Posted on 10/04/2005 5:35:29 AM PDT by shortstop
Actually, we do know where she stands.
Harriet Miers.
The president’s pick for the Supreme Court. The Texas nobody.
She has a record and it tells us all we need to know about her.
During the Reagan Revolution, she was a Democrat. Until the George W. Bush star began to rise, she donated to Democratic politicians – like Al Gore and Lloyd Bentsen. She has donated directly to the Democratic National Committee. Her Republican contributions did not begin until George W. Bush became her political patron.
In a career that has spanned an era in which individual liberty has been repeatedly attacked by big government, and the judiciary has grown imbalanced and tyrannical, she hasn’t written or said a word in opposition or protest. Nor has she been any sort of pioneer for women’s rights – having spent the bulk of her legal career with a woman already sitting on the Supreme Court.
If she wasn’t the president’s friend, no one would know her name. She had a very nice legal career in Dallas, but is in no way an attorney, judge, scholar or thinker of national stature.
Further, she was specifically recommended for this position by Harry Reid, the outspoken and liberal leader of Senate Democrats.
Finally, the most telling piece of her record is the pattern of policy initiatives to come out of the White House during her tenure as the president’s top lawyer. During her year, the Bush Administration has emphasized big government at the expense of the Constitution. The recent suggestion by the president – which he undoubtedly developed with his legal counsel – that the federal government take over disaster response from the states, and put the military in charge, spits in the face of the Tenth Amendment.
And Harriet Miers signed off on it.
That tells us all we need to know about her.
She says she supports what the framers of the Constitution wanted, but as the president’s top lawyer she didn’t stop him from going against the clear intent of those same framers.
She’s a George W. Bush lackey, and that’s not good enough. We don't trust him that much anymore. And it is an incredible act of ingratitude, gall and arrogance for George W. Bush not to recognize that and take a different course.
George W. Bush is president today because he promised American conservatives that he would appoint conservatives to the Supreme Court. With a half century of uninterrupted liberal dominance, conservatives feel that the Supreme Court has been hijacked and that it has become a political arm of government, instead of a strict defender of the Constitution.
George W. Bush said he’d change that.
And history was ripe to let him.
With the Supreme Court having done a great deal of its most divisive business with 5-4 votes, and with Republican-appointed Sandra Day O’Connor being the swing vote in 75 percent of those cases, and that most typically on the liberal side, the seat George W. Bush has promised to Harriet Miers is the seat that makes all the difference.
It was the entire reason he was elected.
Conservatives wanted sanity in the courts. They elected him to put it there.
And yesterday he kicked them in the teeth.
A great many true legal scholars and true conservatives were passed over for a cipher. People whose thoughts were known, people who had not hidden away all their lives, were passed over so a seat on the Supreme Court could be given out to a close friend. The swing vote was left to twist in the wind.
It was an act of cowardice and treachery.
Because it was George W. Bush who told conservatives he would appoint “another Thomas or Scalia” if they re-elected him. And they did. The difference in his second election was the “values vote,” and that came from conservatives worried about the courts.
And this is how he has repaid them.
The lame duck has become chicken little.
Either not truly committed to the conservative cause, or afraid to make a stand against Democrats in the Senate, George W. Bush punted on the single biggest decision of his presidency.
And then he sent Dick Cheney out to promise that in 10 years we’d all be glad Harriet Miers was on the court.
What a disappointment and betrayal.
Instead of using his second term to courageously pursue the agenda he preached, the son has become the father and we’re faced with another not-quite-Republican President Bush. After all the money conservatives gave, after all the votes, after all the effort, after all the promises, he took the easy way out and left his supporters in the dust.
Conservatives gave the Republicans the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives. No other group has been as faithful to the GOP or as essential to its success. And this is how they are repaid.
The one thing they wanted is the thing they will not get.
We do know where she stands.
Right next to George W. Bush.
And given his conduct of the last two or three years, that’s reason enough for conservatives to oppose her.
She's more qualified than Hitlery.
I don't even feel like reading the thoughts of someone who begins by calling a nominee a "nobody." It offends my beliief that everybody is somebody.
How about Ronald Reagan (the Democrat)?????
How about Strom Thurmond (the Democrat)?
This just shows you how brilliant this pick is and how desperate the lefties have become. I think this is their strategy. The lefties know Bush's numbers are down and they are trying to siphon off his conservative base by throwing some of these thoughts on the Miers pick.
When I first heard about this yesterday, I was disappointed but as I went through the day and heard about the pick, I think it is brilliant. She has no track record as a judge so the Dems will have a dificult time putting her on the hot seat, she is an insider (so Bush knows her better than a lot of other President's picks) and Reid and company have basically endorsed her. The only thing the lefties can say is the conservatives are disappointed with the pick.
I trust this President because he has done exactly what he says. Bush has said he wants more Justices in the Scalia/Thomas mold and I believe him. I have heard she is a Christian and she is pro-life. I truly believe this pick will show how great of a man Bush is and the legacy is leaving behind. He understands the stakes and the opportunity he has to make an impact on this Supreme Court and this country.
I was thinking back in 1997 when 1 million men got together in Washington DC to pray and intercede for this country. I remember Clinton flying over with Marine One to see all the men and he couldn't believe how many evangelical Christians were there. A year later President Clinton is impeached and a presidency starts to unravel.
We elect President Bush (an answered prayer in D.C.) who is not the savior of this country but an evangelical Christian who does what he says he will do and searches after God's heart. I believe we will say Miers is one of the best justices for this country and conservative Christian will be thanking God for Bush's pick in a few years.
If Ms. Meirs ever reads this, just want to tell her that these ranters are a small but shouting group.
She probably already knows this about the ranters after working with the President for 10 years.
What an exaggerated diatribe against a conservative justice pick. But you're in "good" company, I saw that putz David Gergen on Fox this morning saying she is unqualified. What a bunch of elitist hooey.
Next question!
Well, as far as I'm concerned, this is a good thing. I'm tired to death of hearing how important it is that a woman be on the Court. It's insulting to professional women. Her uterus shouldn't be her most important qualification.
"Further, she was specifically recommended for this position by Harry Reid, the outspoken and liberal leader of Senate Demo"
Harry Reid doesn't know her like Bush knows her. Look for some "crawfishing" by the Dims as her leanings become more evident.
Finally, the most telling piece of her record is the pattern of policy initiatives to come out of the White House during her tenure as the president’s top lawyer. During her year, the Bush Administration has emphasized big government at the expense of the Constitution. The recent suggestion by the president – which he undoubtedly developed with his legal counsel – that the federal government take over disaster response from the states, and put the military in charge, spits in the face of the Tenth Amendment.
And Harriet Miers signed off on it.
Rank speculation. The author nor anybody else other than Bush or Miers know what her transpired.
She says she supports what the framers of the Constitution wanted, but as the president’s top lawyer she didn’t stop him from going against the clear intent of those same framers.
Absolute garbage. Since when does a presidential counsel "stop" POTUS from doing anything. Again no one has any clew as to what she advised the president to do.
This article is chock full of speculation and tortured logic. The conclusions of the author are based on nothing more than his own imagination.
Also, they are already complaining that they will not be able to see the inside records and papers of what went down in her White House job, because of both attorney client privilege and executive privilege. LOL
Ronald Reagan left the Democratic Party and became a Republican in the late 60s early 70s.
Phil Gramm was a Democrat when Reagan was elected in 1980. He became a Republican in the 80s.
Richard Shelby, southern Democrat became a Republican in the 90s.
Big deal that she used to be a democrat.
I understand that Miers vetted all the others for the president. All the ones that the "kill-our-own" conservatives are clamoring for are people ID'd by Miers.
The last time Bush did something like this was when he had Dick Cheney vetting possible VP candidates for the Pres's first run for office.
The Pres later said that he had the best candidate right under his nose.
You got any complaints about Cheney?
From http://www.brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/1179
We're all familiar with Winston Churchill's adage about the need to be liberal in youth and conservative when mature, and many, many folks do follow that pattern. Most notoriously the entire neoconservative movement is made up of former liberal intellectuals who shifted to the Right during the 60s and 70s. Then in the 80s and 90s a second wave--[snip]--followed suit, to one degree or another.
Alas, no. Lonsberry yaps and whines. This is no exception.
I'm beginning to wonder if our lives are so dull, we live & breath nothing but beltway politics.
Think I'll return to the real world until the next election cycle to vote against the Socialists.
Dear Libs: you might control Entertainment, Newspapers, the Courts and Schools, but I can still vote your a$$ out of office and keep my wallet closed for your endeavors.
You just insulted some FREEPERS with your sarcasm. Do you have anything intelligent to say regarding this nomination, or will you just be hurling insults?
ROFLOL! I've never seen a bigger bunch of mindless crybabies than have what has popped out of the woodwork over this nomination.
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