Posted on 10/13/2005 2:43:57 PM PDT by KMAJ2
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2005: PICK PRAISES FEDERALIST SOCIETY IN SPEECH
**Exclusive**
The DRUDGE REPORT has obtained exclusive excerpts from a speech Bush Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers made to the DC Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society on April 29, 2005.
At the speech Miers’ declared, “You [the Federalist Society] are an important ally on many issues, especially in our battles to ensure for our Nation a distinguished Federal judiciary, a judiciary the American people deserve.”
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Miers went on: “There is a reason White House Counsels have sought out your organization for over twenty years: the influence your organization has developed within the legal society and society as a whole.
"From your educational publications to your various speaking events to your network of legal professionals, you have stimulated an on-going debate about the principles of the Constitution. Our Nation is better for it. And as this debate has raged your organization has grown tremendously.”
A Republican strategist told of the excerpts was not surprised. “Harriet Miers has at least five lawyers who are members of the Federalist Society on her own staff in the White Counsels Office.”
-The Human Rights Campaign
-The NAACP
-Gender feminists who think like Susan Faludi and Namoi Wolf
-Quota kings & kings the likes of Christopher Edley and Lani Guinier
-The leading members of the Senate Democratic Caucus
-Race-baiting, virulently anti-American-and anti-law enforcement-hucksters such as Randall Robinson, Sonny Bakewell and Al Sharpton.
For goodness sake, the only thing missing from this equation is Robert Reich and Donna Shalala publicly inviting her to participate in a menage-a-trois with them.
Wake up!
Leo is a man with a long and distinguised career, a man of good reputation, and you've blithely branded him a whore. Dismissing and degrading the reputations and motives of those with whom you disagree wins no converts to your arguments. It's bad form, to put it mildly.
Good grief, man.
It's all over NRO, confirmthem.com, etc.
I don't have time to play admin for you guys. It's there if you want to go read it for yourself.
I believe it's also been in the OpinionJournal section of the WSJ.
Now, pass me some more grape Koolaid, OK? You guys are hording it.
Do you oppose equal civil rights for homosexuals? It's a simple question.
Gee! A politician telling a group what they want to hear!
THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY in Dallas was only founded in 1989.
At the time it was a group of political operatives, very different from the FEDERALIST SOCIETY we know today.
The fact that Ms. Meirs has given numerous recent speeches and has many members on her staff says a lot more than her earliest comment.
I'm not saying the Bush administration disagrees with the Fed. Soc. on substantive policy matters, only that it does everything within its capacity to marginalize its public voice, and shuns being associated with it, even in a peripheral manner.
If it's there, link it. Takes 2 minutes.
All of these "unnamed sources" provide plausible deniability to people who don't have the guts to stand behind their accusations.
Yeah. Sending Harriett Miers to speak to the Federalist Society just this year shows that Bush is trying to marginalize it.
Yeah, real "minority" that 30%.
Take 30% away from the 55 million that voted for Dubya last time..
Where's that leave ya? (Can ya say "Madame President" with Dem majorities in the Senate AND Congress? Thoughtcha could).
This nomination is a debacle, and will likely result (if it continues and she is not withdrawn) in the eventual and complete unravelling of "the base". Contrary to the Koolaid drinker denial to the contrary, there is RAMPANT disgust about this nomination amongst the base - to the point of every thread (outside of FR, that seems to have gone looney by and large of late) being about 99 to 1 AGAINST HM.
Now, I don't know if the WH interns have just done a great job of swooping in and selling you guys the happy juice, but FR is the ONLY spot on the blogs that is generally "in favor" of HM. Venture out of our own little corner here and look around. You'll be shocked at the MASSIVE push-back to HM amongst the true Conservative community.
'06 and '08 are gonna be a bloodbath for our side, guys. And our own imperious leader brought us to this point (Thanks, W! Helluva great job!)
However, I do oppose-very vehemently in fact-the ill-conceived legal reasoning behind Lawrence v. Texas, and the assertion that gays and lesbians are entitled-under any reading of the 14th Amendment-to civil marriage.
Both of which-we can only assume-Ms. Miers either supports, or is willing to consider.
That link about to the White House archives shows that not just the White House Counsel, but also President Bush and VP Cheney have addressed the Federalist Society - they are not shunning from being associated with it ; )
FNC has, IMHO, "Jumped the Shark" when it's come to covering the HM mess.
Just like in all things political, I doubt they want to bite the hand that feeds 'em.
confirmthem.com has a good discussion on this if you venture over there. The consensus is that FNC is now the official "water carrier" to get The Message out about HM - and that there is likely benefit to them now and in the future to do that.
The sides have been drawn, gang. But there is a HUGH "misunderestimation" of just how many people are on the AGAINST side re: HM. (To add to that, WSJ or someone had a story about some large Republican donors in Texas about ready to spend "very significant" amount of $$s to make anti-Miers ads - with FRIENDS OF HERS IN THEM! [With friends like these..]).
Now, for those of you who have swallowed the Koolaid..riddle me this - why would FRIENDS of HM hook up with REPUBLICAN BIG MONEY DONORS to try to torpedo her? Hmmmmm? Gee, could it be because her nomination is a DISASTER to the Conservative cause?
Nah. Couldn't be.
I know who Leonard Leo is.
If you do some digging, you'll find he also holds some pretty juicy positions within the Administration.
Another "don't bite the hand that feeds ya" situation, I'm afraid.
On the other hand, news out today that there is a "rebellion" growing within the ranks of the Federalist Society, with many about to go "on the record" with negative remarks about HM.
It's full war, gang. Too bad that W brought us to this.
'06 and '08 are going to be a DISASTER for our side. There are simply too many truly tweaked off Conservatives for the base to hold.
Regardless of what Bush or Cheney might believe, I don't think you can impute their views to Harriet Miers.
An unsubstantiated assertion by an anonymous person on an Internet message board hardly qualifies as truth.
If one is going to make the charge that a person is a whore, it only stands to reason that the accuser is morally obligated to provide supporting facts. Otherwise, the accuser is a slanderer.
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