Bork calls Miers nomination a disaster

MSNBC ^ | October 7, 2005 | Tucker Carlson

[arnoldpalmerfan]

A conservative uproar erupted over President George Bush's recent appointee to the Supreme Court. Bush nominated Harriet Miers to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. But several key Republican senators say she not the best candidate.

MSNBC-TV's Tucker Carlson talks to former judge and Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork about the Harriet Miers' nomination. He says it's, "a disaster on every level" because she has "no experience with constitutional law whatever". The nomination is a "slap in the face" to conservatives.

TUCKER CARLSON, MSNBC HOST: Are you impressed by the president’s choice of Harriet Miers?

[A.Hun]

I will.

[Reactionary]

I don't buy the notion that Bush's lawyer is some sort of flaming liberal. Do you? I mean, really?

[FreeRep]

Bush has managed two wars, a war against a worldwide terrorist enemy, a natural disaster, and 9/11. He has not had the help of the Europeans. He hasn't had the luxury of relying on the UN. He has not had any help from the media. He hasn't had the help of his own Senate. He's done all of those things alone. And you know what? He's done an excellent job. But now all *anyone* can do is pile on.
The attitudes that people have adopted here lately absolutely disgust me. Bush isn't a perfect, but he has had a hell of a lot on his plate. And you're damn right that I'm demanding loyalty. Bush deserves it.



I agree 100%!

[not-alone]

If the dems had this same amount of control, the head of NARL would be the appointment.

They gave us Ruth Ginberg, head lawyer of ACLU ,pretty close

[A.Hun]

Even if Roberts is cut out of the same cloth as Ginsburg, our Republic will endure. It has suffered real agony in the past. Two liberal justices (as if) still couldn't kill it. It just makes our task greater. A comment like that demeans FR.

[dc-zoo]

WRONG.. again. The last time I checked 33.5% is greater than one third.

Do you approve of Harriet Miers for Supreme Court?

Need more info
34.3%


Yes
33.5%


No
27.3%


I'm voting Hillary!
2.9%


Pass
2.1%

[dc-zoo]

I've also lost what respect I had for Bork.

[Reactionary]

"In other words, are we being played for a fool by Ted and little Dickie Durbin{child Senator}?"

What other option do they have? If there is no paper trail, there is nothing to use against her.

Instead we get statements that Bush's lawyer is a closet flaming liberal, that she's somehow totally unqualied, or perhaps in favor of something terribly, well, gay.

[phatus maximus]

indeed, we live in inverse universes...I'm happy with mine...

[arnoldpalmerfan]

I've posted the information following this paragraph in two (2) other threads. I believe, however, it is also relevant to this thread.

In 1990, President George Herbert Walker Bush chose David Souter, an Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supereme Court Judge over Judge Edith H. Jones of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Souter was labeled a stealth justice by the press. Jones had already well established her conservative credentials.

As a United States Supreme Court justice, Souter has been a liberal. Is there a single occasion in which he voted with Justices Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas in a single 5-4 vote? Meanwhile, Judge Edith H. Jones has continued to compile an outstanding conservative record.

Is there not a single conservative judge with a track record that President Bush could have picked over Harriet Miers? If being a woman was a requirement to be selected, was there not a single conservative female judge with a track record that President Bush could have picked over Harriet Miers? What was wrong with choosing a female judge with an outstanding conservative track record such as Edith H. Jones?

[Sometimes A River]

You're including "non-member" opinion.

I said "FReeper (member)" opinion.

[Sometimes A River]

Uh yeah, there is a poll on the bottom right of the latest posts page.

You'll have to scroll all the way to the bottom, then turn your eyes rightward.

[Revolting cat!]

Fabulous Disaster!

[Obadiah]

Dude, you laid down some serious artillery!

[goodnesswins]

"Both groups are non thinking people. Sad"

Nah....we "bots" are thinking a few steps ahead.....name me ONE of the others who could have made it through the weenie Senate? Janice Rogers Brown? No. Michael Luttig? No. Priscilla Owen? No. Any others?

[HelloooClareece]

I finally got XM radio and there it was. I finally got to hear the train wreck that is Air America. Randi Rhoads was on and she said that the democrats didn't need to do anything or say anything about the Miers nomination. Conservatives were doing it for them. She asked why the dem senators should say a negative word about it when the republicans were eating themselves already. All they have to do is sit back and watch.

[Last Dakotan]

All they have to do is sit back and watch.

They are right, but hey didn't Bush think it through far enough to see that this would happen? Just look at all the conservatives tearing themselves apart on this and any other thread about this nomination. Ugly.

[voteconstitutionparty]

Borked by Bork.

Oh the irony!

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

You can rationalize it away all you like, but the statistics do not reflect well upon the Miers camp.

The FReepers supporting her do not even constitute a bare plurality, let alone a healthy majority.

And no, it has nothing to do with the fact that the Senate confirmation hearings have not yet occurred.

John Roberts was receiving over eighty percent support-among members and non-members-before Arlen Specter even cleared his throat.

[BushisTheMan]

What was wrong with choosing a female judge with an outstanding conservative track record such as Edith H. Jones? Because she would have been filibustered as would KNOWN conservative nomination. And there would be a bunch of RINOS who wouldn't want the fight to go nuclear, thus handing the President a defeat by his own party members. Regardless of what the left says, he is not THAT stupid.