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Antonin Scalia Defends Miers
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| 10/9/5
Posted on 10/09/2005 9:10:09 AM PDT by Crackingham
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham
The Miers cheerleading squad can continue to insist-despite all evidence pointing to the contrary-that she will be another Scalia or Thomas, but no one is buying it.Some of you are saying she has no paper trail and that disqualifies her.
You are saying there is some evidence that she is not a Scalia or Thomas.
Can't you see how foolish your side in this argument is?
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posted on
10/09/2005 12:01:01 PM PDT
by
Erik Latranyi
(9-11 is your Peace Dividend)
To: Howlin
"Pay attention: it's NOT going to happen; if they withdraw Miers, it will NOT be Brown or Owens."
I understand it won't (likely) happen -- it's but what I wish would happen.
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posted on
10/09/2005 12:01:09 PM PDT
by
jdm
To: BillyBoy
So your problem with her is what? That she didn't go to Harvard or Yale?
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posted on
10/09/2005 12:01:12 PM PDT
by
ilovew
(Never insult my role model. I LOVE KARL ROVE!)
To: jdm
The issue is not Miers qualifications, we will see her in action during the confermation hearings and each can make up there own mind.
The issues is twofold, one cronyism, Miers would not be on anybody short list, but for her proxminity to Presisdent Bush, it's his pick and if we wants to appoint a personel friend and subject she to the charge of being a crony oh well.
Second the pick is another stealh candidate after promising the base to only nominate conservatives. Now we get the second stealh canidate, maybe they are conservative, maybe not, Miers was until recently a democrat and supported Al Gore for president, voted for Jimmy C over RR, thinks the federalist society is a bunch of right wing activists, etc, etc, etc.
But even that is OK, what is NOT OK, is Bush black ballings any conservative with a conservative paper trail. Black balling our best and bravest so as to appease the Democrats that have no problem appointing ACLU lawyers.
The message to conservatives is don't write, don't fight, don't do a damn thing to advance the conservative agenda and maybe you'll have a shot at an appointment some day.
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posted on
10/09/2005 12:01:25 PM PDT
by
jpsb
To: Howlin
You mean the Dick Cheney that the we're-the-only-true-conservatives-impeach-Bush-now crowd thinks would make a much better "true conservative" president?
Yeah, I thought so.
FWIW, I've actually lurked quite a bit since the Clinton years. I remember the primaries and the California/Arnold thing and the most recently the Shivo thing. But it's much harder to ignore once you're on the "inside." Especially since I've had terrific discussion with people from whom I now elicit derision.
As far as grown ups: That seems to be a society wide thing, not just Free Republic. So I really don't expect this to be any different. Well, actually I do expect it to be different. I'm just disappointed, but not surprised, that it isn't.
To: George W. Bush
And does that explain why she's an old maid? You've outted yourself now.
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posted on
10/09/2005 12:01:27 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: George W. Bush
If you insist on a woman, Brown and Owens would make us all happy.Which female, who has not been on a bench as a judge, would make you happy ?
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posted on
10/09/2005 12:01:37 PM PDT
by
Raycpa
To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
Keep laughing. There is going to be a fight. Either Bush steps aside or joins the fray. The Category 5 that is brewing you are not going to like ... but it is necessary to move forward. Compromise is not the new strategery.
To: BushisTheMan
Democrats will vote FOR HER because the Conservatives oppose her.
That's nonsense. They're not going to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, and they're sure as hell not going to save George W. Bush from his own self-inflicted humiliation.
They won't pull Bush's fat from the fire. They will be dancing around it as they heat the tips of their spears.
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posted on
10/09/2005 12:02:13 PM PDT
by
counterpunch
(Save the GOP - withdraw Miers now)
To: Howlin
Marking for "See I told you so"
To: jdm
Yeah, I messed up bigtime on that. I do sincerely apologize. I stand corrected. LOL......don't you hate it when that happens? And it never fails to happen on a thread that is a bazillon posts long, so you end up apolgoizing ALL day long.
I sometimes wish there was something we could go back and put on our posts that says "I WAS WRONG, SEE BELOW!"
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posted on
10/09/2005 12:02:51 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Reactionary
No, Bush lied and we received a crappy nominee for one of the most important posts in this country.
Congratulations on your unparalleled capacity for deductive reasoning.
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posted on
10/09/2005 12:02:52 PM PDT
by
Do not dub me shapka broham
("We don't want a Supreme Court justice just like George W. Bush. We can do better.")
To: gpapa
What does a person's religion have to do with being a Supreme Court Justice?That question is properly posed to those in the Bush White House and those on this forum who are promoting Miers as an "evangelical Christian" (who, uh, attends an Episcopal church).
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posted on
10/09/2005 12:03:22 PM PDT
by
Map Kernow
("I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing" ---Thomas Jefferson)
To: Howlin
"How can you not live in the real world and deal with facts AS THEY ARE?"Exactly. Which includes the reality that we can't disagree with a decision until it's been made.
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posted on
10/09/2005 12:03:36 PM PDT
by
TAdams8591
(A Reagan Conservative and mighty proud of it.)
To: jdm; neutrality; hershey
I see zero comment from Scalia on Miers, in this article. He's talking about John Roberts; not Miers.Sorry, jdm, but you're wrong. Perhaps you misunderstood the quote you highlighted in your post #5:
"Without mentioning the Bush nominee by name, the conservative legal icon (Scalia) said that the High Court needed someone who had never served as a judge to take the place of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist."
Chief Justice Roberts served on the appeals bench before being tapped for the Supreme Court. Scalia goes on to say the following in the article:
"Scalia concludes: "I don't think that's a good thing. I think the Byron Whites, the Lewis Powells and the Bill Rehnquists have contributed to the court even though they didn't sit on a lower federal court."
Scalia is talking about Miers, who did not serve as a judge on any lower court. (BTW, neither did 31 other justices of the Supreme Court before they were nominated.)
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posted on
10/09/2005 12:03:37 PM PDT
by
Wolfstar
("And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm." GWB, 1/20/01)
To: BushisTheMan
To: Virginia Queen
Not to mention her screed about "impeach Bush" on the Mike Rosen show. She was on Bill (terrorists are not cowards) Maher's show but I didn't have enough Phenergan to watch it.
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posted on
10/09/2005 12:04:09 PM PDT
by
Chickenhawk Warmonger
("A Quagmire of Hate" coming soon to a bookstore near you)
To: pollyannaish
You mean the Dick Cheney that the we're-the-only-true-conservatives-impeach-Bush-now crowd thinks would make a much better "true conservative" president?One and the same.
You wouldn't have believed the vitriol spewed at him.
Too old.
Too sick.
Too close to Halliburton.
Too close to Nixon.
Too close to Ford.
Too everything.
Alas, they've used those same arguments year in and year out since then against/about "All Things Bush."
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posted on
10/09/2005 12:05:19 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: George W. Bush
Go over to Common Dreams or TruthOut. They have plenty of reporting on it.
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posted on
10/09/2005 12:05:36 PM PDT
by
Chickenhawk Warmonger
("A Quagmire of Hate" coming soon to a bookstore near you)
To: TAdams8591
It's been made and you STILL are harping on it.
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posted on
10/09/2005 12:06:01 PM PDT
by
Howlin
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