Posted on 10/05/2005 12:15:29 AM PDT by goldstategop
Many feared George W. Bush would nominate a Supreme Court justice in the mold of David Souter, Anthony Kenney or Sandra Day O'Connor – Republicans in name only, with no real principles or convictions, the kind of people who would be swept up by the Beltway culture to become, at best, unpredictable votes in future rulings.
It appears that fear has been unfounded.
In fact, in nominating Harriet Miers, Bush, who pledged to seek out candidates in the mold of Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, has found someone with more in common with the likes of activist Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
As WND reported yesterday, Miers, is on record as supporting the establishment of the International Criminal Court, homosexual adoptions, a major local tax increase and women in combat.
According to Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, Miers has taken positions as White House counsel that violate the law banning women in combat.
"As While House counsel, Ms. Miers either approved of the Department of Defense's illegal assignments of women in units required to be all-male, which is still continuing in violation of the law requiring notice to Congress in advance, or she was oblivious to the legal consequences of those assignments," she said.
Donnelly believes the actions of Miers could lead directly to a future court ruling requiring women to register with the Selective Service for the draft because they are now being, against the wishes of Congress, assigned to land combat.
"I am very disappointed by the president's choice," she said. "Ms. Miers does not have a judicial 'paper trail,' but her record as White House counsel is a legitimate cause for concern. Democrats and liberals who were willing to use the military for purposes of social experimentation have reason to be pleased."
Donnelly also concludes that Miers approved the Bush administration's retention of President Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" regulations, which, she says, are different from the 1993 law passed by Congress
Meanwhile, during Miers' long affiliation with the American Bar Association, she submitted a 1999 report to the ABA's house of delegates that included a recommendation to enact laws and public policy providing that the sexual orientation of adults not prevent them from adopting children. Also included, under the heading International Law and Practice, is a recommendation for "the development and establishment of an International Criminal Court."
In addition, in 1990 Miers voted for a 7 percent property tax increase during her short tenure on the Dallas City Council.
Her biggest accomplishment before being named by Bush as White House counsel was serving as chairwoman of the Texas Lottery Commission.
Many Americans believe state lotteries are immoral – that they serve as a temptation to seduce Americans, especially the poor, into a lifestyle of gambling. Is this the kind of background from which we should be seeking future Supreme Court justices?
Trial lawyer, lottery official, advocate of International Criminal Court, supporter of homosexual adoptions, rationalizer of women in combat, long-time leader of the American Bar Association – the professional guild of lawyers that has contributed mightily to the culture of judicial activism in our courts for the last 30 years. This is the resume of our new Supreme Court nominee.
It's shameful. It's demoralizing. It's a betrayal of Bush's core constituency. It's confirmation that Republicans are fundamentally unfit to govern and represent no real difference from Democrats.
Still, a handful of few conservative leaders stand by their man – and their new woman.
Obviously there is no way to block this nominee from being approved by the Republican majority in the U.S. Senate. Republican senators will unanimously approve her lifetime appointment. Most Democrats will go along with her because they understand she will be no obstacle to their plans to use the courts to twist the law and subvert the will of the people.
But for freedom-loving Americans, it's time to bid a fond farewell to the Republican Party.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Joseph Farah just wants to get his name in the papers. His readership and listership must be down. He needs some free media coverage and he'll get it by being Chicken Little. If you asked Farah, Miers is the second coming of Jane Fonda. Like I've been saying for a week, if you trusted Bush to nominate a conservative justice when you elected him, wh on earth would you believe that he wouldn't do that now? Do you really think this man sat in the oval office and said, "..hmmm I think I'll nominate someone to the court who will be an activist, someone who will do the exact opposite of what I believe a justice should do..." That's insane. Mr. Farah, take a pill and find a new way to promote yourself.
Not a pretty picture. Yikes!!!
Um, this is a load of steaming cowdung. All of it. Think before you react.
Is Farah's column now published in the National Enquirer?
Physician, heal thyself.
What is it with these "conservatives" against Bush??? Don't they realize we aren't as concerned about the Bush Dynasty in 2008 as they?
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
According to Joe Farah, we were all supposed to build bunkers and live underground to survive Y2K.
He also missed that whole "U.S. will be nuked by Ramadan!" prediction again this year.
He sees a mission-sponsoring, pro-life, evangelical Christian who chaired the committee that picked the most right wing judges on the federal bench today (e.g. Judges Pryor and Janice Rogers Brown)...and somehow he envisions Ruth Bader Ginsberg instead of Rehnquist in a dress.
Quite simply: Farah is a kook.
Like what ?
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
"But for freedom-loving Americans, it's time to bid a fond farewell to the Republican Party."
Right, and hand all elections to the Rats. What a dumb idea.
Do you those sound like conservative positions? On women in combat, just ask Elaine Donnelly if she's happy with what Miers has done.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Nothing in what farah wrote has anything to do with the constitution. He's slamming her because she isn't for going outside the Constitution to push the conservative cause?
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