"President Bush is not responsible ffor the hysterical level of discourse from people like Coulter and Frum. President Bush is not responsible for the venom I have seen posted here."
Of course he is responsible. He has neglected to live up to the promises he has made to the American people. This "Trust me" was just the last straw.
GW did NOT nominate the type of a person that he told us he would. Miers is not the best candidate and it wreaks of cronyism. His chance of changing the SCOTUS with this nomination is minimal, at best. This has the appearance of weakness on his part when the likes of Leahy and Schumer can dictate who he cannot nominate and he takes the advice of Harry Reid, even over his own base. GW is doing what he said he would not do by this nomination.
Wanting us to trust his decision is NOT an option to some of us. His judgment of people in the past has left a lot to be desired and does not bode well in this case, IMO. Some of us remember his being burned or embarrassed, in the past, by placing his trust in the likes of Bernard Kerik, Paul O'Neill, Linda Chavez, and let's not forget Doug Wead and Christy Todd Whitman.
His failure to protect our borders, among other things, leads many of us to distrust his decision making. Calling Americans that are putting themselves out in order to try and protect our borders VIGILANTES, is unforgivable and further makes us wonder about his choices.
Many of us have worked diligently and donated much money to causes to get GW elected and re-elected because we liked what he said he would do and many of those things are not being done.
At this point, if his assessment of Miers is wrong, it will be too late to change it, once she has been confirmed and we gain no ground, perhaps even losing ground on the direction the SC takes our country in the future. If we are to keep this country headed in the direction our Drafters of the Constitution intended, we have got to nominate someone that has fought the battle with the liberals and WON, somewhere along their way.
He has sewn the seeds of distrust and now reaps their rewards.
It's more serious than cronyism, I fear. Miers' now got him by the b@lls coz she got Cheney in Texas to be declared non-Texan so he could run with Bush.
She interpreted the law liberaly to get him on the ticket for us, and now the price is her getting nominated as a liberal supreme... Corners have been cut and Bush cuts corners all the time on all issues and it costs a lot in the end.
He basicaly caves in to those asking him to steal for them, it's a typical communist pressure which gets him further condemned. No one should be put in a situation like this, but he lets them do it.
He said he would nominate an originalist in the mold of Scalia and Thomas. He believes he has done so. Your capitalized words not withstanding, you cannot accuse him of breaking the promise without knowing something that the rest of us don't. Now you can argue that we cannot independently verify her views, but you undermine your point by trying to proclaim that he broke a promise.