Posted on 10/10/2005 10:42:41 AM PDT by ejdrapes
Why is every BS alarm in my house going off right at this minute?
If this is representative of Frum's thinking (or lack thereof) on the Miers issue.......
No rational, sane adult would hire a lawyer for a stupid parking ticket!
I used to respect Frum, but this article is causing me to reevaluate.
Frum is a pro-abort. I really have no use for what he has to say.
My biggest problem with the nomination right now is that it has split everybody down the middle. (Sekulow, Dobson, Robertson, FOR) (Noonan, Coulter, Bork AGAINST)(Estrich/Reid FOR)(Feinstein/Cleft AGAINST). Some of the others (Limbaugh) have left some wiggle room but are generally skeptical.
I do believe that killing the nomination and waiting for another one may result in something WORSE. (e.g. Edith Clement or that Hispanic "moderate" lady from California).
We actually have no choice but to trust Bush; because he has to initiate ANY nominee.
Frankly, I'd rather have a good conservative, which Meirs may well be, at least on the social issues that are more important, than a brilliant moderate or liberal. I do believe however, that if she was so politically flexible in the '80's, she may return to that. On the other hand, if Roberts is the real deal, than he and Scalia and probably persuade her better than Stevens and Ginsburg.
One VERY GOOD THING about an SMU grad like Meirs. She is almost certainly impervious to the temptation to yield to "social vanity" put before her by the likes of LAwrence Tribe. I wish I could say the same about Anthony Kennedy, who looked good...on paper.
President George W. Bush gets to pick the nominee and you get to piss and moan.
Harriet Meirs is an excellent choice!
Let The Good Times Roll!
thumbing comes to my mind. of course I am in a big minority here.
Yes, it's anonymously sourced, but I doubt whether Frum would dare tell an outright lie about this. And it's not surprising that it's anonymous, because whoever leaked this would "never have lunch in this town again" if his name were known.
Like the Alberto Gonzales reaction..."I don't like it when somebody talks bad about my friends" or whatever the exact quote was.
Or Lindsey Graham telling conservatives to "shut up."
I'll bet GWB was caught off guard that he may have to listen to his base (although I seriously doubt he will.)
Like the Alberto Gonzales reaction..."I don't like it when somebody talks bad about my friends" or whatever the exact quote was.
Or Lindsey Graham telling conservatives to "shut up."
I'll bet GWB was caught off guard that he may have to listen to his base (although I seriously doubt he will.)
This entire thing is so bogus.
I love it when so called conservatives all of a sudden discover that the only sources they can get to talk are all anonymous. And that doesn't raise alarm bells with ANYONE??
I think it's far more likely that Frum got squeezed out of any significant policy role beyond writing speeches and this is a bit of payback.
I won't believe anything Frum or Kristol or any of they rest of the Whaa Chorus reports "they heard" unless they name some names and those people are willing to back it up themselves.
It's been reported by whom? This sounds like the NYT and their usual sourceless stories.
They've now resorted to making things up out of whole cloth to Bash Miers. Frum is a crumb.
He and Coulter must have read a different transcript of the Starr comments from the one posted here.
The next blurb from Frum will be worse. Count on it. I can almost hear the voice of Jon Lovitz from SNL when I read his stuff.
I trust Bush more than I trust Frum.
"I think she's terrific."
"She is enormously talented."
"There is a track record of extraordinary service."
In fact, this is the least tepid I have ever seen Starr. Frum is a very strange person IMO.
One would hope. I am really amazed how out of control this whole thing has gotten. I mean, I was as PO'd as anybody. And I'm still very doubtful about this nomination. But even I calmed down after a couple of days. But this thing is just feeding on itself.
I'm a Harriet Miers agnostic (at best!) and I think this piece is over the top and ugly.
Frum's showing a side that I, frankly, don't much care for.
To stop Roosevelt's reforms, party bosses had him "kicked upstairs" to the vice presidency under William McKinley, thinking that in this position they could keep him under control.
Roosevelt's efforts helped insure victory for McKinley, who was assassinated one year into his second term in 1901, making "that damned cowboy," in the words of party boss Mark Hanna, President of the United States.
If Andy Card did in fact kick Miers upstairs, she might have a future as a Supreme Court Justice. - Tom
Korsakoff's syndrome?
I'm really surprised at the pettiness of some of this stuff.
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