Posted on 10/27/2005 6:09:25 AM PDT by procomone
WASHINGTON - Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination to be a Supreme Court justice Thursday in the face of stiff opposition and mounting criticism about her qualifications.
Bush said he reluctantly accepted her decision to withdraw, after weeks of insisting that he did not want her to step down. He blamed her withdrawal on calls in the Senate for the release of internal White House documents that the administration has insisted were protected by executive privilege.
"It is clear that senators would not be satisfied until they gained access to internal documents concerning advice provided during her tenure at the White House — disclosures that would undermine a president's ability to receive candid counsel," Bush said. "Harriet Miers' decision demonstrates her deep respect for this essential aspect of the constitutional separation of powers — and confirms my deep respect and admiration for her."
It's all about power.
Not power to the people but power to the elites.
"Well, you may get your way, and watch the liberals take the congress back.. I am truly afraid that this attitude will get us back to another 8-12 years of Liberals controlling everything, some of you folks are either so spoiled, or so near sighed or too young to remember when every bill that passed was a socialist mandate.. Interesting times ahead fir sur.."
It takes a REPUBLICAN to increase the rate of federal government expansion the greatest it's been since the New Deal and the Depression. No Democrat can do that.
If this is what a Republican majority across the board gives us, it's not worth it.
If Scotus nominations are "small battles", what do you consider a large battle?
btw.... Welcome to Free Republic.
I now include Rush Limbaugh, Bill Kristol and Ann Coulter in my list of people who I dismiss as having any credibility beyond the shrill and emotional.
Miers being withdrawn is acceptable to me if only upon the basis of the so-called "conservative" uproar about her as an individual nominated and Bush for nominating her.
What they've done is impower people like Democrat Senator Durbin from Illinois to now "demand" "a moderate" and people like John Kerry to use yet more nationally televised air time to bang his silly drums for liberal outrage and denigration of America for various interests he is more concerned with (like "Muslims" being "outraged" and such).
I used to enjoy a certain caustic tone from who I thought were conservatives (media personalities) as entertainment and a degree of enlightenment by pointing out the absurdities of liberalism and most Democrats' behaviors and positions, and yet now what I see is that there really ARE too many lemming-like personalities among our human population and the left is not alone in this characteristic.
Fine, so Coulter and Limbaugh are funny millionaires. They are no more conservative than my house plants are.
We can get a conservative justice without poking the Dems in the eye. I seem to remember a man by the name of john Roberts.
How exactly was she not qualified? The Constitution does not say you had to have certain prior experience to be appointed. These "qualifications" that many of you speak were instilled by lawyers for lawyers just like anything else.
I believe the only prerequisite is age, good character and competency. Not many of the early justices, before the lawyer sub-culture took hold, were judges much less attorneys.
The was the Constitution reads I am qualified and so are many of you.
And, who, exactly, is THAT?
They don't need issues you idiot, you and you nearsighted hotheads are the friggin issue.. the fracture in the fragile coalition is an opening that will cause a void that will quickly be filled with slime from the left.. Well this has to happen every 20 years or so.. it's like the damned locus.. Or the morons in the 60's.. %#@%#@
"An absolutely jaw-dropping statement of self-congratulations."
Not at all. It is inconceivable that my few notes on FR had any effect at all, so I have no reason to congratulate myself.
What I found offensive was the seeming equivalence you were drawing between the extreme left and the extreme right.
The extreme left is extremely evil. Those now called the extreme right (aka "the center" circa 1955) are for the most part at least medium good.
While I am not in agreement with your sentiments I must say this: Apparently you have never worked behind the scenes in a political campaign. I don't care what party or how conservative, liberal, or religious (spiritual)people may appear to be; behind the scenes, it is "down-and-dirty, cut-throat hardball".
Wrong, I have word very hard standing up with George W Bush since he ran for congress in West Texas, and lost. I have been along besiden him for years, and been very involved in campaigns, knocking doors, hundreds and hundreds of phone calls, done mail outs, given my money, so your just wrong!
Great post. I can't believe some of these people are proud of themselves.
You mean someone YOU like. Many of the rest of us like Ms. Miers.
Gimme a break.
The Constitution also says the President muct be over 35 yrs old.
Do you really think every 35 yr old and over is qualified to be President?
If you do, then we have nothing more to talk about.
I hope you're not buying that spin. Do you believe that the administration never considered the Senate would ask for these documents during the vetting process? That's just a useful although pitiful excuse for the president not standing up for his nominee. It's not strategery, nor a rope-a-dope or some well thought out poker hand. He looked at his polls and the press and he blinked. If he believed in Miers enough to nominate her he should have fought for her.
Never done this on a thread before, but you deserve this...
a respectful F U
REALLY? I guess we shall see.. I hope like Hell I am wrong, after all I was wrong about the average intelligence of the FR posters.. Oh well..
"Watch for Consuela Maria Callahan from the 9th Circuit."
Say it isn't so. I will never forgive the anti-Miersers if that happens. I may not forgive them as it is.
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