a-skeered of Jim Jeffords and Olympia Snowe!"
Nope. Don't recall that.
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posted on
10/10/2005 10:42:00 PM PDT
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: Lancey Howard
OK, here's my comment. You have laid out precisely the reasons that I am willing to support her nomination, because
I trust President Bush to know what he is doing, and he knows this nominee! I think we'll find out that President Bush has indeed been
misunderestimated again.
You have also opened yourself up for a lot of flak, but I'm sure you already knew that! ;p
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posted on
10/10/2005 10:42:13 PM PDT
by
Theresawithanh
(I support President Bush, and I support our troops!!!)
To: Paradox; Cicero; blackie
To: Hank Rearden
Dude, you are preaching to the choir, man.
To: Lancey Howard
I wonder if the 2000 and 2004 elections would have come out different, if GWB had said, regarding SCOTUS nominations, "If I am elected, I will nominate competent people from my circle of associates to fill SCOTUS. THey will not legislate from the bench, but will interpret the Constitution as the framers indended."
Because the answer to that illuminates whether or not he can be trusted.
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posted on
10/10/2005 10:43:49 PM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: Mo1; Howlin
To: pcottraux
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posted on
10/10/2005 10:45:17 PM PDT
by
Stellar Dendrite
( Mike Pence for President!!! http://acuf.org/issues/issue34/050415pol.asp)
To: Miss Marple; Pukin Dog
I would be interested in your thoughts on this if you have the time.
Thanks.
To: Lancey Howard; DC Bound
I HOPE you're right...but I didn't want to HOPE. I wanted a court full of Scalias and Thomases.
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posted on
10/10/2005 10:47:40 PM PDT
by
RockinRight
(I am beginning to think conservatism is buried somewhere under New Orleans mud...)
To: pcottraux
"What? Bush did something today? Well, whatever it is, I don't like it."
A classic. Thanks.
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posted on
10/10/2005 10:48:41 PM PDT
by
Irish Rose
(Will work for chocolate.)
To: Lancey Howard
Politics has often been compared to sausage-making.
Purists like Ralph Nader don't like sausage BECAUSE of what's in it; I like sausage DESPITE what's in it.
The RINOs in the Senate make this appointment necessary. I don't think anyone is ecstatic about this choice, not even the ones here condemned as BushBots.
Don't like it? Hope for no more openings before next year's elections and campaign for more trustworthy Senate candidates - anything less is useless mewling.
http://www.modernvertebrate.com/elections/2006-national/
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posted on
10/10/2005 10:51:23 PM PDT
by
decal
(Mother Nature and Real Life are conservatives; the Progs have never figured this out.)
To: bigeasy_70118
So we are to support a consumate mediocrity to the Supreme Court because she owes Bush her place in history?Nope. I thought I was clear that this vanity is about my being done spitting venom about what a disastrous nomination this was and trying to determine what kind of justice Miers will turn out to be in the end.
You know - - it's done, so deal with it. That kind of thing.
Reality.
To: Theresawithanh
I trust President Bush to know what he is doing, and he knows this nominee! Yeah, sure. Koolaid, yum.
Bush "knew" Bernard Kerik when he nominated him to be head of Homeland Security last year, remember?
How long did that one last before blowing up in his face - a week?
Trusting politicians is for the feeble-minded and Russians. Let's see some proof she's more than his crony and shoe-shine girl.
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posted on
10/10/2005 10:52:14 PM PDT
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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