Posted on 10/05/2005 4:03:47 PM PDT by perfect stranger
I couldn't tell you if he is arguing or eliciting...I personally do not listen to that blowhard....all you can do is listen to him because he never gives anyone he is talking to, a chance to get a word in edgewise.
She's bitchy, which is why she sleeps alone at night (or at least she sleeps with somebody who doesn't want to hear her screeching for the rest of his life!)
Pray for W and Harriet Miers
No.
He engaged in banal rationalizations. He theorized that it would be impossible to distinguish legal medical marijuana from illegal pot.
Which is nonsense - liquor stores around the country have devised ways to track legally-taxed booze.
He IMO did not like medical marijuana. And he set out to find a rationalization to abuse the Interstate Commerce clause and the Necessary and Proper clause.
So yeah, he thought about it. Too damn much, apparently.
What I think we are seeing is that people who have worked with her know she is well-qualified. Those who don't know her are assuming she is a lightweight.
My word, this woman is 60 years old. Women were rarely even allowed in law school back when she went. And to have made the accomplishments in the male-ruled TX back then is incredible. It's hard to believe she even was hired as a lawyer. People don't realize how limited women were in those days. You could be a wife, a nurse or a teacher. I admire her greatly and look forward to hearing her "interview". If she wants to uphold our Constitution as intended, then I am for her.
A bit behind the curve are we? You already responded once to that.
And I dont believe it is an insult seeing as I was pointing at a verifiable fact that you were, even on non Miers threads, talking about her and how much you dislike Bush.
I must say, getting past my initial disappointment, I agree with you. I really don't think that, post Katrina, and the war, etc., that people want this. And I'm talking middle voters, and I know some.
On a personal level, I would have loved it, to show people that, for example, it was the conservatives who backed the little guy in Kelo.
A knock-down, drag-out fight/debate about abortion is maybe not what the country needs right now.
Just look at the thread on the euthanasia case--people are infuriated that the states' right to endorse euthanasia might be infringed.
The right to euthanasia and abortion have their same root: the right to privacy. You can't have it both ways (i.e., states rights and a Constitutional guarantee of protection to commit suicide and /or have an abortion)
Oh man, this post is so long, and now I'm tired, I can't even remember what the initial question was, LOL!
"If you can not debate the issues. Please keep the personal attack to yourself."
Oh, you mean this isn't a personal attack?
"While Bush was still boozing it up in the early '80s..."
Go take a Midol. Hell, take the entire flippin' bottle.
Since that's become your chief consideration of a person's credibility, perhaps you could explain why Harriet Miers sleeps alone at night.
:)
While I'd rather go after Coulter for her way over-the-top vitriol, I just don't know what some people see about her appearance that is so attractive. Long, bleached blonde hair? She has an angular, not-too-pretty face that's made all the more unattractive by her costant hyperbolic anger. Her body is long and skinny, and her physical movements tend to be awkward, stiff. Her body language just screams uptight, angry witch.
I've already done that here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1497299/posts?page=634#634
"John, I thnk you need to read a bit more."
That, MM, is ALWAYS true, no matter the subject.
"Miers practiced quite a bit of law. She is quite adept at cross-examination."
I am not convinced that it was high-level work. As for the cross abilities, I am not aware of any evidence for this, and have decided to discount her friends who say she is "brilliant."
"She wasn't some sort of "office manager"."
That was NOT a put-down, and you grossly mischaracterize what I said. The manager of a law firm with a few hundred lawyers, hundreds of active cases, and tens of millions of dollars in billings is NOT a little job. That said, it still doesn't tell me enough about her as a prospective SC Justice.
"My sister-in-law is a partner in a firm, and I can guarantee you that the head of the firm isn't the "office manager."
Asked and answered.
Please recall that I was only responding to another post, in as honest a way as possible. Which leads me to....
(And I'm not necessarily saying this applies directly to you.)....
Why can't some of us (roughly half, I'd guess) express genuine misgivings about something without being accused, in effect, of being "disloyal"--to the prez, our cause, conservatism, whatever? We have doubts, for God's sake, and for a lot of good reasons!
What about debating thesubstance of the article?
And then they are stipped away one by one. So to belittle them.
By a bunch of cretins who will never accomplish anything close to what Miers has accomplished.
She has an Adam's apple, too. :)
So you don't like it when a Justice brings a personal bias. That's what I'm saying.
All the support for this women is that she brings the "right" bias.
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