Alicia makes some very good points and smacks Buchanan real good!
I haven't lost Ann Coulter. I've gained Alicia Colon.There is hope and reason in the world, albeit a very small part.
Forward and onward to the hearings!
Posted on 10/11/2005 10:03:46 AM PDT by quidnunc
Because I’m something of a rarity in New York City — a woman who is a pro-life columnist — I’ve been getting a lot of e-mail asking for my opinion of the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. My answer has been considered unsatisfactory, but it’s an honest one: I am withholding my opinion because I simply have not honed an ability to read someone’s mind. That has not prevented many right-wing pundits, such as George Will and Patrick Buchanan, from weighing in negatively on the president’s pick.
It seems to me, however, that they are all doing exactly what we criticize the liberal pundits for: jumping the gun to make a deadline. I’m all for mounting a battle for conservative principles, but wouldn’t it be wiser to wait until we’re sure they’re in imminent danger?
One would think that after the cruel vetting of Miguel Estrada by rabid-dog senators, these gladiators on the right would be predisposed to uniting behind the president they supported last year. Senator Schumer, along with Senators Leahy and Kennedy, has been ignoring the president’s right to select his Supreme Court nominee.Now conservatives are doing the exact same thing.The Republicans gave the ACLU’s counsel, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a pass because they acknowledged President Clinton’s right to select his Supreme Court justices. It’s appalling that they are showing less respect for President Bush.
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The extreme right-wing base may feel that Mr. Bush betrayed them, but I think that, sadly, the opposite is true.
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Preach it sister! Can I have an 'Amen'!?
(Excerpt) Read more at daily.nysun.com ...
Further proof the Right Blogosphere jumped the shark here: From the Blogfather: "More and more, I have to wonder what the White House was thinking with this."
Gee, Glenn, maybe it is this: 1. she actually knows the law, she actually made a pretty good living at it; 2. she doesn't sit around all day blogging; 3. she saved Bush's bacon when they challenged Cheney's residency; 4. she is not some insular blowhard appellate judge sitting there determining that the Establishment Clause only implies indoors. This is a highly qualified candidate who could outlawyer Ann Coulter, Glenn Reynolds and Professor Bainbridge. Never mistake the ability to apply eyeliner with the ability to think.
The difference between the Right Blogosphere and the Left is one jumps to conclusions, makes personal attacks, and thinks Bush is dull, stupid, self-righteous, Bible-thumping hypocrite — the other votes Democrat.
Posted in comments at Instapundit.
Just remember, the same dullards who told us the compromise on filibusters was a sellout by Republicans are smacking Miers around. Why? Because they don't understand the democratic process. They think legislating is all about "battles." It is not. It is about compromise and meeting in the middle. If these guys were around when teh Constitution was being drafted, we'd be Bosnia.
(Don Surber in Don Surber’s blog, October 10, 2005
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Don Surber is a columnist for the Charleston [WV] Daily Mail.
Or the ability to snark with the ability to lawyer.
All of Bush's critics --- left and right --- have several things in common:
1. They know that they (the critics) are smarter than Bush.
2. They know that Bush is evil and has betrayed ____ (fill in the blank: The Earth, Cindy Sheehan, Conservative ideals, whatver)
3. They know that whatever the current problem under discussion, IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT.
So whither polarized America?
It turns out Bush is a uniter after all!
"The Republicans gave the ACLU’s counsel, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a pass because they acknowledged President Clinton’s right to select his Supreme Court justices. It’s appalling that they are showing less respect for President Bush."
Amen! Ditto! She is 100% on mark.
Alicia makes some very good points and smacks Buchanan real good!
I haven't lost Ann Coulter. I've gained Alicia Colon.There is hope and reason in the world, albeit a very small part.
Forward and onward to the hearings!
AMEN!!!
Yes, it's best to wait for the last minute when it's too late.
It seems to me, however, that they are all doing exactly what we criticize the liberal pundits for: jumping the gun to make a deadline. I’m all for mounting a battle for conservative principles, but wouldn’t it be wiser to wait until we’re sure they’re in imminent danger?
The equivalent of the scenario with Ruth Bader Ginsburg would involve Janice Rogers Brown, not Harriet Miers. The Ginsburg analogy doesn't fly because the Democrats will never defer to the right of the president to choose. Conservatives are pissed off that Bush DIDN'T capitalize on the Ginsburg precedent and cowered from the same fight that was promised against John Roberts but never took place.
And his wife is evil too!!! Don't forget that!
In other words, the GOP has no intention of following through on the promises made in exchange for supporting Bush in the 2000 primaries - getting the right judges.
And so, the assault on principled conservatives continues unabated... and still none of the core questions about the nominee and the nomination are answered.
If there were as many articles about the nominee as there are about how terrible the doubters are, then at least half the problem wouldn't exist.
I'm sickened. I thought the GOP was the party where dissenters didn't get shouted down and get berated with groupthink rhetoric.
Uh huh, if you really believe that Harriet Miers is in "the mold of Thomas and Scalia," if you really believe that 61-year-old CORPORATE lawyer who has never made law review, never had a criminal case tried in court, never said anything of public legal theory revelance, never published anything that was peer reviewed; if you really believe that a graduate of a (SMU) law school so insignificant it couldn't even make the Newsweek list "is the best qualified candidate that I could find," then I have some John Kerry medals for Swift boat heroism in South Vietnam waters that I would like to sell ylu.
And this is bad??? So you think McCain and the other liberal Republicans done good, huh???
We already know Bush is shafting the country by not only allowing but encouraging illegals, drug runners and terrorists to freely cross into our country...
AND, we know all of the Democrats and the liberal half of the Republicans are in awe over this Miers pick...
I know nothing about her...But if Ted Kennedy and John Kerry like her, I don't want her...
Wrong. The president gets to nominate. But that nominee doesn't get the job without the Senate's consent. And that consent has no strings attached. Ginsburg should have been rejected.
That should say it all right there for conservatives. If those two support this nominee they must know something we don't.
...It?s appalling that they are showing less respect for President Bush....
It's appalling how little respect the administration is showing for the ones who put them there.
Looks like we killed this thread...And it had so much potential...
The facts tend to do that...
"I'm sickened. I thought the GOP was the party where dissenters didn't get shouted down and get berated with groupthink rhetoric."
All the Bush Koolaid drinkers can whine about how the "elitists" have failed to give Miers a chance, but it isn't like Bush couldn't have seen this battle coming. Now, for better or worse, the intellectuals in the conservative moment feel slighted by the Miers pick. Miers could be God himself right now, but because Bush poisoned the well all she's going to get are catcalls. It isn't our fault Bush couldn't make a forthright pick when the time was right.
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