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Tony Snow and Thomas Sowell: A Little Rationality on Harriet Miers
Opinion Columns | 10/07/2005 | Tony Snow, Thomas Sowell

Posted on 10/07/2005 4:19:05 PM PDT by Burr5

There isn't universal disgust among conservatives about the Harriet Miers nomination.

Here, finally, are two conservative stars who get it.

Tony Snow http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/tonysnow/2005/10/07/159692.html

Thomas Sowell http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2005/10/07/159683.html


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: harrietmiers; supremecourt
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1 posted on 10/07/2005 4:19:07 PM PDT by Burr5
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To: Burr5
Sowell - The man always has the smartest comments and rationale - Regardless of the topic - Truly a national treasure -
2 posted on 10/07/2005 4:20:27 PM PDT by SevenMinusOne
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To: Burr5

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/tonysnow/2005/10/07/159692.html



http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2005/10/07/159683.html


maybe THAT will work


3 posted on 10/07/2005 4:21:29 PM PDT by Burr5
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To: Burr5

Before the Bushbots get too excited, they might check the archives of both these men. They absolutely do not think Bush is perfect.


4 posted on 10/07/2005 4:21:39 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past ("Let the wicked man forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the Lord" Is 55:7)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

The Bushbots and the Anti-Bushbots. Too funny!


5 posted on 10/07/2005 4:24:59 PM PDT by TheDon (The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON!)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Don't dismiss me as a "Bushbot". On spending and the border I think he's an incompetent pin-head. But the grief he and Miers are getting over this may, in fact, be misguided. Read these guys.


6 posted on 10/07/2005 4:25:15 PM PDT by Burr5
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To: DevSix

I completely agree about Sowell's brilliance. I only regret that I'm am such a late-comer to his teachings. Teach on Dr. Sowell.


7 posted on 10/07/2005 4:26:14 PM PDT by Gadfly-At-Large ("Flattery corrupts the giver and the receiver"- Edmund Burke)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Hey GOFP, for a MacArthur fan, you sound a bit cynical. I've always thought the doctrines of grace should make us joyful. What gives?


8 posted on 10/07/2005 4:30:30 PM PDT by doingtherightthing
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To: Burr5
:)... What I find interesting? How the data about an "unkown" is gradually, incrementally, finding its way to the surface! I'd say there's lots of bloodletting going on with this nomination. lol. A drip at a time, a brawl, then more data.. another brawl... more data.. Miss Miers may be confirmed in a fastest-on-record time - as her record, as it emerges, drip, drip, drip is being vetted... at each new revelation..EVERYWHERE.

What a new and exciting way to do a pre-confirmation hearing. Every one watching the "actual" confirmation hearings are probably going to show up with tomatoes to throw at the Sens who ask, weeks-ago-publically-vetted questions. "Get on with it, Stupid!" Might be the rallying cry from.. we, the people...

9 posted on 10/07/2005 4:39:02 PM PDT by Alia
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To: TheDon

anit-bushbots = Bush bashbots


10 posted on 10/07/2005 4:40:47 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: Alia

If she were 50 yrs old, I would be more excited about her nomination.


11 posted on 10/07/2005 4:44:12 PM PDT by bpjam (Now accepting liberal apologies.....)
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To: Gadfly-At-Large

Your tag line is brilliant :)


12 posted on 10/07/2005 4:44:36 PM PDT by Spok (Est omnis de civilitate.)
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To: bpjam
Not me.

The older I get the more I appreciate the wisdom and life experiences of older people. They just don't tend to get "overexcited" by issues they know are simply a fire in the pan. Furthermore with life expectancy rises and amazing developments in medicines.. I don't at all have a problem with her age.

13 posted on 10/07/2005 4:54:33 PM PDT by Alia
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To: Burr5
Bush-Bots vs Bash-Bots.

Let's get ready to rummmmmblllllllle!!!

14 posted on 10/07/2005 4:57:02 PM PDT by Squeako (ACLU: "Only Christians, Boy Scouts and War Memorials are too vile to defend.")
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To: Burr5

I'm in full agreement with Sowell. If anyone is to blame for the weakness of this nomination, it's the RINOs in the Senate. In fact, one could well come up with an acronym like MINO, meaning, Majority in Name Only, to describe what's going on in that legislative body. If this were poker, Bush would be holding a pair of sevens, not the royal flush that everyone presumes he has.


15 posted on 10/07/2005 4:59:26 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Burr5

Miers has been with him through every step of his presidency, she will be great at issues of national security.


16 posted on 10/07/2005 5:05:18 PM PDT by FreeRep
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To: FreeRep

I know nothing of Miers but if Thomas Sowell thinks she's OK then so do I.-


17 posted on 10/07/2005 5:12:31 PM PDT by R.W.Ratikal
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To: Gadfly-At-Large
I completely agree about Sowell's brilliance. I only regret that I'm am such a late-comer to his teachings.
He has dozens (literally) of books . . .

Sowell would have (he's 75 now) made a great SCOTUS justice.


18 posted on 10/07/2005 5:14:03 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
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To: Burr5

Thanks for the post, links. Interesting.


19 posted on 10/07/2005 5:17:41 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Mr Ramsbotham; Miss Marple

That's right......And MissMarple said just that days ago.


20 posted on 10/07/2005 5:29:51 PM PDT by LBKQ
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