Posted on 10/07/2005 9:10:28 AM PDT by Sabramerican
One question, would you rather have Ruth Bader Ginsberg, or Harriet Miers? Ginsberg is a Rocket Scientist compared to Miers, who is merely a technician at Estes Corp. I got that..
Here is where I get stupid. I think any conservative leaning person, but especially an accomplished lawyer, can read a few books about the Constitution, the Founders, The Federalist papers (of a conservative bent of course), and be a better Supreme Court Judge than half the Jurists we have there already. Am I out of my mind? HOW HARD IS IT to interpret the Constitution, when you are going to do it STRICTLY?
I'd say I trust more Freepers (assuming they'd do a couple of weeks of reading and homework) with this job than I would the 4 liberals sitting on the court right now.
Ok, so I am a blabbering idiot, I know, my wife never says that outright, but I can see it in her eyes sometimes, and my 2 little kids make me feel like it often enough...
he's a former local DC, WMAL, talk radio host. Fired for some arab inspired opposition to stuff he said on air.
And under-qualified justices make that much more likely to happen. Check and balance. It's not just for the 20th century.
You know, if we repealed the 17th Amendment, it would go a long way in returning this country to the correct path.
Bump!
I've yet to see anybody on here say that.
But she IS the pick.
Then you and others MUST work even harder to get more conservative Senators elected because as it is now there is NOT a conservative majority in that body.
Just imagine the damage that could be done to the judiciary if the RINOS teamed up with the DUmmies to defeat that judge with the long conservative record they can distort.
Remember what they did to Pickering.
False dichotomy, I believe.
Ok, let me pose a question - why are so many people opposed to Harriet Miers? Most people know next to nothing about her and they automatically assume she's a bad choice. Why?
We complained loudly about the negative press that The Passion of the Christ received long before it was released by people who had never seen the movie. People who had no knowledge of the film or its content. How does that differ from the Harriet Miers nomination?
We gnash our teeth in anger when a credit bureau denies credit to someone because they have no credit history. Same principle - why is the LACK of information a bad thing?
Look, I don't know Harriet Miers from a box of Krispy Kremes, but I'm willing to wait until the evidence is in before I make a decision about her nomination. If I decide that she's not qualified based on not having any information about her, how dumb does that make me?
Rather than beat her and W up when the facts aren't in, let's be a little circumspect and give her the chance to defend herself and justify the nomination before bashing her out of ignorance.
By the time this is over, you and I will be the only two left in the Republican party.
It's an attack of the Wrist Slitting Conservatives! It's quite embarassing. :-)
I agree with your post 51. This is a troll to be sure. How come no one has zotted this? I'm dissappointed in my fellow vikings.
Don't kid yourself; there's a lot more of US than there are of the WSC's!
NO ONE on here has said that. but those that are opening their veins, and preparing to mount the hale bopp in their purple shrouds and, nikes continue to accuse anyone remaining rational, of doing so.
This will become a classic!
WSC!! LOL!
UH, and that itself is partly Bush's doing, since he throws his support behind RINOs in the primaries. You seem to think that Bush has his hands tied by the presence of the RINOs. The reality is that he likes them.
Matter of fact, I don't think the liberals or the Dems have suggested it either. I think Mr. Bush is alone on this one.
P.S. what really agravates me is that Stevens was appointed by Ford, O'Connor and Kennedy by RR, and Souter by Bush I yet NONE of them can be counted on to vote with the Constitution.
It very well could be. I assumed as much before, but maybe Bush knows things that we dont.
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