Geez Louise!
What the heck do you think she has been ding for the last three years or so?
This is one of her primary functions at the WH, and she vetted Roberts, and all the other picks for the Appeals Courts!
So she needs to be fired now???
Is that what you are suggesting????
I'm almost catatonic. I have never witnesses so much off the wall comments in one place, other that DU.
I am just flabbergasted at some of the thinking here. Just amazed.....
Earth to Cold Heart.
To vet is not to choose.
Pick up a dictionary while you are out.
" This is one of her primary functions at the WH, and she vetted Roberts, and all the other picks for the Appeals Courts!"
WRONG! That has been debunked.
The vast majority of the vetting and nominations took place long before harriet miers was in the position to do the vetting.
" What the heck do you think she has been ding for the last three years or so?"
She has been staff secretary for most of that time.
She has been white house counsel for under a year.
Miers was named WH Counsel in March 2005. The below list shows the dates the Circuit Court nominees were first nominated. Note that some of the nominations reach back to 2001 .. Boyle was first nominated to the 4th Circuit in 1991, by GHWB! All of the Circuit Court nominees fronted in February 2005 were carried over from the 108th Congress.
Feminist Daily News Wire
February 15, 2005
Bush Renominates 7 Judicial Nominees Previously Blocked by Senate Democrats
On Monday, President Bush renominated seven of the ten judicial nominees that were blocked by Democratic filibusters during his first term because of their extreme right-wing records. An additional five of the 20 nominations sent to the Senate yesterday include nominees whose confirmations were slowed because of Democratic opposition to their ultra-conservative backgrounds.
For the Court of Appeals:
For District Courts:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/23/bush.judiciary/
The current status of the nominees was obtained at ...
http://www.independentjudiciary.com/nominees/ and
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/executive_calendar/xcalv.pdf
Sen. SMITH (R-NH): In November of 1991, President Bush nominated Lillian R. BeVier, a conservative from Virginia who had testified for Robert Bork. That was her first mistake. Lord help us, she was a conservative, No. 1, in the Democrat years here. No. 2, she testified on behalf of Robert Bork. She was nominated to the Fourth Circuit. Guess what happened to her. Her nomination languished for a whole year. Finally, the committee deep- sixed her at the end of the Bush Presidency--gone, didn't see the light of day. I guess that was unconstitutional. If it is unconstitutional now, surely it was unconstitutional then.Of course, it is not unconstitutional. You have that right. On the same day, President Bush nominated Terrence W. Boyle to the Fourth Circuit. Again, the chairman [Biden] put a hold on the nomination for an entire year. It languished in the darkness of Judiciary and never saw the light of day.
Here is an article from 1992. It says: ``North Carolina Judge One of 50 Bush Court Nominations that Won't be Approved.'' It talks about the intentional strategy of Chairman Biden to delay and kill Bush nominees because of the likely Clinton victory. That speaks for itself.
Directions to the Congressional Record of the 2000 debate:106th Congress - Page S1211 - March 7, 2000
Click here -> Senate - March 7, 2000
Navigate to -> 19. NOMINATIONS OF RICHARD A. PAEZ AND MARSHA L. BERZON--Continued --
106th Congress - Page S1212 - March 7, 2000
Putting Miss Miers in charge of vetting the next nominee reminds me of some of the big USA companies whose long-time employees are directed as their last act to train cheaper immigrant workers to replace them.
I've been wondering how long it would take for Ms. Mier's detractors to figure out that if she wasn't to be trusted on the SCOTUS she sure shouldn't be the main gatekeeper for those who would be getting the nomination to sit on the Court. Sounds like it's dawning on folks.