Posted on 10/12/2005 5:26:46 PM PDT by StatenIsland
WE ARE REPUBLICANS AND CONSERVATIVES who supported the election of George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004. Today, we respectfully urge that the nomination of Harriet Miers to the United States Supreme Court be withdrawn.
The next justice of the Supreme Court should be a person of clear, consistent, and unashamed conservative judicial philosophy.
The next justice should be a person of unquestioned personal and political independence.
The next justice should be someone who has demonstrated a deep engagement in the constitutional issues that regularly come before the Supreme Court and an appreciation of the originalist perspective on those issues.
The next justice should be a person of the highest standard of intellectual and legal excellence.
For all Harriet Miers. many fine qualities and genuine achievements, we the undersigned believe that she is not that person. An attempt to push her nomination through the Senate will only split the Republican party, damage the Bush presidency, and cast doubts upon the Court itself.
Sometimes Americans elect Republican presidents, sometimes we elect Democratic presidents. Whatever the differences between the parties, surely we can at least agree on this: Each party owes America its best. There is a wide range of truly outstanding legal talents who share the presidents judicial philosophy. We believe that on second thought President Bush can do better for conservatism, for the Supreme Court, for America.
We're not there yet; we're just at the "holding my breath" stage now.
Brilliant, Howlin! LOL!!
You're kidding me, right?
The kerning is all wrong!! IT'S A FORGERY!!!
ROFL!
ROTFLMAO!
There's one missing...lol.
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Yeah, they left out the affirmation of the mob.
What is really needed is a professional to look at the handwringers.
"Guess you have not served in government...this is a common practice called personalizing the notes."
I understand. However, in this case, the comment in the margin is overtly sappy, IMHO. Personalization gone wild or gone overboard. I also have written notes to people on an otherwise typed/printed letter. But they're usually along the lines of "Had a great time at the game. Thanks for coming" not "You're the greatest". That's something Jackie Gleason says to his TV wife.
I haven't seen any dissent stifled. Has it stifled you?
All you geniuses who have the Supreme Court pick all figured out have a very strange sense of reaching judgment. You're like a judge who decides the case based on what he reads in the newspaper. Never mind waiting until the evidence is presented in the courtroom.
Pardon me if I'm willing to wait.
"Out of work?"
No. I'm retired from the 9-5 world after 35 years on the job. But I continue to work as a consultant on several projects. Also writing a book on national security policy. Thngs like the growing off-shore accumulation of technical infrastructure and trained human capital in countries such as Taiwan, India, and the PRC, and the potential impact on future US global competitiveness. Did a phone interview last week with a Washington Post business writer. So, other than keeping an eye on your posts, I keep pretty busy.
Exactly. I know she will have to pass on some of the questions but I'd like to hear how she answers the questions and how she deals with the interrogators. If both sides grill her, it may be the first time many of us have seen equal treatment in a judicial hearing. I'm tired of both sides either tearing down or buttering up the nominee. More questions and less pontificating would improve the hearings immensely.
Seeing NRO pushing petitions just puts me off my feed. Where's William F. anyway?
Well, goodness, I feel so honored.
I just never have understood that stalking thing.
the problem will still be the quisling senators we elected
If the Miers Lynch Mob is reduced to signing petitions, they have lost
You got it. Who the hell is Shinola-head going to present this to?
Frum is the Cindy Sheehan of the anti-Miers groupies.
Maybe he'll set up a camp outside the White House, begging Bush to come out and answer why his career has done nothing but crash and burn since he got fired.
He can put up some white crosses outside the gate, with the names of the "more deserving" candidates on them.
Then, he can do the bus tour. Start in Dallas, at Dallas City Hall where Miers was on the City Council, and wend his way to Washington, ending at the Capitol on the day the hearings start.
He'd get lots of press, and some of the anti-Miers crowd here might join him, thus giving the rest of us some peace and quiet.
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