Posted on 10/05/2005 7:12:52 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
And and largest number are willing to wait until they know more. That's my position as well. Anyone who is bashing her before knowing anything about her, before she even testifies before the committee, has an agenda.
The wait and see is my position as well, as well as Senators Coburn and Brownback. I see no reason to punish her for the president's hubristic "trust me" approach. OK, in full disclosure I was hot about it for the last two days.
I posted enough information to show Gore was pro-life in his earlier political career and that Dobson was telling the truth .
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Do you have a link for this information or are you just smarter than everyone else?
This country is great because it doesn't matter who your family is or what school you attended, each is judged on their own worth. I intend to see her worth or lack thereof in front of the judiciary committee. That is, provided we can get those windbags to stop pontificating for ten minutes and actually ask probing questions regarding her judicial philosophy and not wasting everyone's time asking what no sane person would answer, or any judge COULD answer and maintain their objectivity.
Now that was never my position. Sure it seems to be Ann Coulter's and George Will's among others.
Of course I am bummed that we didn't get Mike Luttig, I belive he went to U. Virginia or Maura Corrigan who I believe went to Michigan State and if we wanted to go with a non-lawyer there was always Mark Levin or Ann Coulter, or that prof Eastman from Chatman who is always on Hugh Hewitt's show, they all have Constitutional law experience.
My fear is that if the Senators don't waste all their time bloviating (some chance of that) and actually ask short pertinent questions - commerce clause, cruel and unusual, lemon test, etc. I fear she may get creamed. I know that Eastman/Coulter/Levin could handle those because they have dealt with them. Who knows, maybe Miers can too.
In summary, I will view and make up my mind about Miers during the hearings with no prejudice about how GWB ducked a fight.
University of Detroit-Mercy (Catholic school)
woops, non-lawyer = non-judge.
I got to log off and get some sleep.
Better yet :)
unless it's Jesuit
I need to see the hearing before saying yea or nay. I'm not ready to fire both barrels at Bush over this.
It is.
The fight should never have been over this seat. The fight will come when Stevens retires in the coming year. The man is 85 years old and is having a hard time even walking. I expect Dubya knows something that we don't and he's pocketing his chips for the one that will count.
Those who want a bloody fight will see one only on this one, the gang of 14 will have already given their word.....in exchange for something they asked for and accepted.
Dubya doesn't run from fights, he picks his fights and plays poker exceedingly well.
Looks like the Administration damage-control team is in high gear. I'm sure they'll be parading all kinds of apologists out during the next few weeks. I wonder what it will cost us taxpayers?
What do they have to apology for? Do you have some information about Miers the rest of us don't ?
No, I don't.
For me it is not of a question of whether I trust the President. There was no president I trusted more in my lifetime than Ronald Reagan, and two out of three of his (confirmed) picks were um... disappointing.
i would come out of the woodwork to testify that you don't have the judicial temperament for the bench, sweety pie : )
/understatement
i did tend to think that those with some grounding in reality would have a hard time sustaining the high level of hysteria that has been rampant on FR. welcome back.
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