CNN: HARRIET MIERS HAS WITHDRAWN!

[SoFloFreeper]

just breaking!!!!!!!!

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>President Bush didn't "cave." His nominee withdrew her candidacy when the Dems requested privileged communications between her and the President. She bowed out so that the Dems couldn't compel her to break attorney/client confidentiality.

Looks like Krauthammer got his exit strategery after all...

[inquest]

You tell me how someone with built up credentials are getting past the Dems and pro-choice GOP Senators?!

See #862 and #1343 on this thread.

[Nam Vet]

I did say I was vehemently opposed to Bush's stated policy on immigration, but seeing this is not an immigration thread, I didn't expand on that point.

Nam Vet

[conservativebabe]

pray=prey

sorry

[mosquitobite]

Oh please. *rolling eyes*

[caryatid]

You're OK with calling an accomplished lawyer "The Cleaning Lady"?

I have never called anyone "The Cleaning Lady" ... except for the lady who cleans for me ... and, I treat her with respect and pay her considerably more than the going rate in our locality.

The Miers nomination is history. Get over it and move on.

[jmc813]

JRB is a Libertarian and cannot be trusted by Conservatives of Freepers. You guys have to come up with a better candidate or you'll have mandatory gay marriage and adoption forced down everybody's throats.

You're on crack. First of all a Libertarian (capital L) is a member of the Libertarian Party, which JRB has never been. A small-l libertarian, on the other hand, is one who believes in a government small in size and scope and individual liberties, in other words, the things this forum's mission statement advocates. Did you know that Ronald Reagan called libertarianism the "heart and soul" of conservatism?

Also, your comments about JRB advocating "mandatory gay marriage and adoption" is ludicrous. She might support the right of the states to make such decisions, but would never advocate a national policy.

[TAdams8591]

"I didn't. You said that changing parties doesn't mean beliefs change. You don't know any such thing about anyone who has changed parties."

Precisely my point. People on this forum were assuming because Miers changed parties she had a conversion and her beliefs changed.

I am saying Miers or anyone's changing parties does not prove beliefs changed. Number one case in point is Arlen Specter.

Furthermore, there was no compelling evidence, Miers beliefs changed one iota. Nothing. Zilch, zip, nada.

[puroresu]

Thanks again!

We'll have to respectfully disagree. I have no problem at all responding to viciousness with viciousness, epecially when the alternative is to respond to viciousness with an offer of compromise. The reason we have to send up stealth nominees for the court, while the Democrats are free to send up any outright left-winger they please, is precisely because we allowed their bullying to become standard operating procedure.

[andie74]

I have but three letters: J.R.B.

Great minds think so much alike. I LIVE for your posts!

[steveegg]

An unsigned opinion with no indication of whether there was a dissent doesn't indicate much; just that at least 5 unnamed Lawgivers in Black decided that "no" doesn't mean "no". Besides, there was the same doubt about Miers' willingness to overturn Roe.

[Cboldt]

I don't think some of them realize that the PROCESS, has been thrown out the window.

Supreme Court Nominations Not Confirmed, 1789-2004
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL31171.pdf

[Tree of Liberty]

LOL, yeeaah, the court, sure, that's what I meant :P

[pollyannaish]

Have you seen that poster from despair.com?

If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.

As sad as it is, there is probably truth to that.

[Txsleuth]

I was asked what she had EVER done to deserve respect.

I was NOT asked about her suitablity for the Supreme Court.

[borkrules]

I'm having a GREAT day, thanks!

I'll put Cannon's book on my list, son.

And, on reflection, trying to disabuse you of your notion that Reagan was less than conservative or less conservative than your hero, George W. Bush (who I like, mind you); isn't worth my time.

You're doing a fine job cementing your well earned rep as a total Bush tool without any further input from me.

Carry on!

[SupplySider]

And now all the Miers haters are gearing up to do the same to the next person the President nominates.

Only if the next person is another stealth candidate put forward for his/her personal beliefs.

[cake_crumb]

"are not baseless accusations. "

They were baseless accusations when they were made before the hearings ever started. It is EXACTLY like being framed for a crime. Try again.

Yes it's over.

Until the next "wrong" nominee comes up.

[Republic of Texas]

You're OK with calling an accomplished lawyer "The Cleaning Lady"?

Hell, we have attorneys in Dallas that call themselves the "Big Dog", the "Hammer" and the "Texas Strongarm". She's a big girl, she plays in the big leagues. Don't cry for Harriet, she'll be fine. If that comment drove her out, she really never had the neccessary fortitude for the job after all.

[jennyjenny]

Ann Coulter may be right about that. It was the viciousness, the threats of not voting at all or leaving the party all together, and ads ran by conservatives where we're basically eating our own in public, that I have a huge problem with. I do not see how that helps the party or conservatives at all in the long run.