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CNN: HARRIET MIERS HAS WITHDRAWN!

Posted on 10/27/2005 5:54:48 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

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To: caryatid
If true, the news I heard on the radio twenty minutes ago is troubling, indeed. It is reported that President Bush has put ... Harriet Miers ... in charge of choosing the candidate to be nominated in her stead for Justice of the SCOTUS.

Geez Louise!

What the heck do you think she has been ding for the last three years or so?

This is one of her primary functions at the WH, and she vetted Roberts, and all the other picks for the Appeals Courts!

So she needs to be fired now???

Is that what you are suggesting????

3,261 posted on 10/27/2005 11:38:31 PM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: Cold Heat
ding=doing

I'm almost catatonic. I have never witnesses so much off the wall comments in one place, other that DU.

I am just flabbergasted at some of the thinking here. Just amazed.....

3,262 posted on 10/27/2005 11:42:27 PM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: Cold Heat

Weren't you just leaving, Cold Heart?


3,263 posted on 10/27/2005 11:46:24 PM PDT by caryatid (There are none so blind as those who will not see ...)
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To: streetpreacher
Do you hear voices in your head?

Heh, heh....:-)

Do you practice being a jerk, or does it come naturally...?

I am always so impressed with your comments. They are so reflective and show a high degree of thoughtfulness and knowledge.

ooooopps! I forgot the obligatory sarcasm tag!

3,264 posted on 10/27/2005 11:47:42 PM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: caryatid
Leaving what?

You seem to need me to point out your mistakes.

I don't mind........really...

Echo chambers are dangerous places for the truth and for rationality.

There is quite a large one over here.

3,265 posted on 10/27/2005 11:51:21 PM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: caryatid

It would be cruel to ask Ms.Miers to find another nominee this time 'round and it is difficult to believe the President is that insensitive. One would also think he could choose from others on the list and it is unnecessary to recruit her assistance for the selection.


3,266 posted on 10/27/2005 11:54:03 PM PDT by TAdams8591 (It's the Supreme Court, stupid!)
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To: Cold Heat

LOL.

Like the pro-miers "we trust the president" echo chamber that failed to drum the opposition into silence with their cries of "sexists" and "elitists"?


3,267 posted on 10/27/2005 11:55:02 PM PDT by flashbunny (If you're not willing to go get me a turkey sandwich and chips, I don't give a damn what you think.)
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To: Cold Heat; TAdams8591; LibertarianInExile; JesseJane; flashbunny
[Harriet Miers, as White House Counsel] vetted Roberts, and all the other picks for the Appeals Courts!

Earth to Cold Heart.

To vet is not to choose.

Pick up a dictionary while you are out.

3,268 posted on 10/27/2005 11:56:17 PM PDT by caryatid (There are none so blind as those who will not see ...)
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To: TAdams8591

All he has to do is tap Janice...


3,269 posted on 10/27/2005 11:56:38 PM PDT by Syncro
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To: Cold Heat

" This is one of her primary functions at the WH, and she vetted Roberts, and all the other picks for the Appeals Courts!"

WRONG! That has been debunked.

The vast majority of the vetting and nominations took place long before harriet miers was in the position to do the vetting.


3,270 posted on 10/28/2005 12:01:31 AM PDT by flashbunny (If you're not willing to go get me a turkey sandwich and chips, I don't give a damn what you think.)
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To: Cold Heat

" What the heck do you think she has been ding for the last three years or so?"

She has been staff secretary for most of that time.

She has been white house counsel for under a year.


3,271 posted on 10/28/2005 12:02:03 AM PDT by flashbunny (If you're not willing to go get me a turkey sandwich and chips, I don't give a damn what you think.)
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To: Syncro

Agreed. She is the number one pick for a lot of us.


3,272 posted on 10/28/2005 12:02:46 AM PDT by TAdams8591 (It's the Supreme Court, stupid!)
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To: caryatid

LOL! Good point.


3,273 posted on 10/28/2005 12:04:04 AM PDT by TAdams8591 (It's the Supreme Court, stupid!)
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To: xzins
"In this, she has proven the president right about her integrity. She has done for the conservatives what they consider best for the country, and has not gone for personal gain."

Now you may be on to something...I too thought this. Maybe Miers would have been quite a trustworthy judge, not putting herself in front of the constitution. Well that thought is now irrelevant.

3,274 posted on 10/28/2005 12:22:11 AM PDT by Xenophon450 (In a world of spoonfed emotion, intelligence can save.)
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To: flashbunny
She has been involved in this process for some time now. This is how she impressed Harry Reid. That impression, once revealed by Reid served to become a idiotic excuse to dump her and was one of the first things said to her detriment by the vocal opponents here on this forum.

She is, and has been a valuable member of the WH team that has put together the nominees. Nobody can debunk that!

If you think that this White House has not been trying to do what everyone here wants about the courts, you are sadly mistaken.

Miers was to be part of a team on the bench that will be led by Roberts to reform the case law that brought us Roe and other debacles. The court is not effective unless a majority can work together on specific issues that require the overturning of past law that the left calls "settled".

Miers was to play a supportive roll in that effort. There is a lot more to a good court that will work in our best interests and nine prima donna's can never pull it off.

Let Bush do what we hired him to do, or you will have nothing with which to be proud of. You will end up with the same result you have gotten on immigration.

That would be nothing, in case you have not noticed. Enjoy your supposed victory here, as it has accomplished nothing and you put your foot into a attempt to do exactly what you wanted done.

Keep micro managing the efforts by the admin from the bleacher seats and you will foul the entire second term effort and Bush's legacy.

3,275 posted on 10/28/2005 12:27:37 AM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: TAdams8591; caryatid
We don't want to pass this one up: (2 in bold)

vetted

Curvet \Cur"vet\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Curveted or -vetted; p. pr. & vb. n. Curveting or -vetting.] [Cf. It. corvettare. See Curvet, n.] 1. To make a curvet; to leap; to bound. ``Oft and high he did curvet.'' --Drayton.

2. To leap and frisk; to frolic. --Shak.

3,276 posted on 10/28/2005 12:27:38 AM PDT by Syncro
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To: caryatid
Bush does the choosing.

Nobody else does that.

Vetting and what Miers did and does was to take potential candidates, give them questionaires and the like to fill out, and process them to the various places that check them for accuracy. I suspect her opinion counts as well, but she does not choose. Cluck, cluck!

3,277 posted on 10/28/2005 12:32:22 AM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: Syncro


This failed nomination was a bit of a frolic, now that you mention it ... LOL

Anyone seen Cold Heart lately?

3,278 posted on 10/28/2005 12:34:28 AM PDT by caryatid (There are none so blind as those who will not see ...)
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To: caryatid

Who?


3,279 posted on 10/28/2005 12:35:13 AM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: Cold Heat

you need to do a little more research about what she has been doing and when.

The vast majority of judges were vetted and nominated before she was the one doing the vetting. Look it up.


3,280 posted on 10/28/2005 12:35:26 AM PDT by flashbunny (If you're not willing to go get me a turkey sandwich and chips, I don't give a damn what you think.)
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