Miers is dead in the water

Town Hall ^ | 10/06/05 | Laura Hollis

[TheForceOfOne]

Watch the hearings or shall I say it, trust the man we elected to make this choice. If you cannot trust your president for these decisions then why did you vote for him?

[Soul Seeker]

Dane, this was reported in the WAPO.

I am demonstrating fairness in noting they have lied before. But I am also not going to discount it either. This needs to either be shot down as untrue, or verified as true.

[muawiyah]

It's Brown these people are pumping for ~ and most of them have no idea that she's clearly a Libertarian.

At the same time the folks in the Federalist Society who post here do know that.

I think we now know more about Miers than Brown.

[Gimme]

"the Renquist wasn't qualified"


LOL May the Ghost of William Renquist come get ya in the nite.

[Goodgirlinred]

How do you know? She has not appeared before Congress yet.

[discostu]

Woh, a women's studies lecture series had a bunch of yappy women give lecture, gosh that's never happened before.

People sure are eager to stab this woman in the back, sure hope nobody ever tries to appoint them to anything, the wheel of karma will kick their ass.

[justshutupandtakeit]

The ones bitching and moaning are NOT the ones who got Bush elected but either didn't vote for him or did only after bitching and moaning that he was not conservative enough.
Far more than the extreme Right of the GOP voted for him. He is NOT responsible to anything but the Nation.

He didn't take an oath to those who think they own him.

[TheForceOfOne]

I would call that a positive revelation about her character.

[HelloooClareece]

Frankly, I am more worried about how Roberts will vote. Don't get me wrong, he was brilliant at the hearings, but he never said what he believed in either. Is it just me, or do I smell a double standard? Knowing the constitution, and how one applies the constitution, are very different issues, and in both cases we just don't know.

[paulat]

You are acting as though the friendship with someone should DISQUALIFY them. That is not at all what Hamilton meant.

You would be well servied by reading the sheer brilliance of Federalist Paper 76. I assure you, it is NOT dull reading today.

It discusses the pros and cons of Executive nominations.

http://federalistpapers.com/federalist76.html

[HelloooClareece]

How can you base your verdict on no evidence?


BRAVO!

[Goodgirlinred]

Needing more information does not mean that is a "no" vote. Until I learn otherwise, I am keeping an open mind and trusting the President.

[jdhljc169]

Needing more information does not mean that is a "no" vote. Until I learn otherwise, I am keeping an open mind and trusting the President.
***
Until you learn what? Just curious...

[TheForceOfOne]

A thinker you are. :)

[SpringheelJack]

Warren Burger was probably on the court at the time she was asked the question.

You want to rethink that?

[Gimme]

"It sounds to me that that is what he is saying."

*Smiles* uh huh

[Barnacle]

That is cruel, adolescent, and totally unnecessary.

Thank you.... Thank you very much,
You’re too much.... Thank you.

[ontos-on]

Your theory that it is W's pick might be true if this were the British Empire, but it isn't. Maybe that's the problem: W does think he is the sole owner of his presidency. We had a part too. And his promises to us matter a whole lot. This is beginning to look inexcusable. I was willing to go along with him, but I am beginning to hear that this woman is just another "go along Sally, who does not do things independently or enagage in "even interesting conversation".

I always said that I knew people like th eClintons in Law School and that secured me in my distaste for them and a fairly accurate gauge. I am beginning to think that of Miers as well. Miss Neat Hard Worker, puddle deep intellectually. I am afraid that W does not have the capacities to know what is required in a Judge other than a slogan about "not making the law." Things are a little more complex than that and we need someone who is intellectually agile enough not to get caught up by the "appealing" aspects of leftist judicial thought.

[RTINSC]

Miers could be dead in the water if it's discovered she once bought a Streisand record..

[Dane]

I don't believe that tidbit from the compost.

Come on do really think she would give a one word answer, "warren". Probably just the compost trying to make more trouble.

BTW, according to the Compost she was asked her favorite "justices"(plural) and the Post only gave that non-sensical answer. Did they leave out Rehnquist, White, Scalia?