Posted on 10/15/2005 1:44:18 PM PDT by Cautor
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What Mr. McClellan needs to do is to tell them to shut up and sit down, and take a breath or two...and if they don't act respectfull, walk out of the room and let them sit here...he's in charge not the MSM reporters!!!
laura ingraham played clips of this on her show yesterday. i felt bad for the guy....
Well then he needs to change it or step down and let someone else do it...
"This should be based on a person's record and qualifications and their judicial philosophy, and she greatly exceeds all the standards that have been set for meeting what is needed to serve on our nation's highest court."
How do we know? She spent the past 35 years of her professional life trying to keep her judicial philosphy hidden. The only indication we have of HER (not her employers) judcial philosophy is that she refused to join the Federalist Society because she thought it was 'too partisan'.
"She is exceptionally well-qualified."
By whose standards? The President who has been cozy with her for 10-15 years or so?
If you asked those who follow the supreme court nomination process 3 months ago to make a list of the top 1000 most qualified candidates for the job, Harriet Miers name would not appear on any list.
"We look forward to people getting to know her like the President knows her. "
Is she going to send us all birtday cards telling us we're the greatest???
"laura ingraham played clips of this on her show yesterday. i felt bad for the guy...."
Talk about a "deer in the headlights" look, old Scotty sure has it. And no wonder. One day he's pushing Miers' "rock solid" religious credentials. Then when that doesn't have the desired effect, it's on to talking about credentials--the Texas Lottery, Tex Bar Association, member of the town council, etc. Tomorrow, it will be testimonials from TX judges.
All your points are excellent. You may have hit on a winning strategy, have her send all the members of the Judiciary Committee an appropriate birthday card all covered in these: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"You got a 'you are the greatest senator ever!' card? So did I! How can we both be the greatest senators ever???"
"Can anyone name a potential conservative scotus candidate who could be confirmed with the Senate we have."
Some Miers backers here would point you to Roberts.
Personally, I think if the President had nominated a solid conservative with a proven record and then told the Dems and RINOs "bring it on" he could have won that fight. I think it's a wimp out to say that even with a majority in the Senate we can't get conservative judges through.
I hope you're wrong, because there won't be any more conservative judges at the District Court and Appeals Court levels either--unless Bush gets an OK when he asks the Gan of 14 for a "mother may I."
"You got a 'you are the greatest senator ever!' card? So did I! How can we both be the greatest senators ever???""
Maybe the Senate is like Lake Wobegon where all of them are the greatest. LOL.
McClellan is not a very impressive spokesman.
"McClellan is not a very impressive spokesman."
Nope...ari fleisher would have handled this much better, even if he didn't agree with the pick.
As an aside:
Earlier this week when people were ripping on david frum for his criticism of harriet miers, they were saying he left the white house because GWB wanted him gone, because "nobody would leave without GWB being the one to say they should go."
So if that's true, Ari Fleisher left the white house because GWB must have wanted him gone so he could replace him with McClellan. Which would reflect badly on the president, since McClellan isn't 1/10th the press secretary Fleisher was.
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