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Who Elected President Bush (And Supports His Choice For Scotus)?
Captain's Quarters Blog Comment ^ | 11 October 2005 | msdl5

Posted on 10/11/2005 4:19:08 PM PDT by shrinkermd

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To: Do not dub me shapka broham
Was Hamilton a confidant of Washington? Would he have gotten his post at the US Treasury if he hadn't been?

No need to answer. I'm just making a point.

141 posted on 10/11/2005 7:15:33 PM PDT by sinkspur (If you're not willing to give Harriett Miers a hearing, I don't give a damn what you think.)
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To: flashbunny
Oh. Well, I stayed off those threads because I knew how they would be, having gone through the 2000 primaries.

I still think it's a shame Ditka didn't run.

142 posted on 10/11/2005 7:15:59 PM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's son and keep him strong.)
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To: Miss Marple

Ditka was probably one of the few chances they had in IL in 2004. It's a state party that's in a heap of hurt, largely due to the problems with the former scandal plagued rino governor.

Keyes never stood a chance, but how he ran his campaign didn't help matters, either.


143 posted on 10/11/2005 7:21:47 PM PDT by flashbunny (Sorry, but I'm allergic to KoolAid.)
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To: My2Cents
Haven't heard this. Can anyone confirm this?

If you are referring to the interview, I believe I read that quote on the Dallas Morning News site but I couldn't find it right now after a quick search. Could be in archive.

This morning I browsed the first paragraph of every article in the archive that mentioned Miers ( preview of articles that could be purchased for a fee ), there was 511 articles. I might have read that quote there. There was a two part interview way back when. Someone who has money should purchase it.

144 posted on 10/11/2005 7:40:10 PM PDT by Jim_Curtis
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To: Jim_Curtis
Found it...People can't figure her out...Her favorite cities are the conservative strongholds of Aspen and San Francisco.
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In 1991, Harriet Miers was the subject of a High Profile feature in The Dallas Morning News. Here are the answers she gave for a self-portrait box. The White House did not respond to a request Monday for an update.


JUAN GARCIA/DMN
Harriet Miers worked at a Dallas law firm in 1991. Date and place of birth:

Aug. 10, 1945, in Dallas

Occupation: lawyer

Favorite movie: The Sound of Music

My ideal vacation: Hawaii or Aspen

I drive a: 1984 Mercedes

My hero is: Mom

The best advice I could give a 20-year-old is: be good, study hard and dream

My last meal would be: ice cream

My trademark cliché or expression is: a pause before I say something

My worst habit is: talking too long on telephone conversations

My best asset is: determination

Behind my back, people say: They can't figure me out.

Guests at my fantasy dinner party: the Apostle Paul, Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Thatcher

I wish I could sing like: Willa Dorsey

If I had a different job, I'd be: a doctor

Favorite city outside Dallas: Aspen or San Francisco

I'm happiest when: I'm around people I like and admire

If I could change one thing about myself, it would be: I would be able to read faster

I regret: not speaking foreign languages

Nobody knows I: hate snakes
145 posted on 10/11/2005 7:54:39 PM PDT by Jim_Curtis
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To: silent_jonny

Thanks for the ping to this refreshing thread, Jonny. I'm really sick of the insults being thrown at people who either want to wait for the hearings or choose to trust GWB's judgement. They call us Bushbots, kookaid drinkers, and such. I know most of it is coming from the hard-right reactionaries, or from Dems disguising themselves as "conservatives." But it's tiresome. So this thread is welcome relief.


146 posted on 10/11/2005 8:07:29 PM PDT by Wolfstar ("And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm." GWB, 1/20/01)
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To: PhilipFreneau
You might be interested in this from this morning's Washington Times:

"James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, said he spoke with Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove on Oct. 1 -- two days before the Miers nomination -- and was told that "Harriet Miers was at the top of the short list."

"Also on that list were several candidates that many conservatives say they would have preferred, Mr. Dobson said on his radio program that was recorded yesterday and will be broadcast today.

"Well, what Karl told me is that some of those individuals took themselves off that list," he said, according to a transcript obtained last night. "They would not allow their names to be considered because the process has become so vicious and so vitriolic and so bitter that they didn't want to subject themselves or the members of their families to it."

"White House officials could not be reached for comment last night.

147 posted on 10/12/2005 5:24:39 AM PDT by shrinkermd
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To: shrinkermd

Excuse me???


148 posted on 10/13/2005 4:37:06 PM PDT by Thumper1960 ("It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed."-V.I.Lenin)
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To: Huck
Spoken like a true elitist.

Can't have them unwashed soiling the great halls of justice.

Hmmmmm....I think I hear a few Demoncrat politicians yelling: "Shut up and pay yer taxes!"

Can't have Miers in there, ohhhhh, noooooooooo.....why, you'd think those average Joes and Janes might think they have a say in how they're governed!

Perish the thought!

149 posted on 10/13/2005 4:41:21 PM PDT by Thumper1960 ("It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed."-V.I.Lenin)
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To: Colonial Warrior
It's sneering elitism, from the Left and the Right. The selfrighteous and sanctimonious who harbor their agendas and who brook no dissent. The so full of themselves pundits and commentators whose britches have stretched tight and whose swollen heads cannot seat a hat. (Yeah, Kristol, et.al., you, bud.) Their collective poisons have damned near killed the body politic of the average folk. I hear it on the jobsites, more than ever. "They're all the same. None of 'em ever worked a decent day in their lives."

I'd expect the Left, for sure, to do whatever they could to kill Miers' chances.

I never expected such a significant part of the Right to stab Bush in the back and act like simpering traitors.

It takes time, but, the false "friends" usually expose their Quisling ways.

150 posted on 10/13/2005 4:55:53 PM PDT by Thumper1960 ("It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed."-V.I.Lenin)
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To: Thumper1960
Man, listening to Laura Ingharam on the radio--which I rarely get the opportunity to do--made me even more convinced that my gut reaction has been correct. I'm waiting for the hearings, and hoping one way or another we learn more about her. But I am really hoping that judicial conservatives will stand up.

Everyone complains about the gang of 14, who actually asserted their will completely within the rules. Instead of whining about it, tip your hat to their political skill, and do something to counteract it.

The GOP Senate won't do it, and I'm sorry, but it sure looks like the president won't either. And all of a sudden, here comes this unified, loud voice of the judicial conservatives asserting themselves, and possibly even applying as much pressure from OUR side as the gang of 14 did from theirs. In short, the people, the ones who care, are actually rising up, being heard, and potentially deflecting a bad nominee.

At which point I guess you'll say she's not a bad nominee, or we should wait and see. OK, fine, we should wait and see. But I LOVE LOVE LOVE the idea of the hearings being held with not ONLY the gang of 14 applying pressure from the mushy moderate side, but the right, represented by the people themselves (can I get a huzzah??), applying pressure on the GOP from the RIGHT. It's a beautiful thing.

I was pessimistic when I thought that this nominee going down would result in a worse nominee. It doesn't have to be that way. But the more I learn, the more I think this one has got to go. Sorry. I'll watch the hearings, and I truly would love, if she does get confirmed, to have egg all over my face come next July when opinions start to roll out. I hope I have a Western Omellette with cheese on my face if that day comes. No lie.

My new mission is to try to respect and promote respect among my judicially conservative brethren. We may disagree, but we want the same thing. My other mission is to post something in 100 words or less.

151 posted on 10/13/2005 7:50:06 PM PDT by Huck (Miers Miers Miers Miers Miers--I'm mired in Miers.)
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To: shrinkermd

I guess you forgot Rush Limbaugh's article "A choice made from weakness" and his home state of Florida


152 posted on 10/13/2005 7:54:44 PM PDT by Vision (When Hillary Says She's Going To Put The Military On Our Borders...She Becomes Our Next President)
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To: Thumper1960

I'm an average joe, too. I don't get a say? What's wrong with this average joe having a say? The elitism thing is simply a pathetic grasp at straws.


153 posted on 10/14/2005 3:34:29 AM PDT by Huck (Miers Miers Miers Miers Miers--I'm mired in Miers.)
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To: Thumper1960
who harbor their agendas

Why are you struggling with this? Of course people harbor agendas. That's just another way of saying they have substantive goals they are willing to fight for. The agenda you harbor seems to be loyalty to GWB. You're the one who's being sanctimonious. Look at you judging and name calling everyone who disagrees with YOU. You're the one sneering.

154 posted on 10/14/2005 3:39:37 AM PDT by Huck (Miers Miers Miers Miers Miers--I'm mired in Miers.)
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To: Huck
au contrair.

My loyalty is the nation and not to a person, or collection of persons. The agendas I refer to are contrarian and self serving agendas. Inconsistent with a "Conservative" agenda. Too many of these *agenda-ists* have gotten too comfortable with the Beltway and the access to the halls of power and opinion shaping that they, themselves, once railed against and disdained with passion.

I will say this, though. Bush has the right to nominate whomever he chooses. It is the kneejerk opposition to a candidate who hasn't the 'experience' of a judge that has me piqued. There is no requirement, whatsoever, that a SCJ be a judge, or have judicial pedigree. The Constitution was created without the advice and consent of Harvard and Columbia autocrats. It is understood to be what it is by millions of Americans who don't need the likes of Schumer, Hildebeast, Spector or the Capitol Hill pinheads telling them who can and should be on the SC.

155 posted on 10/15/2005 1:23:55 PM PDT by Thumper1960 ("It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed."-V.I.Lenin)
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