Good. It has come to the least bad of the possible endings.
Now, any predictions on what kind of person Bush will nominate next? Will he take a lesson from this and actually fulfill his campaign promises by nominating an ideological colleague of Thomas and Scalia? Or will he lash out at the conservative base by nominating someone that irritates them, but placates Democrats and moderate Republican senators enough to get through?
Now that Sandra Day O’Connor is hearing cases, I doubt that Bush will feel any urgency. He may take a while to assess this one. I hope so. That might make it more likely that he’ll get over any bad feeling about this nomination before making the next one. |
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NOW is the time to get the popcorn ready...this is going to be a Donneybrooke.
Question: Just prior to Miers being nominated there were other nominees that "withdrew" themselves. Any links to who withdrew??. Bush may be working off a shorter short list. |
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Good, the idiocy is over. The only real question here is will Bush pick someone to rally the base, or will he make another weakness pick?
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He may not have gotten as much blogospheric ink as Will, Krauthammer, NR or the WSJ, but don’t overlook Rush Limbaugh in this either. Rush’s opposition had to show the White House this wasn’t just a revolt of ivory tower intellectuals, and he reaches a lot more of the base than any of the publications do. |
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"Alas for poor Hugh, it seems the shit sandwich was like the McRib: a short-term promotional offering, not a permanent addition to the menu." -Allah
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I’m wondering about the tactical use of the Miers Kerfuffle. I can’t imagine that Bush stumbled into this morasse by accident - and I suspect there was a larger strategy behind his intransigence and her subsequent withdrawal. In short, I think this whole thing was engineered for a reason.
A goal of any party in power that has ambitions to stay in power should work to appear to represent the entire spectrum of the electorate. This lulls political opponents into believing that the party can effectively represent their interests, and those of the entire nation.
From Hewitt to Bork, from Malkin to Morrisey, the nation has now seen the Conservative movement representing all aspects of the arguments for and against Bush’s nominee. I think this boosts the Republican party’s credibility as a national party, and I think it has helped to erode the hyper-partisanship of reasonable Democrats.
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All that really matters now is that Bush can once again put the Dems on the defensive. Lets get this festering sore lanced already. I think everyone on left and right has wanted this fight for awhile now. Each side thinks they have the upper hand. Nominate one of the justices who made it in via the filibuster compromise, and have at it already.
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Dr. Pournelle sums it up. |
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I am simply ashamed of the conservative wing of my party today. Ashamed.
I will not support my Senator if he was behind this treachery. I will withhold any contributions, and will sit home on election day to teach him a major lesson.
Don’t turn on the base. We elected you, and we can unelect you. Miers was the fifth vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. Now we have to nominate someone with a paper trail whom the Dems can filibuster next year, just as we get ready for midterms.
Those of you who wanted this should be ashamed. You bullied this woman into withdrawing.
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Thank you George Jones
I’m sad to see Harriet withdraw. I don’t know whether she was qualified or not. The president thought so, and I would have liked to watched the hearings and decide for myself. Unfortunately on her way to the hearings she was lynched by the massa’s in the big house. I want to make up my own mind and I resent a$$holes like George Will and Bill Kristol deciding who I can listen to or not. That’s BULLSH*T! |
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STEVE, I have been thinking along the same lines, perhaps this was just a stalking horse for the real candidate. |
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STEVE, I have been thinking along the same lines, perhaps this was just a stalking horse for the real candidate.
Riiiight. Because this president has no history of cronyism. And it makes great sense to publicly state, "hey, I tried to do something stupid. But everyone stopped me."
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Miers was the fifth vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. No, she wasn’t. IF she’d even vote that way—something you really have no idea about—she’d be the 4th vote. Roe V Wade would still be upheld 5-4. I would encourage everyone to actually count the votes on the relevant case, Casey v. Planned Parenthood. You’ll see that Anthony Kennedy voted with the pro-choice majority there. O’Connor could be replaced by Tony Perkins himself and the core of abortion rights would still be in place. In any event...Those of you who wanted this should be ashamed. You bullied this woman into withdrawing. Yeah, well competence seems more important to me than reliability on one vote. |
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George Jones, wrote:Those of you who wanted this should be ashamed. You bullied this woman into withdrawing. That statement is hilarious. I don’t think George Jones realizes it but if that is true then he shows the fallacy of his confidence that Miers’ was a vote against Roe.
If bloggers such as myself and McQ and Jon Henke and others, plus the commentary of columnists such as George Will can "bully" Miers into withdrawing her nomination to the Supreme Court, what makes him (or anyone, for that matter) think she would withstand the "bullying" of the pro-Roe mainstream like the New York Times and Washington Post and so forth not to overturn the decision? |
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