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

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

[LibLieSlayer]

With your powers of foresight, could you please supply me with the next "power-ball" numbers? ;-)

LLS

[Black Tooth]

#5 CLOSE THAT DAMNED BORDER!

That should be #1 or a close #2.

[counterpunch]

The long he waits, the harder it will be, but he MUST pull Miers and nominate a solid conservative candidate.

While I would prefer to see Bush pull Miers, her inevitable defeat on the Senate floor would suffice.

The way she will be defeated will effectively swap the Democrats' ideological litmus tests with one of competence and qualifications. This would actually put Bush in a better position than he is in now to nominate an exceptionally qualified conservative jurist such as the ones typically discussed here.

[Owen]

All those proponents of Edith Jones who have personally called the 7 RINOs and asked if they will support her, raise your hands.

[LibLieSlayer]

I agree with kaktuskid... you are way off base.

LLS

[etradervic]

The way she will be defeated will effectively swap the Democrats' ideological litmus tests with one of competence and qualifications.

Sorry. The Left is all about Roe.

Time is on the Dems side. They would like nothing better than to trash Miers (along with Bush and Republicans in general) all day long from Nov 7 into December, dump her, and make Bush start from scratch. In the meantime, the SCOTUS is reviewing cases with O'Conner voting instead of a conservative judge.

[trubluolyguy]

"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.

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Now who is speaking for whom?

[trubluolyguy]

#5 CLOSE THAT DAMNED BORDER!
That should be #1 or a close #2.

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True but at this point I'd settle for it being on the list.

[LS]

Disagree. Watch.

[LS]

Recusing yourself is an extremely specific process, ie, you have to have worked on that specific aspect of that specific law to recuse yourself. Just watch how she gets around this.

[Cboldt]

Recusing yourself is an extremely specific process, ie, you have to have worked on that specific aspect of that specific law to recuse yourself. Just watch how she gets around this.

There is the potential for baggage besides the recuse/not recuse outcome. Like DeLay and the bogus prosecution, the DEMs can bring the issue up just to whip public opinion. They did with the Scalia/Cheney duck hunting trip.

[counterpunch]

Sorry. The Left is all about Roe.

Yes, and the cat is out of the bag on Miers.
The Democrats will not have to resort to defeating her over ideology, though, since she is ripe with ample rudimentary biographical flaws.

Time is on the Dems side. They would like nothing better than to trash Miers (along with Bush and Republicans in general) all day long from Nov 7 into December, dump her, and make Bush start from scratch.

Democrats have been trashing Republicans non-stop since at least 1860.
The 2006 elections aren't for another year. The closer we can get an bloody fight on ideological grounds over a competent, qualified nominee, the better for Republican fortunes in the election.
If Bush could put off nominating a superb replacement nominee for Miers until summer, then that would be perfection.

I've seen a few people mention this pending partial-birth abortion case after Thanksgiving. I'm sorry, but one vote in one case is not worth a 30 year mistake on the Supreme Court. That's a trade of potentially 3,000 cases for one.

I'd rather get those 3,000 right than rush in hastily for the sake of that one.

[Jim Robinson]

CAS is the "Clinton Administration Scandals" mailing list. It's a group of people that got together several years ago to share news articles and commentary regarding the Scandal-a-day Clintons via email. Don't remember exactly when or how I got on it, but it was probably back during the old Prodigy days or possibly about the time FR was started.

[etradervic]

If Bush could put off nominating a superb replacement nominee for Miers until summer, then that would be perfection.

I'm sure that Pat Leahy would agree with this.

Although it is better to overestimate than to underestimate your opponent, the position of the Left regarding matters such as the Constitution being a "living document," consideration of precedents established by foreign courts, and their obsession with Roe are sophomoric at best and do not require that we nominate Socrates to the bench in order to refute them. All we need to improve the bench is someone who adheres to an Originalist philosophy.

[counterpunch]

the position of the Left regarding matters such as the Constitution being a "living document," consideration of precedents established by foreign courts, and their obsession with Roe are sophomoric at best and do not require that we nominate Socrates to the bench in order to refute them.

Right. And the closer to the election that we have a big public fight repudiating Democrat judicial philosophy, the better the GOP does.

[jd777]

How about

(1) Protect the border

(2) Balance the budget

Well they certainly haven't been tried yet,

[OKSooner]

Are you talking to me?

In the first place, I was offering Judge Brown as a thing known in civil discourse as an "example".

In the second place, I don't know her personally nor have I ever met her, so I wouldn't be in a position to know what she has or hasn't said about being on any lists.

[jdhljc169]

All those proponents of Edith Jones who have personally called the 7 RINOs and asked if they will support her, raise your hands.
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Let's see...how many of those RINOS are up for re-election? I know Chaffee has a tight race ahead of him.

Why won't the Republican party throw their weight around and threaten them instead of threatening the good Republicans and appeasing the Democrats?

[nonliberal]

But now I wonder if the JRB or the Luttig supporters would not have ripped her to threads too.

Nope. Jones has a proven conservative judicial philosophy. Miers has only shown, by her answers to the Judiciary questionaire, that she can write in gibberish.

[colorcountry]

I write in gibberish all the time. Then I discover my hands are not on the home keys.

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