[malia]

bttt

[Earthdweller]

Can't you vultures even let the ink dry on the Miers withdrawal before you promote your "perfect" pick?

Last paragraph of Miers withdrawal letter...

"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

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Hi Kent - you do a lot of good early-morning work with your threads. Thanks.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Those who endorse originalist jurisprudence are not looking to pack the courts with conservative judges who will declare minimum wage laws unconstitutional.

Hmm, but now that you mention it . . . ;-)

[GBA]

In a way, the short-lived Miers nomination might be exactly what a blatantly non-stealth conservative nominee needs to get confirmed. Conservatives let their presence be known and made it clear what we want in a Supreme court justice. Let the libs get in the way of that! (Perhaps this was all part of the Bush plan and we have we "misunderestimated" him again?)

[Republic]

Good article.

But I certainly do not think nor will anyone ever convince me that President George W. Bush is afraid of a good fight.

He had proven his mettle over and over, again and again, and unlike dem president's, he had to battle the distortion and mockery by the likes of ABC, CBS and NBC as well as CNN and PBS radio EVERY TIME HE TAKES UP A TOUGH ISSUE...and then some. So he battles not only horrific, cowardly if vile islamo-facists abroad, but he battles an enemy within at home, a partisan press corp hellbent on getting their party ( in every sense of the word) boys and girls back on the throne of power.

[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.

[Mike Darancette]

I hope the Uber-Cons know of a way to get the spineless Senators to support an open Conservative candidate. If a JRB is nominated and rejected by the Senate the Uber-Cons will really have egg on their face.

[cgk]

Mona Charen ping!

[Brimack34]

Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on... I won't be fooled again.

[Petronski]

I love the mind of Mona Charen. I wish she still did TV. Brava!