Mystery-Woman Miers (Has Supported ICC, Gay Adoptions, Tax Hikes; Some "Conservative," Huh...?)

World Net Daily ^ | 10/03/2005 | Joseph Farrah

[NavVet]

She's so stealth, even GW didn't know she was a PC liberal.

[counterpunch]

"The same liberties that ensure a free society make the innocent vulnerable to those who prevent rights and privileges and commit senseless and cruel acts," Miers wrote in Texas Lawyer when she was president of the state bar. "Those precious liberties include free speech, freedom to assemble ... access to public places, the right to bear arms and freedom from constant surveillance. "We are not willing to sacrifice these rights because of the acts of maniacs," she concluded.

Harriet Miers, 1992

LOL!
Why don't you post her entire quote, rather than edit it to conceal her incompetence?

You are nothing but a cheap propagandist, and you have been exposed!

The same liberties that ensure a free society make the innocent vulnerable to those who prevent rights and privileges and commit senseless and cruel acts. Those precious liberties include free speech, freedom to assemble, freedom of liberties, access to public places, the right to bear arms and freedom from constant surveillance. We are not willing to sacrifice these rights because of the acts of maniacs.

The one part you selectively edited out was "freedom of liberties" because you know just how idiotic, redundant, and meaningless that is. You tried to save Miers the embarrassment, but in the end only embarrassed yourself.

[JudgemAll]

Anyway, we'll see. Even if the entire base and all the conservative think tanks and journalists oppose her to a man, it's still an uphill job to stop our goofy herd of GOP senators from confirming her

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I think I'm gona fly to the carribean for a while until America's elite love affair with nutso liberals bears its nasty stinking fruits and they start deciding to get their a$$e$ and heads screwed on right.

[Dane]

She's so stealth, even GW didn't know she was a PC liberal

See reply #27, doesn't seem PC to me.

[WhiteGuy]

Mystery-Woman Miers (Has Supported ICC, Gay Adoptions, Tax Hikes;

She sounds more like a politician than a judge.............

[NavVet]

I'm not sure I follow the rant entirely, but if it wasn't for the support of religious conservatives, her nomination would already be DOA.

I notice your post doesn't refute one of the allegations made in the WND article. Honestly, if you're still supporting Miers at this point, I have just one question. How does the Kool Aid taste?

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

#19 isn't "rebuttal": it's nothing more than opinion ("I don't see...") and conjecture ("What is she supposed to do...?").

Try again.

[Rennes Templar]

"Outstanding! You are unwilling to give the President of The United States nominee a fair hearing!"

The President of the United States couldn't afford a potential Souter nominee, and now he's finding that out.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Why don't you post her entire quote, rather than edit it to conceal her incompetence?

OUCH! That one's gonna leave a bruise -- ! :)

[JCEccles]

Do you think if Harriet Miers was for the ICC that she would work for an administration that gutted it and gave the UN the finger over it.

Illogical arguments raised solely for convenience. You folks not only speak out of both sides of your mouths, you do it simultaneously without the slightest indication that you hear the strange dissonance that causes the rest of us laugh at you.

Earlier the Miers fanatics were crowing about how her long and intimate work for the uber-liberal ABA meant nothing, that she was easily capable of working, around, and even leading people she personally disagreed with. Now your tack is, "How can you believe she would work for an administration she doesn't agree with?"

[Iwo Jima]

What is she supposed to do, resign her position if an issue comes up that she disagrees with?

Yes, of course. Not just because the issue "came up," but because it was considered favorably. I and every conservative/constitutionalist/libertarian attorney that I know resigned or refused to join the ABA for just such reasons. It's a liberal, big government hell-hole where the Harriet Miers of the legal world felt right at home.

Disses the Federalist Society. Loves the ABA.

Easy to see what she's made of.

[George W. Bush]

However, I dont see any where in Farrah's lastest trash piece that he has any proof that Miers favored any of these issues. ABA lawyers put them up for a vote. Once they get enough support from the committee, the go to the membership for a vote. Fact that they went up for a vote doesnt mean that Miers personally favored any of these issues. It's similar to certain issues being voted on in the House or Senate that the leadership opposes. What is she supposed to do, resign her position if an issue comes up that she disagrees with? Or should she stay and be influential in preventing their passage?

It's interesting to contrast this with Miers' refusal to have anything to do with the Federalist Society. You know, that organization founded by jurists like Antonin Scalia, the same Scalia that is supposed to be the model for Bush's appointees.

So being associated with the liberal ABA and all their meddling in public policy and also working with a lot of questionable liberal groups like NAACP is fine (and unquestionable) but avoiding any connections with the Federalist Society is also acceptable? It's fine for a supposedly conservative justice who is steadfast and brave (according to Bush) to run away from some teensy controversy over belonging to the Federalist Society while hanging out with a bunch of liberals and overseeing their actions to advocate very liberal positions to jurists and lawyers? And now we're all supposed to pretend that all of this is unquestionable and somehow irrelevant?

If she refuses to voluntarily associate with conservative jurists but loves to brag about being associated with packs of liberal lawyers, what are we to make of it?

At what point do you consider her freely chosen actions to be meaningful? These are rhetorical questions but you could take a stab at answering if you're inclined.

[safisoft]

Oh BTW, she is more pro-2nd amendment than Bork.

Hey, I hear David Duke is pro-2nd amendment. Better yet, so is Shaka-kan.

[cgbg]

it's still an uphill job to stop our goofy herd of GOP senators from confirming her

They may be goofy but most of them are not brain dead.

(notable exceptions, Hatch, McCain, Specter :-) )

For the conservative senators who have to face conservative constituents it is easier at this point to keep her off the court.

If they support her and she gets on the court and does a Souter/Ginsburg imitation on affirmative action, foreign law as the basis for US law, etc. those senators will take the heat back home. Why should they risk it for a lame duck president?

[markedmannerf]

Hannity,Limbaugh,Coulter,Ingrahm,Savage are all of these people blow hards? Because they seem to be skeptical as well. Sorry but this women is appearing more and more with each passing day to seem like someone a liberal would nominate. Let me guess Dane your one of those that think this has something to do with the fact that she is a women as to why everyone is so critical of her. Just a guess maybe Im wrong. Im sorry I dont care if shes a women a man or something in between I would feel the same why I do now.

[Savage Beast]

The truth is I am very liberal on social issues. People should be left alone to pursue happiness as they wish with a minimum of government interference. I want government out of my life, and I expect that most other people feel the same.

What concerns me is (1) the economomy and (2) national security.

Tax increases constitute a definite negative impact on the economy.

An International Criminal Court is a definite threat to U.S. security and sovereignty. It is also an open invitation to the empowerment of the numerous thugocracies that dominate most of the people of the world and--notably--the United Nations.

People generally get the kind of government they deserve--and prefer--and most of the people of the world--obviously--are perfectly willing to be ruled by thugs.

The American and European Left--obviously--shares this preference (remember the admiring references to Pol Pot as "progressive" and the love affair the Left still has with Marxism, its requiring a totalitarian dictatorship for its implementation and its having killed--already--at least 100 million people, notwithstanding.)

The American Left--intellectually crippled by its usual denial and harebrained delusional systems--and by the stupidity of most of its adherents--mindlessly assumes that all people are inherently benevolent and that foreign governments will naturally adhere to the same principles that the founding fathers established for the United States and that our ancestors have preserved for us. They're nuts! They ignore the obvious facts that most nations are ruled by thugs and tyrants, that many of the people of the world have never learned to govern themselves, and that the United States is unique, even among Western republics, as a miracle of liberty, justice, and democratic government.

Such is the stupidity of the morons who make up the rank and file of the Left, and such is the malice and indifference of the sociopaths who lead them.

If Harriet Miers is an advocate of higher taxes and/or an International Criminal Court, she has no business serving on the U.S. Supreme Court, and Georg Bush had no business giving her the nomination. Either of those positions is a deal breaker as far as I am concerned.

[markedmannerf]

If things keep going this way Constitutional Party here i come!!

[chris1]

I used to think GWB was more Michael Corleone. He now is obviously more Fredo Corelone.

[Dane]

Try again.

LOL! Get caught putting things out of context and still a blowhard.

She as President of the ABA, signed off that those proposals to go the ABA members for further debate, yep debate, no votes taken yea or nea.

I guess debate is a four letter word to you and farah.

[Dane]

Hannity,Limbaugh,Coulter,Ingrahm,Savage are all of these people blow hards?

I'll be waiting for their picture of them walking on water.