BS: Miers withdraws

Subject: RE: BS: Miers withdraws
From: Amos
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 02:20 PM

John:

I'm sorry -- I didn't mean to act outraged by the fact of her withdrawal which I think a Good Thing. It was the surface PR management and her letter which annoyed me.

Too much controversy for Bush to handle, resulting in his asking her to do him a Big Favor and back out?

Or, as she said in her letter, a compelling need to defend Executive Privelege not to reveal the inner traffic of the Oval office (for reasons unknown but certainly interesting)?

A

Subject: RE: BS: Miers withdraws
From: John Hardly
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 02:02 PM

The left and right agreed: This was not a good appointment.

The right that disagreed with it were philosophically consistant -- they did not want a nominee (judge) who was picked for the expressed purpose of one result -- in this case, presumably, pro-life.

The consistant right that opposed this nomination included most of those on the right who have also consistantly opposed Bush on the war and on his spending money like a drunken sailor. -- People like George Will, John McLaughlin, Pat Buchanan. Not "extreme".

They opposed the nomination because the one thing they wanted is exactly the same thing the left has been claiming that it wants -- a court that upholds the constitituion -- not a court that writes law from the bench.

It showed admirable consistancy, in the right that opposed the Weis nomination, that they would oppose someone who might vote as they wished on one issue, and instead demand a nominee who would promise to uphold the constitution.

It is EXACTLY those who were supposed to be appeased by the religious leanings of Weir who were defeated by the withdrawl of this nomination. Those who fear the religious right should be dancing in the streets.

How hypocritical to act outraged by this withdrawl when one knows good and well that the left would have demanded a down vote on confirmation.

Subject: RE: BS: Miers withdraws
From: Amos
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 01:59 PM

Romantic discretion, if that is what it is, doesn't qualify her to interpret the country's Constitution -- just her own! :)


A

Subject: RE: BS: Miers withdraws
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 10:48 AM

I don't know. As liberal as I am, there were some interesting "unknowns" about Miers that I was willing to watch unfold. The republican ultra-conservatives have managed to force Miers out and now there is a deeper line in the sand that we now need to fear--that an acknowledged christian zealot will be nominated to the supreme court. Bush is trying to keep his base intact, so will he offer them what they want? (This is keeping Miers in the category of "he could have done a lot worse," not saying that she was the best for the job).

There were questionnaires and "assurances" about Miers floating around to appease the conservatives, but a very light collection of policy writings. She isn't the first nominee for which this is the case. The press have published long lists of "inexperienced" justices. But this is an unmarried woman who apparently has a discreet long-term relationship with an unmarried man. It offers a glimpse of someone who has made some choices that are unlike other conservatives in the Bush administration. When one chooses to flaunt social convention and stay unmarried and "just good friends" with a partner, one has made a series of choices that probably scare the bejesus out of those conservative folks. Having gone that path myself for many years, I found it an interesting anomaly in the Bush plan.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Miers withdraws
From: Amos
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 10:46 AM

The right reasons? Her letter of withdrawlal Click Here emphasizes only one thing. The defense of secrecy in the Oval Office which might have been breached by inquiries during confirmation.

What is so precious secret about the executive office that she had to fall on her sword to keep it hidden?

The othe rpossibility of course is that the letter is all Bush-wah, and Georgie just asked her to back out so he could save some ugly face.


A

Subject: BS: Miers withdraws
From: Janie
Date: 27 Oct 05 - 10:13 AM

Who next?

Blickifier too slow. Go to www.cnn.com.

Miers apparently has good judgement.
She did the right thing for the right reasons, I think.

Janie