Even a child knows what the reality of this nomination is...
Posted on 10/24/2005 5:56:40 AM PDT by aceintx
Another skeleton Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers was deeply involved in an American Bar Association scheme that forces lawyers to pool their clients' funds into checking accounts and pass on the interest to "public interest" law firms, Evan Gahr reports at www.chimpstein.com. The program, known as Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts, or IOLTA, was intended to provide legal services to the poor but often ends up promoting left-wing causes, Mr. Gahr said. IOLTA has helped fund "a panoply of left-wing advocates, including a California group that sued to overturn the state's parental consent law for abortion, a gay organization that tried to force the organizers of St. Patrick's Day Parade in Boston to include a contingent of gay marchers, and a Texas outfit that sued to disqualify military absentee ballots," he writes. Mr. Gahr added: "Now, Chimpstein.com has discovered an obscure report which places Miers at the forefront of the American Bar Association's successful effort to foist IOLTA on the nation. This is the smoking gun which at least one conservative group tried to locate and failed." Law professor Charles Rounds, who opposed the scheme, said, "IOLTA is a program, created by state supreme courts or state legislation, whereby lawyers pool client funds -- small sums and large sums held for short periods of time -- into a designated interest-bearing checking account. The interest that is generated on those pooled funds is then funneled through a judicially created legal foundation to various 'public interest' legal firms." Miss Miers in the 1990s served on the American Bar Association's Consortium on Legal Services and the Public, which pushed the idea, Mr. Gahr said.
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About one or two months ago I got a letter from the RNC asking for money. I returned the post paid envelope with a note telling them when the closed the borders, got originalist judges, and cut spending I would happily send them a check. But until then NO!!
IOLTA has helped fund "a panoply of left-wing advocates, including a California group that sued to overturn the state's parental consent law for abortion, a gay organization that tried to force the organizers of St. Patrick's Day Parade in Boston to include a contingent of gay marchers, and a Texas outfit that sued to disqualify military absentee ballots," he writes. Mr. Gahr added: "Now, Chimpstein.com has discovered an obscure report which places Miers at the forefront of the American Bar Association's successful effort to foist IOLTA on the nation.
This is a leftist scheme from beginning to end. It's socialist, because it takes other people's money and uses it to make the establishmentarians feel good about helping the "poor" and "downtrodden." But then it turns out that the poor and downtrodden are arbortionists and homosexual activists. It might as well be the Southern Poverty Law Center.
This is not an abberation, either. Harriet Miers has a long record of bleeding heart liberalism, of helping the poor and downtrodden by supporting "public interest lawsuits" and affirmative action for categories such as designated minorities and women.
You can say that she did it because she had to go along in order to get along. She wanted to get to the top of the ABA in Texas. The ABA is a left-wing organization. So she had to go along with them. Well, that's precisely what we've been saying. She's a brown noser, willing to compromise any "Christian conservative" notions she may have in order to get ahead.
The same with her law firm. She constantly donated to PACS that supported leftists, including Hillary and Patty Murray, because that's what she needed to do in order to get to the top of the firm.
What more do we need to know? She is a lousy candidate. That has been evident from the very first, as soon as anyone takes the trouble to read her paper trail.
So, what comes next? I'll be darned if I know. The ball is in Bush's court, and if he doesn't act soon there's no way in hell he can save the rest of his term in office. Even if he does act soon, it's dubious. He really has no choice now but either sit fast and sink slowly into the mud, or pull up his socks and try to salvage a virtually cooked presidency.
The Bushbots will say that this mess is all our fault. No, it's Bush's fault. And only he can try to find some way out of it.
And as many pointed out yesterday, sure as hell the way out isn't to pull Miers and nominate an even worse candidate, supposing he could find one. No, he has to put up a really splendid candidate now, and fight with everything he has to get him or her nominated, or his political future is cooked.
Pray for W and Harriet Miers
You mean Jim "America's #1 Populist" Hightower? Our former Commissioner for Agriculture? The one put into retirement by Republican Rick Perry in 1990? That Jim Hightower?
Did he run for Agriculture Commissioner on a platform that included gun control, increased property taxes and a State income tax?
Harriet makes an excellent bundt cake, too. She's got lots of super-duper qualities that would make her an absolutely fabulous Supreme Court justice.
Conservatism is an ideology, not a party thing.
Then again, Anne Richards probably wouldn't either.
However, the idea that there's not a sizable segment of leftists-who when combined with a group of overly credulous centrists, can form a plurality-in Texas is mistaken.
It's really sad. In the past I've been a staunch supporter of Executive Privilege in regard to the handing over of classified WH documents to the Senate for the purpose of vetting these SCOTUS nominees. But in this case, how the heck are we supposed to find anything out about this woman if they don't do so? From the beginning I've thought this was one of the reasons this nomination was a bad idea.
The President has truly handed the Democrats the stick to thrash him with.
If you recall, we "trusted" Junior because 18 months before the election he had a record amount of dough in his warchest. Where did that money come from? Certainly not from the grass roots. No, there were powerful interests that wanted to see GeorgeWBush elected President. He won a lot of us over with the temporary tax cuts and the beginning of the WOT. Enough to get reelected over the uberlib Kerry.
I liked Ann--a lot. I just wouldn't vote for her.
However, the idea that there's not a sizable segment of leftists-who when combined with a group of overly credulous centrists, can form a plurality-in Texas is mistaken.
I don't disagree with that, not one little bit. Quite the opposite.
For a little while I considered casting my one pitiful little vote against any local or state Republican candidate as a protest against what I believe are some of the failures of the national Republicans. What you write above is why I changed my mind. I'd be helping the wrong side.
Even a child knows what the reality of this nomination is...
Maybe come 7 or 8 November or thereabouts, I can give you a helping hand.
Then again, I might be joining you.
Agreed and bumped. But you have to take into consideration that some people on this forum aren't very bright.
Poor GW---won't even get to have his "turkey" by Thanksgiving... Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!
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Hey now, they're all just waiting on the hearings so they can "get the information they need to make up their minds". LOL! Blackbird.
I like the refrigerizer art! Very fitting!
There ya go. This woman makes Alberto Gonzales look good, which, I'm afraid, is the strategery, if there is any. We're expecting an Al Baby nomination to follow on the heels of a Miers withdrawal, if there is one.
Maybe Meirs happens to be the President's "burnt offering" before the Senate Judiciary?
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