ROBERT BORK CALLS MIERS NOMINATION "A DISASTER"

Tucker Carlson ^ | October 5, 2005 | Press Release

[Sam Hill]

ROBERT BORK CALLS THE HARRIET MIERS NOMINATION "A DISASTER" ON TONIGHT'S "THE SITUATION WITH TUCKER CARLSON"

SECAUCUS, NJ - October 7, 2005 - Tonight on MSNBC's "The Situation with Tucker Carlson," former judge and Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork tells Tucker Carlson the Harriet Miers' nomination is "a disaster on every level," that Miers has "no experience with constitutional law whatever" and that the nomination is a "slap in the face" to conservatives.

Following is a transcript of the conversation, which will telecast tonight at 11 p.m. (ET). A full transcript of the show will be available later tonight at www.tv.msnbc.com. "The Situation with Tucker Carlson" telecasts Monday through Friday at 11 p.m. (ET).

[Stellar Dendrite]

Bork is clearly a DUmmie Troll....ZOT BORK!!!

/S

[rlmorel]

Do you think perhaps the esteemed politician Hatch is more knowledgeable on these facets than the well educated lawyer Miers?

Granted, Sen. Hatch graduated from law school in 1962, so perhaps his education wasn't tainted by the kind of legal education people like Bill and Hillary Clinton received in the Sixties.

I have heard many detractions of the SJC candidate, but there is nobody who is even the least bit interested in whether she has a great, good or non-existent grasp of constitutional law.

I would agree with the previous poster: Bork, who was an example of the worst nomination process ever to occur on Capitol Hill (in so many way including the the partisanship and the lack of organization and support by his own people) has some insight into a lousy process. But if it is true that Bork supported Ginsberg, then...he doesn't have any room to talk at all. None. End of story.

If he supported Ginsberg, he must have done it out of sheer sympathy for someone going through the process. I cannot believe he would have supported her otherwise.

That said, I don't care HOW bad Meirs is, can she be worse than Ginsberg? If someone can nominate Ginsberg, and get, what, only two dissenting votes, how can this nomination be an abomination?

[Sometimes A River]

The only thing the Bushbots can come up with in defense of this abomination of a nominee is "she MIGHT be a good Judge" "She MAY turn out to be like we want."

[StickToItiveness]

Both Mark Levin and Robert Bork recommended O'Connor and Kennedy to Ronald Reagan as reliable, conservative, "constitutional scholars."

Bork has said he thinks the 2nd amendment is an anachronism, while Harriet Miers considers it a fundamental individual right.

Can you document this?

[SevenMinusOne]

You obviously have no idea what the Court does on a daily basis. Why don't you read the ERISA section of the tax code and tell me your opinion of whether the drafters intended it to preempt state law regarding reimbursement provisions of employee benefit plans?

Irrelevant - As this question could be answered by anyone who was presented it whom then would have time to research and come to a conclusion.

To suggest only those in the Legal field are qualified is ridiculous.

[Stellar Dendrite]

LETS BORK BORK!!! /s

[BCrago66]

She's supposed to decline because HB personally thinks that she's not qualified to serve on the Supreme Court. She thinks it, but lacks the character to get out of the way.

[rlmorel]

Done!

[OldFriend]

Meiers just doesn't know the law?????????????????????

[RTINSC]

SHOOT FIRST! Ask questions later. Has Bork ever met or interviewed Miers? Seems like he has made a judicial decision without having all the facts or even waiting for all the facts.

[jwalsh07]

Right, only the last time somebody told me that the strong legal minds who would change the court were O'Connor and Kennedy. ANd the same people that told me that are now telling me that Miers is a dolt. So much for strong legal minds.

And the same people that told me that are now telling me that Miers is a dolt.

Your comment about lawyers is off the mark. I'll vote for who I damn well please and when I do I won't exclude lawyers but I sure the hell won't exclude anybody for not being a damn lawyer.

And finally, I don't vote or support anybody who doesn't understand that the 2A is an acknowldgement of a God given individual right and that includes Robert Bork.

[cynicom]

Hatch is the man that talked Clinton into appointing Ginsburg. Clinton had never heard of her.

[sinkspur]

Levin suggested she's nothing more than a paper stapler.

Levin is a hateful NE snob, and I will tell him that the next time I run across him on this forum.

He and Michael Savage are an embarrassment to the conservative movement.

[pwatson]

Ever wonder why there are different forms of Christian Churches on every intersection. All claim to be the right way to God and Christ. Conservatives and Christians will debate about the number of Angels that can fit on a pin head. We can eat our own better than any Liberal could ever hope to. We love to debate and are intellectual thinkers, the side effect is we tend to fight while the Democrats are Plotting with Communist and Islamist Terrorist. All you can do is sit by and watch hoping it blows over soon.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Robert Bork=DU Troll

'M I RITE, PPL??!!!

Rlly.

;-)

[msnimje]

And all the lock step Bushies will now bash Bork along with the rest.

The Honorable Robert H. Bork, RINO

[rlmorel]

"Hatch is the man that talked Clinton into appointing Ginsburg. Clinton had never heard of her."

Good God. Is that true? Didn't know that. Sigh. He does have an "R" after his name, right? Well, I guess that doesn't count for much in some quarters.

[Callahan]

Bork is first and foremost a scholar and thinker. I think he loves the intellectual combat more than anything. That's why he has respect for smart people who disagree with him like Ginsburg (or Bill and Hillary).

I don't blame Bush or Bork for the total politicization of Supreme Court Hearings. I blame the Dems and RINOS.

[Stellar Dendrite]

BORK IS JUST JEALOUS BECAUSE HE DIDNT GET NOMINATED /S

[jwalsh07]

Bork and Ginsburg were on the DC Court of Appeals together along with Starr and Silberman. Interestingly enough she held with Bork and Starr on numerous occasions. It is not out of the realm of possibility that he said something nice about Ruth Bader Ginsburg nor would it prove anything just like his feelings about Harriet Miers prove nothing.