Have a great weekend, y'all. God bless!
"the MSM resorted to Plan B, quoting over and over the same three rejects: Kristol, Pat Buchanan and Gary Bauer."
Yeah, those are the only ones.
LOL. You are the king.
;-)
The Los Angeles Times:
The written record of President Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court is meager. But her musings in the Texas Bar Journal in 1992 and 1993 offer a window into a different era for Miers.
At the time, she was perched atop a fractious organization of 55,000 lawyers that included law-and-order prosecutors, boardroom advisors and legal clinicians paid in chickens on the border. The crosscurrents were fierce, and Miers fought them by choosing a path that could safely be described as politically moderate and, at times, liberal — by Texas standards anyway.
She called for increased funding for legal services for the poor and suggested that taxes might have to be raised to achieve the notion of "justice for all."
She praised the benefits of diversity, called for measures that would send more minority students to law schools, and said that just because a woman was the head of the state bar did not mean that "all unfair barriers for women have been eradicated."
She was upset that although poverty was rising in Texas, impoverished families received a disproportionately small share of welfare and Medicaid benefits.
And she was an unapologetic defender of her profession, even the oft-maligned "trial lawyer."
"Lawyers are about seeking the truth, preserving a system to achieve fairness and justice and protecting the freedom of individuals against the tyranny of the majority view," she wrote.
Still, her emerging record as a lawyer in Texas could foment concern among conservatives that she would not be a reliable ally — and maybe it should, said Jim Parsons, a state district judge from Palestine, Texas, a friend of Miers' and a self-described "dyed-in-the-wool Democrat" who supports her nomination.
"I've never known her to be either a bra-burning Democrat or the comparable Republican," said Parsons, who was president of the bar in 1990 and 1991. "She's just not an ideologue."
Does she sound like another Scalia or even remotely conservative to anyone?
Nevermind, that the Washington Times reported that 27 Republican Senators wouldn't commit to supporting her.
Major Garrett on Fox News reported that several Senators told him that she has been be spectatular in the hearings or they would not vote for her. Garrett stated her chances of confirmation are only slightly better than 50-50.
I've agreed with so much you've posted here but I'm not with you on this one. Weak! But that's all anyone has in support of Miers. Weak evidence that she is somehow qualified and a plea to trust George Bush.
Good satire has an element of truth. Yours above is LOADED with it!
Yep.
I have been sure Kristol thought that way about himself for a long time.
Does anyone have confirmation?..No?
That's ok...I like it. Print it.
Cool and funny post.
Excellent!!
And what I want to know is...who are the 3.3% on this board who are "voting for Hillary"!
Outstanding! I am tired of all the carping of people who elected Bush to noinate the "right" people to the Supreme Court and then complain when he does it. Just because "they" don't know her, doesn't mean the man who nominated her doesn't. If you trusted Bush in the election to nominate Conservative, Stict Constructionists to the court in 2004, what has changed? Nothing.
I may not agree with Bush on everything, but there are several things I know with confidence
1. He will never pull out of the war on terror. And by pull out I don't mean the Bill Clinton/Blue dress variety.
2. He will never nominate someone to the bench who is not a true believer in Strict Constructionism and knows the place of the court in the Citizen's protection FROM the government, not from each other (ie Social Engineering).
That's good enough for me. Harriett, I don't know you, but you must be a very nice woman who has proven herself to MY LEADER. I trust him, ergo, I trust you. Fight the good fight. Be humble. Remember that you are there to protect the people from the government. And finally, use some God-given common sense. You'll do fine.
AEKDB
Bumped 'n' bookmarked.
BTTT...:)
LOL, good one Johnny.
Miers was serving the as the ultimate gatekeeper as Staff Secretary in 2002, when Bush signed McCain-Feingold in 2002.
Does that mean that she tried to keep Bush from signing CFR but was insuffiently influential? Or that she didn't see any problem abridging our freedom of speech?
Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Miers' bio:
She was appointed Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary on January 20, 2001. As a female Staff Secretary, Ms. Miers acted as "the ultimate gatekeeper for what crosses the desk of the nation's commander in chief." In addition to this important role, Ms. Miers supervised more than 60 employees in four departments.
What a silly "argument." Tyrell doesn't even attempt to refute Kristol's point (the beginning of which surely is correct, whatever one's view on the latter part of it). Instead, Tyrell's only rejoinder is, "Oh YEAH? Well HE WORKED FOR DAN QUAYLE SO HE'S A POOPY-HEAD!"
(By the way, don't good conservatives tend to think that Quayle, although no genius, was unfairly maligned to a great degree?)
Brilliant riposte from the master of logic, Tyrell.
Unlike the highly negative reaction of some Koolaid drinkers to the pundits who criticize this appointment, I don't hate Emmett Tyrell forever, and I look forward to reading his future columns. I've always enjoyed his work.
But this is not one of his better efforts. It's not funny and it makes no useful arguments. The basic thrust of the whole thing is, "These guys are idiots to try and oppose a done deal. I'm going with the winner."
I tend to agree with the comment above that he is trying to differentiate himself from his rivals on National Review and the the Weekly Standard, and maybe improve his own circulation numbers.