Posted on 10/27/2005 12:40:24 AM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham
Throughout the public evisceration of Harriet Miers, even her critics have tended to concede one of President Bush's main claims: Miers couldn't have been a complete loser to rise to the top of the bar and of her law firm.
Wrong.
Mediocrity—that's a better word for it...
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.msn.com ...
"This is consistent with what I was going to do," he said. I have to return to the Federalist Society to take care of business there."
LMAO.
Mr. Leo has come under intense criticism from conservative jurists -- particularly among members of the Federalist Society -- for promoting Miss Miers, whom they say lacks the clear conservative judicial philosophy that Mr. Bush promised in his bench nominees. Several members of the Federalist Society who know Mr. Leo have said that they think he is only backing Miss Miers out of loyalty to the Bush administration rather than support on the merits.
Gee, ya think?
http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2005/10/27&ID=Ar00106
Yes, that Justice Ginsburg, and Attorney General Reno.
Says it all.
Something tells me that she and Bob Schieffer are the only two human beings on this planet whose favorite president is Gerald Ford.
He'll think twice before he lynx himself to a stealth candidate.
... WHILE BABS DISSES MIERS
http://www.barbrastreisand.com/statements.html#ifnotnowwhen
Does This Smell Familiar?
...Barbra Streisand
Posted on October 6, 2005
Cronyism, corruption, incompetence, high crimes and misdemeanors with the Bush Administration, the list goes on and on. I can't help but feel like I am back in 1972, when Richard Nixon was embroiled in a complex web of political scandals. And most recently, President Bush nominated Harriet Meirs, White House lawyer and longtime friend to the Supreme Court. Meirs' has no judicial experience and more importantly no track record from which to be evaluated. Again, the list goes on and on' ...
:_)
In one of the speeches, delivered to a women’s group in Dallas, Ms. Miers wrote that court cases involving law and religion typically grow out of an insistence on the part of individuals for more self-determination and that “the more I think about these issues, the more self-determination makes the most sense. Legislating religion or morality we gave up on a long time ago.” It was this passage that prompted the greatest concern among conservatives, who argue that court cases permitting universal access to abortion and gay marriage have been decided on the same principle.
In another speech,also from 1993,Ms. Miers said that women had just celebrated the naming of Janet Reno as the first woman to hold the post of U.S. attorney general. She cited Barbara Streisand and Justice Ginsburg approvingly in the same speech and said that the reason men dominate the U.S. Congress is “the control of financial resources.”
The Judiciary Committee said the answers to the questionnaire were expected late in the evening and would not be made publicly available until today.
Several traditional supporters of the president’s judicial nominees have been quiet in the past two weeks. The Committee for Justice, formed to promote the president’s nominees, sent out email alerts more than once a day before and during the confirmation hearing of John Roberts. The group’s messages have lately been reduced to a trickle.
An executive vice president at the Federalist Society who has been acting as a liason between the White House and conservatives, Leonard Leo, has also been largely absent from the debate in the past two weeks. Mr. Leo reportedly cancelled a speech he was to give this weekend at an annual meeting of the Catholic Leadership Conference in Arizona.
Political observers said the White House would only be likely to consider a withdrawal if it became clear that some Republicans would vote against Ms. Miers. Senator Vitter, a Republican of Louisiana, sent a letter to the White House yesterday requesting more information about Ms. Miers, a move that many interpreted as a sign of his opposition. Speculation grew yesterday that Senator Brownback, a Republican of Kansas, would send a similar letter today.
http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2005/10/27&ID=Ar00106
The guns have fallen silent.
When is the White House going to raise the white flag?
Hmmm. His press release of the 3rd was rather effusive. Did Mr. Leo bail by silence or by "take back?"
His arrogance has finally caught up with him. His backing for the Iraq war will be the next to go.
Whatever the heck that might entail.
He sees the writing on the wall.
Ahh, I see it. I just did a page refresh at http://confirmthem.com/ and the Washington Times article is the most recent subject.
Still wiping the sleep from my eyeballs ;-)
And Hugh Hewitt.
The founders of redstate.org did a masterful job in creating that website.
Kudos to them!
They're not exclusive, and I'm pretty sure you're mistaken about the latter. I believe I've heard him talking about cases he's worked on, though I don't recall the name -- one to do with... toads or something. Sorry, not the sort of details I tend to recall.
Dan
:P
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