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Dubya Closes a Door? What Harriet Miers may mean for constitutional law.
National Review ^
| 10/17/5
| Dennis Coyle
Posted on 10/17/2005 9:37:09 AM PDT by Crackingham
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To: BikerNYC
"Who cares if the decisions are memorable? They don't have to be. It doesn't matter how they are written. People don't go on the Supreme Court to write brilliantly worded decisions, they go on it to assert power. A decision can be one page long and the effect would be the same. "You win and you lose. Why? Because we say so."
Thanks for the short/clear dose of reality versus the endless pompous hyperbole from the elites of the beltway.
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posted on
10/17/2005 12:59:41 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Jamie Gorelick is responsible for more dead Americans(9-11) than those killed in Iraq.)
To: KMAJ2
Agreed. And Miers is building sympathy from the grassroots because it appears that the intellectual conservative elites don't like her---for whatever reason. It reminds me of a number of people here on FR during the Clinton years who weren't happy to have Clinton/Gore defeated at the ballot-box: they wanted America to admit "we were wrong." For these same people, it's not enough to get the votes that advance your agenda---they want to rub peoples'noses in it and say, "SEE, we've got the votes, nyahh, nyahhh."
I've always been the quiet kind of "advance-the-agenda" guy, and leave the bluster to the Carville types.
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posted on
10/17/2005 1:00:01 PM PDT
by
LS
(CNN is the Amtrak of news)
To: KMAJ2
Agreed. And Miers is building sympathy from the grassroots because it appears that the intellectual conservative elites don't like her---for whatever reason. It reminds me of a number of people here on FR during the Clinton years who weren't happy to have Clinton/Gore defeated at the ballot-box: they wanted America to admit "we were wrong." For these same people, it's not enough to get the votes that advance your agenda---they want to rub peoples'noses in it and say, "SEE, we've got the votes, nyahh, nyahhh."
I've always been the quiet kind of "advance-the-agenda" guy, and leave the bluster to the Carville-Coulter types.
43
posted on
10/17/2005 1:00:19 PM PDT
by
LS
(CNN is the Amtrak of news)
To: LS
" Funny thing, most of our Founders didn't have legal training---and certainly not of they type expected today. And gee, they only managed to write the Constitution. Yeah, we need some real eggheads up there. You've convinced me."
Oh yeah, Harriet Miers is the caliber of Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Hamilton, et. al. They'd laugh their asses off if they read Harriet's few ramblings. I'd be happy with a Thomas Sowell, or Victor Davis Hanson, or others out of the usual mold.
But please, don't insult us by claiming dumb is genius, and genius is dumb. Harriet Miers is a pedestrian choice, a disappointment. Like pinch hitting the bat boy for Barry Bonds. And please, I would no more trust 9 random citizens with my life than I'd play Russian Roulette with three in the chambers.
GW is a liberal on most issues that matter. And you want us to trust him with Miers?
Just keep repeating to yourself, dumb is smart, dumb is smart, and maybe even you will really believe that.
To: FastCoyote
Interesting you chose the steroid-laden Bonds as an example, but I repeat: I'm more comfortable with a couple of average people on the Court. Yes, AVERAGE, in all levels.
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posted on
10/17/2005 3:00:59 PM PDT
by
LS
(CNN is the Amtrak of news)
To: MNJohnnie
Amen, Brother.
What happened to the National Review of Toledano, Brudnoy, Kilpatrick, Rusher, O'Sullivan, and Taki Theodoropulous.
Speaking of William F. Rusher, didn't he come out in support of Miers?
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posted on
10/17/2005 4:56:38 PM PDT
by
Oklahoma
To: ConservativeDude
I'm not entirely sure. I'd like to hear the author's evidence on that (or any other freepers).He has no evidence for any of the assertions in his article.
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posted on
10/17/2005 6:33:53 PM PDT
by
alnick
To: phelanw
Some justices have relied almost entirely on their clerks to write opinions especially as they grew older.
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posted on
10/17/2005 8:50:11 PM PDT
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: LS
"Interesting you chose the steroid-laden Bonds "
Deceitful little innuendo there. Typical act of someone who wallows in mediocrity.
To: Crackingham
the Republican base . . . demanding that Bush fulfill his promise to name a Scalia or a Thomas.GIBSON: Mr. President, the next question is for you, and it comes from Jonathan Michaelson, over here.
MICHAELSON: Mr. President, if there were a vacancy in the Supreme Court and you had the opportunity to fill that position today, who would you choose and why?
BUSH: I'm not telling.
(LAUGHTER)
I really don't have -- haven't picked anybody yet. Plus, I want them all voting for me.
http://www.debates.org/pages/trans2004c.html
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posted on
10/17/2005 10:16:16 PM PDT
by
Kryptonite
(McCain, Graham, Warner, Snowe, Collins, DeWine, Chafee - put them in your sights)
To: Graymatter
After a couple of weeks of research and intense debate, have any minds been changed? Do you approve of the president's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court?
No |
39.4% |
|
Yes |
35.2% |
|
Need more info |
20.6% |
|
Pass |
2.8% |
|
I'm voting Hillary! |
2.0% |
|
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posted on
10/18/2005 9:59:55 AM PDT
by
AFPhys
((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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