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HUGH HEWITT: I just flew in from Italy, and boy is my keyboard tired.
HughHewitt.com ^ | October 24, 2005 04:18 PM PST | Hugh Hewitt

Posted on 10/24/2005 4:41:12 PM PDT by Checkers

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1 posted on 10/24/2005 4:41:14 PM PDT by Checkers
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To: Checkers

It's nice to read something from an ADULT with a BRAIN.


2 posted on 10/24/2005 4:55:30 PM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: Checkers

The only defense for the nominee I can think of is, "trust Bush." Is that a sufficient defense?


3 posted on 10/24/2005 4:58:38 PM PDT by Rudder
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To: Checkers

Hugh makes some great points, thank goodness without the usual insults.

However, I still don't think she should have been nominated.

She has no paper trail, she's 60 years old, and were not even sure how conservative she is.

Given the alternatives, it was a sad, sad, nomination.


4 posted on 10/24/2005 4:59:28 PM PDT by rcocean (Copyright is theft and loved by Hollywood socialists)
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To: Checkers

wife’s

Is there a reason I get funny symbols like above?


5 posted on 10/24/2005 4:59:40 PM PDT by Daralundy
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To: Rudder

Did you bother to read the article?

If so, why are you asking the question.

He lays out reasons why the nomination is sound.


6 posted on 10/24/2005 5:00:33 PM PDT by dawn53
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To: AmericaUnited
It's nice to read something from an ADULT with a BRAIN.

Yes; and sad that so many Repubs are losing theirs because of the Miers nomination.

7 posted on 10/24/2005 5:01:05 PM PDT by cricket (No Freedom - No Peace)
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To: Checkers

Get some sleep Hugh, Harriet is formulating an exit strategy as we speak.


8 posted on 10/24/2005 5:01:50 PM PDT by HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath (My Homeland Security: Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper)
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To: AmericaUnited
It's nice to read something from an ADULT with a BRAIN.

I agree--it's extremely nice! Do you have a link to something like that?

9 posted on 10/24/2005 5:04:22 PM PDT by Shalom Israel (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: Rudder; Do not dub me shapka broham; Cicero; Map Kernow; KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1508069/posts

Hugh Hewitt and Harriet Miers: Jumping the Supreme Court Shark
RedState.org ^ | 10/24/2005 | Blanton

Posted on 10/24/2005 3:32:25 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Hugh Hewitt has jumped the shark. I do not know that I will ever be able to entertain an argument of his seriously again. Suspicion was raised when Hugh backed Arlen Specter for Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Suspicion is confirmed with Hugh's unyielding defense of Harriet Miers. Hugh has ceased to be a conservative pundit and is now a shill for the administration. While critics of the Miers nomination are willing to give her credit for much, Hugh has apparently ignored all objectivity and closed his eyes to all concerns so that he can be an effective pimp of the Bush administration. Today, Hugh writes:

"I see many on the web are exercised about Harriet Miers' support for affirmative action in the private setting of support for resolutions of the Texas Bar urging quotas in hiring at private law firms. It is not a policy with which I would agree either, but it also not a matter of constitutional law, unless under Brentwood the action of the Texas Bar in urging private firms to set strict goals has converted into a state action. Don't know what Brentwood is? Or the state action doctrine? Not many people do. But those that don't ought not to be confusing ConLaw with the private decisions of private firms while agruing that this policy makes Miers suspect on Bollinger. Now, if she supported a soft line on the Bollinger cases, that would be a legitimate area of concern, but not the Texas Bar resolutions."

First, Hugh must be discounting the numerous reports that clearly show Miers, Spellings, and Gonzales backed the administration splitting the baby in the University of Michigan affirmative action case. In fact, on Ken Melhman's blogger conference call, he was asked about Miers' position and did not dispute that Miers backed the White House's amicus brief in the case, which was widely seen by conservatives as a failed response. The Justice Department wanted to set a clear line on the matter, but when the brief went to the White House, enough water was added to make the amicus meaningless.

There is, however, a larger point of why Hugh has jumped the shark. He says we should give no weight to Miers' support of affirmative action in her position with the Texas Bar. It was, after all, a personal action and a "private setting." How then can we square this with Hugh's support of Miers?

Hugh's support seems to be, beyond trusting the President, based on the fact that people who know MIers say she'll be right on life, she'll have a conservative judicial philosophy, and that she is personally conservative and evangelical. This makes no sense. If Miers is personally supportive of affirmative action, Hugh believes that will not affect her judicial philosophy. But, because we're told Miers is personally conservative, Hugh believes her judicial philosophy will be just what we want. I dare not even contemplate the pains Hugh will go through to explain how personal support of affirmative action and a conservative judicial philosophy mess.

While Hugh should be applauded for unfailingly supporting the administration, pardon the rest of us if we do not want to go along. Thus far, Hugh has managed to cast aspersions on arguments George Will, Judge Bork, and most of National Review. While I can certainly give credence to the idea that we should wait for the hearings to make up our minds, Hugh has gone beyond that and in so doing has lost credibility on the subject.

Were Hugh Hewitt in Rome, he'd have been the first in line to champion Incitatus for the Senate.


10 posted on 10/24/2005 5:05:00 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite ( Mike Pence for President!!! http://acuf.org/issues/issue34/050415pol.asp)
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To: Shalom Israel

LOL!!!!


11 posted on 10/24/2005 5:05:23 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite ( Mike Pence for President!!! http://acuf.org/issues/issue34/050415pol.asp)
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To: Checkers

A giant leap here thinking Blue States would not have legal abortion....



>>>Of the 45 million unborn children who were not born because of Roe,


12 posted on 10/24/2005 5:05:35 PM PDT by BurbankKarl (I am the NRA)
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To: Daralundy

"wife’s

Is there a reason I get funny symbols like above?"

They show up in the "print-friendly" version of Hugh's article. I copy-pasted without changing-correcting the text.

Hugh should talk to his webmaster.


13 posted on 10/24/2005 5:08:12 PM PDT by Checkers (I broke the dam.)
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To: dawn53

Poor Hugh hitched his wagon to a dead horse and rode off Credibility Cliff.


14 posted on 10/24/2005 5:09:47 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: Checkers
Great post! Interesting Blog by a man who both thinks and writes well. I was impressed with this:

..."the conclusion will be inescapable that just as a moment arrived when a pro-life evangelical approached SCOTUS with a set of values that would favorably influence her to think through the enormous tragedy of abortion, she was shot down by conservative elites more concerned with issues other than protection of the unborn. It would be helpful if opponents of Miers would be careful to outline their views on Roe/Casey in the coming days, and perhaps even an argument on why a different nominee would have been preferred and confirmable on this set of issues...

I would not be a Pubbie Senator who voted against Miers unless I was ready to retire.

15 posted on 10/24/2005 5:09:54 PM PDT by shrinkermd
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16 posted on 10/24/2005 5:10:27 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("It'sTime for Republicans to Start Toeing the Conservative Line, NOT the Other Way Around!")
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To: AmericaUnited

"It's nice to read something from an ADULT with a BRAIN."

Yep.

Doesn't say much for some of the clowns who posting on this thread.
Did they even read the post by Hugh?


17 posted on 10/24/2005 5:13:28 PM PDT by Checkers (I broke the dam.)
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To: dawn53
Yep, read it twice. However, I missed a recitation of those qualities that make the nominee defensible. Please point them out to me.

BTW, I am not strenuouly opposed to the nominee. But to defend her, I would like some substantial ammunition.

18 posted on 10/24/2005 5:14:37 PM PDT by Rudder
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"The only defense for the nominee I can think of is, "trust Bush." Is that a sufficient defense?"

Did you read Hugh's post?


19 posted on 10/24/2005 5:14:47 PM PDT by Checkers (I broke the dam.)
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To: BurbankKarl
Pennsylvania and Michigan wouldn't, theoretically speaking.
20 posted on 10/24/2005 5:15:13 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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