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2005/10/27-29 [Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:40299 Activity:low
10/27   Does anyone else believe this BULLSHIT that Miers withdrew?
        A much more likely sequence of events is Dubya's people hinting they
        would no longer mind, and actually prefer it.  Miers, ever loyal,
        obliges, and they spin it as Miers withdrawing to Dubya's opposition.
        \_ Well duh, were you born yesterday?
           \_ sorry, reading too much freerepublic
              http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1510152/posts
              "Withdrew herself?"
              "Yes.  Letter from her." ...
              "It was the right decision, and I respect her greatly for making
              it." ...
              "Miers took one for the team"
                \_ The surgeon general has determined that reading too much
                   freerepublic may be hazardous to your comprehension of
                   reality.
        \_ Actually I think Bush is stubborn enough to have kept her at least
           through the senate hearings.  Did you read Krauthammer's column?  He
           pretty much presented the scenario that happened:
           http://csua.org/u/dum -emarkp
           \- just out of curiosity why does it matter if she jumped or
              was pushed? i mean i can understand curious speculation but
              you seem to be OUTRAGED.
              \_ ??? It'd be better if she was pushed, i.e. GWB came to his
                 senses.  How do I appear to be OUTRAGED? -emarkp
                 \- I am referring to the OP. I dont know if you are the OP
                    or not.
                    \_ Odd.  I was responding to the OP--you responded to me.
                       I don't know why I'd respond to myself. -emarkp
              you (mr "BULLSHIT" OP) seem to be OUTRAGED.
              \_ Odd.  I was responding to the OP--you responded to me.  I
                 don't know why I'd respond to myself. [and why you keep
                 deleting this instead of fixing your followup to be to the OP
                 is a mystery] -emarkp
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View Replies To: SoFloFreeper FROM THE AP: WASHINGTON (AP) -- Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers has withdrawn her nomination. View Replies To: SoFloFreeper And now all the Miers haters are gearing up to do the same to the next pe rson the President nominates. View Replies To: COEXERJ145 And now all the Miers haters are gearing up to do the same to the next pe rson the President nominates. View Replies To: Mr Jeeves it was a Rovian conspiracy all along. now they pop in a real conservative woman and get ready to point fingers at the dems and pubs for harrassin g HM. View Replies To: TommyDale Let's get a firebrand - and please, no finger pointing. Miers took one fo r the team - appropriate in this World Series time. View Replies To: Mr Jeeves ED Hill just said that a list of people he was considering asked to be removed because they didn't want to go through the hearings process. View Replies To: SoFloFreeper I had predicted it by Friday, but now, at least, we can move forward with a more competent nominee. View Replies To: livius Just remember most of the people who opposed Miers were the same who oppo sed Roberts and oppose everything the Preisdent does. They hate him just as much as the kook left does which is why they sound more and more lik e them every day. View Replies To: jporcus Scalia just said that he would not let himself be nominated today because of the personal abuse a nominee gets. View Replies To: Bushbacker1 This is the beginning of the bush/rove push-back. Ain't seen nothing like what's to come, especially if indictments are handed down. MediaCrats (the Dems are just too ineffective to be considered a serious opponent). View Replies To: COEXERJ145 The same crowd will be yelling for the next crucifixion if a strong Evang elical is nominated. last Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
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A WASHINGTON -- It's no secret that I think the Harriet Miers nomination wa s a mistake. Nonetheless, when asked how she will do in the hearings, my answer is, I hope she does well. Nor would I take any joy in seeing her rejected, though I continue to believe it would be best for the country that she not be confirmed for t he Supreme Court. And while I remain as exercised as anyone by the lack of wisdom of t his choice, I part company from those who see the Miers nomination as a betrayal of conservative principles. The idea that Bush is looking to ap point some kind of closet liberal David Souter or even some rudderless S andra Day O'Connor clone is wildly off the mark. The president's mistake was thinking he could sneak a reliable conservative past the liberal li tmus tests (on abortion, above all) by nominating a candidate at once ex ceptionally obscure and yet exceptionally well known to him. Her obscurity is the result of her lack of constitutional history, which, in turn, ro bs her of the minimum qualifications for service on the Supreme Court. A nd while, post-Bork, stealth seems to be the most precious asset a conse rvative Supreme Court nominee can have, how stealthy is a candidate who has come out publicly for a constitutional amendment to ban abortion? At first she will have to pass an implicit competency test. As case upon case is thrown at her on national televis ion, she dare not respond, as she apparently did to Sen. Sam Brownback who will try to establish some grounds to believe tha t she has a judicial philosophy, and it is conservative. And then there will be the Democrats who, in their first act of politica l wisdom in this millennium, have held their fire on Miers, under the ol d political axiom that when your opponent is committing suicide, you get out of the way. But now that Miers is so exposed on abortion, the Democ rats will be poised like a reserve cavalry to come over the hills to att ack her from the left -- assuming she has survived the attack from the r ight. When the chairman and ranking me mber of the Judiciary Committee express bipartisan exasperation, annoyan ce and almost indignation at her answers to the committee's simple quest ionnaire, she's got trouble. This after she confused Chairman Specter ab out her position on Griswold, the second most famous right to privacy' ' case ever, and seemed confused when answering ranking Democrat Leahy's question about her favorite justice. John Fund reports th at in a conference call of conservative leaders, two confidantes of Mier s explicitly said that she would overturn Roe. The subsequent denials by one of these judges that he ever said that, and the subsequent affirmat ion by two of the people who had heard the call that in fact he did say so, create the nightmare scenario of subpoenaed witnesses contradicting each other under oath over Miers. Lindsey Graham has been a staunch and public supporter of this nomin ee. Yet on Wednesday he joined Brownback in demanding privileged documen ts from Miers' White House tenure. For a nominee who, unlike John Roberts, has practically no previous record on constitutional issues, such documentation is essential for the Senate to judge her thinking and legal acumen. But there is no way that any president would release this kind of information -- policy docume nts'' and legal analysis'' -- from such a close confidante. It would f orever undermine the ability of any president to get unguarded advice. Which creates a classic conflict, not of personality, not of compete nce, not of ideology, but of simple constitutional prerogatives: The Sen ate cannot confirm her unless it has this information. And the White Hou se cannot allow release of this information lest it jeopardize executive privilege. Hence the perfectly honorable way to solve the conundrum: Miers with draws out of respect for both the Senate and the executive's prerogative s, the Senate expresses appreciation for this gracious acknowledgment of its needs and responsibilities, and the White House accepts her decisio n with the deepest regret and with gratitude for Miers' putting preserva tion of executive prerogative above personal ambition. Second Chances: Call President Bush about Judicia l Nominations" With Harriet Miers' withdrawal from contention, President Bush has an opp ortunity to recommend a new candidate for nomination to the US Supreme Court. Call the President and tell him to keep his campaign promise... by Tim Chapman (Oct 27, 2005) Once thought to be the party of fiscal discipline, the Republican Party has presided over an astronomical growth in government in recent years.