Posted on 10/11/2005 5:30:20 AM PDT by conservativecorner
I'm convinced that Miers will be a positive addition to the court. And I think that having Republicans self-destruct over this -- prior to even having hearings -- is unwise.
spoken like a man fired by his boss, who has nothing bigger to worry about but writing 600 words for an article every Tues or a speech once a month. Try getting elected to the school board then tell us about making decisions. Man I hope some of these pundits get the same treatment as the MSM regarding the Katrina issue.
How did ya feel concerning Kennedy, Souter and the rest of the home run conservaives who turned out to be closet liberals?
"Offending your supporters has real-world consequences. With one grave misjudgment, George W. Bush has shattered the coalition that brought and returned him to power in 2000 and 2004."
I am not offended. I think GWB knows more about his choice than anyone else and it is HIS choice.
"The systematic denial of up or down votes on judicial nominees is a new phenomenon. .... In one recent poll, 82 percent said the president's nominees deserve an up or down vote on the Senate floor.."May 9, 2005, William Kristol
I don't have too many concerns about Miers but her feelings on the international court do concern me.
I totally agree with this. You RINO's better listen up, this rebuking of the Presidents choice for SCOTUS is a good thing. Face it, George is sleep walking, he needs something to wake him up. Maybe this will do it.
Close your eyes and repeat after me Dorothy...Meirs is a conservative...Meirs is a conservative...Meirs is a conservative. It's not true of course, but it will make you feel better till conservatives take it in the shorts with this nominee.
Three questions for Frum:
1. Did you leave the White House voluntarily?
2. If the answer to #1 is "no," what role did Ms. Miers play in your departure?
3. Have you thought of spicing up your screeds with MORE COWBELL?
Is there any indication when the hearings will start?
George H.W. Bush did not know David Souter. Souter was recommended to him by others. He got burned.
George W. Bush did not want to get burned. He did want a nominee who could get on the bench. He chose someone who he KNEW. Someone he TRUSTED. This is the president who put Janice Rogers Brown on the Federal bench. He didn't want to get burned by someone he didn't know. So he chose someone very reliable. Someone he truly knew.
She is the anti-Souter.
The other 18% are GOP and DEM Senators, and the President, who acquiesed to the "political reality of not being able to get nominations past the gang of 14" without so much as a wimper.
Frum is the kid that nobody wanted on their team. All he can do is stand on the sidelines while he watches the others play.
and I am convinced that if the she really was, the best person the president could find, then he didn't look any further than arm's reach. At a time when Bush should be showing strong leadership, he capitulates and give the 'Rats a mulligan.
Reagan started eating jelly beans when he gave up smoking in the early 1960's. On his first day as governor of California, candymaker Henry Rowland gave Reagan a big jar of jelly beans, which Reagan put on the Cabinet Room table. That was the beginning of a long tradition of passing out jelly beans during Cabinet meetings. "We can hardly start a meeting or make a decision without passing around the jar of jelly beans," he told Rowland.Reagan also once said that, "You can tell a lot about a fella's character by whether he picks out all of one color or just grabs a handful." Sometime later he remarked, "Some political figures have endured in history as lions or conquerors or something equally impressive. It's a little frightening to think California history might record us as jelly beans."
When Reagan was elected President in 1980, Henry Rowland told reporters, "There will be jelly beans in the White House, that's all I can say." True to form, Reagan kept a crystal jar full of his favorite jelly beans (Jelly Belly's) for Cabinet meetings and encouraged his department chiefs to eat them when they needed energy.
Miers appears to have been drawn from the D team. Being Bush's buddy just doesn't cut it. Time to admit it was a mistake and nominate a bold, brilliant, originalist, strict-constructionist constitutional scholar.
Hugh Hewitt was spinning like a top last night, saying that Miers has impeccable credentials as a lawyer (huh? Lottery commission?) and that being an originalist is "easy" - that reading the constitution and interpreting it is not a big deal.
What really galled me, though, was that he trotted out the old "well get ready for a Hillary White House and a Hillary senate!"
That's great logic, Hugh. So let's not act like a conservative party for fear that a democrat will be in office in 2007? At this point, what the hell is the difference?
7 of the 9 were chosen by Republican Presidents who told us not to worry. The definition of stupidity is doing the same thing over and over and expect a different outcome.
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