Posted on 10/03/2005 4:06:25 AM PDT by johnmecainrino
Harriet Miers
If that is the latest information, I accept it until there is another revelation. Miers did contribute to Gore and the DNC.
Good... thanks for stating that President Bush stated Exodus Ministries, and that the other FReeper simply mis-heard.
"Everyone who worked so hard in all those campaigns did it for nothing. Absolutely nothing."
George just gave the whole farm to the dummies in 2006 and 2008.
The church will stay home if she gets confirmed.
I read that. I think the take over at Volkoh is appropriate as well:
Harriett Miers?: I don't know much about Harriett Miers, but I thought I would blog a few tentative reactions to her nomination.
First, I am quite puzzled by President Bush's choice. According to news reports, Bush had instructed his staff to "find another Roberts." But Miers seems to be the anti-Roberts. As far as I can tell, she has no particular experience or expertise in any areas of law that the Supreme Court is likely to consider in the next twenty years; she has no history of having thought deeply about the role of judges in a constitutional democracy; and she is a complete unknown among the parts of the DC legal community that will now be considering her candidacy for the Supreme Court.
Of course, this doesn't mean that Miers can't be an excellent Supreme Court Justice. She had a reputation in Texas as a very good and very principled lawyer. And it's also true that never having been a judge isn't disqualifying: William Rehnquist had never been a judge before being confirmed to the Court in 1972. But Rehnquist was a bit different. While he hadn't served as a judge, Rehnquist had considerable experience with the issues that came before the Supreme Court prior to his nomination to be a Justice. Rehnquist was the head of DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel at the time of his nomination, and was himself a former law clerk to Justice Jackson.
Another thought is that, if Miers is confirmed, it seems quite possible that the effect of George W. Bush's two Supreme Court picks will be to retain the basic balance of the Supreme Court. Despite all the hullaballoo about the Court shifting to the right, the basic direction of the Court may remain "as is." It's hard to predict this, of course, as I have no idea how Miers would vote. But it seems plausible to me that Roberts will be a slightly more liberal version of Rehnquist, and Miers will be (if confirmed) a slightly more conservative version of O'Connor. The net result would be little change in the basic direction of the Court.
In any event, all of this is very tentative. I don't know much about Harriett Miers, so I'll be learning more about her over the next few days just like everyone else.
They also have a laundry list of "conservative" (their description, not mine) sites blasting the pick. As I said before I really hope I am proven wrong, but at the moment I am bitterly disappointed.
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Cheney just claimed on Rush that He (Rush) would be comfortable with Miers' judicial philosphy..
The pastor of her CHURCH says she is a believing, humble and dedicated evangelical Christian. When asked about her views on abortion, he said the were in line with evangelical Christianity.
So exactly why, then, if that is the case, would churchgoers stay home because an evangelical Christian was confirmed? That makes NO sense.
2008 Curt Weldon for President.
Which church(es)? Be specific, because you certainly don't appear to speak for me or my church.
Her church is a member of a socially conservative evangelical denomination that defends and espouses living according to Biblical teachings, not reinterpretation of such. If you are an evangelical, she is one of us.
I see that the I-missed-my-Haldol-dose brigade is busy embarrassing us in front of the entire world once again. We can't be troubled with waiting until the facts come in, can we? And these people are allowed to vote, too. (shudder)
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Good point. I would have preferred Luttig, but I'm not going to get hysterical about it. I just don't know enough about Miers at this point. I was very, very impressed with Roberts' perfomance during the confirmation hearings, so President Bush's track record on this issue, while short, is good.
The more I've learned this morning, the more I'm starting to think she will be a hero to the Church. Priests for Life has already come out and endorsed her. Once folks figure out she's a real live actual pro-life born again Christian, we're gonna take to her real fast.
Once again, FR has gotten in the way of my studies!!
Why? Can you give me an example of something that would cause that?
"cheney just claimed...comfortable with Miers"
Wow, the VP supports the Pres. pick, I'm shocked.
But so far, I have seen hundreds of hand-wringing and snarky posts opposed to Miers because of the following critical issues regarding judicial temperment:
She's not pretty.
She's single and doesn't have kids.
She has been a capable admistrator for the president and that somehow disqualifiers her.
We don't know anything about her, therefore she should be opposed no matter what subsequently comes out.
She has no previous judicial experience, even though the same applied to Rehnquist and he turned out OK.
That is the depth of argument I've seen here today. Pretty pathetic if you ask me.
She's given him some very bad legal advice in the past imo.
Who really knows my friend.
She apparently did donate to Goron and the DNC in the 1980s.
The only reason I brought up the Mrs to you, she is not a Mrs..
I saw a brief bit of a Nag on Fox News about 30 minutes ago, complaining that GW is trying to pull a fast one on America. She would rather have a mean old Conservative Activist nominated. I started laughing so hard, I could hear the rest of her whining rant.
There seems to be not a lot of information out there. She's worked for Bush as counsel, she donated money to Gore back when he was pro life and to Bentsen.
Bush told us he would nominate strict constructionists. I think (without seeing the first decision from him) Roberts will be. But the day Bush nominated Roberts there was a whole lot of doom and gloom on FR and from "prominent Republicans." That's all pretty well subsided.
We'll see on Miers, and if she's not an originalist than I hope the Republican Senators block her confirmation. But right now I don't think we know that she's not.
I think part of the hooting and hollering is, like you and me, everyone here is invested in this and had a favorite nominee we wanted to see and anything less is a disappointment. Certainly I'm disappointed, but I'm not ready to throw the President or Miers to the wolves.
I'm taking a wait and see attitude right now.
Any idea what Levin says about her? I trust his judgment on this issue as much as anyone's.
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