But she is sixty for one thing. And she doesn't appear likely to bring the food to the food fight, which is what Schumer and Biden really needed thrown in their smug faces.
"But she is sixty for one thing."
Yeah, that's another thing that bothers me as well. Why didn't he nominate someone at least in mid-fifties?
I keep posting this, but it bears repeating. A woman of 60 has a longer life expectancy than a man of the same age. Throw into the mix that her mother is 95 years old, and the probability that she will live a long and productive life increases.
No one knows how long someone "might" live but Ms. Miers has just as good a chance as any to be there in 30 years.
Concur
I'll take a confirmed justice over a borked one.
Because Harriet.M is not a confirmationBloodBathInducing Bob Bork - K.Rove knew the "Bad Cop" role would unwittingly emerge from the right.
The filibustering (D)rat senators will soon jump on her Trojan Bandwagon.
So wanting to see Schumer and Biden get a smackdown on national TV is your reason for opposing Miers?
Sure, it would be fun to watch those two smirking apes get their butts handed to them on national TV. But it's more important to me to have a little known pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment SC Justice confirmed and on the bench for the upcoming term than to see a long fight in the Senate end with a well known conservative nominee being stalled by a filibuster and ultimately withdrawn.
I don't believe that enough RINOs would vote for the nuclear option to confirm a nominee who is well established as a hard right ultra conservative of the type most of us would prefer. The GOP doesn't control the Senate, a small group of RINOs who hold the power to deny Frist a majority have the power to hamstring the rest of the Republican Senators on any vote they choose to do so.
It will take a lot more time to establish a TRUE conservative majority in the Senate, if ever. As long as we have to depend on middle of the road states such as ME, RI, PA, OH, and a few others to achieve a nominal Republican Senate majority, the leadership doesn't have enough reliable votes to nuke a Democrat filibuster and force the confirmation of a nominee like Brown or Luttig. Anyone who thinks there are enough reliable conservative Senate votes to nuke a Doomocrat filibuster of a prominent hard right SC nominee is living in la-la land.