Harriet Miers the pick AP

[johnmecainrino]

Harriet Miers

[RobFromGa]

Tony Snow is making sense about it.

Tony usually does.

[sono]

She's not a judge ...

[NeoCaveman]

What's the meaning of a headfake?

Edith Joy Clement. We all thought it was her last time, and it would up being Roberts.

[thoughtomator]

I see the exact same historical trend.

I may be unique on this thread in that I find the most disturbing thing about her the fact that she spent 5 of the last 10 years running a lottery. Being able to be the leader of a morally abhorrent program for a full five years indicates a level of comfort with government-sponsored human degradation that I am not at all comfortable with.

[HostileTerritory]

That's EXACTLY how I feel. And I told the White House just that a few minutes ago. It will be the Constitution or Libertarian party for me from now on.

Osama bin Laden and al-Zarqawi thank you.

[SpringheelJack]

Her age might be a blessing if she turns out as bad as many fear.

[dinoparty]

We don't need a "strong pro-lifer" on the bench. We need a strong Constitutionalist who will allow voters of states to decide for themselves. We don't know whether this this pick is a strong Constitutionalist. Maybe she is; however, if she isn't, then Bush has just shown himself to be a man who has buckled under the pressure of the mainstream media and the minority party. That would be so sad.

[Howlin]

They're happy though, aren't they? They have found something else to carp about.

[NeoCaveman]

Not bold.........slightly disappointing.........but what is on this thread is not 'heat,' it is insanity.

Is she a Scalia? Is she a Thomas?

All we know about her is she's a 60 year old, never married, no kids friend of Bush from Texas.

[Harris]

Clarence Thomas and Ruth Ginsburg were both appellate judges before going on the Supreme Court.

[nicmarlo]

We will have to learn about that, ohioW. However, there's no paper trail, either. Why not pick someone where there's absolutely no question? The President says he knows her heart, but Rebelbase correctly reminded us he said the same about Putin. She's an unknown where "knowns" were there for the pickings.

[ohioWfan]

My concern with the knee-jerk reaction today on FR is that we can sometimes sound like the wackos at DU..... Lets simply deal with facts and eliminate the emotion....

I'd bet my bottom dollar that a lot of these so-called conservatives with their over the top emotional outbursts are regulars on DU.....

LET'S DEAL ONLY IN FACTS, SHALL WE PEOPLE??

[raybbr]

Koooool-aiiiid!!!! Ah!

[najida]

Hun,

The all caps, the spelling and the 'rich' implied to be bad sounds and looks a bit,

DU?

[beckysueb]

Well...I am just shocked at the so-called conservatives in here....who are calling Bush names, saying he is dumb, saying the DU'ers are right, going to vote for Hillary....etc....etc...when you are 'GUESSING' this woman will vote Pro-choice and saying she looks dead, and too old. I am really disappointed at the remarks in here....unbelievable.

I agree. The Republican party just has to stay united. If not, then the dems will win. The Republicans at their worst are a thousand times better then the dems. I bet DU is loving this.

[Howlin]

Froma a friend of mine, some minutes before Bush's choice:

You're trying to drive this thread; and I have to wonder why.

[section9]

This pick is the worst kind of revolting, squalid cronyism.

In a universe of choices that included Janice Rogers Brown, Scalito, Luttig, Williams, and Edith Jones, George Bush picked this, this....CRONY.

This gentle lady may be a brilliant attorney but she has never, NEVER, served a nanosecond on the appellate bench. At least Roberts was the most brilliant attorney of his generation AND served time on the DC circuit.

This was Bush's great chance to build a legacy for the ages; instead, he reverts to Country Club Republicanism. Revolting.

Not one thin dime for the RNC from me, folks. Bush promised Scalia and Thomas. A broken promise is a broken promise. We're different than the Democrats because we hold the leadership to account so that they will learn from their mistakes. Not one thin f*#king dime.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Sandy]

Headfake to me means kidding, not true, fake-out.

I'm no big fan of Bush, but even I have a hard time believing he'd make such a horrible choice. The base is not going to go for this political insider crap. No way. And no paper trail to boot? Forget it. She won't be confirmed. So what the hell's the point in nominating her? I bet her name's withdrawn by the end of the week.

God I hope so.

[AntiGuv]

So I take it that you do not want to place a bet on Miers like we did on Roberts??

[TSchmereL]

.snip.

The loudest warning was sounded in November, 2003. At the behest of the White House, Mr. Hastert and then-Majority Leader DeLay held a floor vote open for three hours early one morning while they browbeat GOP members to pass a prescription drug benefit that was the largest expansion of an entitlement program since LBJ's Great Society. "It was a watershed event, the moment when Republicans who stood for limited government realized they were the enemy of their own leadership," Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma told me.

.snip.

JOHN FUND ON THE TRAIL

The GOP Could Lose in '06
Have congressional Republicans lost their way?

Monday, October 3, 2005 12:01 a.m.