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To: Paloma_55
The fact is, the president picks, the Senate confirms.

And for the last 5 years, there was unaminity on this forum that who ever the president picks should be given a full hearing and a vote.

Now it seems some folks want to change the rules.

35 posted on 10/07/2005 8:39:49 AM PDT by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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To: Ditto
And for the last 5 years, there was unaminity on this forum that who ever the president picks should be given a full hearing and a vote.

I think that fact points to one reason for the disappointment. The unanimity came with an unstated assumption, that GWB would nominate a candidate in the mold of Scalia or Thomas. People mistook that statement, and right or wrong, don't see Miers as satisfying the promise of "in the mold of Scalia or Thomas."

Following that vein, not only is their disappointment with the nomination, there is also a diminishing of trust in the President - for a nomination where of of his stronger selling points is "trust me."

As I said, "right or wrong," but there is little doubt some party-faithful feel something that resembles betrayal.

I'm inclined to believe that Miers would render opinins that are acceptable to my sense of how SCOTUS should rule. But I am very unhappy with the pick.

73 posted on 10/07/2005 11:37:59 AM PDT by Cboldt
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