[libstripper]

Although this article is from the NTY, it closely dovetails with and supplements the very similar article from the Washington Times that was recently posted here. It fully supports everything published in that article and gives more details.

[rhombus]

So now the Times and the Post "speak the truth"?

[libstripper]

Here's the link to the Washington Times article I mentione in this post: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1500941/posts

[Theodore R.]

Is there much chance, do you think, that this nomination will be pulled? I don't like seeing her subjected to such unfairness, but I do not believe that she will resist the liberalism of the Supreme Court once confirmed.

[Nextrush]

Does Harriet Miers understand that the Supreme Court has
turned the Constitution into toilet paper and changed the meaning of the Constitution to fit their own personal
opinions? I'm not here to hate her or President Bush but
the stakes are too high for a question mark.

[Neville72]

The snowball's rolling. Another Miers critic does a turnaround:


David Warren begins his piece with this confession:

In the week since [his initial announcement of opposition], much dust has settled, and it has become clear that Ms
Miers is acceptable to the broad rightwing Republican constituency, and to not a few Democrats. She is despised, chiefly, by the rightwing intellectuals (people like me), who were heartbroken that Mr Bush would pass over the long list of brilliant, strict-constructionist legal scholars that have arisen in response to the challenge presented by two generations of often deconstructionist rulings by the same Supreme Court.

But for now, President Bush's apparently weak argument, "Trust me," is beginning to look much sounder.

Perhaps the great Texas jurisprude, Lino Graglia, put this best, in an interview with Hugh Hewitt. To paraphrase: the Supremes are in the habit of arrogating to themselves decisions that should really be made by the people (on everything from abortion, pornography, and school prayer, to all-male military academies in the State of Virginia).

Power naturally flows to their heads. Yet the Constitution had nothing to say about such things, and explicitly left what it had nothing to say about, to the people. It is this trust in the people that has made America the beacon she is.

And Harriet Miers may be exactly the sort of real-world type who can understand that. And George Bush, from knowing her well over a long time, is in a good position to know she knows. She doesn't need bells, whistles, and law degrees from Harvard and Yale. It might even be helpful not to have them.