Posted on 10/14/2005 12:38:54 PM PDT by Theodore R.
Questions About Miers that Bush Needs to Answer by Phyllis Schlafly Posted Oct 14, 2005
If John G. Roberts' confirmation hearing is any guide, we won't learn anything from Harriet Miers' confirmation hearing. So here are some questions we would like President Bush to answer.
You said, "Trust me." But why should we trust you when experience proves we could not trust the judgment of President Reagan (who gave us Justices O'Connor and Kennedy) or President George H.W. Bush (who gave us Justice Souter)? Are you more trustworthy than Reagan or your father?
You said, "She's not going to change.... 20 years from now she'll be the same person, with the same philosophy, that she is today." Isn't that claim ridiculous after Miers already made a major change in her philosophy from Democrat (giving personal contributions in the 1980s (when she was age 43) to Al Gore, Lloyd Bentsen and the Democratic National Committee's campaign to elect Michael Dukakis), to Republican in the 1990s (contributing to George W. Bush and others)?
Do you understand why Bush supporters are upset that Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (who voted against Chief Justice Roberts) said he recommended her, while you rejected the recommendations of people who supported you?
Since your supporters voted for you to change the direction of the Supreme Court away from activism and toward constitutionalism, do you understand their sense of betrayal that your two appointments have failed to do that: Roberts for Rehnquist was a non-change, and Miers for O'Connor can reasonably be expected to be another non-change?
When President Clinton appointed Ruth Bader Ginsburg, it was clear from her paper trail that she was a radical feminist who would surely vote to keep abortion legal. Why do you insult your supporters who expected you to give us a justice who would be the ideological opposite of Ginsburg?
In presenting Miers as the most qualified person for this Supreme Court appointment, is there any evidence to convince us that she is more qualified than Judges Edith Jones, Janice Rogers Brown, or Priscilla Owen?
Since many prominent pro-choice officials belong to churches that are anti-abortion, such as John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, and Condoleezza Rice, why should we believe Miers is pro-life because that's the position of the church she attends?
And why are Miers' advocates constantly talking about her religion anyway? Is her religion a qualification for office?
Since your wife, your mother, and all the women you have appointed to high office (such as Condoleezza Rice and RNC Co-Chairman Jo Ann Davidson) oppose overturning Roe v. Wade, how can we assume Miers will be any different?
Do you really think that serving on the Texas Lottery Commission helps the resume of a Supreme Court nominee?
Miers is a corporate attorney who served on the Dallas City Council as a representative of the business community. Can you provide any evidence that she or the business community cares about the social issues that conservatives care about such as the definition of marriage, the Pledge of Allegiance, the Ten Commandments, the Boy Scouts, abortion, euthanasia, or the sovereignty issues?
Why do you tout Miers' activity in the American Bar Association when most conservatives regard ABA influence as a negative rather than a positive?
Do you really think that pro-lifers will be convinced that Miers is pro-life because in 1989 she bought a $150 ticket to a dinner which 30 other Dallas politicians attended in order to be introduced?
Since Miers hasn't written anything memorable or important by age 60, how can we assume she has the capability to write Supreme Court opinions? Is there any constitutional or conservative principle on which Miers ever took a stand?
Since Souter, after one pro-life vote in his first term on the Court, was ridiculed by the press as "a black hole" from which no opinions emerged, then "grew" left to avoid the scorn of the media, aren't you concerned that Miers (who has never written anything on constitutional issues) would suffer the same fate?
Since O'Connor demonstrated her lack of judicial philosophy by unpredictably switching back and forth, so that the media praised her as the most powerful woman in America, aren't you concerned that Miers' lack of judicial philosophy would take her down the same path?
Why do you offend traditional women by choosing Miers, who helped create and raise funds for a radical feminist lecture series at Southern Methodist Law School that featured as speakers Gloria Steinem, Patricia Schroeder, Susan Faludi, and Ann Richards? What role did Miers play in White House pro-feminist policies about Title IX and women in combat?
Since Miers' chief qualification for high office is that she is your lawyer, aren't you worried about unfortunate parallels between her and Lyndon B. Johnson's appointment of his personal lawyer, Abe Fortas?
Mrs. Schlafly is the author of the new book The Supremacists: The Tyranny of Judges and How to Stop It (Spence Publishing Co).
Um ... I'm not sure you want to say things like that.
Ms. Schafly is a conserative hero ... and like everyone else, she has a perfect right to question this nomination.
I don't think Hariiet Miers is the most qualified person in the country
But I am think she will be very Conservative
But I think overturning Roe v. Wade will be a disaster for Republicans
"The Conservative PUNDITS need to explain to us WHY we should pay ANY attention to their temper tantrum."
The simplest answer: Because we vote!
Random thoughts:
I don't think Hariiet Miers is the most qualified person in the country
But I think she will be very Conservative
And I think overturning Roe v. Wade will be a disaster for Republicans
I am ready for George Allen in 2008
Good one.
Are you done with the hysterics?
No one is stopping you from picking up the phone and saying your opinions.
Just another whole loafer.
If your answers are "No", "No", "Nothing", and "What?" then you are not what we need sitting on the USSC right now...
Cut them some slack! Everyone has to make a living. :^)
So, in other words, the Anti's are demanding that an unconstitutional method be used to insure we get a strict contitutionalist judge. LOL!
Pretty hard to beat that list of questions.
Sheesh your above italicized comments have the same sincerity, IMO, as when there was a coffee commercial placement in the movie "The Truman Show".
Overturning Roe V. Wade would be the best thing that ever came upon the conservative revolution.
"THEY have to explain to US why we should listen to them over the people "
Well, she gave you a list of questions she thought Bush should answer.
That's not allowed either in your world?
Wait... Let me rephrase than in terms you can understand:
THAT'S not allowed EITHER in YOUR world?
I am staunchly pro-life but do agree that the voters just are not ready for Roe overturned yet. More minds and hearts have to be prepared. Bush has said the same thing. Of course the politically ignorant don't care if the whole house collapses, as long as they get to pull out the few bricks from it they demand.
What are you talking about??
Some of the Posts seem the suggest that we have no right to dare to question the wisdom of our emperor G.W. on his selection.
True.. Bush is a RINO selecting RINOs. Thats as it should be..
He has a perfect right to select those that mirror or he thinks mirrors his stands..
Meirs and Roberts would and will perform as brilliantly as the one that selected them..
Probably that is what pisses everybody off..
Ok not everybody... the non RINOs then...
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