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MIERS & LAST-MINUTE DROP-OUTS (Priscilla Owen did not withdraw her name)
National Review Online: The Corner ^ | 10-12-2005 | Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on 10/12/2005 12:26:51 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite

MIERS & LAST-MINUTE DROP-OUTS [Kathryn Jean Lopez] A journalist friend just spoke with a top Texas lawyer who spoke with Priscilla Owen last week. He says that she "most emphatically" did not withdraw her name from consideration to the Court. If the White House spin is that Harriet Miers got the job because nobody else wanted it, it would seem that the White House is at a desperation point. Posted at 12:07 PM


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: harrietmiers; miers; priscillaowen; scotus
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To: FreeRep

Trust your Platoon Sergeant and he trust his soldiers. I trust President Bush and he trust us




So do you prefer the red Kool aid or the Purple?


281 posted on 10/12/2005 2:25:48 PM PDT by trubluolyguy (I am conservative. That is NOT the same thing as Republican. Don't place party over principle.)
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To: trubluolyguy

"If she is an originalist, where is the proof of this?"

you misinterpret. I meant that HE believes she is. We will soon have a chance to make up our own minds...


282 posted on 10/12/2005 2:26:10 PM PDT by Keith (now more than ever...it's about the judges)
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To: Huck
I'd like to point out a material differnce in cicumstances too, between the example you cite, and the repeated instances of cluture abuse on the 108th Congress.

Trying once more in the last days of his administration, Tyler withdrew the King and Walworth nominations and sent in the names of John Meredith Read of Philadelphia and Samuel Nelson of New York. Nelson was confirmed and served on the bench for twenty-seven years, but the Senate did not act on the Read nomination.
The cloture abuse in the 108th Congress did not occur in the last days of GWB's administration. Now, of course, there is a time factor in there somewhere. It is sill to say that a nomination offered on the last minute has to be acted on. Or last day, or final week, and so on. I don't where the line is, that it appears the Senate's acts are at odds with the balance of powers scheme the Constitution is meant to obtain.
283 posted on 10/12/2005 2:26:27 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: al_again

McCain may be pro-life, but (1) he "owes" Bush for slights real or imagined; (2) he likes being a star and media fawning; (3) given his pride in McCain-Feingold, he has little incentive to want strict constructionists on the court (he probably read Scalia's dissent on the decision upholding it).


284 posted on 10/12/2005 2:28:07 PM PDT by maryz
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To: flashbunny

Excellent summation and insight. Thank you. Fingers crossed.


285 posted on 10/12/2005 2:28:29 PM PDT by jdm
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To: Keith

We will soon have a chance to make up our own minds...




When and based on what, exactly? The hearings based on her answers? Don't make me laugh. She is going invoke the Ginsburg rule and we won't know a damned thing about her until she is confirmed by a bunch of yellow RINO's in the Senate.


286 posted on 10/12/2005 2:28:58 PM PDT by trubluolyguy (I am conservative. That is NOT the same thing as Republican. Don't place party over principle.)
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To: FreeRep
Sorry RHINO369, One should trust their Platoon Sergeant! And I trust President Bush, his a good man.
But hes not your Sergeant, and your not serving in the military (if you are then say so) so you need to be critical of the president. Would you be loyal to your president if he suspended the Constitution? Well who nows how his nominee feels about the 2nd amendment, other freedoms. What has bush done for conservatives to earn our loyalty. Shitty tax breaks and support for social issues he can't do anything about. What has he done to screw us? Spent more money than Clinton ever dreamed, and made it a crime for private citizens to criticize politicians before a election. Not to mention compromise with liberal every step of the way. If you compromise with the liberals 50-50 on ever issue we still going to a socialist PC state,but it will just take twice as long.
287 posted on 10/12/2005 2:29:05 PM PDT by RHINO369
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To: counterpunch

"Priscilla Owen is a quality candidate.
Harriet Miers is a crony candidate. "

Personally, at this point, I'd only be happy with a while, male, European...
okay. that's not true. Make that a white, male, European conservative.

It isn't because I'm a sexist, racist, or anything else - simply a result of my anger and contempt for the President's obvious mindset (which many seem to share HERE, by the way) that a woman NEEDED to be named to fill O'Connor's seat - thus buying into the leftist bag of moronic, race/gender preference bias BS.


288 posted on 10/12/2005 2:30:32 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: NixonsAngryGhost

i agree...but if you notice rush has said this before. a few weeks ago in fact "i am tired of carrying the water for this administration". dunno if it was a slip or what--but kudos to rush.



289 posted on 10/12/2005 2:31:03 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite ( Mike Pence for President!!! http://acuf.org/issues/issue34/050415pol.asp)
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To: Cboldt

Thank you for that info CBoldt. I can see why he felt that he had to find someone who he thought he could confirm. Again, we lost this one when the Gang of 14 led, in essence, a palace coup. I'm not mad at Dubya. He's been a poker player all along. He's been dealt a pair of twos.

I'm mad that I thought, after the House Impeachment hearings, that Lindsay Graham was a conservative. I keep forgetting that he's too close to McLame.


290 posted on 10/12/2005 2:31:53 PM PDT by Keith (now more than ever...it's about the judges)
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To: Stellar Dendrite

More bullshit a friend of a friend told me.


291 posted on 10/12/2005 2:31:58 PM PDT by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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To: Huck
Your examples show how dysfunction and disrespective of the Constitution thatteh Senate has been through the years.

It is natural, in a balance of powers scheme, for each cog to assert itself over the others. In fact, that is exactly what judicial activism is. Courts acting against the legislature, or the Constitution. The Constitution provides remedies for these abuses, one of them being the public vote of representatives and executive.

292 posted on 10/12/2005 2:32:10 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: maryz

McCain would go against the Constitutional/Nuclear option, but I don't think he would vote against one of the Presidents nominees - especially if he had voted for them in the past.


293 posted on 10/12/2005 2:34:55 PM PDT by al_again
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To: cynicom
You promised to never to post to me again.

When did I do that?!

294 posted on 10/12/2005 2:35:30 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: Prolifeconservative
let's lay the blame at Frist's feet then. He had nuke power at his disposal.

As I recall that awful night, Frist was ready to use it (likely having twisted a few arms of the reluctant who were not among the Gang of 14), it really looked as if this was it, when the Fox news alert came on: John McCain has come up with a compromise to avoid the nuclear option! All hail the conquering hero! I can still see his triumphant grin . . .

295 posted on 10/12/2005 2:35:43 PM PDT by maryz
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To: Keith
I meant that HE [GWB] believes she [Miers] is [an originalist].

I wonder if GWB thinks Gonzales was an originalist in the Texas Partental Notification Case. Or was Owen? Both? If both, please explain. That case provides some substance to gauge the meaning of the label "originalist" against the label "activist." Without a fact pattern, the meaning of the labels is so subjective thatteh labels themselves become meaningless.

296 posted on 10/12/2005 2:37:17 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

Um, I know that. She didn't join it but she's obviously not against it.


297 posted on 10/12/2005 2:37:27 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: Cboldt
GOP-leadership passed half a dozen of the 14 nominations

I thought they only got to pass four.

298 posted on 10/12/2005 2:37:45 PM PDT by maryz
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To: cyncooper

There you go again. Hope you didnt call me names. I am sensitive you know.


299 posted on 10/12/2005 2:37:51 PM PDT by cynicom
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To: Les_Miserables
Hey it's just as good as speaking to a friend of a friend of Miers and hearing "whadda gal".

Bush, Cheney, Cornyn, etc. aren't relying on third party accounts.

300 posted on 10/12/2005 2:39:25 PM PDT by Dolphy
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