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Miers, Miers on the Wall -- Harriet Miers as the human Rorschach test
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| October 7, 2005
| Dahlia Lithwick
Posted on 10/07/2005 2:27:14 PM PDT by DallasMike
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I still see the Miers nomination as a battle between social conservatives and neo-conservatives.
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To: DallasMike
Is this .gif overhead or from the ground level? Your answer will decide whether you're a social conservative or neo-con.
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posted on
10/07/2005 2:32:54 PM PDT
by
w_over_w
(Go ASTROS!!! Make it to the big one . . . this time?)
To: DallasMike
Does anyone know if hearings on the Miers nomination have been scheduled? I haven't heard of any, and it strikes me as a bit odd. If I recall correctly, within a couple of days of the Roberts nomination Specter gave a general target date for the start of hearings for the Roberts hearings. So far, there seems to be nothing scheduled for Miers.
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posted on
10/07/2005 2:34:00 PM PDT
by
Parmenio
To: DallasMike
As Bush's personal friend and personal lawyer, not to mention holding the same position in the Bush White House that John Dean held in the Nixon White House, Miers is just the person Kennedy, Durbin, Biden, Leahy, and Schumer will love to interrogate for hours on end.
By the time its all over, the public won't be able to tell if they just watched a confirmation hearing or an impeachment trial. What did Bush know and when did he know it? We're about to find out.
To: counterpunch
Do you have to post this same comment over and over again?
To: w_over_w
Overhead...looks like someone falling backwards.
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posted on
10/07/2005 2:45:54 PM PDT
by
loboinok
(Gun Control is hitting what you aim at!)
To: DallasMike
"we know she's a serious born-again Christian;"
Emphasis on 'serious' and thats really all I need to know about her!
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posted on
10/07/2005 2:49:37 PM PDT
by
loboinok
(Gun Control is hitting what you aim at!)
To: loboinok
I also see a swivel chair..
Ok, what's our result? :o)
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posted on
10/07/2005 2:53:29 PM PDT
by
k2blader
(Hic sunt dracones..)
To: loboinok
Overhead...looks like someone falling backwards.
Fascinating . . . obviously you want your cake and eat it too.
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posted on
10/07/2005 2:54:15 PM PDT
by
w_over_w
(Go ASTROS!!! Make it to the big one . . . this time?)
To: k2blader
Nope... its a midget falling backwards with bells around his waist!
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posted on
10/07/2005 2:57:48 PM PDT
by
loboinok
(Gun Control is hitting what you aim at!)
To: w_over_w
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posted on
10/07/2005 2:59:32 PM PDT
by
loboinok
(Gun Control is hitting what you aim at!)
To: DallasMike
I still see the Miers nomination as a battle between social conservatives and neo-conservatives.I disagree. "Neo-conservative" typically refers to either those people that have converted from being liberal or to people that adhere to a new view or trend within conservatism. While Kristol and some others are neo-conservative, Laura Ingraham, Rush, Mark Levin, etc. are not at all neo-conservatives.
I do agree that it is a battle between different conservative factions, I just disagree with your labels.
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posted on
10/07/2005 3:05:44 PM PDT
by
shempy
(EABOF)
To: Siena Dreaming
Yes, until appropriate warning is heard.
Everyone is talking about her qualifications, her philosophy, her temperament, her ideology, her religion, is she confirmable, is she not confirmable...
Meanwhile they're completely missing what the Democrats are planning to do with this. In the end its going to have nothing to do with her on the court. People are going to forget that she was even nominated for anything. They're going to think she and the Bush administration are on trial.
To: w_over_w
I don't know, but I bet Bill Clinton would hit it either way.
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posted on
10/07/2005 3:10:00 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
("The coffee is strong at Cafe du Monde, the doughnuts are too hot to touch..." Save the Big Greasy!)
To: counterpunch
Hogwash. They don't have free reign to question her about intimate conversations with the President. I think you know this.
To: Siena Dreaming
They can ask her about anything they want.
They can make speeches about anything they want.
Ted Kennedy made a speech about how John Roberts was a racist.
Then Sam Brownback gave a speech about fetuses being aborted because of birth defects -- complete with a Down's Syndrome girl as a prop, right there in the committee room.
They can and do say and ask anything they want -- they're senators.
Oh, and it gets better still: Arlen Spector is going to be running the show. What are the chances that he'll even try to keep it under control?
To: counterpunch
Yes, they will give speeches...they always do.
But they will not ask Miers unrelated questions about intimate conversations she had with the President a la John Dean.
Get real.
To: Siena Dreaming
How is it unrelated?
These will be questions related to her view of the law... thing like if she knew the president was committing a crime when he (fill in the blank)...
To: w_over_w
It's a woman in a swivel chair goofing off when she should be working.
Why can't she just xerox her fanny like everybody else?
To: counterpunch
The reason John Dean was such a star was that he was willing to say there was a cancer on the Presidency.
Far from the case with Miers. You have the wrong idea.
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