"What about me?"
Posted on 10/07/2005 3:23:50 PM PDT by quidnunc
The latest snark among conservatives opposed to the Miers nomination has been generated by this paragraph this story in the Washington Post:
In an initial chat with Miers, according to several people with knowledge of the exchange, Leahy asked her to name her favorite Supreme Court justices. Miers responded with "Warren" — which led Leahy to ask her whether she meant former Chief Justice Earl Warren, a liberal icon, or former Chief Justice Warren Burger, a conservative who voted for Roe v. Wade . Miers said she meant Warren Burger, the sources said.
Here's what Polipundit was told happened:
"Miers was asked about Justices she admired. She responded that she admired different Justices for different reasons, including Warren — interrupted by Senator Leahy — Burger for his administrative skills.
Reasonable people could ask whether Burger was a great administrator, but the comment is taken out of context by the Washington Post. Miers didn't express admiration for his jurisprudence."
Burger was not a great intellect, but he was a fine administrator. An example of this is something for which he is often criticized, his vote in support of Rove v. Wade.
Burger understood that there was a majority for this decision, so he voted with the majority so he could assign the opinion. He assigned it to his friend Harry Blackmun, who wrote an opinion so abominably reasoned it is begging to be overturned when there is a majority on the Court with the stones to do so.
She doesn't take herself as seriously as Savage takes himself.
I have to admit, other than seeing Moore at the dem convention sitting next to jimmycarter, I know nothing about the jackass.
LOL! Ain't that the truth!
JFK / RFK
Not just cronyism -- NEPOTISM. And to this day the media gives them a pass.
Guess the moral of the story is to cheat full force if you are lefty. The bigger the crime the less the chance of paying.
This is, of course, pure idiocy from Chafee. If he voted for Roberts because he felt Roberts was qualified for the SC, why in the world would he not vote for another candidate who is equally qualified? This is what passes for logic in a RINO's mind.
A non-lawyer on the Supreme Court might pen some amusing dissents
The justices would simply work around them though.
All it takes is someone with resonable intelligence. That is why the constitutional qualifications do not specify a law degree, none is required to read the constitution and understand it.
55 GOP Senators and a GOP President has to worry about who he can "get through."
This fact alone exposes the weakness of our leadership.
OUR "lunatic" is not ONLY 'better looking'... she is ALSO one h*lluva a lot SMARTER and better EDUCATED than dropout Mikey...
Thankfully, although she may well irk the Left as much as the Porcine Protagonist irritates the Right, there is really no basis for comparison of the two. Poor Mikey just isn't, and simply never WILL be, in the same LEAGUE.
Just to refresh our collective memories...
A Connecticut native, Coulter graduated with honors from Cornell University School of Arts & Sciences, and received her J.D. from University of Michigan Law School, where she was an editor of The Michigan Law Review.
Coulter clerked for the Honorable Pasco Bowman II of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and was an attorney in the Department of Justice Honors Program for outstanding law school graduates.
After practicing law in private practice in New York City, Coulter worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she handled crime and immigration issues for Senator Spencer Abraham of Michigan. From there, she became a litigator with the Center For Individual Rights in Washington, DC, a public interest law firm dedicated to the defense of individual rights with particular emphasis on freedom of speech, civil rights, and the free exercise of religion.
http://www.anncoulter.org/bio.html
...Mikey, on the other hand, has always seemed to me to be more the... Career-Pizza-Delivery-Boy type.
(...but that's just MY opinion, of course. Reasonable people can... come to the same conclusion on their own.)
"What about me?"
100% agree. Do we have a majority or don't we? If not then lets make damn sure we get one in 2006. However, acts like this nomination, the catering to big oil, and marginalization of the middle class will not get us there.
She hasn't said or done anything that is the whole point. In the last 40 years she has not taken one stand on any issue.
Nearly all of the people mentioned have identified abortion as being THE issue they are concerned about reversing.
They can't honestly believe that abortion is going to be overturned by one nomination, or frankly by any nomination, ever.
Furthermore, they've all suddenly become "judicial conservatives", but that's just a fancy way of saying "activist", and they're pissed because they think the Supreme Court is the place where activism lives and dies.
No legislating from the bench? LOFL. Riiiight. That's why it's so important to the pundits that we have someone with the intellectual brainpower to comprehend the importance of their main issue.
Good lard. Put a fork in these pigs, they're done.
I'm thinking this is W's revenge on conservatives who spoke out against Alberto Gonzelez, maybe? He is, by reputation, both a man who doesn't much like being trifled with, and one who's very loyal - and he did seem agitated by the criticism.
Don't know if this sort of payback is in character for him but it's certainly not beyond your everage office holder.
This is really getting ridiculous. Let the woman talk and then judge...this rifling through the garbage is just absurd and unseemly. She's one of us, and we're treating her like dirt.I wish there was a way to get word to her that not all conservatives are braying at the moon like a bunch of wild algores, shrieking her name as if it were a curse from hell. I wish there was a way to tell her that some conservatives trust Bush and wish her well and hope that she not judge all of us by the donkey braying of the loudest of us.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope you post that all over, it is HILARIOUS
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