Hey, Warrnut Head! Maybe you rook at someteen airse. You see Kim's flend die? No? Bedda rook crohsa. No, ees not Renny Ring.
Ret me poh one fo mah dead homey. Peace out, y'arr.
Posted on 10/22/2005 7:13:03 AM PDT by RyanM
Jonah bails entirely on Harriet...
THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF [Jonah Goldberg ]
My official position on Miers has been to criticize the selection, but give her the benefit of the doubt until the hearings. In other words, bad pick but she's the nominee so let's give her a shot.
No more.
After reading this story I'm officially against Miers. I'm with the Editors , Will, Frum, and Krauthammer.
It's not just that Miers was in favor of racial quotas -- we'd pretty much known that for a while. It's the fundamental confirmation that she's a go-along-with-the-crowd establishmentarian. The White House says that her enthusiastic support for goals, timetables and quotas at the Bar Association says nothing about her views on government race policies. Yeah, right. She simultaneously thought what she was doing was great and important while also believing it would be unconstitutional if the government did the same thing.
The White House says she's an unchanging rock of principle. Uh huh. So have her opinions held constant since the early 1990s? Or have they shifted with the wind? If she's a rock, I don't want her. If she's a weather vane, I don't want her.
I just don't want her.
Start over.
great story .... about the affirmative action guy
or she could be a stealth antidisestablishmentarianism candidate, which would make her the longest word title in the dictionary, but still a bad candidate.
We need a SC Justice with fire in the belly in supporting the Constitution, not some go along to get along Associate, even if she does occasionally rubber stamp decisions made by Scalia and Thomas.
Bush's-or at the very least, Cheney's-inclination was to support both Gratz and Grutter, i.e. oppose preferential treatment in both the U. of Michigan's law school and its undergraduate program.
It was Gonzales-and to a lesser extent, Miers-who significantly softened the administration's original stance, allowing Justice O'Connor to issue a Solomon-like-well, Bakke-like-decision, which preserved the inherently discriminatory practice of setting aside a certain percentage of seats for underperforming minority applicants.
LOL. I've seen that cute TV commercial in which that word is given in a spelling bee, but I absolutely assumed that it was a made-up word for purposes of the commercial. Amazed to learn it actually exists - thanks!
Clinton said his concept of affirmative action does not include rigid "quotas," only flexible goals, and does not allow the hiring of unqualified people.
Looks like Clinton is a role model for some FReepers.
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