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Brownback Skeptical on Miers Nomination
Associated Press ^ | October 4, 2005

Posted on 10/04/2005 3:58:33 PM PDT by RWR8189

Senator Sam Brownback says he and other conservatives have ``a great deal of skepticism'' about Harriet Miers, President Bush's latest nominee for the Supreme Court.

The Kansas Republican is disappointed Bush did not pick a candidate with more of a track record. He had urged Bush to nominate someone who opposes the Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortion.

Brownback compared the nomination of Miers -- Bush's White House counsel -- to that of Supreme Court Justice David Souter. Souter was nominated to the high court by the first President Bush and was believed to be a conservative, but he later turned out to be liberal on the bench.

Brownback is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He will meet with Miers in his Senate office on Thursday.


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: 109th; brownback; confirmationhearing; harrietmiers; judiciarycommittee; miers; sambrownback; scotus
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To: RWR8189

Brownback would make a great president!


61 posted on 10/04/2005 5:22:34 PM PDT by toddp
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To: Huck

Brownback would make a great president!


62 posted on 10/04/2005 5:22:58 PM PDT by toddp
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To: VRWC For Truth

Ironically I think the left will have a subdued reaction to this nomination. Obviously they feel the need to blindly oppose anything the President suggests, but on this one, I have to say I think they are being handed victory of a sorts on a plate. Not that she ain't conservative - but who knows??


63 posted on 10/04/2005 5:23:48 PM PDT by JedForbes
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To: samadams2000

Brownback would make a great president!


64 posted on 10/04/2005 5:23:48 PM PDT by toddp
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To: Txsleuth

Brownback would make a great president!


65 posted on 10/04/2005 5:24:33 PM PDT by toddp
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To: ridge
This feels like 2000, when the Chinese down and captured one of our combat aircraft and crews, and Bush apologized and compensated them.
66 posted on 10/04/2005 5:25:07 PM PDT by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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To: Baynative

Brownback would make a great president!


67 posted on 10/04/2005 5:26:27 PM PDT by toddp
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To: toddp
Brownback would make a great president! stop it! I'm getting deja vu.
68 posted on 10/04/2005 5:26:44 PM PDT by JedForbes
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To: toddp
Brownback would make a great president!

With good conservative credentials, our next President could be the one who opposes this nomination in the Senate - and in the process save the Republican Party from almost sure defeat in 2006 and 2008.

Without true and passionate conservatives, the Republican Party is a minority party. Someone forgot to remind Bush of that. You'd think his father would have.
69 posted on 10/04/2005 5:27:04 PM PDT by safisoft (Give me Torah!)
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To: MNJohnnie

Brownback would make a great president!


70 posted on 10/04/2005 5:29:31 PM PDT by toddp
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

We also forget what Clarence Thomas had to go through...

but, I will say this much...I have been listening to Mark Levin tonight...and he gets really mad whenever a caller even insinuates that his might somehow turn out okay...

He says that there is NO WAY that this will be okay...and that it is just another time that Bush hasn't had the courage to do something...like vetoing a spending bill, closing the borders, forcing the dems to have to vote AGAINST the private accounts for SS....

IOW---he and Buchanan agree that this has spoiled any chance of Bush having even a successful presidency, let alone a great one...

which is SO IRONIC, considering that the reason that so many have given for him choosing a "safe" nominee, is because he wants a good "legacy" as a POTUS, unlike his father, whose legacy was fraught with failures...

Seems to me that he has accomplished the very thing that he has sought most to avoid...repeating his father's mistakes.


71 posted on 10/04/2005 5:31:50 PM PDT by Txsleuth (Mike Pence for President of the United States!)
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To: Baynative
And who exactly do you see ready to roll up his sleeves and stand with the Pres? Arlen "Scottish Law" Specter, maybe?

Nobody, they are a bunch of stinking weaklings holding the majority only because of Bush's intervention in the selection and campaign for Senators. This chest thumping nonsense about a conservative fight in the arena of ideas...where does it come from? Republicans are the ones who stand up in tears over the Bolton nomination, make their way through the Sunday talk shows to bash the President or gang up with equal numbers from the other side to control the nomination process.

And now I'm supposed to take note of one them named Brownback, the guy angling for a presidential bid?

72 posted on 10/04/2005 5:32:45 PM PDT by Dolphy
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To: toddp

You are sooooo cute when you are repetitive!!!


73 posted on 10/04/2005 5:34:06 PM PDT by Txsleuth (Mike Pence for President of the United States!)
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To: safisoft

As Leo Deroucher said, "Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." Losing on principle is a great excuse for do nothing losers who like to stand around with their heads up their butts feeling sorry for themselves. Leaders, like Bush, lead to wins.


74 posted on 10/04/2005 5:34:13 PM PDT by stop_fascism
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To: Baynative
Does anyone who is ready to knock him for his selection know anything at all about Harriet Miers? I thought so.

I think Bush is too easily mislead. That is what is scary about this nomination.

It's asking a lot of conservatives, kind of inconsiderately so, to say "trust me with the unknown". It's one thing if he asks me to believe that Rafael Palmeiro never took steroids, it's not a life and death matter.

75 posted on 10/04/2005 5:37:30 PM PDT by Jim_Curtis (How do we prevent someone from torching his city if he will be rewarded as a lottery winner?)
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To: Txsleuth
The problem is that this nominee-even if she turns out to be a clone of Scalia-will have none of the intellectual depth to buttress a philosophy that she might very well be in full agreement with.

We need a voice, not merely a vote, on that court.

We need to make it clear to our enemies that their view of the Constitution is not only a minority view among the American public-which any leftist with an ounce of integrity will readily concede-but a fundamentally incorrect one.

Fifty years from now the Scalia model-even though far superior to the ad hoc, politically expedient Breyer approach-will have ceased to exist, not because of any inherent flaws in its reasoning, but because no one will be there to defend it.

76 posted on 10/04/2005 5:40:38 PM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham ("I'm okay with being unimpressive. It helps me sleep better.")
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To: new yorker 77

Who says conservatives are divided?...we are being done in by RINOs and "self professed" conservatives in the Senate leadership! The Senate leadership has never really been worth anything, and the House leadership has seemed to surrender to the Big Gov spending deal.

Soon in 2006...it could be true conservative leadership. Frist is a fair-weather conservative, not an in-the-trenches, bust-their-chops, take-no-prisoners, this-is-our-time conservative.

I am yearning for true conservative leadership. I am hopeing people like Paul Weyrich and others out there know the head/heart counts in the Senate, and have a clear idea of what can happen if we get two more or so in 2006.

Have you been following his series on the Next Conservatism AFTER Bush? Good thought provoking stuff.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/8/30/13129.shtml


77 posted on 10/04/2005 5:41:29 PM PDT by joyspring777
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To: Baynative
Great analysis. I agree completely.

WHY IN GOD'S NAME WOULD HE MAKE A CONTROVERSIAL NOMINATION?

I was hoping he'd nominate Ann Coulter. I know she'd never get confirmed, but the hearings would have been fun. I can imagine her interrupting Biden in the middle of his half hour 'question' and saying, "Would you please shut up".

78 posted on 10/04/2005 5:42:06 PM PDT by stop_fascism
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To: RWR8189
A good friend of mine was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor which was judged to be fatal if not removed.  He was faced with the decision of choosing which doctor to perform his lifesaving surgery. He narrowed his choices to:
  1. A very talented brain surgeon who was highly experienced in this type of surgery and would be capable of thinking on his feet should any complications occur.  This surgeon was expensive, had a terrible bedside manner, and some of the nurses griped when they had to work with him. However, he was recognized by everyone in his field as the best brain surgeon around.  or
  2. A very talented pediatrician who had been the first female doctor on staff at the hospital. Most recently, she had performed admirably as an assistant to the administrator of the hospital. The administrator strongly recommended her to my friend explaining that he had known her for years and was confident that she could handle what he judged was a critical but routine procedure.
My friend accepted the recommendation of the confident hospital administrator and had his surgery performed by the pediatrician.  During the surgery, complications arose, the surgery took much longer than expected, and my friend died on the operating table because no experienced surgeons were available to help the pediatrician.
79 posted on 10/04/2005 5:43:54 PM PDT by Brass (A parable for our time.)
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To: toddp

Hey!!!!!!! Once is enough already! We heard you, five times is obnoxious.


80 posted on 10/04/2005 5:43:56 PM PDT by joyspring777
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