Coulter Coming up On Maher

[Dustin Hawkins]

For those with HBO (and who can stomach Maher's nauseating spiel), Coulter will be on with Andrew Sullivan, and... Ben Affleck! Ahem. Anyway...

[BCrago66]

Supreme Court justices don't work as hard as most lawyers, and not as hard as most judges. Light docket, and up to 4 clerks per justice.

[decal]

"Supreme Court justices don't work as hard as most lawyers, and not as hard as most judges."

Well, then, anyone can do it, yes?

[alnick]

The best Miers give us is a vote. We needed more.

I see you're already preparing an out for the future when it becomes clear that Miers was a good choice.

[dsc]

"it still has its Bush/Cheney bumper sticker and an American flag decal with "Freedom Isn't Free" on it"

I'm surprised it hasn't perished of liberal guilt.

[Windsong]

Coulter has been his little lapdog for years.

[RobbyS]

True, and judges like Thurgood Marshall don't work at all, But most cases are still pretty small stuff.

[claudiustg]

---"I don't think she's capable of an honest apology. I don't think she has the depth for it."

Or the grace.---

She lacks character, something that I'm guessing Miers has in spades. Bush has sat the hot seat long enough to know what matters in this world.

[Hound of the Baskervilles]

"I don't think it's just her legal skills that are at issue here. I'm sure there are many highly skilled and successful criminal lawyers, for instance, or contract lawyers, who have neither the knowledge nor the temperament to be a Supreme Court justice. "

She's smart. She's hard working. She's responsible. She's a dedicated lover of the law. Therefore we have good reason to believe she is entirely capable of getting up to speed quickly. William H. Rhenqueist was nominated to the Supreme Court with absolutely no court room experience, so this judical nomination would be no different. Then there was Burger and Warren. It has been done before.

[RobbyS]

Not likely she will be writing a majority opinion for awhile, but so what? However, on most cases involving corporate law, we can safely assume that she coms to the table with as much as Kennedy.

[alnick]

if she really made comments about the President "boozing it up", she can go to hell.

She was also on some radio show last week calling for his impeachment. I'm sure she did it in a half-joking sort of way, or at least I think so, but that doesn't excuse such a stupid, ugly comment.

[Hound of the Baskervilles]

Coulter going on Maher's show to trash Bush is the equivalent of Jane Fonda going to North Vietnam to trash America.

[claudiustg]

I wonder if the big lib media is going to give her a lot of play now?

[hsalaw]

"I'm surprised it hasn't perished of liberal guilt."

It's over 20 years old, has 300,000 miles on it, is made entirely of steel and weighs 4300 pounds, and is heavily insured. It was a hard-working car before libs thought Volvos were trendy, so I don't think it worries much about liberal guilt.

[Hound of the Baskervilles]

"The comparison is not with those who have sat on the court, but with those available for Bush to choose from."

He wants Meiers. He compared them with her and he wants her. He knows her better than he knows them. I trust Bush on this. I know he loves America and I know he knows how critical this appointment is. This is the woman who helps him select judges. She evidently knows what good judicial temperment is. And she knows what makes for a good judge. It follows that she can be one herself because she has studied judges and their work.

[BCrago66]

"The point of SCOTUS was to have people from many walks of life so that the people were fairly represented."

Gee, you'll have to point out to me the passage in the Federalist Papers that makes this point.

You're making stuff up, and the stuff you're making up is wrong. Your statement applies to a considerable extent to the House of Representatives; it applies not at all the the Supreme Court. The point of SCOTUS is to find individuals COMPETENT TO INTERPRET THE CONSTITUTION, and that's a skill HM has not demonstrated, and at age 60, frankly, it's too late for her.

If "the point of SCOTUS is to have people from many walks of life so that the people were fairly represented," then President Bush should have nominated nominated this salt-of-the-earth regular guy, who comes from a walk of life different from most lawyers, and represents a lot people who admire his carpentry and building management skills (and why arn't the other 3 associate justices? Don't acting and taking drugs represent a "walk of life" too?).

[skr]

I don't view impeachment of a president as humorous, whatever the party affiliation. Does AC really think she'll sell more books this way, sounding as though she only has the intellect of John Conyers?

[A CA Guy]

Very dissapointing, I like her a lot, but this made no sense.
Seems many have their panties in a wad that Bush wants someone he's known for 14 years that won't be a Souter in there. Seems many conservatives demand the fight for another Bork type candidate.

It's the President's choice and I figure he did this to guarantee the outcome he wants.
Why Ann has to be this way on this issue and to fuel the liberal side is beyond me. Maybe she's going through the changes, let's just hope the changes of life don't leave her the next Adrianna Huffington.

[A CA Guy]

She sounds like she got knocked in the head and came out crazy. Sad, very sad turn of events.

[unsycophant]

She makes the perfect sockpuppet, but you'd think with her educational background she'd be above doing a vaudeville act.

[willyboyishere]

"maybe even a troll or hobbit."

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or a Smurf.