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.
Outstanding article BUMP! The excerpts above tell me all I need to know regarding this lady. The President just gave all conservatives a huge slap in the face for our tireless work to see him reelected. He just had his "read my lips" moment as far as I am concerned.
The best you flaming nut jobs can dish out is every half assed blog on the net?
Thank god you people are confined to typing in your pajamas and not making decisions such as this.
Let the process work. She hasn't been confirmed yet.
She is at least more conserative than SDO!
Let this go to the committee and then to the Senate. Who knows what surprises there might be.
Bush ran from the fight,
he ran from his prior public announcements,
he surrendered an entire decade in the future culture wars and burdened the cohort of Young Republicans with taking up the fight,
he inexplicably wasted a 55 Senate seat majority, AND made it much harder for Republicans to maintain that majority, if the even deserve such political fortunes
he has encouraged current Justices to remain on until his term ends
he selected a woman because she's a woman,
he nominated to the Supreme Court a lawyer who helped him in a legal problem with his country cottage 20 years ago, stinking of cronyism
he gave Sen. Reid a stronger position in deciding his nomination than the public voices of his voter base,
he denied his base the core promise he made to them,
he has revealed he used switch and bait tactics mouthed through his media pontificators when the WH through them demanded us to suck it up and "compromise" during debates over RX plans, immigration reform, Campaign Finance Reform, the absence of a veto pen to stop the outrageous bloating of the Federal budget and Appropriations Bills, CAFTA, and others by using the promise of Supreme Court Justices as the payoff for all of the sacrifices,
he used the payoff of a Conservative Constructionist Supreme Court as a bludgeon to stifle all dissenting debate within the party and the Republican/conservative/libertarian national debate, proving right those who were labeled too far to the right by our common political adversaries on the other side of the aisle
I can never support her.
"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.