Posted on 10/20/2005 1:27:08 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite
Her comments had nothing to do with racial outcomes and you should pray to whatever it is you pray to for forgiveness for implying they do.
Yes he is a very good reporter.
The most conservative Senators need to join with Specter and the group needs to have a long and very confidential talk with Bush. They need to clearly lay out the situation. Miers can then announce that she has talked with all concerned and agreed to withdraw in the interest of gaining more judicial experience.
In the same presentation, Bush can then announce her nomination for a lower court position. The Senators can all then make supportive comments.
It's not perfect, but it will work.
Exactly. The SCOTUS is no place for on-the-job training or remedial Con Law education. We (conservatives and the entire nation) deserve better than this.
I'm not sure what a "race huckster" is, but you'd better tone down the rhetoric. It is an obvious and cheap distraction from you losing this debate.
I don't know if her comments had anything to do with racial outcomes, or not, but she is the one who framed it as such in her answer on page 49 of the Judiciary Committee questionnaire.
You be the judge.
Here is the answer in full:
"While I was an at-large member of the Dallas City Council, I dealt with issues that involved constitutional questions. For instance, when addressing a lawsuit under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the council had to be sure to comply with the proportional representation requirement of the Equal Protection Clause."
Great post. You beat me to it.
Not a bad strategy?
Why would you want to divide your base under any circumstance?
just look at the many different opinions on this site.
"She & Bush are gonna be laughing stocks -even from his own party and he is toast for the next 3 yrs. How sad - How pathetic!"
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If push comes to shove, I would rather have a laughing stock president for the next 3 years, than have a laughing stock supreme court justice for THE NEXT 30 YEARS.
"Would be better if he knew her mind"
And a mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Including confirmation hearings
Jones did get passed over for Souter.
She's also got a great roadmap for sending the notion that rights are granted by government to the dustbin.
I frankly think Miers has her heart in the same places as Jones. We shall see.
Even her "guide" through the process, ex-Senator Coats, has admitted she isn't qualified or even very smart. After all in defense of the spectacular Ms. Miers, who by the way has now cancelled meetings with Senators so she can actually read the Constitution, Sen. Coats said: "If great intellectual powerhouse is a qualification to be a member of the court and represent the American people and the wishes of the American people and to interpret the Constitution, then I think we have a court so skewed on the intellectual side that we may not be getting representation of America as a whole."
Sounds an awful lot like the defense offered by Senator Roman Hruska for G. Harold Carswell, a similarly less than qualified nominee of Richard Nixon's, who as you may remember is responsible for giving us that great conservative scholar on the current Court, Mr. Justice Stevens. In the stirring words of Sen. Hruska: "Even if he is mediocre there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they, and a little chance? We can't have all Brandeises, Cardozos, and Frankfurters, and stuff like that there." Apparently that is the standard with which we all need to be satisfied, in the spirit of trust and blind faith and all that.
BINGO
What is even more of a joke is how the Bushbots attacked us for questioning this nomination in the first few days. They are a pathetic bunch of losers who kept saying wait for the hearing, wait for the hearings. If she can't get through private meetings, what the heck of an open hearing in the Senate???
She should step aside.
INTERVENTION. Please someone. Please, call for an intervention...
If he appoints Gonzales after this, then GWB is really playing with fire.
Did you even read the article???? She can't stand questioning in private meetings. You think publicly she will do better????
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