[Betaille]

Be careful, any thread criticizing Miers is being pulled by the moderators today.

[kjam22]

This guy is stretching it. He says what his real problem is in the first 95% of the piece. He wanted a war. He wanted a fight. He wanted to get the pound of flesh.

Instead the president nominated (we're told) a 3rd grade sunday school teacher from a fundementalist evangelical church who has served on church committees and reads the constitution as literal as she reads the bible.... and that's not good enough for him?

[kjam22]

By the way.... you longhorns got no chance this saturday :)

[Betaille]

My issue with her isn't so much her ideology. I think she's probably a conservative (although a moderate and opportunistic one) at heart. My issue is with the fact that she:

1. Has no particular qualifications aside from being a personal friend of Bush. Neither experience nor exemplary performance/intellectual weight is in her record. As a matter of fact, commentators have noted her complete lack of any particular evidence of ideological courage (which is absolutely necessary on the Supreme Court if one is to not move left like Souter, O'connor, or Kennedy)

2. Is over 60 years old. This is not a disqualifier in and of itself, but it does tell me that Bush clearly was not trying to make the choice that would have the biggest long-term impact on the Supreme Court, and I consider it a wasted opportunitiy to choose as a replacement to O'connor a justice only 14 years younger than her... particularly when there were far more qualified justices over 10 years younger than Miers.

[Map Kernow]

Miers emailed me and told me that the message might offend people of other faiths, i.e., that the message was too Christian.

This woman is an evangelical Christian? Give me a break..."We don't get fooled again." There's a reason Harry Reid is smiling over Miers' nomination, and it isn't because he thinks she's a good Christian, or pro-life.

Q: How does Pres. Bush say "Screw you, conservative base!"

A: "Trust me. TRUST me....!!!"

[Diddle E. Squat]

Truth be known, the President needed a big fight between Republicans and Democrats, conservatives versus leftists, over this nomination to replace O’Connor.

Not if the rumor of Rove and others being indicted turns out to be true. Not saying that those rumors are true, but something to consider.

[cynicom]

I liked the part where Bush might be a stealth conservative.

[little jeremiah]

Thought this might interest you.

I don't know what to think, other than that all politicians are untrustworthy.

[verity]

"Conservatives are Not Amused with the Miers’ Nomination By Ned Ryun "

I am not amused either if she has been nominated by Ned Ryun.

[deport]

Miers emailed me and told me that the message might offend people of other faiths, i.e., that the message was too Christian.

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So ol' Ned got a little slap on the wrist...... LOL

Takes a full article for him to finally give his true basis of writing the article...... His article may have had a larger validity has he left off the final para. But vanity is a failing for most of us....

"When we find that issue," Mr. Bush told the party faithful, "I'll just walk up to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and spit in his eye."

[counterpunch]

SUPREME COURT DISAPPOINTMENT