Posted on 01/04/2007 9:10:20 AM PST by DaveLoneRanger
Breaking per Drudge. (Also just mentioned on Rush.)
bump
That should free her up for the next Supreme Court spot!! Actually, she seemed like a very nice lady, just not Supreme Court material.
Her "appointment" was the first sign I noticed that Bush was removed from reality. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
Actually, she seemed like a very nice lady, just not Supreme Court material.Right on both counts.
So?
Miami Dolphins needs a new coach!.......
I agree.
OMG. I can hear Rush now...
PANT PANT PANT
SOMETHING'S GOING ON! SHE LEFT FOR A REASON! WE CAN STILL GET BUSH, CHENEY AND RICE FROGMARCHED OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE! THE CULTURE OF CORRUPTION IS FINALLY BUBBLING TO THE TOP! SHE KNOWS SOMETHING!
PANT PANT PANT
Yeah, you knew her better than GW and how she would vote, what her beliefs on abortion, etc.
Huh? Have I missed something, or are you making a joke?
Does Rush really say stuff like that?
Well, more time for bowling.
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"You know, she's a very gracious and funny person," said Joshua B. Bolten, the director of the Office of Management and Budget whom Ms. Miers succeeded as deputy White House chief of staff in 2003. In the next breath, Mr. Bolten recalled relaxing with her at Camp David. "She is a very good bowler," he said.
"For someone her size, she actually gets a lot of action out of the pins."
Is that you Rush?
Spot on.
He says stuff like that but jokingly. He is poking at the donks.
I'm puzzled as well?
Thank you! I was wondering...
*yawn*
You need to listen to Rush a bit more. He pokes fun at the Democrats with stuff just like this and is quite good at it.
Rush would sound almost exactly like this. Even the pant, pant, pant.
President Bush was getting strong signals from the Rats that somebody outside the judiciary would be looked on favorably.
He fell for it and got hammered for it.
Put down the bong and move away from the keyboard.
Got your tin hat on today do ya?
Rush would be mocking the drive-by MSM herd.
Yes he does Don't you listen to Rush?
Rush would sound almost exactly like this. Even the pant, pant, pant.
I listen to Rush all of the time...I just didn't get that from the post. Now with some context it is all clear to me now.
Not very often. He's joking, right?
Funny! I wonder if HM was not nominated to get confirmed, but to say all those things we desperately wish they would say during the hearings. In other words, if she was meant to soften and humiliate the committee.
When he's mocking the left.
Ms. Miers deserves a big thank you from us all for her hard work in sending many brilliant choices up for judgeships.
The negative comments are petty.
Well said!
I agree. In tradition, a President can appoint fresh, unique blood to SCOTUS. Many have. I was open to it, but I wanted the Senate confirmation process to be thorough.
It was a sign of the times that the "conservative intellectual establishment" nuked the appointment. Interesting that they have that clout, and I don't necessarily fault them for taking that stance, given the state of the jurisprudential "war".
So few people got that but I've been ROTFLMAO over your comment.
You nailed it.
Rush sometimes will play out a total scam of agreeing with the dems and gets callers that think hes gone nuts he is king of sarcasm
NO. I knew her lack of Bench experience and her lack of ideological commitment (unlike Roberts and Aliea) would sink her on the Right. Still surprised Bush didn't know that.
Agreed.
- in new castrati voice -
PANT PANT PANT
SOMETHING'S GOING ON! SHE LEFT FOR A REASON! WE CAN STILL GET BUSH, CHENEY AND RICE FROGMARCHED OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE! THE CULTURE OF CORRUPTION IS FINALLY BUBBLING TO THE TOP! SHE KNOWS SOMETHING!
PANT PANT PANT
Now that is a little clearer for everyone.
Great points. It grew pretty nasty on FreeRepublic too.
I delved pretty deeply into her background at the time Bush nominated her. She is, basically, a very skilled team player who excells at working with the Establishment, whatever that happens to consist of. She coordinated and managed a big-time team of lawyers who appear to have done mostly political type jobs, also working for the establishment.
Miers has some negatives. She is a professed feminist, and she has spoken out strongly in favor of affirmative action. She also, despite being an Evangelical, cannot be trusted on right-to-life issues.
But while she was working for Bush, she appears to have done her job very well, coordinating the search for candidates and into their background, and coming up with a good list of names. In a way, it wasn't her fault that she herself was nominated. She is socially skilled, and has a personal relationship with W and Laura. She has often dined with them. The initiative to appoint her appears to have been backed by Andy Card, who was too liberal for the post he held, and by Laura herself, who revealed herself to be a feminist during the Miers mess, notably by her accusation on a TV talk show that anyone who opposed Miers was a woman hater.
Normally Laura doesn't get involved in politics, so these beliefs don't matter, but Bush incautiously let her advice him about Miers. Big mistake.
Anyway, I would imagine that she leaves behind her a list of vetted candidates, ready to go any time an opening appears. I wouldn't read too much into this. She was a big money maker in Texas, and she probably wants to get back to work. Let's just hope and pray that Bush selects someone really competent to take her place, someone with the right ideas about what kind of judges we need. Not another Andy Card, please.
Sorry, this is the same GW whose "compassionate conservatism" gave us the biggest expansion of federal entitlements in history, plus a massive federal intrusion into public education. He's exhausted his benefit of the doubt, and I'm not going to accept a complete unknown solely on the basis of his voucher.
Miers was a terrible pick, and I'm very glad she got the boot. I only wish Bush had nominated Alex Kozinski, but I don't suppose that's very likely.
Could be worse. She could have hanged herself in protest.
It won't matter now anyway. What kind of judges do you think will get through Congress now? We'll have the type of judges Reagan was forced to nominate (O'Conner, Kennedy).
No worries. James Baker is available.
You know what? Good for her.
I'm thinking Janice Rogers Brown.
To do her credit, her team came up with two fine candidates, although I suspect they may have filtered out a few others whom I would like to see move forward. That's hard to say.
Brown would be the perfect candidate. Let the Dems try to destroy a very likeable black woman as we approach the 2008 election.
If the libs had been smart enough to rally around her, she might have gone through. Good thing we can always count of them to hate every Bush related.
To give him credit, except for the Miers fiasco Bush has not nominated a lot of compromise candidates. It's one of the areas where he has pretty well kept his word to his base.
I agree the situation is far more difficult now. But it could still conceivably be done, because the Dems really fear coming out in the open on some of these issues before a national audience. They won the last election mostly by pretending to put up "conservative" candidates like Webb. They're not conservative, but they pretended to be.
supreme court material? hey, she ran a lottery right? /sarc
LOL! Come on folks...have you ever listened to Rush before? He says this kind of thing (in this fashion) to poke fun at the Libs in the electorate, the government and the media.
It is quite funny...has anyone listened to him today? This is how HE would normally characterize their response to a bit of info like this.
BTW...no tin hat for ME today...it interferes with my bong!
hehe...thanks...I forgot the "New Castrati" voice!
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