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To: flashbunny
I have! She has been involved as was advertised.

But let me ask you, why are you intentionally taking such a minor point as if it is important, and blowing it all out of proportion.

The vetting process involves a lot of people. Miers as secretary simply carried the job she did then, to her new title when she got that.

Why the hell is this a issue? And why are you engaging me on this like I just fell off a fricking turnip truck?

That's a mistake! Just like screwing this nomination before it got to committee.

Who's side are you really on? I wonder.............

3,282 posted on 10/28/2005 12:43:08 AM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: Cold Heat; caryatid
" Who's side are you really on? I wonder............."

I'm on the communist's side, of course! Aren't you, comrade?!?!?!?!

Oh wait, I have a secret deal with the romulans to help sabotage the nomination of harriet miers, a brilliant constitutional scholar who would have returned the united states to a constitutional republic - and we can't have that now, can we?

But if the klingons offer me more money, I'll probably end up working with them.

She's gone. Get over it. She was a bad candidate and it's a good thing we have a chance to get someone much better than her.
3,283 posted on 10/28/2005 12:47:26 AM PDT by flashbunny (If you're not willing to go get me a turkey sandwich and chips, I don't give a damn what you think.)
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To: Cold Heat

btw, just to prove you wrong:

http://volokh.com/posts/1128975191.shtml


3,285 posted on 10/28/2005 12:52:40 AM PDT by flashbunny (If you're not willing to go get me a turkey sandwich and chips, I don't give a damn what you think.)
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To: Cold Heat; flashbunny
[W]hy are you intentionally taking such a minor point as if it is important ...[?]

Well, you see, Cold Heart, it is like this ... a minor point here ... a minor point there ... and, before you know it, you have accumulated enough points to ... well, maybe even to take down a poorly qualified judicial nominee.

G'night, Cold Heart.

3,286 posted on 10/28/2005 12:55:08 AM PDT by caryatid (There are none so blind as those who will not see ...)
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To: Cold Heat
The vetting process involves a lot of people. Miers as secretary simply carried the job she did then, to her new title when she got that.

Gonzales, as WH Counsel, did the vetting that Miers did, as WH Counsel. The activity comes primarily with the job title and function.

... why are you intentionally taking such a minor point as if it is important, and blowing it all out of proportion.

It goes to the matter of credibility. Intellectual honesty requires that participants in debate work from some agreed base, which is usually facts. When one side in the debate is persistent in using debunked facts, it weakens that person's standing in the debate.

A good advocate would concede the point, if not finally, at least tentatively until other evidence is available.

3,297 posted on 10/28/2005 5:29:31 AM PDT by Cboldt
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