Posted on 10/24/2005 6:03:59 PM PDT by Cautor
The campaign to urge the withdrawal of Harriet Miers has moved to the next level. Two new groups have stepped forward: WithdrawMiers.org (http://www.withdrawmiers.org/) is a consortium of social conservative groups that will encourage members to write directly to their representatives in Congress.
Some friends of mine and I meanwhile have organized Americans for Better Justice (http://www.betterjustice.com/default.php?page_id=1) which has raised money for a national television and radio advertising campaign to urge the withdrawal of the nomination of Harriet Miers. You will be able to see our spots very shortly on the site. They will be airing this week on "Special Report with Brit Hume," "Fox and Friends," the Rush Limbaugh program, the Laura Ingraham program, among other places.
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There is a very great deal at stake. The seat to which the president has nominated Harriet Miers has been the court's swing seat on a range of issues from same-sex marriage to racial gerrymandering, from religious liberty to federalism. It is too important to be shrugged off - and it is reckless to suggest (as some of my email correspondents are suggesting) that this is a job that can be done by pretty much anybody with a tablespoon of common sense. On the contrary, reversing 4 decades of bad jurisprudence will take very uncommon levels of courage, ability, integrity, and independence. Conservatives have worked too hard for too long to settle for anything less than our very best on the Supreme Court. Please join me and BetterJustice.com in pressing the president to reconsider and do better.
That is the "trust me" argument. It does not admit debate.
OH MY, what a devestating argument. Calling your political foes NAMES! WOW. What a WIT! Could it be that the "obtuse" are the political pundits, with ZERO real world political experince, who use their personal grudge against a nominee as an excuse to"bork" her?
Might "obtuse" be a most apt description for a pundit that manages to be so woefully inept in his attack strategty that despite deluge of character assignations and guilt by accusation trial ballons, the pundit completely fails to draw even ONE Meida ravenous Senators (the people who actually get to vote on this matter) to support that his emotionally hysteric jihad?
One year later, and it's like it's an all-or-nothing proposition for some of you. You had your chances last year to make a "lifelong difference", and here you sat on your collective fingers doing jack.
Yep.
I've been complaining to my Senators since 2003, when the Senate was stalling Circuit Court justices with cloture abuse.
Makes two of us.
Sure it does, Cholt. They're called hearings.
Bush is blessed -- his pundit critics come across hysterical, mean and extreme.
You're wrong. Rush has been split on Miers from day one.
Of course it's true. I was called every name in the book for being critical to the Republican majority for being shiftless cowards with regards to Bush's judicial nominees. Nominees that consisted of good, qualified, known Conservative quantities. Because of that shiftlessness, we ended up with this phony "Cabal of 14" deal hammered out earlier this year that eroded any prospect of a Conservative nominee to be pushed through the pipe.
It is my understanding that Frum wasn't there that long...didn't play well with others...including Miers.
Rush's legal situation has no relevance to the Miers debate. In all sincerity, Rush has been in a holding pattern with regards to Miers, and quite frankly, wants to see hearings if indeed it comes to that point, whereupon he would make a final judgement on Miers.
He's undecided at this point.
You and these so called "conservatives" were no where to be found a year ago when it really mattered.
Indeed.
Yep.
We were nowhere to be found?Did I stutter?
W got re-elected didn't he?
After the 2 year continual asskicking he got from all corners of the kook fringe left, it may just be the political miracle of record.
That sounds more like a Democrat activity than a Republican one. :)
Doesn't wash, in light of the fact 42 Republicans voted for Darth Bader Ginsberg, and they knew just how friggen Liberal she was. Only 4 voted against her.
I think it's more of a Constipation Party creed. They're in a perpetual state of whining and moaning because no one listens to them and their crazy ideas.
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Correction, Frum has dual citizenship. Nonetheless, he's turned into ass clown.
Following the election of George W. Bush in 2000, Frum was appointed to a position within the White House. Still a Canadian citizen, he was one of the few foreign nationals working within the Bush White House. He served as Special Assistant to the U.S. President for Economic Speechwriting from January 2001 to February 2002. In 2002, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.In January 2003, he released The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush, the first insider account of the Bush presidency. Frum is widely cited as having authored the phrase "axis of evil," which he discusses in his book. As the title suggests, Frum also discusses how the events of September 11, 2001 redefined the country and the President. Frum writes, "George W. Bush was hardly the obvious man for the job. But by a very strange fate, he turned out to be, of all unlikely things, the right man. LINK
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