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Monday, October 03, 2005
To say that I'm disappointed in the nomination of Harriet Miers is an understatement. I don't buy that we need people who haven't been judges before. If Bush thought she was so wonderful, then appoint her to a lower court and let her get some seasoning. I'm on record in RWN's poll of bloggers on whom we were hoping that Bush would nominate and not nominate that I didn't want to see a crony nomination. This nomination smacks of a cop out and it will upset many conservatives who thought they were voting for high quality judicial nominations when they supported Bush. The juxtaposition of Roberts taking his seat as the Chief Justice today and this pick is too stark. Not that I put much store in it, but what do you bet that the ABA doesn't rate her very highly? I don't care if she's impressed Bush in private with her judgment. And, it seems I'm not alone in my disapointment.
And what do you want to bet that the big fuss in her hearings will be for her to say what she has advised Bush in private on all sorts of issues. She'll say, quite properly, that she won't divulge what she has said in private advice to the President. The Democrats will then say that they don't have enough to evaluate her on and that she's a stealth cruise missile, yadda, yadda, yadda. The GOP senators will be bound to support her nomination, but they don't have anything else to go on either. The reports are that senators on both sides of the aisle have given her support. Well, if that is the criteria on which she was chosen, that is very disappointing. That is not a position of leadership, but of bowing to pressure.
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To say that I'm disappointed in the nomination of Harriet Miers is an understatement. I don't buy that we need people who haven't been judges before. If Bush thought she was so wonderful, then appoint her to a lower court and let her get some seasoning. I'm on record in RWN's poll of bloggers on whom we were hoping that Bush would nominate and not nominate that I didn't want to see a crony nomination. This nomination smacks of a cop out and it will upset many conservatives who thought they were voting for high quality judicial nominations when they supported Bush. The juxtaposition of Roberts taking his seat as the Chief Justice today and this pick is too stark. Not that I put much store in it, but what do you bet that the ABA doesn't rate her very highly? I don't care if she's impressed Bush in private with her judgment. And, it seems I'm not alone in my disapointment.
And what do you want to bet that the big fuss in her hearings will be for her to say what she has advised Bush in private on all sorts of issues. She'll say, quite properly, that she won't divulge what she has said in private advice to the President. The Democrats will then say that they don't have enough to evaluate her on and that she's a stealth cruise missile, yadda, yadda, yadda. The GOP senators will be bound to support her nomination, but they don't have anything else to go on either. The reports are that senators on both sides of the aisle have given her support. Well, if that is the criteria on which she was chosen, that is very disappointing. That is not a position of leadership, but of bowing to pressure.
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To say that I'm disappointed in the nomination of Harriet Miers is an understatement. I don't buy that we need people who haven't been judges before. If Bush thought she was so wonderful, then appoint her to a lower court and let her get some seasoning. I'm on record in RWN's poll of bloggers on whom we were hoping that Bush would nominate and not nominate that I didn't want to see a crony nomination. This nomination smacks of a cop out and it will upset many conservatives who thought they were voting for high quality judicial nominations when they supported Bush. The juxtaposition of Roberts taking his seat as the Chief Justice today and this pick is too stark. Not that I put much store in it, but what do you bet that the ABA doesn't rate her very highly? I don't care if she's impressed Bush in private with her judgment. And, it seems I'm not alone in my disapointment.
And what do you want to bet that the big fuss in her hearings will be for her to say what she has advised Bush in private on all sorts of issues. She'll say, quite properly, that she won't divulge what she has said in private advice to the President. The Democrats will then say that they don't have enough to evaluate her on and that she's a stealth cruise missile, yadda, yadda, yadda. The GOP senators will be bound to support her nomination, but they don't have anything else to go on either. The reports are that senators on both sides of the aisle have given her support. Well, if that is the criteria on which she was chosen, that is very disappointing. That is not a position of leadership, but of bowing to pressure.
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