Antonin Scalia Defends Miers

Newsmax ^ | 10/9/5

[Howlin]

Well, of course you're right; so since we can never be POSITIVE about anything, let's just leave this seat open until 2008 and let the next president fill it, okay?

[BushisTheMan]

The TRUTH is EVERY PERSON KNOWN ON THAT LIST was MORE qualified.

I think you are being over the top here. Has Priscilla Owens been selected as one of the top 50 lawyers in American. If not, your statement is a lie.

[Howlin]

You're right about that.

[Mike Darancette]

since Scalia's death

OMG, Scalia's dead too?

[jdm]

"Roberts was a judge. He obviously is not talking about Roberts."

Yeah, I messed up bigtime on that. I do sincerely apologize. I stand corrected.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Bush-hater!

(Sarcasm)

:0)

[af_vet_1981]

After all he is NOT really a conservative in the mold of Thomas, now is he?

I think Scalia voted against pornography.

[rwfromkansas]

No problem.

Have a good day.

[rwfromkansas]

um......I mean Rehnquist's death.

cough cough

Heaven help us when Scalia goes! I hope he lives to 95.

[rwfromkansas]

oops

[BushisTheMan]

Oh, there are not many others who are far better qualified?

Don't know to tell you the truth. But if there were, they either could not be vetted, could not get approved, and were definitely NOT NOMINATED.

[Sabramerican]

Knowing Bush there is virtually no chance that he will relent.

So when do private Social Security accounts go into effect?

[Howlin]

The other thing that they don't seem to understand is that, like a child having a temper tantrum, being left along with your own screaming is not a sign of victory...it is a sign of abandonment. I'm not going to change my mind and they are not going to change their mind...so my solution is to just wander off and wait till it's over and we can go back to rational discussion.

A most excellent observation.

Some days, I wonder where all the grown ups have gone.

You haven't been here long enough to know that we go through these cycles periodically.

You should have been here the day Bush picked Cheney as his VP; it was actually worse than this.

[George W. Bush]

"Never having met her, I have no impression of her," Scalia said of the president's lawyer."

If Scalia made a comment about Miers, this is it.

It is perhaps a bit telling that Scalia, who knows every constitutational scholar and jurist that merits notice, has no knowledge of Miers.

[ThePythonicCow]

... <grin>

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

I have an even better question.

Has there ever been a nominee for a seat on the Supreme Court whose views were so indecipherable, in combination with such a paucity of public records by which to judge her suitability for this position?

[Howlin]

It's not condescending at all; it's a fact; she has grown and it sounds like you're still demanding something from the 1950's.

When will you all ever understand that we aren't a party in a glass bowl; we have to work with OTHERS.

[ilovew]

**Debating, disagreement shouldn't be reduced to such nastiness, disrespect.**

Well, look who's talking. I don't think I've ever seen such nastiness and disrespect from someone who claims to dislike both.

[BushisTheMan]

Wrong and you are helping to make it wrong. Here's how it will go:

Democrats will demand all the documents Miers handled in her 5 years in the White House.
Bush will refuse.
Democrats will vote FOR HER because the Conservatives oppose her.
A handful of dissatisfied Republicans will waste their votes and Miers will be approved.