Posted on 10/05/2005 4:03:47 PM PDT by perfect stranger
On issues "other than civil rights issues"
besides, the guy did have a judicial record and Miers does not.
Your victim act is embarrassing.
Why Ann, because those "who went to elite universities" stolen our Constitution from us, forcing unvoted laws down our throats on the Death Penalty, Abortion, Pornography, Sodomy, Eminent Domain, etc. ?
Ann takes herself, and her purported intelligence, too seriously ...
Ummm, the jury's still out on Roberts, and will be for the next couple of years (think Souter).
Oh .. then do listen to this, where she calls for the President to be impeached
Ann Coulter's interview (audio link) from the Mike Rosen show - 10/04/05 (Harriet Miers)
Yes, it is true that the President was a drinker 20 years ago. But to make her point she didn't have to use the "boozing it up" phrase. She could have said "20 years ago" or "when his father was vice president" or "when his twins were babies" or any one of a number of time markers. Using the booze comment was deliberate, malicious, and unnecessary.
Then you missed the first sentence in her last paragraph:
However nice, helpful, prompt and tidy she is, Harriet Miers isn't qualified to play a Supreme Court justice on "The West Wing," let alone to be a real one.
Ann has no idea of Miers' qualifications and no idea what Miers has done (except to cluelessly repeat and mock what she's heard about the 'Texas Lottery'). Does Coulter know Miers holds a degree in Mathematics? I'd say one has to have "giant brains" (that's Ann's phrase being cutesy smart and saying Miers doesn't have them) to obtain such.
She has really made a fool of herself with this "piece".
As to SMU's standing, I read yesterday that in the sixties when Miers attended it was well-respected. How foolish of Ann to cite current US News and World Report's current rating to dismiss the establishment.
Thank you. Excellent gif, too!
"doubt Bush thinks we are idiots. I do think he has made an error in this nomination. He made it to appease the left. What ever his reasons ... he ain't sayin. We've called him on it. It's now time to show his cards."
You people slay me....what evidence have you seen that leads you to believe Miers is anything but what Bush says she is. I was disappointed even pi$$ed at first but the more I have learned about Miers the better I feel about this nomination. What information do you have that I don't??
You're the one who brought up the Christian angle. Don't whine when it gets tossed back in your face in ways you didn't intend.
Ann is getting more hyperbolic with each passing year. I don't think she is much of a credit to conservatives any more - she seems more interested in generating heat than light.
One of the responsiblities of the president is to represent his party.
That is why he has the right to say "Trust me."
For all her edumikkkkkattttion........Ann doesn't know much about the role of the president.
Since all branches of government are controlled by his party, the SCOTUS pick mostly needs to be justified to his party members.
That is why he can say "Trust me."
If the Dems were in control of the Senate, it would be another matter.
I think Ann will be a liberal by the time she is 60. She is the type we need to watch out for.
History repeats itself:
United Press International
July 8, 1981, Wednesday, AM cycle
SECTION: Washington News
BYLINE: By WESLEY G. PIPPERT
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
In Texas, television evangelist James Robison expressed his support for Mrs. [Sandra Day] O'Connor based on a conversation Tuesday with presidential counselor Edwin Meese.
A Robison aide said Meese told the evangelist:
''Sandra O'Connor thinks abortion is abhorrent and is not in favor of it. She agrees with the president on abortion. There was a time when she was sympathetic toward the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) movement, but the more she studied and found out about it, the more she changed her mind.
''She is very conservative ... Sandra O'Connor assured the president that she was in agreement with him and she totally supports pro-family issues and the Republican platform.''
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1497224/posts#6
Ann has become the dowd of the conservatives...she's way out to lunch on this one...
All three of them are surely rolling in their grave.
Pssssssst.
Come closer...I have a secret.
Bush is not conservative. He threw his base under the bus becasue he is willing to fight for nothing.
Is their anything the defenders of this President will critique him on...CFR, Illegal immigration, not vetoing spending bills...
Buehler...Buehler.....Buehler
I've heard all that in the last three days. George Bush is not Superman. In case you haven't noticed, he's been a litlle busy lately with things like:
The War On Terror
War in Afghanistan
War in Iraq
Katrina & Rita
Nominations to the Court
Homeland Security
9/11 Commission
Senate Intelligence Committe on WMD
Abu Ghraid
John Bolton
Apellate Judges
Give it a rest.
The booze comment is the hyperbole that Ann is famous for. The hyperbole is to get a reaction ... and based on the reaction, it worked. Ann is ticked off. Sorry you don't like her target.
Right, they think he is Souteresk on all other issues besides civil rights. That's a pretty strong indictment. And it shows as I stated that the right had some serious skepticism concerning his judicial philosphy.
Here here! That's certainly what I was hoping for, not such a meek display from the President. The weakness of this nomination will only embolden the Dems.
I guess the real source of my unease over Miers is my disappointment in the President. Granted she ia a hard-working, loyal-to-the-President lawyer. Is that all it takes to be on the highest court? No editor of the law review, no arguing cases before the Supreme Court or any of the Federal appeals courts? Yes a nerd like Roberts, who hopefully will vindicate the President's faith in him, is exactly what you want. He's brilliant, but the fact that he aimed his entire career toward this appointment (my impression anyway) makes me a little uneasy.
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