Give Miers a Supreme Chance!

Re: Give Miers a Supreme Chance!

As Dubya might say, this is revisionist history -- except that it's really revisionist current events. The bulk of the opposition to Miers so far has come from the right, not the left. Up to now, the Democrats on Capitol Hill have contented themselves with sitting back and enjoying the show.

"Give her a chance" sounds like letting her try out the job and see if it's a good fit. You do understand, federalist, that this is a lifetime appointment, don't you.

Christ Almighty. Can't you people tell this women is a drunken Texas bar fly? I mean just look at her. Those tired, baggy, tequla-worn eyes tell me she's started her share of bar fights. Does she have tattoos? Yes, it's my damn business. You can bet your sweet asses that Ginsberg doesn't have tatoos. I mean, she's uglier than a box of poop but at least she's not a drunken Texas bar fly. Ginsberg looks more like a closet acid dropper if you ask me. I mean, she's an ultra-liberal and don't all ultra-liberals drop acid? If not, they damn well should. I do and I'm not an ultra-liberal but I'm not on the USSc either. I'm ugly but I'm not a woman. At any rate, if this Miers broad isn't a first class gin sewer, I'll eat my hat. now if you'll excuse me, it's Friday and I'm due for a Xanax Martini.

Ciao.

A Self-Inflicted Wound
Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers is a miscalculation that could cost him dearly. Can she still win confirmation?

By Eleanor Clift
Newsweek

Oct. 7, 2005 - A good makeup artist could have erased those dark circles under Harriet Miers’s eyes as she appeared before the cameras to accept President Bush’s nomination to the Supreme Court last Monday. Described by White House aides as Bush’s “work wife,” she spent so many hours toiling in the West Wing that colleagues once thought her red Mercedes had been abandoned in the parking lot.

Dutiful she is, but Supreme Court material she is not. Before taking over as White House counsel earlier this year, she was staff secretary, a position of so little consequence it’s not even depicted on “The West Wing,” the fictional TV drama about White House life. Miers put in long hours and was the last person to put paper on the president’s desk, but she wasn’t mulling over constitutional issues.

With his presidency spinning out of control, Bush needed to reach high with this appointment. Instead he made the easiest decision possible. He reached for the person he knows best, a miscalculation that could cost him dearly. “This is a meltdown—this is what a Republican meltdown looks like,” says a Republican strategist with ties to the conservative wing of the party. At meetings on Capitol Hill and all over Washington, conservatives were in an uproar while party regulars were dumbfounded by Bush’s latest self-inflicted wound. “When you have economic difficulties, people dying in a war, political corruption and a government that is seen as unresponsive, in this ugly, harsh political environment, he needed to go above and beyond,” says the strategist. “He needed to pick someone who is potentially more conservative, but certainly more qualified.”

Conservatives gagged and liberals gasped when Bush said with a straight face in the Rose Garden that Miers was the most qualified person he could find. More evidence they’re drinking Kool-Aid in the White House: David Frum, a former White House speechwriter, reported on his blog that Miers once told him that Bush was “the most brilliant man she’d ever met.” What will happen when she has a conversation with Justice Antonin Scalia? Will her head explode?
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9622025/site/newsweek/

Blueflame1, I'm gonna laugh my vodka-sodden ass off when the Senate repubs dish out more "no" votes for this hideous Texas Shed Lizard than democrats. Man, the right is howling over this beast.

Bob, you're right about that. This one's a kneeslapper. "THIS IS WHAT 'ADVICE AND CONSENT' MEANS"
by Ann Coulter
October 5, 2005

I eagerly await the announcement of President Bush's real nominee to the Supreme Court. If the president meant Harriet Miers seriously, I have to assume Bush wants to go back to Crawford and let Dick Cheney run the country.

Unfortunately for Bush, he could nominate his Scottish terrier Barney, and some conservatives would rush to defend him, claiming to be in possession of secret information convincing them that the pooch is a true conservative and listing Barney's many virtues — loyalty, courage, never jumps on the furniture ...
http://www.anncoulter.org/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=79

Coulter? He's a beautiful lady.

She has a lovely Adam's Apple.

There is absolutely no reason for liberals to beat up on Miers...the conservatives are doing an bang-up job on their own.

Even George Will has taken time off from his baseball pontificating to savage the woman.

Except for the fact that this is probably the first step in cronyizing the Supreme Court...this whole situation would be hysterical.

There's one bright side of the Miers nomination. Ginsberg will no longer have to look at herself in the ladie's USSC locker room mirror and say, "Boy, am I ugly."

She's been replaced.

Hey bartender!

Teeth...does this woman own teeth? We should check. She is from Texas, after all.

Bob Lablob: OK, we get it: you don't think Harriet Miers is attractive. Something that wasn't funny initially doesn't get funnier the more times you try to tell it. Now give it a rest.

Hey Joe, chill out. Damn, you Chicagoans are a testy bunch aren't ya? Go Bears.

Yes I understand it is a lifetime appointment. What I mean by give her a chance is get the nomination out to the Senate floor. The Judiciary Committee is only going to be wasted partisan politics. Even though Nancy does not get a vote, she will be in full outrage before the Senate vote. Make sure your Senator has heard from you.

When is Nancy not full of outrage?

How Bush made his selection.

The story: President Bush defends naming old pal Harriet Miers for a seat on the Supreme Court, saying, "I picked the best person I could find."
In other words: I looked around and I saw Max, my gardener, who can really trim a hedge, and I said, okay, you're on the short list. Then Sal the chef came in with my lunch, beef stew. It was so good I was like yeah, now you're my man. But after lunch I nearly tripped over Harriet and it hit me like a thunderbolt! Whoa, she even went to college. . . . I think. So she got the nod. Sorry, Max. Sorry, Sal. Maybe next time.

Holy sh*t! It's a good thing his dog wasn't in the room.

Then again.....

Re: Give Miers a Supreme Chance!

She might have gotten a few appointments that men occupied before. Nice in a minor way, but there are so many women who can make the same claim.

Question is, did she argue a case which went a long way toward knocking down glass ceilings for everybody? No, she didn't. If she had, you might actually have a claim for her being something special. But you don't.



You can say that about most any lawyer.


Isn't "giving someone a chance" a little misplaced here? We're not talking about giving a guy a job running a punch press right after he gets released from jail. We're talking about the Supreme Couort.


It should be noted that the Judiciary Committee, like every House and Senate committee, has a Republican majority and a Republican chairman. How can you blam whatever problems Miers might have on the Democrats?