[ohioWfan]

I didn't base that on facts. I only wish he had been more bold with this pick. The Souter reference referred to her unkown quantity. THAT worries me more than anything, NOT that she is unknown, but that the President didn't have enough confidence to pick a known conservative.

You're making all kinds of emotional assumptions here.

You're afraid, you're worried, you think you know that the President didn't have confidence.

What if..........what if this pick shows that he has such great confidence that he doesn't need to worry about the temporary insanity of people who claim to support him, because he knows that he is right about her, and she will prove to be a great originalist SC justice, and the nervous nellies will eventually find out that he was right?

That's more in keeping with his character.

[HairOfTheDog]

..........what if this pick shows that he has such great confidence that he doesn't need to worry about the temporary insanity of people who claim to support him

ROTFL! Oh that we already know about him! :~D

[Republic of Texas]

The Court is in trouble, our country is in trouble and I don't like playing "what if" with the solutions. Besides, watching the left go beserk over Owens or Brown would only help the Republicans.

[va4me]

The new republic is now reporting this tidbit, if true, ugh:

http://www.tnr.com/etc.mhtml?pid=2832

In 1990 Miers voted for a 7 percent property tax increase during her short tenure on the Dallas City Council. And Miers's long affiliation with the ABA will serve up lots of interesting tidbits that are unlikely to please social and legal conservatives. For instance, she apparently submitted the following report to the ABA's House of Delegates. Here are two of the report's recommendations:

Supports the enactment of laws and public policy which provide that sexual orientation shall not be a bar to adoption when the adoption is determined to be in the best interest of the child. ...

Recommends the development and establishment of an International Criminal Court.