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To: beckett

"I find it hard to discuss Harriet Miers seriously in those terms, but on balance she seems likely to vote the right way for whatever reasons. She’s thus another representative of Bush and Karl Rove’s belief in incrementalism — that the Republican majority can be made a permanent feature of the landscape if you build it one small brick at a time. Miss Miers is, at best, such a brick, at a time when conservatives were hoping Bush would drop a huge granite block on the court. But, given that she started out as a Democrat and has been on the receiving end of the partisan attacks on the administration for five years, she seems less likely than any detached effete legal scholar to be prone to the remorseless drift to the Left that happens to Republican Supreme Court nominees."

Then he gives Frum's views..He does not embrace it..just presents it.


99 posted on 10/06/2005 3:32:49 PM PDT by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: MEG33
Steyn could have chosen not to report Frum's views at all. He included them because he's keeping his powder dry on Miers, not quite blasting her yet, but not giving her a ringing endorsement either. He's uneasy about her. Within a few weeks, I predict he'll make up his mind because the hearings will reveal a lost little lamb before the wolves the Senate. At that time Steyn'll empty his potent rhetorical arsenal on her head.

Lambchops anyone?

102 posted on 10/06/2005 3:55:15 PM PDT by beckett (Amor Fati)
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