Posted on 10/07/2005 9:10:28 AM PDT by Sabramerican
My "Dear George" Letter
Sorry, George, but you lost me at Harriet. When a reporter asked you Oct. 4 if Harriet Miers was the most qualified possible candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court and you answered, "Yes þ I picked the best person I could find" ‹ and you did it with a straight face ‹ that was it.
I'm done. Check, please! I'm outta here.
I am no longer a George W. Bush supporter. As a conservative, I have been bitch-slapped by this man for the last time. Those suffering from "Battered Conservative's Syndrome" will no doubt make excuses and find some reason to stay with this serial abuser of our principles, but not me. I have had enough.
I've had enough of defending a "conservative" president who has spent money faster and grown government bigger than any president since LBJ. I've had enough of a "conservative" who refuses to do anything to secure our borders, and whose only plan to stop illegal immigration is to hand out temporary worker permits to create even MORE future illegals.
And George, when you look me in the eye and throw me a good old-fashioned Bill Clinton "I did not have sex with that woman" line like Harriet Miers is the most qualified person in America for the Supreme Court þ buddy, you're on your own.
It's bad enough that she's hardly conservative and has no record of achievement. Mr. President, making an affirmative-action appointment of an unqualified crony to one of the highest offices of the land is wrong, no matter what your politics. It's not just a mistake. It is shameful. You should be ashamed of yourself.
The fact that you aren't is the reason you just lost me.
Again and again, watching you throw tax dollars around like a drunken teenager at a New Orleans strip joint, I've told myself, "Stick with George, because he gets the big ones right." And the biggest of the "big ones" has always been rescuing America from an out-of-control, activist Supreme Court. You promised me a Scalia. Instead, you're sticking me with a "sistah," a woman whose qualifications for the Supreme Court begin and end in her brassiere.
She's no Scalia. She's no Thomas. She's not even a Ginsburg or a Souter. She's a joke ‹ FEMA's Michael Brown in a skirt. In fact, that's an insult to Brown, who had at least some experience as a judge, if only at horse shows.
Your nomination of Harriet Miers is an insult to the court, to conservatives and to any American who cares about competence. She's an utterly unqualified crony who has never sat on the bench, never written on constitutional issues, never been involved in a single significant issue or overseen an important case. According to you, Mr. President, she's been your attorney off and on for 10 years, and you've never once discussed the issue of abortion and the Constitution!
Good grief, my mailman and I have had that conversation.
George, you have done more than merely betray your conservative supporters. You have embarrassed us. You have made incompetence and cronyism part of the conservative character. You kept CIA director George Tenet after the worst terrorist attack in American history occurred on his watch. You kept Michael "Best In Show" Brown in a job at FEMA he was never qualified to do. And now you're giving the Dallas Library Lady a seat on the highest court in the land and telling us, "Trust me, I know she's good"?
Sorry, no dice.
Trust you? You just went on TV and told me that Harriet Miers is the most qualified person in America to sit on the Supreme Court! C'mon George, even Harriet's MOM doesn't believe that.
And now we find out that, in addition to giving campaign checks to Al Gore, Miers chaired an American Bar Association panel that recommended legalization of gay adoption and American participation in the International Criminal Court ‹ both liberal positions that you oppose. So mediocre is the Miers pick that your supporters have already fallen back to the "Don't worry, we'll probably get another pick before Bush is gone" defense.
Mr. President, if you honestly believe that Harriet Miers is the most qualified candidate, then you wouldn't be qualified to be president.
But you don't believe it, and you know it. The question is "why?" You've got 55 Republicans in the Senate, you had a dozen well-qualified conservative candidates you could have chosen from, several of them women. Why pick an incompetent crony when you held all the cards?
I fear that, when all the layers are pulled away, we will find that your answer will be "because I wanted to." You knew it would leave conservatives disappointed and despondent; you know she's a second-rate nominee at best; but in your heart you are what I've always feared you were: a Bushie, a spoiled, rich-kid president's son who has spent your life doing what you wanted whenever you wanted and making sure everyone else knows it. The more people complained about cronyism, the more determined you were to shove one down our throats.
Well, Mr. President, you've certainly made that perfectly clear. You've told my fellow conservatives and me that you don't need us. That's fine, George, because we don't need you.
I'm done. I'm off the team. I have gone from a George Bush believer who reluctantly criticized you when necessary to an avowed critic who will support your positions when I can, but not your presidency.
Harriet Miers, "The best possible nominee?" That's like saying "George W. Bush, the best possible Republican president."
What a joke.
I lost any respect I had for Benedict Bush!
I will not give another dime to the RINO party.
Excuse? Try reality. I do not like the fact that the pressident chose an unknown over someone who would give us the warm fuzzies, but you have to deal with reality.
FACT: Any judge that I would REALLY like would be filibustered by the 'Rats.
FACT: The GOP does NOT have enough votes to force a rules change as the infamous "gang of 14" showed.
A frontal assault would be a fruitless expenditure of energy and political capital. I have accepted that we must trust the president on this matter and that Harriet Miers is a stealth constitutionalist who will get in the SC underneath the 'Rats' radar.
You can continue to shovel sh#t against the tide if you like, but I prefer to choose my battles more carefully.
Oh, it goes way beyond the nomination of Attorney Miers FRiend. I haven't formed an opinion on her.
What does it say about the Republican Party if it cannot rule with a majority? Do you remember Democrats throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s complaining that they didn't have enough of a majority to push their agenda through? I think not.
The FACT of the matter is that Republicans are unable to rule no matter how big or a majority they have. They've--we've--either still got battered-party syndrome from being the minority party for 50 years or there are not sufficient conservatives left to exercise fiscal restraint.
Oddly, it seems we've been most successful with a conservative Republican President and a hostile Congress.
Harriet Miers may or may not be a good pick, but it is obvious that the pick itself was a capitulatory move.
Hell, we have known since the GOP capitulated to the 'toon after the governmnet shutdown over the non-existant "Medicare cuts" in '95 that the GOP has no idea how to lead. They are a freak of nature, spineless, gutless, brainless, and no balls. anything like that is doomed to extinction. It is probably best that we stop feeding it and let it die quicker.
"Hell, we have known since the GOP capitulated to the 'toon after the governmnet shutdown over the non-existant "Medicare cuts" in '95 that the GOP has no idea how to lead."
The GOP capitulated because conservatives didn't bother to give any substantial support. When the constituent snail-mail into a Congress-critter's office is running 170-1 against his stance, he's going to start looking for a way to back down.
Bttt
Play with the toys you no longer have?
Graham's article reflects the feelings of a high percentage of conservatives.
We have been betrayed.
Guess who to balme for that? George Bush! Don't blame conservatives for showing their outrage--place the blame where it belongs, squarely on George Bush.
The "most qualified candidate" by George Bush = Scumbag's "I never had sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinski."
From Thomas Sowell.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1498234/posts
When it comes to taking on a tough fight with the Senate Democrats over judicial nominations, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist doesn't really have a majority to lead. Before the President nominated anybody, before he even took the oath of office for his second term, Senator Arlen Specter was already warning him not to nominate anyone who would rile up the Senate. Later, Senator John Warner issued a similar warning. It sounded like a familiar Republican strategy of preemptive surrender.
Before we can judge how the President played his hand, we have to consider what kind of hand he had to play. It was a weak hand -- and the weakness was in the Republican Senators. Does this mean that Harriet Miers will not be a good Supreme Court justice if she is confirmed? It is hard to imagine her being worse than Sandra Day O'Connor -- or even as bad.
"Don't act surprised when you find this site filled with hypocrites and koolaid guzzlers"
Thats what I want to see these people do-- they call all of these people like coulter, ingraham, rush, krauthammer, levin, malkin, etc -- elitist. They attack them for having these dissenting opinions. So lets hold them to their word, they should never column or listen to these people again-- after all, who the hell wants to listen to a bunch of ELITISTS, right???
What you know about Harriet now is about 95% of what you will ever learn from this point forward. Unless you feel like you might learn something from watching a trial lawyer refuse to answer questions before a committee. This women has been alive for 60 years and has written greeting cards not legal opinions.
You are mistaken thinking you can form an opinion during a shame hearing with the RATS asking stupid questions. Everyone but you knows that there is nothing to learn about what she truly believes from these hearings.
Since when have the Senate confirmation hearings become the place to learn about the heart and soul of a nominee? This is the dumbest thing that I see on the F.P. about this huge mistake by the president. Trust me.
Ok, you lost me on that one, friend.
"Fine Mike, sorry to see you go. aaa where you going anyway?"
That's the damn problem. The Republican party feels like we have no power so they just take our votes for granted. Kinda like the Dems do to my people. But I digress. The point is...if politicians already KNOW THAT THEY HAVE YOUR VOTE...WHY SHOULD THEY FIGHT FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN?
Lol..I think you forgot about the condesending conservatives pointing out how we are sexist or not giving her "fair treatment." I guess if Bush even nominated Barney or Big Bird we would be supposed to just sit here and suffer in silence..(sigh)
We are not the result oriented party remember? We are the ones who want strict constructionalists. Not somebody who is just gonna vote the right way in Roe vs Wade. Come on. When did our standards get so low? WHATEVER HAPPENED TO APPLYING A ORIGINALIST METHEODOLOGY TO THE COURT CULTURE. That takes more than just a few correct votes. One word changed and it can have ramafications on thousands of cases...
Anyone with any respect would not call President Bush "George" in a serious letter to him. If you are going to post a letter to George, it should be something you would mail.
And referring to "bitch slapping" in a letter to George is not very conservative either. I stopped reading at this point as this was obviously another extremist looking for a soapbox.
Let Ms. Miers speak in the confirmation hearings and we can all decide what we think of her intellect, her temperment, and her ability to think on her feet in front of a hostile crowd.
Who is Michael Graham?
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