Text 15839, 94 rader
Skriven 2005-10-06 14:12:42 av John Hull (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 15837 av John Massey (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Storm brewing
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John Massey -> BOB SAKOWSKI wrote:

 JM> "BOB SAKOWSKI -> ALL" <1:123/140> wrote in message
 JM> news:14135$POLITICS@JamNNTPd...
 BS>> First, Bush has no right to say "Trust me." He was elected to
 JM> represent
 JM> the
 BS>> American people, not to be dictator for eight years. Among the
 JM> coalitions
 BS>> that elected Bush are people who have been laboring in the trenches
 JM> for a
 BS>> quarter-century to change the legal order in America. While Bush
 JM> was still
 BS>> boozing it up in the early '80s, Ed Meese, Antonin Scalia, Robert
 JM> Bork and
 BS>> all the founders of the Federalist Society began creating a farm
 JM> team of
 BS>> massive legal talent on the right....

 BS>> Being a Supreme Court justice ought to be a mind-numbingly tedious job
 BS>> suitable only for super-nerds trained in legal reasoning like John
 JM> Roberts.
 BS>> Being on the Supreme Court isn't like winning a "Best Employee of the
 BS>> Month" award. It's a real job....

 BS>> Bush may as well appoint his chauffeur head of NASA as put Miers on
 JM> the
 BS>> Supreme Court....

 BS>> However nice, helpful, prompt and tidy she is, Harriet Miers isn't
 BS>> qualified to play a Supreme Court justice on "The West Wing," let
 JM> alone to
 BS>> be a real one.  ---  Ann Coulter, well known republican harpy.

 JM> And she is right.

 JM>  From a liberterian:

 JM> Politically hobbled by low poll numbers, President Bush decided  that he
 JM> was
 JM> going to make the safe choice for his next Supreme Court nominee.  Did he
 JM> follow in his father's footsteps, picking a strict constitutionalist and
 JM> strong conservative as Bush Sr. did when he nominated the 43-year-old
 JM> Clarence Thomas?

 JM> Nope.  Instead, we get his 60-year-old personal lawyer, Harriet Miers.
 JM> Sorry
 JM> to say it, but this one looks like a deal with the Democrats.  For proof
of
 JM> this,  you need look no further than the comments from Democratic minority
 JM> leader Harry Reid on the nominee: "I like Harriet Miers."  Bush was also
 JM> supposedly told by some "Republicans" in the Senate that he had little
 JM> chance of getting a conservative confirmed.  So here we are.

 JM> Some on the right complain that Harriet Miers used to be a Democrat.  It's
 JM> true that she was, and even contributed to Al Gore in the 80's.  But
Ronald
 JM> Reagan was once a Democrat, as was (and is) Zell Miller.  People change
 JM> their minds.  No big deal.  Others complain that she was never a judge.
 JM> Since most of the justices on the Supreme Court these days have been
 JM> walking
 JM> disasters when it comes to rulings, experience doesn't really account for
 JM> much, aside from providing a paper trail.

 JM> So, in the end, it looks like Bush punted.  He probably could've done
 JM> worse.

 JM> He should have done better.

I just love the way all you guys are running around wringing your hands,
bemoaning the nomination of Miers.  Maybe a little perspective would be good
here, you think?

There is no rule that a SC justice has to have been a judge.  There are plenty
of judges who haven't the sense of a road-killed rat, never mind passing
judgement on their fellow citizens.  And how many liberal judges have made
rulings that literally stand the Constitution on its head?

Bush says she won't legislate from the bench, and that she's a strict
constructionist.  I have no reason to doubt him on that.  As far as her
personal opinions go, I couldn't care less - provided she leaves them at the
door when she takes the bench.  A long paper trail as some nominees have had in
the past is no guarantee that that person will follow that same path.  I say
she should have the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise.

Finally, she was instrumental in helping Bush pick John Roberts, who is being
called the best judicial candidate ever to come up for confirmation.  That has
to count for something.

As for the Democrats "liking" her, what else are they to say?  Don't expect
that attitude to hold.  Their true nature will come out before its all over.

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