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The Miers Blunder
Wall Street Journal ^ | October 21, 2005 | Editorial

Posted on 10/20/2005 9:05:37 PM PDT by gpapa

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1 posted on 10/20/2005 9:05:38 PM PDT by gpapa
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To: gpapa

Log on to the opinionjournal by clicking my screen name and using my log in info.


2 posted on 10/20/2005 9:09:06 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: gpapa

Oh darn. What does the rest of it say?


3 posted on 10/20/2005 9:09:17 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people. Ps. 14:34)
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To: gpapa

Very well-conceived and well-written piece. It expresses the problem very clearly, although I think it puts too much of the blame on President Bush and not enough on his counsel, whose job was to protect him from debacles like this one. Of course, that counsel was Harriet Miers. I fail to understand how someone whose job was to protect the President can allow herself to become the lightning rod for this kind of attack against him by his own base.


4 posted on 10/20/2005 9:14:36 PM PDT by Piranha
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

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5 posted on 10/20/2005 9:17:03 PM PDT by gpapa (Boost FR Traffic! Make FR your home page!)
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To: Graybeard58

Thanks for that -- much appreciated.


6 posted on 10/20/2005 9:19:23 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: gpapa

Blunder supremo! Just when you thought it couldn't get crazier...


7 posted on 10/20/2005 9:25:26 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people. Ps. 14:34)
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To: gpapa

So the inference is that Miers is a political "fixer," like Clark Clifford?


8 posted on 10/20/2005 9:25:55 PM PDT by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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So the inference is that Miers is a political "fixer," like Clark Clifford?

Woops, that post was intended for the John Fund WSJ article "Lotto Trouble," about Barnes, Littwin and Miers' role in the Texas Lottery...

9 posted on 10/20/2005 9:29:12 PM PDT by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
In answer to one question on the Senate questionnaire, she referred to the proportional representation requirement of the equal protection clause. I'll have to learn about that one, which I haven't heard about in 14 years of teaching con law.:)

It's gotten so bad that her supporters here have to wonder how long the farce can continue, or how many more lumps they can take.

10 posted on 10/20/2005 9:38:46 PM PDT by phelanw
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To: Pharmboy; Das Outsider; meema; Texas Federalist; Rodney King; ARealMothersSonForever; ...

ping


11 posted on 10/20/2005 9:39:55 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite ( Mike Pence for President!!! http://acuf.org/issues/issue34/050415pol.asp)
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To: phelanw

I'm sorry, I didn't mean that as a direct answer to your question. The info I cited came from an article in the wash compost.


12 posted on 10/20/2005 9:41:46 PM PDT by phelanw
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To: gpapa
Yet it now seems clear--even well before her Senate hearings--that this selection has become a political blunder of the first order.

I'll let others get in before the predictable Miers maniac posts: "elitist," "WSJ's only upset Bush didn't nominate it to SCOTUS"...the usual Bush brain poop.

What is really significant about this editorial is the steady erosion of any support for the nomination in the conservative opinion-maker community. As much as Bush and his flunkies would like to pretend it doesn't make any difference, it's sinking this nomination. And the sooner, the better.

13 posted on 10/20/2005 9:47:16 PM PDT by Map Kernow ("I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing" ---Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Piranha

If she she and/or The Prez withdraws her nomination; who might his next choice be?


14 posted on 10/20/2005 9:49:31 PM PDT by no dems (43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, 2 to pull a trigger: I'm lazy and tired of smiling,)
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To: gpapa
Harriet: The WSJ coming out against me, is that bad?

Andrew Card: Uh, well....yes....

15 posted on 10/20/2005 9:49:53 PM PDT by Plutarch
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To: Map Kernow

"Perhaps Ms. Miers will prove to be such a sterling Senate witness that she can still win confirmation. But so far the lesson we draw from this nomination is this: Bad things happen when a President decides that "diversity," personal loyalty and stealth are more important credentials for the Supreme Court than knowledge of the Constitution and battle-hardened experience fighting the judicial wars of the past 30 years."

Yep.

And we see what happens when people place their loyalties in people instead of principles.


16 posted on 10/20/2005 9:50:48 PM PDT by flashbunny (What is more important: Loyalty to principles, or loyalty to personalities?)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
"Bad things happen when a President decides that "diversity," personal loyalty and stealth are more important credentials for the Supreme Court than knowledge of the Constitution and battle-hardened experience fighting the judicial wars of the past 30 years...
that sums it up. SIGH!!!
17 posted on 10/20/2005 9:55:27 PM PDT by Toidylop
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To: gpapa

A major blunder by a major blunderer.


18 posted on 10/20/2005 9:59:12 PM PDT by tomahawk
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To: phelanw

She's an intellectual lightweight.

What a farce.


19 posted on 10/20/2005 10:00:34 PM PDT by tomahawk
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To: tomahawk

Why do you think she's stupid?


20 posted on 10/20/2005 10:02:42 PM PDT by Ramius (Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 900 knives and counting!)
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