Posted on 10/14/2005 7:23:47 AM PDT by new yorker 77
I was listening to the John Batchelor Program on WABC Radio in New York last night.
He commented on the process that went into nominating Miers and added that the likelyhood of her nomination withdrawn has grown.
It has grown from 5% last week, to 30% end of last week, to 50% beginning of this week, to 75% last night.
Fund was on the program to comment on his op-ed piece:
How She Slipped Through Harriet Miers's nomination resulted from a failed vetting process.
Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT Link: http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/
Less than 10%.
I don't respond to epithets. I thought I could have a gentlemanly discussion with at least one Miers supporter. How wrong I was.
You're a stand-up guy, Marine. Thanks for the reply.
That's a gas.
I'd wager there's a 95% chance none of these people will ever admit they were wrong on anything.
Allow me to shift the emphasis:
They are not THE base.
Nor are you.
You're merely part of it.
As I am.
There are quite a few people objecting to Miers for reasons other than her supposed lack of qualifications. Quite a few have an ax to grind on some other policy of the Administration. To the rank-and-file GOP voter, this attack on the nominee is distasteful. My elderly neighbors, staunch Republicans, are incensed at the pundits. I don't have percentages of support, but I have read 64%, which is pretty good for Miers given all the attacks she has had thrown at her.
The thing is, YOU don't have any figures either. It's pretty risky to base your assumptions on something by the number of anti-Miers posts here. A couple of them have made it a full-time job to post, making sure that the issue is always on the screen.
I support Meyers having a hearing, where we can judge her knowledge of the Constitution and her judicial temperment. Her integrity is without question. Then the Senators can vote.
You're against giving the public, including yourself, a chance to know the current nominee.
I haven't seen or heard her on radio or t.v. (I don't get Fox news), but Coulter's "boozing it up" comment in her first Miers article did it for me--it was repugnant.
I don't believe I have ever used the term "libertarian" and as far as the term "far-right", well, if I have used it to distinguish from people like me, who are on the right but, as we have been told so often, "not real conservatives."
Never say never again, until you have considered the alternatives.
You are wrong.
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I guess that tells me something about you. It seems to me that you would rather have an unknown than a known constrictionist.
This isn't about the topic you posted but since you were listening I have a question.
I was listening on internet and someone was talking about 100.00 bills being made in North Korea. The guy said Nixon gave the authentic plates to Iran and in 1996 when we changed the face of the bill that made the plates useless. So Iran sold the plates to NK and they figured out how to........
The feed was cut off as it does so often, but when it came back they were talking about Gaza. Did you hear it and did I miss something?
I don't understand this at all. Exactly which people should he have "consulted" with that he did not? Can you name them, because this makes no sense to me at all.
I would rather have the seat open for a while than to put a substandard or unacceptable Justice in it. Let's get this right - this is important.
There was once a lawyer named Miers, Who entartained Supreme Court desires, She cried: "elitist", "You and Laura are the Greatest!" But still couldn't find any buyers.
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