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.
"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.
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?
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.
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?
---This anecdote almost invites the retort: Well why don't we go all the way and put Barney the purple dinosaur on the court?---
That would be OK I guess, as long as we run it by Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh, George Will, Patrick Buchanan, Charles Krauthammer, William Kristol, Michelle Malkin and many, many others...first.
If the President knew Ms. Miers so well, did he know she gave campaign donations to Democrats? This one fact sticks in my craw because it shows she is NOT a conservative. We have been suckered once again.
That freakin' ingrate begged W (and Santorum)for support for his re-election, and then begged W to let him stay on as head of the judiciary and now he sticks a knife in his back.
So much for W's stellar ability to judge character!
As one pundit put it ... with Miers we're getting hamburger when we could be getting filet mignon. We're getting Freixenet when we could be getting Dom Perignon.
"Republicans have a perfectly constitutional, perfectly reasonable case for demanding an up-or-down vote on judicial nominees, "Charles Krauthammer, May 13, 2005
You mean old "Flip-Flop Frum"... The one that wrote the article in July 05 about Harriet Miers being on the short list of potential nominees and extolling us to "remember you heard it from me first" then claiming he was just joking in July on Sept 29?
Please...Does anyone else feel like we are being prepped for a McCain run for POTUS?
Give President Bush credit for all the great appointments to the District and Appellate courts.
Remember that their decisions mean nothing if the Supreme Court overrules them.
Some of her defenders (yes, you people) may be happy with a "solid" vote on our side, I'm not. Don't misunderstand, I want that solid vote, but I want a skilled jurist who can clearly explain Constitutional issues.
Face it, she is not "the most qualified person for the job".
Face it, we have no proof that she is "in the mold of Scalia or Thomas". We have only Bush's word. Bush will be gone soon - she stays behind.