Bush said, "Trust me."
We must trust, we must trust, we must trust, we must trust........
/s
"she submitted a 1999 report to the ABA's house of delegates that included recommendations to develop and establish an International Criminal Court"
If that proves to be true, that has to be the last straw on this nomination.
It's as if Bush is trying to force conservatives to the Constitution Party in 2008.
Like Limbaugh, Frum, Noonan, Rich, Krauthammer et al, Farrah makes a good living telling others what is what. Now the question is, whether what he believes and advocates is anyone's best interest other than a narrow group of pundits who hate Mies since the President did not seek their counsel in the selection process.
About 22% of the people who vote Republican in Minnesota consistently say that the reason they do so is on the basis of moral and traditional values. I do not believe any of the above mentioned pundits speaks for them or even approves of them. Running beneath the opposition to Miers is a strong feeling that some ignorant, knuckle dragging, Neanderthal Jesus freak does not belong on SCOTUS.
Let Miers speak before the Judiciary Committee and let the Senators vote. After all, was not the pundit mantra "give an up or down vote" the basis for the success of the last nominee?
No rule by philosopher kings! Our US Senators can vote her up or down and then face the electorate. That is the way the Constitution proclaims.
Yesterday I moved from I'll-wait-until-the-hearings to NO WAY on Harriet Miers.
You guys must be desperate when you repost retread articles.
It just gets better.
Souter in a skirt
I no longer support Miers and think she should remove herself from consideration. However, I dont see any where in Farrah's lastest trash piece that he has any proof that Miers favored any of these issues. ABA lawyers put them up for a vote. Once they get enough support from the committee, the go to the membership for a vote. Fact that they went up for a vote doesnt mean that Miers personally favored any of these issues. It's similar to certain issues being voted on in the House or Senate that the leadership opposes. What is she supposed to do, resign her position if an issue comes up that she disagrees with? Or should she stay and be influential in preventing their passage?
NTSA.
wow, Bush admin joining the gang of pedophiles and playing with liberal soviet rifraf....this really take the cake...but is not surprizing given the consciouslessness of liberals who give themselves up and commit suicide....why is Bush sleeping with such people he apparently know nothing about (not an excuse)
No sparks in this
Schumer on MTP just said "And I agree with my friends on the right, that we need to know Harriet Miers judicial philosophy." Congratulations Far Right...you just sealed for all time the fact that Chucky Schumer is RIGHT to demand to know the nominees philosophy.
She's so stealth, even GW didn't know she was a PC liberal.
She sounds more like a politician than a judge.............
What concerns me is (1) the economomy and (2) national security.
Tax increases constitute a definite negative impact on the economy.
An International Criminal Court is a definite threat to U.S. security and sovereignty. It is also an open invitation to the empowerment of the numerous thugocracies that dominate most of the people of the world and--notably--the United Nations.
People generally get the kind of government they deserve--and prefer--and most of the people of the world--obviously--are perfectly willing to be ruled by thugs.
The American and European Left--obviously--shares this preference (remember the admiring references to Pol Pot as "progressive" and the love affair the Left still has with Marxism, its requiring a totalitarian dictatorship for its implementation and its having killed--already--at least 100 million people, notwithstanding.)
The American Left--intellectually crippled by its usual denial and harebrained delusional systems--and by the stupidity of most of its adherents--mindlessly assumes that all people are inherently benevolent and that foreign governments will naturally adhere to the same principles that the founding fathers established for the United States and that our ancestors have preserved for us. They're nuts! They ignore the obvious facts that most nations are ruled by thugs and tyrants, that many of the people of the world have never learned to govern themselves, and that the United States is unique, even among Western republics, as a miracle of liberty, justice, and democratic government.
Such is the stupidity of the morons who make up the rank and file of the Left, and such is the malice and indifference of the sociopaths who lead them.
If Harriet Miers is an advocate of higher taxes and/or an International Criminal Court, she has no business serving on the U.S. Supreme Court, and Georg Bush had no business giving her the nomination. Either of those positions is a deal breaker as far as I am concerned.
Step out of the Matrix...
Meanwhile, during Miers long affiliation with the American Bar Association, she submitted a 1999 report to the ABA's house of delegates that included recommendations to develop and establish an International Criminal Court and the enactment of laws and public policy providing that the sexual orientation of adults be no bar to adoption of children.
Under the heading Family Law and subheading Adoption, the document states: "Supports the enactment of laws and public policy which provide that sexual orientation shall not be a bar to adoption when the adoption is determined to be in the best interest of the child."
Also included, under the heading International Law and Practice, is a recommendation for "the development and establishment of an International Criminal Court."
Here is Miers application. She checked NO. Miers is NOT courting the support of the Lesbian/Gay Coalition of Dallas.