But really, I am a fun loving SWF, 39+
who enjoys music, travel, long walks on the beech
and candle light dinners for two.
Posted on 10/04/2005 7:33:33 PM PDT by jdm
Edited on 10/04/2005 7:41:50 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON -- Senators beginning what ought to be a protracted and exacting scrutiny of Harriet Miers should be guided by three rules. First, it is not important that she be confirmed. Second, it might be very important that she not be. Third, the presumption -- perhaps rebuttable but certainly in need of rebutting -- should be that her nomination is not a defensible exercise of presidential discretion to which senatorial deference is due.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Because that end of the conservative spectrum would believe GW if he assured them that the sun will rise in the west tomorrow. Incapable of independent rational thought, they, like the brain-dead dittoheads lifting their arms in salute to Herr Limbaugh, are led around like a barn horse.
Oh, please. Clarence Thomas is far from a "constitutional scholar," yet he is held up as an ideal around here.
Let's remember that Thomas was an unknown in 1991, and that he was also labelled a "second tier" choice by even some conservatives.
"I find it really amusing (NOT) that so many people on this board presume to know what President Bush is thinking and why he does what he does."
And that's the same thing people who support the miers pick are doing, oddly enough.
My favorite George Will line: "Americans are undertaxed." George Will is ABC's idea of a "conservative."
Constitutional scholars are typically liberal.
That has been the policy for some time.
Exactly true. I don't support or reject his pick, because I don't know what's in his head. I trust him to know just a tad more about this than I do, so I will wait and see.
BRAVA !
"Since George feels this way, I assume that he did not vote for Bush."
I helped elect President Bush twice. But I didn't do so to have him recklessly nominate a Souter-In-A-Skirt to a lifetime position on the SCOTUS.
I must say she will make a better Supreme Court Justice than she would a Homecoming Queen.
This describes me and I can guarantee you I am not in the top 1% of the legal profession in this country NOR do I believe I should be on the Supreme Court.
The brilliant justice that cooked up the idea of "penumbras and emanations" was William O. Douglas, a man who came to the Court with NO judicial experience or paper trail.
That gets you 10 points!
Perfect.
"I must say she will make a better Supreme Court Justice than she would a Homecoming Queen."
LOL!
I support W and Miers.....but this is a maelstrom, maybe she should withdraw.
Full disclosure - I finished high school in 1991. The only contemporary memory I have of Thomas involves pubic hair and a Coke can.
She may be a shinning light in the Evangelical Movement but she is not a shinning star of the Intellectual movement.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.