Posted on 10/09/2005 6:03:52 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
CONSERVATIVE outrage over US President George W. Bush's pick of Texan lawyer Harriet Miers to fill a Supreme Court vacancy continued as activists called on the White House to withdraw her nomination.
Former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that the president should name someone else to fill the vacancy on the US high court. "I would like to see the nomination withdrawn. If I were in the Senate today I would vote against it," Mr Buchanan said. "My guess is, she will not be confirmed, and she will be withdrawn."
The Weekly Standard called the choice of Ms Miers "at best an error, at worst a disaster" which should be reconsidered.
"He has put up an unknown and undistinguished figure for an opening that conservatives worked for a generation to see filled with a jurist of high distinction," the magazine's editor Bill Kristol wrote.
"The best alternative would be for Ms Miers to withdraw," the magazine said. "Her nomination has hurt the president whom she came to Washington to serve."
Conservatives have been harshly critical of Bush's choice of Ms Miers, fearing the president may have blown the best chance in decades for Republicans to move the high court, the arbiter of legal disputes on a wide range of hot-button social issues to the right.
If confirmed, Ms Miers would fill the seat of retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court and often a critical swing vote on the nine-member panel.
Ms Miers, 60, currently is White House counsel, and served as Bush's personal attorney when he was governor of Texas. Her opinions on abortion and other burning issues are largely unknown and staunch conservatives have said they would have preferred a candidate whose views were clear.
About as much as hell freezing over.
No. She is the nominee. Bush won't back down from it, even if it's the wrong choice. He'd sooner back down in Iraq. And we know what message that would send to the enemy (which in this case is the Democrats).
We could always catch a break and maybe Ginsburg will retire at the end of the term.
But she should not withdraw so that Bill Kristol's wet dream that he runs the GOP can be fulfilled.
I do not think so. Hiowever, my impression is that she is a light-weight but W is loyal, and consistent in his determination.
Ginsberg no...but there are quite a few rumors floating about that J P Stevens might step down as early as year-end. Redstate.org had an interesting piece on it yesterday. The folks over there have been pretty active in following the action at the USSC.
Nope, and the DC beltway silverspoon right wing anti-Miers cabal of buchanan/kristol is enough for me to say Bush made the correct choice.
"If I were in the Senate today I would vote against it," Mr Buchanan said."
Now Buchanan thinks he is in the Senate?
She could withdraw, he could ask her to reconsider, she could firmly withdraw, and he could reluctantly accede. It's not like Iraq.
Her views ARE CLEAR to Bush. And Buchanan's disloyalty to the GOP was made clear in 1988. It's funny the only time the media cares what Buchanan has to say is when he is criticizing a Republican.
"Nope, and the DC beltway silverspoon right wing anti-Miers cabal of buchanan/kristol is enough for me to say Bush made the correct choice."
Buchanan is a looney tune and Kristol is a snot nosed wimp who needs a spanking....yes Bush could have picked a stronger nominee but at this point to back down would show weakness beyond anything else he has done. If the pubbies don't like her than they can vote her down...and if they truly have cojones they will...but they don't so she will be confirmed. I think she will do well, there is just too much pantywaisted panicking right now.
You forgot to include Judge Bork in the cabal list.
Typical Pat Buchanan. The only real public attention Pat ever ad was when far leftist Cable TV owner Ted Turner hired him to to play an ineffective and dumb right winger on Tv. Pat is telling the media what he would do if he were in the Senate. What a joke. Pat Buchanan could not get elected assistant a$$ wipe at a diarrhea convention.... let alone the Senate.
Years ago Ted Turner went looking for a stupid and ineffective right winger to play the right wing part on the Cross Talk show. Ted was looking for a fall guy to make the right look bad on national TV. The guy Ted picked was Pat Buchanan. Just as a decade later when Roger Ailes went looking for a dumb and ineffective left winger to play opposite Sean Hannity, Alan Combs was picked. Both Combs and Buchanan have a valuable trait, they are not very good at what they do but neither knows it.
Ted Turner loved Pat. Pat was very good at making the right look bad while trying to make the rights case. The media goes to Pat whenever it wants to make the right look bad. The problem is Pat is not very good at even that task.
Pat in his presidential attempts always comes in with less than a one percent following. He is total non factor.
Miers has at least a 95 percent chance of being confirmed.
Odd that the only two conservatives they name as against Mier are people with virtually no remaining traction among most conservatives. There are plenty of more significant conservatives, who have generally supported Bush, who also are leery of the nomination. The author of this piece has no idea what he is talking about.
It wouldn't play out that way. That's not the way it'd be spun.
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