Posted on 10/03/2005 8:43:43 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
This will be sent to chat like the others I bet.
You are in favor of this? Oh, never mind.
Thank you. This forum needs to calm down.
Another good comprehensive take on the Miers nomination at http://beldar.blogs.com/, which is written by an insightful and articulate Houston attorney.
And just for the record, I think Ann Coulter (who called Miers a 'complete mediocrity') needs to simmer down; from what I've read from her recently, she's starting to overheat.
Then again, a lot of people just take her words at face value...not to knock anything against her, but she's gotten real 'RARARARARARARARAR' lately.
I predict Miers will get 55 Republican Senators voting Aye, so what the panic-merchants here have to say doesn't matter. It's pretty entertaining watching the meltdowns, though. Last time I saw something this funny was when Dean screamed.
Please, stop making sense. It's just not as much fun.
I was alarmed at first, but I have come to believe that Mrs Miers is a supreme example of a "Trojan Horse".
To paraphrase another FReeper,
"Bush is playing chess, while the others are still playing checkers....'
ROPE-A-DOPE, BABY!!!!
Thanks for the very sensible post and good analysis of the info known so far. I agree that we shouldn't fall apart until we have good reason to do so, and we may be pleasantly surprised.
Miers managed to head the Bar in Texas; quite an accomplishment for a lady in a then male-dominated field.
Ann uses blonde hair, long legs and crude attacks to become a media starlet. Big deal. She couldn't carry Miers's legal pad.
I thought that was funny as hell too. Twenty-four hours later, he was out of the picture.
It is obvious that the 'tone' and 'rhetoric' here on FR has gotten more DU like in the past few years. Leftists are big time deceivers and I believe there are a substantial amount of members that are leftist plants.
I have been on this board just about from the beginning and to me, it is obvious.
It's fun for me. :-P
And the chess/checkers comment is a good one; I found it RIGHT AFTER I posted. Describes the situation perfectly.
Well, I think the backlash against the backlash is getting tiresome. If Pres. Bush had nominated Michael Luttig instead of Harriet Miers we would have someone with greater credentials, better-established conservatism, more experience, and ten years younger. Try to come up with one way that Harriet Miers is better for our country than Michael Luttig. There aren't any. It all boils down to politics and being unwilling to just go ahead and do what is right. The fact that Pat Buchannan and William Kristol can see this and some FReepers can't bothers me not at all. Pres. Bush's pick, however, does bother me.
Even more amusing was what I read in the local urban publication in Burlington last week -- in the People's Republic of Burlington, many despise him as pro-business and anti-left (based on his record as Governor). They are also upset at Leahy and Jeffords for approving Roberts and want Red Sanders as their next Senator.
I am a bit nervous that the administration is being too clever by half. Remember the campaign finance debacle.
We'll have to wait and see.
But I will say, there seem to be a lot of Republicans that lost their conservative roots. Or maybe never had them to start with.
I would have also preffered it if Bush appointed Luttig (or Brown, or another more well-established conservatism). However, getting into a fuss over Miers when there's need to fuss is pointless, IMO.
After practicing law in private practice in New York City, Coulter worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she handled crime and immigration issues for Senator Spencer Abraham of Michigan. From there, she became a litigator with the Center For Individual Rights in Washington, D.C., a public interest law firm dedicated to the defense of individual rights with particular emphasis on freedom of speech, civil rights, and the free exercise of religion.
A Connecticut native, Coulter graduated with honors from Cornell University School of Arts & Sciences, and received her J.D. from University of Michigan Law School, where she was an editor of The Michigan Law Review.
Obviously a very intelligent person who writes very well. Interesting there are no dates attached to these positions. Perhaps she is much better at telling others how things should be done than actually doing them herself.
Bleh. NO need to fuss, I meant. No need to fuss.
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