Posted on 10/04/2005 9:41:00 AM PDT by His Supreme Majesty
President Bush is a politician trained in strategic thinking at Harvard Business School, and schooled in tactics by experience and advice, including the experience and advice of his father, whose most lasting political mistake was the nomination of David Souter. The nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court shows that he has learned his lessons well. Regrettably, a large contingent of conservative commentators does not yet grasp the strategy and tactics at work in this excellent nomination.
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The Republican Sentators aren't up to it, according to Rush.
Oh we understand the strategy, compromise first. I think Harriet will be a decent/good judge, but we could have done better. Harriet seems to have a strong set of conservative values, but we don't know how strong and how she will rule. There were better choices which would have drawn a huge fight. There were picks that were more qualified, more conservative, solid paper trail, younger, etc. This pick is a compromise. Maybe it is a good one, time will tell. Bush avoided a fight and put a seemly conservative lady on the bench. I however think a fight reguardless of outcome would have been good for the party. If we won, we would have a better judge, and if we lost we could then pick a Harriet.
It's easy for her to be an outstanding SCJ.
All she has to do is vote with Scalia and Thomas...and hopefully, Roberts.
A very good article, and its good to remind folks that Bush does get misunderestimated every once in a while.
And I believe that she will do just that -- vote with Scalia, Thomas, and Roberts.
I am keeping the faith that President Bush knows what he is doing. In fact, I am grateful that he saved the Nation from having to go through another nasty partisan judicial hearing. Those combative exercises, however the outcome, are always damaging to our Country.
True, but will she be that staunch in her rulings? I doubt it. I don't think Roberts or Miers will be. Both will be more compromising than either Scalia or Thomas. Roberts and Miers have the appropriate set of values, it is just a matter of how strong they are. I see Roberts as basically a Rehnquist, and Miers as an significant improvement over O'Connor. Neither is a Scalia or Thomas. Time will tell. My grade is a "B" on these picks at this time.
Bush and Republicans in the Senate are behaving like losers that are in the minority in the Senate. They could have gotten Miers with 45 seats in the Senate.
The Pundits wanted a fight. They were looking forward to a fight. After all, that's how they make a living. I could care less about a fight. I am more interested in getting conservatives on the court who will end the judicial tyranny.
Can hardly wait for the confirmation hearings!! I'm sure the vetting process will go well, too.
I'm hoping that the prez has something up his sleeve with this nomination. That's why a "Wait and See" mode might be applicable here.
I think the election of his successor is by far his most lasting political mistake.
Hey Sparky, "Run Away!" and "Surrender" have worked well for the French. Why not the GOP?
A very well thought out article. Thanks for posting it. I tend to share the author's views on this matter.
Just food for thought...
This THOUGHTFUL article should be required reading to balance out the Miers doom & gloom of the past 24 hours.
Stevens may be the most likely to retire, with Ginsburg coming in second. I doubt we will be so lucky though. I do wish Harriet was in her 40's.
Trained in strategic thinking at HBS? What a joke. Someone actually argues that one case method class, dominated by opinion and pointless class participation, and lead by a Michael Porter type professor, makes a "strategic thinker". Get real.
I agree with you: everyone here should read this article carefully and consider it.
There may still be disagreements, but I agree with the factors enumerated by the author that may be at work here and which may make this out to be an excellent pick.
As for the argument that we don't know what we're getting, I would say we NEVER do.
I don't agree totally with Rush when he says that with the known conservatives, we know we will get a conservative Justice because they have stood up to opposition to their conservatism all these years.
There's something to that. However, it is not a foolproof proposition. Take a guy from a little pond and put him in a big pond and you can't say for sure what will happen.
Ms. Miers, however, having been in the White House (a big pond) for some time will have had a chance to become even more immune to the flatteries and ambitions of Washington glamour politics.
She's had a chance to see how empty it is firsthand and, according to the President, has not succumbed. So we do have some evidence that, having been tested even more than those laboring out in the trenches at law schools etc. who have never been invited to an A-list political party, she is not swayed by it.
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