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More about Harriet Miers: Beth Without Profanity Edition (with updates)

• Posted by Beth on October 3rd, 2005 filed in General, Politics, SCOTUS    

I can’t decide which post I want to link to from The Anchoress, because she says everything I want to say about the Harriet Miers nomination, only less profanely. ;-)

Read this.

I knew Bush would pick Miers because he is the master of the rope-a-dope. AND…(and here I know I am going to be very unpopular) I disagree with the hysterics coming from the right, today. But I understand that they are a necessary part of his roping and doping.

And this:

I’m still trying to figure out why the right is going nuts. I’ve come to the conclusion that people who are, admittedly, much smarter than I am tend to overthink these things, sometimes.

And this:

Egad, people, EGAD!

I have never seen the right so oomps-a-daisy about anything in my life!

Everyone cool your jets and think about Derek Jeter for a second. Yes, of course I’m serious.

And finally, especially, this.

It is absolutely staggering, to me, to watch the right have a collective break-down without at least - at the VERY least - giving this nomination a day or two of research. I DO think the president, and the honorable lady he has nominated, deserve that much.

Go ahead, show your asses. [Pun intended, because you're only helping the Party of the Jackass, especially when you say you're abandoning the GOP because of this.]

I have to laugh at those who say she’s the wrong person and at the same time say she’s too old (at 60??). Seems to me they’d be happy to have “the wrong person” with one foot in the grave, but I think most of the hand-wringers with their dresses up over their heads (as the Anchoress would say) have collectively lost their freakin’ minds. Let’s hope it’s just temporary insanity.

And yeah, I’m GOING TO SAY “I told you so” and LAUGH when the time comes. Count on it. :mrgreen:

Waiter, There’s an Asshat in My Soup! Mad Dog Vinnie says,

Let the public de-linkings begin! w00t!

And you just KNOW some asshat will do just that. Oh, no!!!

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UPDATE:

James Dobson (wingnut extraordinaire that he is) was just on Brit Hume’s show and he says Miers is a good pick.

If that isn’t conservative endorsement, I don’t know what is. Same for Jay Sekulow. So WTF are conservatives all up in arms about?

What makes me sick is the people who are talking about “I give up on Bush/RNC/GOP.” I seriously DOUBT a Dummocrat would give them the appointments they’d want. It’s one thing to be ambivalent, but quite another to abandon the President and the GOP (eating your own).

And just because know-nothings on the left blogosphere are saying “that’s Kool” doesn’t mean she’s a Souter or O’Connor–it just means 1) they hear a bunch of armchair experts on the right going apoplectic, and read that as good news, and 2) they don’t know what they’re talking about, either.

Days like this make me totally farkin’ hate the blogosphere. (Oops, there’s the profanity…)

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UPDATE again:

It’s awfully funny that James Dobson supports the Miers nomination, while at the same time the idiotarians on the left are, as predicted, calling her a lesbian. Like Maureen said in comments here earlier, “Irony is such a beautiful thing!”

And for the record, she was involved with THIS Exodus Ministries, NOT this one.

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More: If you are supporting the Miers nomination, see the site JusticeMiers.com. If not, see it anyway, for “What Others Are Saying.”

Instapundit linked earlier to GOP.com’s original “What They’re Saying,” and they have since added a Part 2 (which appears to be aimed more at the hand-wringing conservative base?).

From Media Matters (yes, I was dumpster-diving again), to whom I will not link because they have subscription-only content excerpted at their site without linking to it:

From the October 3 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show:

LIMBAUGH: Let me jump right in on the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers. Mr. Vice President, there’s a lot of concern out there among the president’s supporters that her judicial philosophy is unknown. Because, obviously, she’s not been a judge. Do you know what her judicial philosophy is? And how can the public be convinced — the president’s supporters be convinced — that it parallels the philosophy of [justices] Antonin Scalia or Clarence Thomas, as the president had said, during campaigns, was his objective?

CHENEY: Right, well I’m confidant [sic] that she has a conservative judicial philosophy that you would be comfortable with, Rush. I’ve worked closely with Harriet for five years. I’ve seen her and worked closely with her — hand and glove with her, really — through this process of reviewing candidates for the Supreme Court. And that’s how we got to the Roberts nomination. She believes very deeply in the importance of interpreting the Constitution and the laws as written. She won’t legislate from the federal bench. And the president has great confidence in her judicial philosophy, has known her for many years. I share that confidence based on my own personal experience.

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LIMBAUGH: I think they [Democrats] are all losing it. I think it [Rep. Charlie Rangel's (D-NY) controversial comment comparing President Bush to Bull Connor] is an example of how they are just — been totally discombobulated and disjointed. They are all losing it. That’s why people think they are ripe to be buried, Mr. Vice President.

CHENEY: Well, we’re working on it. You’ll be proud of Harriet’s record, Rush. Trust me.

Also: When Pat Buchanan doesn’t like Miers, I know I’m on the right side.

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MUST-READ POST OF THE DAY! “Heh. Indeed.”

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Trial lawyer Beldar:

Conservative skeptics, I remind you that even though you haven’t seen this stuff, Dubya has, so let your comfort level be in inverse proportion to the sounds of frustration and gnashing of teeth from the liberals. Sen. Brownback, your demand for guarantees as to how this nominee will vote on your key issues is like a fan in the stands insisting that the quarterback’s play calling in the huddle be broadcast all over the stadium; whether you approve of the call or not, your team’s odds go into the toilet when there’s a microphone in the huddle.

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By objective standards, Harriet Miers has been among the few dozen most successful lawyers in private practice in the United States. Filter the Y-chromosome bearers out of that group and you’re down to a couple dozen or less. Filter that group for significant public and governmental experience and we’re down to a very small handful. And filter that small handful for lawyers in whom George W. Bush already has boundless personal confidence from first-hand experience, and your Venn diagram just has a one-member set left: Harriet Miers. Those are not inappropriate criteria, folks. From an overall viewpoint, using any reasonable criteria, she’s qualified enough. But using those particular criteria, she’s uniquely qualified.

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Note to AJ Strata: I’m still Chillin’–but don’t call me a moderate! (For the record, I’m pretty wingnutty, but I’m a chillin’ wingnut. Just sayin’.) ;-)