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."
Exactly, the day Coulter runs anything will be a tragic day. My dog is more a true conservative than her. She is in it for the money, they all are after a few drives around the beltway and Kennedy Center parties.
Her, Rush, and others who daily criticize but never participate in as far as stepping out on that limb have begun the ascension to aristocracy in their eyes. I wouldn't vote them dogcatcher.
Listen my DU friend, you may have grabbed the ring on this turn, because of our tendency to want it all at once.. but the fight for the minds of the American people is still far out of your reach.. You still must live a lie, and trick people to get your perverted agenda past the smell test.. This was a skirmish, not a war.. I have time to see it through, do you?
"Each justice gets a vote and it counts just as much as the vote of any other Justice."
I must not have expressed myself clearly. Miers is the kind of person that "grows" in office and earns "strange new respect" from the filthbag left. IMO, of course.
I want a justice that listens and makes rulings. I don't want one that feels the need to give speeches about government policy and such to every optomist type club that calls him. I am only interested in their opinion as it relates to Constitutional questions before them.
Should the President follow Miers and Resign, or should articles of Impeachment be brought forward?
[Something tells me that if W. had nominated someone that you approved of, you wouldn't be concerned as to how much leeway he had.]
Interesting comment. You're transposing two unrelated arguments:
1. if I like his appointment, then I'm guilty
2. therefore, there's no course of action he can take that I can ever dispute under any circumstances
See how the two things are unrelated? To top it off, you don't know me at all. Do you do parlor tricks too? :-)
How are you going to replace the six to eight Senators that will vote with the Democrats?
For Miers it is. For future Bush nominees we've just given the Dems the playbook for defeating nominees they find unacceptable. I'll have to give it to the Miers opposition they were well organized and used the MSM to its advantage. They even used Swift Boat Veterans style adds to oppose their president's nominee. However, it will sound a bit hypocritical when the Dems oppose (and they will) the next nominee to say, they deserve an up or down vote when republicans fought to kill Miers nomination before she had the opportunity for an up or down vote.
The only trick I did was to fail to realize that you are a DU grad.
"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."
No one knows how effective or conservative John Roberts will be. Only time will tell. We don't need any more SC justices that require "crossing your finger and hoping for the best".
Sorry, but I do trust him. Regardless of what others say you have to have a certain amount of faith/trust in the people we elect to do what they said they would do. Since I am not privileged enough to counsel the President everyday I can only assume one out og hundreds of my letters gets through and I made the right choice in supporting someone who will govern in my country's ( not mine ) best interest.
I prefer a good, honest, educated heart over a track record that can be fabricated, misconstrued, or abandoned tomorrow anyday of the week.
Her, Rush, and others who daily criticize but never participate in as far as stepping out on that limb have begun the ascension to aristocracy in their eyes. I wouldn't vote them dogcatcher.
Not stepping out on a limb? Are you blind? Rush was so far out on a limb in the early days of his radio shows, as a conservative commentator surrounded by a sea of liberal MSM he could have easily fallen off, but he persisted. Ann gets pies thrown at her for telling the conservative truth. Both are out for money; does that bother you to make a living and in true capitalistic fashion want to get a good return for your endeavors? Do you have rich people envy? Then perhaps you should seek out the democratic party if you find that offensive. Rush Limbaugh did more for the conservative movement than any of us in popularizing it, and getting an acvitist base established to go out and fight dems. He is the cheerleader, the optimist in a sea of pessimism, the unifier of the movement, the indispensible man. I'm surprised you made the comment you made. I'd ask you to reconsider it.
(hope i'm wrong)
Do you really think President Bush wants to pick a fight with a large percentage of his base? I don't. Expect a highly qualified, clearly conservative nominee.
If conservatives were unhappy with an unknown like Miers,
Gonzales would create a barn burning.
He is much better known, and disliked.
Who cares if they don't?
The line has been drawn now. RINOs will be called out, defeated, or marginalized.
We don't need RINOs.
Agreed.
"Coulter also question Mier's law school, for cryin' out loud - so the insinuation was clearly there."
On the grounds that the best alleged minds on the left are not to be found there. People rise to the level of the competition. And I'm sorry if it is elitist, but there are differences among Law Schools.
A school that will accept a student who scores in the 85th percentile on the LSAT is going to be bush league in comparison to one that can restrict itself to the top third of the top one percent.
"Thomas hardly ever asks any questions but writes calm and succinct decisions."
Duking it out, intellectually, can be as calm as you like. It involves seeing the flaws in the left's arguments, and being able to articulate not just that they are wrong, but exactly why they are wrong.
"We don't need an Ann Coulter type on the court"
I disagree. I think we need to start calling a moral leper a moral leper.
"in love with the sound of their own voice."
I guess some people just don't understand the joy of combat.
"I can live a long time without a half-handed comment"
Actually, I'm so conservative that I have two right hands and no left.
"now because we cannot see what the President was doing we are about to toss it away again"
Looks to me like the president was about to toss it away.
By the way, I'd be interested in hearing what conservatives almost had in their grasp during the administrations of Nixon, Ford, and Bozo the peanut farmer.
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