[Earthdweller]

"I share your commitment to appointing judges with a conservative judicial philosophy, and I look forward to continuing to support your efforts to provide the American people judges who will interpret the law, not make it. I am most grateful for the opportunity to have served your Administration and this country."

Most respectfully,

Harriet Ellan Miers

[KarinG1]

Okay, so-called conservatives have heckled from the back bench until a perfectly qualified candidate felt compelled to withdraw her nomination without being heard. At this point I wouldn't blame President Bush if he nominated Al Franken. Our president is a lot more patient than I am and certainly wouldn't do such a thing. But loyalty begets loyalty and I have seen, in recent weeks, the true colors of many of the 'supporters' of our president. I find the hypocrisy disgusting.

[ZULU]

Thunder on the right!!!!!!

[joesbucks]

Funny, but Dr. Dobson never let on he was concerned.

[counterpunch]

Conservative leaders who helped force the withdrawal of Harriet Miers

Conservatives didn't force the withdrawal of Harriet Miers. The impasse over privileged White House documents forced it.

Miers was an ill-advised choice because of Separation of Powers issues, and this was bound to happen no matter what pundits and special interest groups said.
The background chatter about Miers was inconsequential.

And of the criticism of Miers, all of it was focused solely on her fitness for the high Court, not about her ideology. There is no ideological litmus test for the Supreme Court, only a a question of quality and qualification. Republicans do not -- and never will -- imposed any sort of litmus test, and oppose any that others may try to apply.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
 

[hershey]

No matter who gets the seat, the DC Lib establishment and MSM movers and shakers will groom him/her with cocktail party, dinner invitations, cozy phone calls, of the 'we are your new best friends...let us show you around' type...to persuade him/her to become a Lib. Sandra Day O'Connor was often seen at their soirees, and look how she turned out.

[hershey]

Yesterday, several TV talking heads claimed conservatives wanted to poke a big stick into Libs' eyes (sounds fine with me), and that the resulting public brawl was necessary to make the general dumb public understand what's been going on -- that Liberal courts have been legislating from the bench, and what democrats couldn't win at the ballot box, they've been stealing with the help of Liberal judges. Let them scream and filibuster. Let the gang of fourteen show their true colors. We have the majority in congress. We need to have that public argument, and we need to win.

[cynicom]

I suspect that Bushes little buddy Specter will do everything possible to thwart a true conservative.

[loveliberty2]

The pundits who stooped to the level of Far Left tactics in the past few weeks did not do honor to conservatism. Ends do not justify means, and their previous claims that the President's nominee "deserved" the right to a vote will come back to haunt them.

However, the Republican Senators are now placed in a position of deciding whether they will defend the principles of the Founders' Constitution and back a strong conservative nominee, or whether they will be cowered by the threats of Durbin, Reid, et al.

The Far Left adheres to the "living constitution" school, meaning that, as one liberal university professor proudly boasted a few years ago, "what we have had is a 'sitting constitutional convention.'"

There is no middle ground between liberty and tyranny, and that is what this is about.

Of the Constitution, James Madison observed that, ". . . every word. . . decides a question between power and liberty. . . ."

If future generations are to enjoy the liberty previous generations considered their birthright, and for which so many have sacrificed their lives, then now is the time for naming Supreme Court justices who will limit the Court to interpreting the Constitution. If changes are to be made, the Constitution has prescribed the only legitimate method by which they may be made--by act of "the People" themselves through the Amendment Process.

[Brilliant]

I don't think that another Roberts is going to cut it this time. Bush is going to have to appoint a certifiably conservative justice. With Roberts, the "trust me" argument worked. After Miers, it won't.

[Ben Ficklin]

Harriet Miers is further proof that the republican party cannot form a governing coalition. They are hopelessly split.

[rob777]

"Conservatives have this old-fashioned notion that candidates should fulfill the promises they made once they get elected."






That about sums it up.