Krauthammer: Withdraw Miers Nomination

Newsmax.com ^ | 10/8/05 | unknown

[beyond the sea]

Krauthammer: Withdraw Miers Nomination

http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/10/8/130600.shtml

President Bush should withdraw his nomination of Harrier Miers to fill the Supreme Court seat of retiring justice Sandra Day O'Connor, says Washington Post columnist and Fox News commentator Charles Krauthammer.

In a blistering Post column Friday Krauthammer, normally a strong Bush supporter, wrote that if Miers weren't a Bush crony, "her nomination to the Supreme Court would be a joke, as it would have occurred to no one else to nominate her."

Noting that there are 1,084,504 lawyers in the United States, Krauthammer asked: "What distinguishes Harriet Miers from any of them, other than her connection with the president? To have selected her, when conservative jurisprudence has J. Harvey Wilkinson, Michael Luttig, Michael McConnell and at least a dozen others on a bench deeper than that of the New York Yankees, is scandalous."

The columnist called the fact that Miers has been chosen by a conservative president "particularly dismaying. For half a century, liberals have corrupted the courts by turning them into an instrument of radical social change on questions – school prayer, abortion, busing, the death penalty – that properly belong to the elected branches of government. Conservatives have opposed this arrogation of the legislative role and called for restoration of the purely interpretive role of the court. To nominate someone whose adult life reveals no record of even participation in debates about constitutional interpretation is an insult to the institution and to that vision of the institution."

Krauthammer predicted that Miers will "surely shine in her Judiciary Committee hearings," but explained that she will do so "only because expectations have been set so low. If she can give a fairly good facsimile of John Roberts's testimony, she'll be considered a surprisingly good witness. But what does she bring to the bench?"

[beyond the sea]

Sigh........

[Black Tooth]

In a blistering Post column Friday Krauthammer, normally a strong Bush supporter

He's no supporter. He's just another unappeasable whining liberal.

[Defender2]

Sigh....More intellectal snobbery.:-(

[Defender2]

Sigh....More intellectual snobbery.:-(

[beyond the sea]

Sometimes Charles gets up on a high horse and likes to talk down at the people. I usually appreciate him, but I really think that he and the rest of the uppity, and "shaken" hand-wringers are just all wrong on this good lady. Bush did what he had to, imo --- too many soft Republicans in the Senate.

[DTogo]

He's no supporter. He's just another unappeasable whining liberal.

HA! HA! HA! Do you even know who Charles Krauthammer is?

[konaice]

Krauthammer wrote that if Miers weren't a Bush crony, "her nomination to the Supreme Court would be a joke, as it would have occurred to no one else to nominate her.

So what? If Bush had knowledge of Miers's work and philosophy and confidence in her thats all that counts. The rest is up to the Senate.

[blackie]

That's about it!

Be Ever Vigilant ~ Bump!

[beyond the sea]

To have selected her, when conservative jurisprudence has J. Harvey Wilkinson, Michael Luttig, Michael McConnell and at least a dozen others on a bench deeper than that of the New York Yankees

There better be more than on the Yankees' bench.

;-)

[Stellar Dendrite]

I hope all of these people assailing him and the other conservative commentators will in the future never agree with their opinions. I mean after all, who the hell wants to listen to a bunch of elitists?

Time to turn off Limbaugh, Levin, Ingraham, time to never read a column by Coulter, Malkin, etc ever again!!

DOWN WITH THESE ELITISTS!!

[xzins]

Krauthammer predicted that Miers will "surely shine in her Judiciary Committee hearings," but explained that she will do so "only because expectations have been set so low.

Which could be interpreted that Krauthammer knows she's been named one of America's top 100 lawyers and top 50 female lawyers, AND she really will do well.

He is attempting to preemptively undermine her ability.

One can only wonder what his ulterior motive might be.

[beyond the sea]

If Bush had knowledge of Miers's work and philosophy and confidence in her thats all that counts. The rest is up to the Senate.

Exactly .......... bring on the hearings.

[counterpunch]

I think it was Rove's idea to move Miers to the Supreme Court where she will be beyond the reach of a summons.

[Jacquerie]

I think President Bush would have nominated a Janice Rogers Brown or equivalent if, as Rush says, he had the soldiers. With the northeast Rinos ready to cave the moment the pig Kennedy starts his rant, there would be little chance for such a nominee.

Still, I was looking forward to a bare knuckles fight to show the world how beholding the rat party is to their moonbat base.

[beyond the sea]

time to never read a column by Coulter, Malkin, etc ever again!!

Ahhh, can't I at least look at pictures of the cute little darling Michelle Malkin?? She's a turn-on.

;-)

[beyond the sea]

One can only wonder what his ulterior motive might be.

Yes, he is unusually strident on this matter.

[NittanyLion]

Yep. And I heard he's an elitist sexist to boot...

*grin*

[beyond the sea]

lol

[vetsvette]

"He's no supporter. He's just another unappeasable whining liberal."

My observation is that he used to be the rarest of all species, an honest liberal. Now, he's an honest recovering liberal that has been a pretty consistent supporter of the President's policies. Not a lemming to be sure, but a thoughtful supporter.

I think that he may be right about the Harriet Miers nomination. Despite the fact that she might turn out to be a reliable vote on the court, she's unlikely, at best, to be an intellectual leader there -- the leader that conservatives, who have supported a something less than conservative, George W. Bush quite rightly believe they deserve.

The President should placate his base on this one and withdraw the nomination in favor of someone from the long list of reliable conservatives residing on the Appellate bench. Even a minuscule possibility that Miers might be a Souter in drag is too big a chance to take at this point in history.

[boomop1]

Krauthammer a liberal? Since when.