Posted on 10/06/2005 1:19:21 PM PDT by quidnunc
Promptly at 8 a.m. Monday, President Bush announced his next appointee for the Supreme Court.
By 9 a.m. the nominee had been denounced as a crony, too unknown and too lightweight.
The dead-on-arrival pronouncements came not from the usual caustic acronyms of the left NARAL, NOW, PFAW but from the right.
Conservative cannibalism had begun. The left enjoyed the entertainment.
Why not? Politics often is NASCAR, and people hang around to see who crashes.
The workaday Dale Earnhardts have their Jeff Gordon president in their sights.
This is not about Harriet Miers, an eminently qualified lawyer who made her bones in the real world of corporate law, placing her skills on the marketplace and succeeding.
She is not some elitist professor or some lifer appellate judge. Miers became the first woman lawyer at a big Dallas law firm, and then worked her way to managing partner, the CEO of 400 lawyers.
Along the way she had the temerity to challenge whether the American Bar Association should endorse abortion.
If post-Reagan conservatives cannot endorse her, then they should go back to their glory days of John Birch and opposition to the fluoridation of water.
But this is not about her nomination. Heck, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a former lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, won confirmation with only three nay votes.
This is about President Bush. Conservatives are fed up with him, and their list of particulars is credible. Not everyone has the same list, but these seem to be the big ones.
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Where's Ron Silver when you need him? (Hey, those are OUR moonbats now!)
What in hell did we do to deserve being saddled with this? Where did we go wrong? Why didn't we know sooner? Is it too late to end this abusive relationship? Can we get rid of them but keep the House?
Thank you for providing an article to balance all the negative bi-coastal baloney.
You got somethin' against Wal-Mart?
Sing it brother!!!!!
Well that cleared that up.
I suggest you take a moment and read your own Tag Line. Hoss.
"But instead of dismantling the redundant U.S. Department of Education, he nearly doubled its spending.
Bush expanded Medicare to include that ridiculous prescription drug program that no one can understand."
Throw in " do nothing, in fact promote illegal immigration" and calling the Minutemen "vigilantes"
and Mr. Bush has lost any reason for me to trust his nomination. I think she will be a moderate conservative
and we could have done much better.
I'm holding out to get nominated for the supreme court myself. That's where all the action is.
Your "conservative" president just stuck us with twenty more years of the status quo on the supreme court. He's useless.
That doesn't make any sense.
I find it interesting that we are taking George Bush's word that Miers is a constructionist when he disregarded the constitutional limited role of the federal government during his term of office.
That's OK. Neither do you.
Because I'm not a kool-aid drinker who thinks Bush is a gift from God? He's an LBJ liberal at best.
You should run, really.
Well of course. Bolton proves it.
Bolton was a bone thrown to conservatives to make us think Bush gives a damn.
Oh yeah I forgot, just like Porter Goss, William Pryor, Daniel Pipes..people like that. Bush really is dumb he should know one bone is enough for us.
Grow some skin, or pack your bags. This is a Conservative Forum, not a Republican Forum. Blackbird.
It's just sad that when it really counts, he punts. The SCOTUS is the Gettysburg of our times and he doesn't even come to the battlefield.
Maybe he'll get another chance but he might be so p'd off at the right that he decides to stick it to us rather than to the left.
Why is the alphabet in that order?
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