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Unwise Counsel - Why was the White House so unprepared for the Miers flak?
OpinionJournal.com (WSJ) ^ | October 23, 2005 | Glenn Harlan Reynolds

Posted on 10/22/2005 10:05:25 PM PDT by gpapa

BY GLENN HARLAN REYNOLDS
Sunday, October 23, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT

The Bush administration has made two kinds of mistakes with the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. One kind is substantive, the other procedural.

The substantive mistakes have to do with Ms. Miers's qualifications, including her current position. It's entirely possible, of course, that if confirmed, Ms. Miers will become a stellar Supreme Court justice; history has produced surprises before. Earl Warren, after all, was a politician, and expected to be easily manipulated by the court's brighter intellects. William J. Brennan Jr. was a state judge of no special reputation when Eisenhower nominated him, yet he so came to dominate the court that some observers referred to the early Rehnquist court as the "Brennan court." Perhaps Ms. Miers will prove a similar surprise, though conservatives may not find the examples of Warren and Brennan entirely comforting.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: counsel; instapundit; miers; reynolds; scotus
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1 posted on 10/22/2005 10:05:25 PM PDT by gpapa
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To: gpapa

Why were they unprepared? Because they expected the base to shut up and take it. Pucker up and kiss that GOP behind yet again. Too many of us rank and file had enough.


2 posted on 10/22/2005 10:12:12 PM PDT by trubluolyguy (REPUBLICAN'S! "Who the hell else are you going to vote for?" (2006 Party Motto))
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To: gpapa
"Why was the White House so unprepared for the Miers flak?"

Because Gober Bush was too occupied covering Clinton's but (Able Danger whitewash) and selling the American people out.
3 posted on 10/22/2005 10:23:14 PM PDT by PositiveCogins
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To: PositiveCogins

Goober says "heah"


4 posted on 10/22/2005 10:27:06 PM PDT by calrighty (Taglines for sale or let......1 liners 50 cents! C'mon troops, finish em off!!)
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To: PositiveCogins

Gober Bush?


5 posted on 10/22/2005 10:27:21 PM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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To: trubluolyguy

The willing illegal worker/willing employer crap the other day finished it for me


6 posted on 10/22/2005 10:28:00 PM PDT by calrighty (Taglines for sale or let......1 liners 50 cents! C'mon troops, finish em off!!)
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To: PositiveCogins

Guber?


7 posted on 10/22/2005 10:29:08 PM PDT by gpapa (Boost FR Traffic! Make FR your home page!)
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To: gpapa

Bush, Rove, and Card have apparently been WAY over-rated with regard to their allegedly sharp political instincts and savvy. This whole Miers mess has been like a cold glass of water in the face. For the first time, I am actually scared that Rove and Company are susceptible to getting outsmarted by the scumbag Democrats somewhere along the line. I never felt this way before.


8 posted on 10/22/2005 10:31:04 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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> The willing illegal worker/willing employer crap the other day finished it for me

Oh but he SAYS he's gonna GET TOUGH on illegals. Grr. Ruff. Ooo, git back.

Aaaaany day now.

**sigh**


9 posted on 10/22/2005 10:33:39 PM PDT by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender!)
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To: Lancey Howard

> For the first time, I am actually scared that Rove and Company are susceptible to getting outsmarted by the scumbag Democrats somewhere along the line.

Not outsmarted. Rove etc. are dropping the ball, and the Dimocrats are sometimes barely finding the sense to pick it up. We're just lucky as heck they're dumber than a bag of hammers.

Anyow, isn't this Andy Card's mess, not Rove's?


11 posted on 10/22/2005 10:37:31 PM PDT by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender!)
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To: gpapa
Gober , Guber, Goober, Gouber,.. Whetever.
He looks like a Gober. As in " get out of the way you old gober, you're taking up two lanes and your driving ten miles an hour under the speed limit", or "Ol gober is wearing his wife's dentures again".
12 posted on 10/22/2005 10:42:25 PM PDT by PositiveCogins
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To: PositiveCogins

Look in the mirror and you'll see the real Gober Goober.


13 posted on 10/22/2005 10:46:29 PM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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To: PositiveCogins
Because Gober Bush was too occupied covering Clinton's but (Able Danger whitewash) and selling the American people out.

I'm starting to feel the same way! Somebody in the WH better do something fast!

14 posted on 10/22/2005 10:47:20 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (I BELIEVE CONGRESSMAN WELDON!!!)
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To: gpapa

Guber?



Gubertor of Texas?


15 posted on 10/22/2005 10:48:19 PM PDT by msnimje (The "Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations" makes its way to Supreme Court nominations.)
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To: Lancey Howard
Bush, Rove, and Card have apparently been WAY over-rated with regard to their allegedly sharp political instincts and savvy

Well you've got to give them credit for winning in 2000. On the other hand Bush should of crushed the charisma challenged uber liberal Kerry. If it wasn't for the Swifties I'm not sure Bush would have won.

16 posted on 10/22/2005 10:54:37 PM PDT by Maynerd
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To: msnimje

Gubernator


17 posted on 10/22/2005 10:54:42 PM PDT by gpapa (Boost FR Traffic! Make FR your home page!)
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To: Siena Dreaming
"Look in the mirror and you'll see the real Gober Goober."

Ooooo, low blow, shame, put me down. Got any more?
Sounds like third grade to me. Do you remember any thing from the 6th, 7th, or the 8th grade, if you got that far.
18 posted on 10/22/2005 10:57:16 PM PDT by PositiveCogins
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To: PositiveCogins

Funny...I was thinking you were the one in third grade for calling Bush Gober or whatever variant you were actually trying to use.


19 posted on 10/22/2005 10:59:30 PM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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To: PositiveCogins
über (-bûr) Really; very; above everything else. Origins: from German über alles above everything else:)
20 posted on 10/22/2005 11:05:37 PM PDT by gpapa (Boost FR Traffic! Make FR your home page!)
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