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This is where I get off
NRO - The Corner ^ | 10/22/2005 | Goldberg, Jonah

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.


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: auntharriet; miers; quotaqueen; quotaqueenmiers; scotus
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To: cgbg

great story .... about the affirmative action guy


141 posted on 10/22/2005 5:02:08 PM PDT by dennisw (You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you - Bob Dylan)
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To: Rudder
..go-along-with-the-crowd establishmentarian.

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.

142 posted on 10/22/2005 5:19:17 PM PDT by Edit35
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To: Fenris6; Dan from Michigan; SunkenCiv; Stellar Dendrite; AntiGuv; flashbunny; AndyJackson; ...
It was the other way around.

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.

143 posted on 10/22/2005 5:19:57 PM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham ("We don't want a Supreme Court justice just like George W. Bush. We can do better.")
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To: Yaelle; RobFromGa; governsleastgovernsbest
LOL! I'm grateful that your replies did not engage in floccinaucinihilipilification .
144 posted on 10/22/2005 5:30:27 PM PDT by P.O.E.
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To: P.O.E.

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!


145 posted on 10/22/2005 5:34:17 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (read my posts on Today show bias at www.newsbusters.org)
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To: Stellar Dendrite
From a 1995 Washington Post story, titled 'Clinton avows support for Affirmative Action\...

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.

146 posted on 10/22/2005 5:45:12 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: Stellar Dendrite


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.

147 posted on 10/22/2005 6:58:22 PM PDT by Das Outsider (The Federalist Society is bad, mm'kay? Real bad.)
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To: Right Wing Professor
Clinton avows support for Affirmative Action\... 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

Affirmative action which did not allow the hiring of unqualified people in many industries and government would leave empty cubicles for as far as the eye can see....

"Our new policy, lady and gentlemen, is that we shall pound square pegs into round holes. We shall do so with great intensity and joy, because it is the right thing to do." ;-)
148 posted on 10/23/2005 4:31:44 AM PDT by cgbg (Do you believe your lying eyes?)
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