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?"

[Defender2]

I've been so busy(with doing the Necessary Duty and Ya'll know what that is), I dont get to read as much as post anymore. Help me by helping keep the County FREE, please!:-)

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D2
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[DJ MacWoW]

I normally like Krauthammer but I disagree with him on this.

[Defender2]

See post#21.

God bless you and All here at Free Republic!:-)

[ex-snook]

WHAT DO THE NEO-CONS KNOW THAT WE DON'T?

Let the word go forth. I can understand Buchanan and Bork but Krauthammer, Frum, and Kristol don't part with Bush this vociferously. Lame duck or what?

[deport]

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

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Is that the same Harvard MD that worked in the Peanut Farmers administration and wrote speeches for that Mondale fellar?.....

[Siena Dreaming]

Kristol don't part with Bush this vociferously

LOL! Kristol does it all the time.

However, the "Impeach Bush" statement from Coulter is a departure from her usual behavior. I had seen an immature streak in her before but I had not realized the depth to which it went.

[b4its2late]

He's just another unappeasable whining liberal.

Actually, I think that statement is incorrect.

[beyond the sea]

Yeh, that's the guy.

;-)

[Defender2]

In Ms. Coulter's case, it was a (rare for her) case of interectal snobbery!

[DJ MacWoW]

she's unlikely, at best, to be an intellectual leader there --

See post 11.

The President should placate his base on this one and withdraw the nomination

And that will do exactly what? You think the Repub yorkies will go against the pitbulls and Rinos? Won't happen

And do you remember when FR was up in arms over Arlen Specter? We were right.

When it comes to taking on a tough fight with the Senate Democrats over judicial nominations, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist doesn't really have a majority to lead. Before the President nominated anybody, before he even took the oath of office for his second term, Senator Arlen Specter was already warning him not to nominate anyone who would rile up the Senate. Later, Senator John Warner issued a similar warning. It sounded like a familiar Republican strategy of pre-emptive surrender.

Thomas Sowell: Republican Senate Is Weak, Not Bush

[blackie]

Be Ever Vigilant!

[Defender2]

#31.

Will Continue To Do So!!!!:-)

God Bless,

D2

[DJ MacWoW]

He's just another unappeasable whining liberal.

Actually, I think that statement is incorrect.

Yikes! See post 25!

[beyond the sea]

In Ms. Coulter's case, it was a (rare for her) case of interectal snobbery!

Coulter was uncharacteristically pathetic.

I swear some of these folks who have come down so hard on Ms. Miers seem like they put down a huge wager in Vegas on their "high-priced spread", and they lost. Bummer.

;-)

[FreeReign]

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

Actually Rush's only complaint is that Miers is an unknown and that he doesn't think we should nominate a stealth candidate.

Rush:Okay, here's who we are, this is our nominee, this is the person or people that we want to be on the Supreme Court, these are the people we love, these are the people we trust," with no guessing game, and no roll of the dice. It always just still to me comes back to that.

Rush wasn't totally critical of the stealth strategy.

Rush: There is something to be said for this. I know a lot of people, there's something to be said here for the stealth nature. A lot of people remember, a lot of Republicans, that contingent from Maine, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, running around saying, "The Bush pick better be right here or I can't say I will support the pick." There's a lot we don't know, folks, and remember one of my theories and themes: there's a lot we don't know. And one of the things we don't know could well be that the White House has figured out that they don't want the filibuster fight because they don't want to lose it, and they don't want to lose a great pick and don't want to lose a great nominee, and the idea is to get somebody on the court that they trust and that is in the image of what the president has said, and one way of doing it is this, another way, John Roberts.

And he even said, that she may turn out to be a good choice.

Rush:He may have nominated here a very proud conservative.

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[beyond the sea]

Thomas Sowell: Republican Senate Is Weak, Not Bush ----

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Excellent!

[beyond the sea]

Rush was all over the place on Miers. He doesn't know what he thinks on that.

[blackie]

Standing guard:

[beyond the sea]

LOL!

[msnimje]

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