[KoRn]

You are sooooo 'elitist' for posting this........

/sarcasm

[Alberta's Child]

Ping!

[68skylark]

Sigh. Thanks for the post. The Bush Administration has really screwed this up -- I don't understand how they could mess up something so important.

[republicofdavis]

Yes. Well said. Those quotations nearly make me weep.

[Huck]

sad to say, the quality of thought and writing doesn't even rise to the level of pedestrian.

Ouch! It really looks like this one's going down.

[MNJohnnie]

David Brooks

Amazing how so many supposed "Conservatives" are so quick to adopt RINOs like Brooks that say what they want to hear. Guess you and David did NOT see the Rasmussen poll numbers it is NOT Miers who is "Sinking" when only 12% of Conservatives agree with the Hate Harriette all the time dogma of the fringe "Moveon.org" Conservatives.

Curious, just what part of the Constitution do you people think gives you Veto authority over the President's Judicial Picks? Gonna be kind of hard for you people to go back to arguing for an up or down vote for President Judicial picks now that you have adopted everyone of the Hysteric Left's talking points to rationalize your knee jerk Bush hate "dump Miers" error. Nice job. Thanks for helping flush 5 years work on educating the public on the Constitutioal duties of the Pres and the Senate just so you all can have a hissy fit because the President did not pick one of YOUR cronies.

[trubluolyguy]

"More and more, the intractable problems in our society have one answer: broad-based intolerance of unacceptable conditions and a commitment by many to fix problems."



"We must end collective acceptance of inappropriate conduct and increase education in professionalism."



"An organization must also implement programs to fulfill strategies established through its goals and mission. Methods for evaluation of these strategies are a necessity. With the framework of mission, goals, strategies, programs, and methods for evaluation in place, a meaningful budgeting process can begin."



"We have to understand and appreciate that achieving justice for all is in jeopardy before a call to arms to assist in obtaining support for the justice system will be effective. Achieving the necessary understanding and appreciation of why the challenge is so important, we can then turn to the task of providing the much needed support."

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Oh my God.

[MNJohnnie]

Hmmm what part of the Consitution give you self appointed critics veto power over the President's judical picks? My copy seems to left that out. But that's right, the Hate Harriet people all want a "Strict Constructionist" as long as it is one that will be "Strict Constructionist" they way they think it should be read.

[dagogo redux]

In my profession of psychiatry we have high-sounding official terminology for these types of thought patterns, but the layman more succinctly labels it "gibberish".

These quotes are very telling, most disturbing, and quite damning.

After each one I found myself just uttering an increasingly incredulous, "OH MY GOD!"

If it's not now over for this woman, it certainly should be.

[MNJohnnie]

Establishment Republicans are displaying their natural loyalty to leadership

NO, it is the Establishment that is having a hissy fit cause one of their "heros" was not picked. It is the Conservative Base that is looking around wondering "What the "bleep" has gotten into these self-important twits."

[MNJohnnie]

I'm sorry the Anti-Miers find the concept of a Constitutional Republic so hard to deal with. Gee too bad the founders did not include an amendment making the Judiciary an ELECTED position. But I guess that is one of those messy areas the supposed "Conservatives" pundits just skip over because it would not validate their knee jerk hissy fit about Miers to consider.

[traviskicks]

You know you are in establishment GOP circles when the conversation is bland but unifying. You know you are in conservative circles when it is interesting but divisive.
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To take this to the next level, try watching a meeting of Libertarians and/or Homeschooler parents... The creativity, individuality, interest, respect, are beyond fascinating!

I say this from reading threads here on FR where these persons congregate.

[AmishDude]

She's obvously writing down to her audience. I'm sorry, but it doesn't read any different from any other legal boilerplate I've ever seen.

[eleni121]

All I know is that Miers is far superior to the psycho leftist anti American anti Constitution legislating from the bench justices that are sitting there now. People like Ginsberg and Breyer, Stevens and Souter.

[goldstategop]

We've been raked over the coals for being too "elitist" in our reading of Harriet Miers. Well, that prose is elitist. No one with a grade school education talks or writes like that - its the kind of prose you expect from a bureaucrat. Heck, Ann Coulter is always clear about what she says. I can't make heads or tails of what Miers says. She's a mystery, not only about her judicial philosophy, but also about her reasoning skills. You need a legal dictionary to figure out her expressions. No, I don't think Joe Six Pack would identify with that kind of thinking. Its definitely (there's that dreaded word again) elitist!

(Denny Crane: "Gun Control? For Communists. She's A Liberal. Can't Hunt".)

[shezza]

"We have to understand and appreciate that achieving justice for all is in jeopardy before a call to arms to assist in obtaining support for the justice system will be effective. Achieving the necessary understanding and appreciation of why the challenge is so important, we can then turn to the task of providing the much needed support. "

Whaaaaa...? I can't even understand what she's trying to say in those quotes. "Vague" is too kind a description.

[MNJohnnie]

Gee. You convinced me. Let's just throw out that darn old Constitution out and do what the perpetually angry wing of the Conservative Movement wants. No Judges cannot be appointed until each and every member of the self important whiners club approves of the choice. Question, what happens when some of you want ONE choice and some of you want a different one?

I suggest trial by combat between the two factions to decide who gets to pick.

[no dems]

"...a smart and good woman who has been put in a position where she cannot succeed."

Well said.

[TheDon]

"President's Opinion" for The Texas Bar Journal. It is the largest body of public writing we have from her, and sad to say, the quality of thought and writing doesn't even rise to the level of pedestrian.

Sniff, sniff.... < /elitism >

[George W. Bush]

...and a commitment by many to fix problems...increase education in professionalism...

It may be true that it doesn't take a rocket scientist or a Holmes to read the Constitution.

But it probably takes more than this. This reminds me of the kind of drivel that circulates among the education elites as they hawk the same tired ideas over and over. Well, except they are better writers (or better plagiarists).

As I always tell myself about my own puny efforts: sloppy writing means sloppy thinking. But then, the hopes of an entire generation of conservatives doesn't ride on my scribblings here at FR.

Given the carping over Thomas' intellectual qualifications when nominated, I can think of nothing in his writing quite as embarassing as this Miers sample, written for, what, tens of thousands of her fellow-attorneys?

Yeow.