Yet another woman with "all the necessary requirements to make one damned fine Supreme Court justice... for life." :)
Posted on 10/25/2005 2:31:49 AM PDT by RWR8189
Some in the news media, citing anonymous sources, say Vice President Dick Cheney recommended against nominating Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court. If true, this should dispel the notion, prevalent on the fever swamp Left, that Mr. Cheney pulls the president's strings. But in this instance, it would have been better if the moonbats had been right. If you're in a hole, stop digging. That's good advice, but it tends to be followed only by those who realize they're in a hole.
President Bush is in a pit, dug in large part by his "friends."
Like most conservatives, I was disappointed when Mr. Bush chose a person unknown to all but the handful who have worked with her. But I was appalled more by the childish and churlish reaction of much of the conservative intelligentsia. The president, by virtue of his stellar judicial choices in the past, had earned the benefit of the doubt. And Ms. Miers deserved the opportunity to be heard before harsh judgments were made about her.
But it is one thing to give the president the benefit of the doubt in the absence of evidence, another to continue giving him that benefit in the face of evidence.
If Ms. Miers were as smart and as conservative as Mr. Bush said she was, criticism should have abated as we learned more about her. It hasn't worked out that way.
Her private meetings with senators have gone poorly. "No one is walking out of these meetings thinking they've just met with a star," a staffer who attended one told the Washington Times.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
B.I.N.G.O.
"I had wanted to wait until the hearings to make up my mind about Ms. Miers. But now I fear continuing this debacle will produce the worst of all worlds for conservatives."
I feel much the same way.
I was hoping she would wow us when given the chance. The truth is, everything we find out about her does just the opposite.
"If Ms. Miers were as smart and as conservative as Mr. Bush said she was, criticism should have abated as we learned more about her. It hasn't worked out that way."
Worth repeating.
Maybe I should say 'trying to say all the right things', because once again, people can't find a whole lot to say in her support. He was reduced to telling an anecdote about Lyn Cheney applying for a job in the 60's where her gender seemed to be more important than her PhD, and never did make a connection between that and Miers' qualifications for SCOTUS. Of course there isn't any. I almost felt embarrassed for him.
Yes, but I hear that she's a good bowler. That should count for something.
;-)
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"You know, she's a very gracious and funny person," said Joshua B. Bolten, the director of the Office of Management and Budget whom Ms. Miers succeeded as deputy White House chief of staff in 2003.
In the next breath, Mr. Bolten recalled relaxing with her at Camp David. "She is a very good bowler," he said. "For someone her size, she actually gets a lot of action out of the pins."
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........ thought you'd never hear the words that Harriet Miers "gets a lot of action, eh?
If she were that smart and of such sterling character, she would have bowed out gracefully long ago.
Thought you guys wanted a big fight? You know the kind where you kick the corpse till its bleeds dry? Well, why put an end to the fun? /Sarcasm
If you knew Bush as well as you thought you knew him, you would have seen the Miers appointment coming. And if you knew him as well as all these Miers bashing posts seem to indicate, you'd know it will take an extraordinary cataclysmic event to persuade either of these Texans to back down.
May as well enjoy it.
"Anonymous sources? Sure thing, this author is simply parroting the rest of the anti-Miers ilk. Miers is going to be confirmed and will make a great judge similiar to Scalia and Thomas."
Wishful thinking. You have no real idea whats going to happen.
Yet another woman with "all the necessary requirements to make one damned fine Supreme Court justice... for life." :)
Such people are usually called toadies. The pundits were kind and called her a crony which is a step up.
And recent revelations about her support for racial set asides indicate Ms. Miers is to the left of Sandra Day O'Connor on affirmative action, a matter of as much distress to conservatives as her abortion views are to liberals.A point that has gone largely ignored or dismissed by the pro-Miers crowd.
lol
Texan???? Miers is just a run of the mill, lite in the loafers lawyer, that attached herself to a person in power years ago.Yes, a hapless toadie that for reasons of her own, lives her entire life in Texas.
Such people are usually called toadies.
Texan.
Miers is just a run of the mill, lite in the loafers lawyer, that attached herself to a person in power years ago.
Attached, yes. Run of the mill, no. Lite, no. Loafer, definitely not. Lawyer, absolutely.
Such people are usually called toadies.
Such people are called many things by the envious and the rancorous. Sometimes they're even right. Not this time.
The pundits were kind and called her a crony which is a step up.
The pundits, even the best of them, were embarrassed they didn't know Bush as well as they thought they did. How dare he disappoint and confound them!
Passing the bar exam is a measure of the MINIMUM requirements needed.
And recent revelations about her support for racial set asides indicate Ms. Miers is to the left of Sandra Day O'Connor on affirmative action
If that statement be true, could it be the reason Bush is lax on border control?
As a conservative, we are all embarrassed that we did not know Bush as well as we should have. He has indeed been an overall disappointment so we do agree on that.
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