So you have no quote for Scalia? Right, I didn't think so. All fluff and no substance. And don't call me honey.. And I don't know if Brown could get through, It would have been tough (may have been the right thing to do but tough), but that has nothing to do with my lack of knowledge regarding Miers and I do not believe in a stealth nominee. I think it is wrong. That has nothing to do with my reading of exactly what Scalia said and it was far from an endorsement of Miers which is the point you want to avoid. If you have an contrary opinion you are welcome to your error but try hard to avoid insulting others who do not share it. It's not FRiendly. Babe.
"I think it's a good thing to have people from all sorts of backgrounds [on the Court]," Scalia tells CNBC's Maria Bartiromo, as the debate rages over Miers' lack of judical experience.
Without mentioning the Bush nominee by name, the conservative legal icon said that the High Court needed someone who had never served as a judge to take the place of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
"There is now nobody with that [non judicial] background after the death of the previous chief," Scalia laments to Bartiromo.
"And the reason that's happened, I think, is that the nomination and confirmation process has become so controversial, so politicized that I think a president does not want to give the opposition an easy excuse [to say] 'Well, this person has no judicial experience.'" Scalia concludes: "I don't think that's a good thing. I think the Byron Whites, the Lewis Powells and the Bill Rehnquists have contributed to the court even though they didn't sit on a lower federal court."
Of course he couldn't mention Miers by name, but if you believe that's not who he's talking about then you have a problem.
Yep, you're ever so FRiendly too!! Love ya