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.
Over here...
We need a judicial activist like J.R. Brown who understands the issues of the day that are important to the intellectual scholars and elite legal minds and their pundit cronies, someone with a background that can be carved up by the left and spit out in the MSM every day for weeks, someone who will give face-time to the Left! Plus JRB deserves it because she was put into a steppingstone position on her way to SCOTUS and is way more entitled than a nobody like Miers. That's just the way it's "done", so sayeth the critics and malcontents-and they will settle for nothing less.
Blahblah.
Phooey!....to em all.
I'm sick of this piling on!
One thing I do know....President Bush needs our prayers....
..the long knives are out to get him and his cabinet!
If Miers is withdrawn, we will see some "deeply troubling news".
Amen brother...If that was Bushes best effort, heaven help us with what is to follow.
"Miers was a believer in mentoring programs, but during her tenure she and the board of directors went further, passing a resolution urging Texas law firms to set a goal of hiring one qualified minority lawyer for every 10 new associates. The directors also reiterated support for a policy of setting aside a specific number of seats on the board for women and minorities." - the WaPo article
Miers is a Quota Queen - this was before her days as White House Counsel, i.e. can't blame it on following the President's agenda.
"Remember that UNESCO Culture regulation thing I posted this morning? Well, it's starting to make more sense to me -- from the Chinese perspective at least. For good or ill, America's taking over the world my friends. Take a look at this. It's a (G-rated) video made by two Chinese students. Aside from making a cultural point, it's also a useful timewaster."
I especially like the exaggerated backup-singer moves and expressions of the guy in the back. Of course the third guy working away on the other side of the dorm room makes a great background... Here is the video link again.
For those who don't know, this is a Backstreet Boys song of a few years ago - here are the lyrics if you can't follow the over-the-top lip-syncing...
Enjoy.
dvwjr
Setting a goal is not a quota.
His article should be titled "this is how I get off".
Miers is a Quota Queen - this was before her days as White House Counsel, i.e. can't blame it on following the President's agenda.
See post # 29 for relevant WaPo article quote.
You mean National Review's version of "Not In Our Name?"
Please.
BTTT!
How about "a policy of setting aside a specific number of seats on the board for women and minorities." - WaPo article
That would be more than a goal. That would be Miers and the directors of the Texas Bar mandating quotas based on race, ethnicity, and gender.
Hey Ryan,
Did you read the article? When I saw the title of your thread, I knew exactly what it pertained to. I read the entire article this morning. I'm not 100% for the Mier's nomination (Janice Rogers Brown is my choice) but what she did was not all that bad. She just wanted more minorities and females as members of the Texas Bar. A lot of "white" churches, for example, would like more MEN and minorities in their congregations. That does not mean that they show favoritism to get them.
The sooner this slow motion train wreck grinds to a halt, the better.
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