Harriet Miers the pick AP

[johnmecainrino]

Harriet Miers

[Cboldt]

Her "serving up reports" on behalf of the ABA does not indicate her personal position.

The vote on propertytax increase speaks for itself.

Has anybody found evidence of her position with regard to the 2nd amendment?

[Stellar Dendrite]

Thanks so much for that link! If you find any other bit of "interesting" information please ping or FReepmail me! Tnx!!

[dirtboy]

Well, I haven't seen any proof that she is.

She actually tried to fight pro-abortion positions by the ABA, from what I have seen.

[demkicker]

Did you marry your husband/wife thinking he/she COULD end up being a good choice?

Stupid question, but I'll play: No I didn't. I knew him very well. And likewise, I think Bush knows Harriet Miers very well also. Again, I think many are over-reacting about the Miers nomination. Bush has been adamant about the type of judges he'll pick. It's HIS choice to make and I don't think he made it lightly. We'll soon know, won't we?

[samantha]

I do not care what she did on her short term on the Dallas Council. Does she have a wart on her left ear? As long as we are nit picking, let us ask her if her size six shoes have a bad odor.

[SupplySider]

You have to be kidding. You are condemning 50 percent of the Republican Party because they were not born Republican, that is self defeating and insulting to every former Democrat. That is a real smart way to build the party.

I'm not condemning every crossover Republican. Ronald Reagan was one. When I was in college, I was not a Democrat because they were too far to the right.

I'm worried that a highly intelligent forty-three year old lawyer could vote Democrat in the immediate wake of the Reagan revolution. I'll be delighted if I'm wrong, but it worries me. It sounds like her policy views might have been driven by her ambitions.

Would she have the spine to see her reputation destroyed by the media, ala Clarence Thomas, by casting the deciding vote to overturn Roe or some other unconstitutional god of the left? That's my problem.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

While I was getting my car re-aligned every month, due to the potholes. Her Council voting record indicates that she is a tax-and-spend LIBERAL. Looking for ways to spend the windfall.

[firewalk]

I DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY COMMENT UNTIL MORE INFO GETS SHAKEN OUT.
I JUST WANT TO BE PART OF THIS HUMONGOUS THREAD!! BTTT

hahahahaha!

[demkicker]

Well if recent news about her supporting the WORLD COURT and Adoption rights for gays is what makes you comfortable you got your gal.

"Recent news" is recent rumor mongering. I'm challenging you to show me where Harriet Miers (specifically) supports either. I'll not hold my breath...

[Cboldt]

You were supposed to keep Harriet's Lottery thing out of this! You just made some of the cheerleaders drop their pom-poms.

Well, she was on the Commission. :-)

As far as I'm concerned, her work there is at most tangentially relevant to the question of her commitment to jusdicial restraint and Constitutional principles.

Next thing you know, somebody is gonna start digging into her ABA background, and find her support of LIBERAL issues.

I've seen her ABA activity spun both ways, and as far as I'm concerned (again), what I've seen so far likewise doesn't illuminate how she might render opinions from the bench.

[lainie]

I know what you mean. Clinton didn't really register to me, either way. I thought he was some two-bit hustler type (and it turns out I was right, ha), and I underestimated how far he would go. But I disliked Bush Sr, there I said it again, (though I did vote for him in 1988). I was a stupid kid, what can I say: I voted for Perot. I am what G. Gordon Liddy called The 43 Percent. "Oh, ye suckers!"

[Howlin]

They'll say she's an unqualified crony who never married (They'll say, "How can she decide who can marry and who can't?" and never had kids (they'll say, " You chose not to have any kids, how can you force a poor woman with an unwanted pregancy to have a child?"

"They" won't have to; you've been smearing this good woman all day long.

I hope she's confirmed just so it will ruin your life.

[Republic of Texas]

I don't disagree, but the Dallas City Council, and most City Councils, never pass up an opportunity to bring in more money, regardless of their political beliefs.

[Allosaurs_r_us]

The point is, forget about how tough the confirmation is. When it gets down to it, the congress is still majority Republican whereas the Democrats controlled in Thomas' case. Delivering the questionable votes that you point out doesn't take into account the fact that the President still wields power over GOP congressmen, ESPECIALLY with a mid-term election on the way. They might add some drama to the proceedings, but in the end, they would vote party-line on Jones, Luttig, whoever. We can't compromise because we're afraid someone MIGHT not get confirmed. That's defeatism at its worst because it bastardizes what we stand for.

The big problem I see in the senate is the traitorous way McCain and his allies circumvented changing the filibuster rules the last time we went head to head with the DemonRats.

 

After hearing Cheney give us his 2¢ worth on Rush this morning, I feel confident W knows what he is doing. I really believe he thinks there are way too many spineless Repubs in the Senate. Cheny says he has worked with Meirs on a daily basis for the last 5 years and says she is a srtict constitutionalist. Cheney's opinion is all I need in order to give Meirs the benifit of the doubt. Cheney is in my opinion more conservative than Bush, and if he is happy with the selection there must be sometning to it. He stated "we will be very proud of her service" and I believe him.

 

[samantha]

Harry has lost what mind he had, and he is taking so much flack lately from all sides. His problems financially and his crooked son's problems and his own health problems he probably appreciates the hell out of someone that has been decent to him and returns his phone calls.

[Cboldt]

From what I've seen, she fought the ABA's positions on abortion.

If we're drawing from the same source materials, I think you are making an unjustified inference. Miers advocated giving the issue to all ABA members for a vote, and that is the only reason she gave (tht I have seen) for opposing the adoption of the position by the ABA. It seems, had the entire ABA voted and come to the same conclusion, she would not have objected.

[Borax Queen]

Thank you for the ping. Just lovely.

[South40]

Bush knows her well, so I think we have to assume she is on the same wave-length.

As who...him?

If true, we will soon have yet another Supreme Court justice who favors amnesty for ILLEGALS.

What a scary thought.

[floriduh voter]

Why does Bush habitually pick people that he's known FOR YEARS??? Doesn't he trust anybody if they're not from his daddy's or his inner circle?

Why the hesitation to select outside the box? It is mind boggling.

[bonfire]

"I hope she's confirmed just so it will ruin your life."

BWWWAAAAA!!! It would be worth it.