Four-Step Program; How Bush can get his mojo back [pull Miers, nominate Edith Jones]

Wall Street Journal ^ | October 21, 2005 | BY DANIEL HENNINGER

[rogue yam]

Hey Jim, what is the CAS mailing list?

I Googled it and all I came up with is a list for Cowboy Action Shooters.

That sounds cool and all, but I reckon your list is something different.

[Candor7]

Quote: "To heck with Edith Jones, Janice Rogers Brown is a female John Roberts, a woman equal to all tasks on the SC - Brown would be the best choice."



John Roberts is a female cross dresser. No wonder the Senate Rats let him thru! Yuck, Yuck !

[Cicero]

You can quibble about whether or not Edith Jones is the best substitute for this demented Miers nomination, but otherwise this editorial is right on. The long he waits, the harder it will be, but he MUST pull Miers and nominate a solid conservative candidate.

There's only one sentence I would quibble with: "A Supreme Court nomination, however important, is a political obligation. Iraq is a moral obligation."

No, the SCOTUS nomination is also a moral obligation, because if you put another doubtful establishment player on the court instead of a really solid conservative judge, you will just prolong the downward spiral of our whole political system into the gutters of Judicial tyranny and leftist unaccountability. It is a moral obligation because the future of our country depends on this appointment.

[moog]

CAS means candya-- story.

[jdhljc169]

Are you saying Bush is a bad leader because he didn't recognize the impending emergency with his base on the Miers nomination?

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I have always admired his integrity, his character and his leadership. Those characteristics probably weighed 50% of the reason I voted for him in 2004.

But...I believe on this nomination, that yes, he made a misstep in his ability as a leader.

[moog]

He values personal relationships a lot. Some of his cabinet nominees have been jokes, but he has stayed the course with them too.

[Grut]

The problem is, the president Henninger wants Bush to go back to being was named Reagan.

[Conservative Firster]

Edith Jones

"In 1997, she wrote an opinion nullifying a federal ban on machine gun possession."

[Texas Federalist]

Later

[Map Kernow]

Edith Jones "In 1997, she wrote an opinion nullifying a federal ban on machine gun possession."

What's not to like??? Edith Jones for SCOTUS!!!

[TheDon]

President Bush nominated Miers to the SCOTUS, you can be sure he wants her to succeed. To say otherwise is absurd.

[USPatriette]

"I like Edith Hallan Jones.... But now I wonder if the JRB or the Luttig supporters would not have ripped her to threads too."

Yep.

[Texas Federalist]

"I like Edith Hallan Jones.... But now I wonder if the JRB or the Luttig supporters would not have ripped her to threads too." Yep.

You believe this based on what? You can make a good argument that she is to the right of Luttig. I guess you bought Bush's ridiculous strategy of demonizing opponents of this nomination.

[conservative blonde]

What makes you think that Janis Rogers Brown said she would be on Bush's "short list?" Maybe she was one who declined because she didn't want to go through the vicious treatment dished out by the DemocRATS on the Judiciary Committee.

[colorcountry]

What?? I'm just saying that someone would also argue her appointment.

How do you know Bush's strategy? Is that you Karl Rove?

[PatriotGirl827]

That sounds good, but there is no way to tell who Bush will pick for the next opening (if he gets one) or how conservative that person may be.

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

But W has never changed a decision, or admitted a mistake, exc Katrina, which he didn't have to. I bet the President will stay the course on Miers.

Admitting a mistake is a good way to think about it. I find George W Bush's innability adjust any position, at all, to the the #1 reason why the left has become so partisan recently. They didn't used to be this involved, this angry, and that's most attributable to his stubbornness.

I bet if the President does stay the course on Miers that his best days as President are behind him, it will be a long unhappy road for him til 08 and a lot of conservatives will let him get beaten down into the 30s of approval ratings. Bush's legacy will be Nixonian in the pop culture.

[kaktuskid]

Admitting a mistake is a good way to think about it. I find George W Bush's innability adjust any position, at all, to the the #1 reason why the left has become so partisan recently. They didn't used to be this involved, this angry, and that's most attributable to his stubbornness.

What crack are you smoking? They've been at his throat since Jan 2001!

[conservative blonde]

Because it is a "moral" obligation is the reason Bush picked Miers.

[counterpunch]

I like Edith Hallan Jones. She would have been my choice. But now I wonder if the JRB or the Luttig supporters would not have ripped her to threads too.

I doubt that very much.
Some people may question the wisdom of nominating such a jurist whose 2nd amendment and privacy rights views could get her labeled an "extremist" by the opposition. But she would have been seen as ideologically acceptable, and conservatives do tend to have an innate disciple. We may have discussion amongst ourselves over whether she was confirmable, but no one on our side would have mounted a campaign against her.

Most people who are anti-Miers are so because she was such an uninspired -- and uninspiring -- choice.
I personally have suggested Janice Rogers Brown as my top choice, but of have also proffered other suggestions, including Luttig and Jones, as well as Senators Santorum and Cornyn. I would pretty much be happy with anyone the Conservative Legal Establishment found acceptable.