Bye Bye Miers
Miers withdrew her nomination for SCOTUS this morning. It was kind of inevitable after this stuff came out to light, making it 100% impossible for the republican senators to confirm her. This isn't bad news though, and in many ways this is the answerd prayers of many many people on the right and if played correctly could heal the party and unite it behind Bush again. Is there any good news in this for the White House? Inside the West Wing, the fever might break: Aides have suffered day after day as Miers' chances diminished; now they can fight for a new, presumably more defensible, pick. Also, a replacement nomination—which officials say may be announced as soon as tomorrow—gives Bush an opportunity to change the story line of conflict inside the GOP. A new choice the right applauds may bring the fractured party back into line. "If he chooses a solid conservative, this is the opportunity he needs to shore up the base on the one issue that unites all," says a senior Republican strategist. "It won't just shore them up—they will be excited because they will think, rightly, they got it done." Word.
posted by The Sandmonkey @ 10/27/2005 12:01:00 PM
8 Comments:
Bull scorekeeper,
If Bush has a brain in his thick skull, he'd best get back on track with the base that elected him. He's pushed our limits about as far as we're gonna give. I personally was going to sit out the '06 elections over this issue in protest, just like I did in '92. I'm more than happy to let the GOP fall if they start pandering to the left/middle.
Bush needs to nominate a solid conservative with impeccable (or close) credentials. If the Dems don't like it, screw 'em; pull the nuclear trigger and be done with it. You didn't see Clinton worrying about Republican values when he nominated Ginsberg (AN ACLU ATTORNEY FOR GODs SAKE!). Ginsberg was approved by the Senate w/a unanimous vote BTW, as the Republicans deemed her qualified even though her politics are against everything we stand for. Dems can't let go of the politics, even when they lost the presidential election, so screw 'em & pull the trigger.
If Bush wants to see support for the GOP in '06 & '08, he'd best start acting like a conservative! Right now he's trying to out Democrat the damn Dems.
Later
Tater
I'm rooting for Brown. Hitlery doesn't even score high enough amoung likely democratic voters (remember 1/2 are over 65yo and won't vote female) to pull more than 39%. WWIII is what the base wants, time to put the miniority party in their place.
If that makes you feel better I'll make a name up....as in whatever. I am not a kool-aid drinker, I watch the polls that count the ones that use likely voters. She may be in the best position but she just doesn't do that well, too many skeltons (literally) in the cupboard. We are at war and no one with a brain (I am a woman) would vote for her now. Not to mention the big story that the media is trying to squash, her illegal fundraising. She is going to have a fight on her hands for her Senate seat. And don't forget, a one term Senator is NOT qualified to be President. CATO has been wrong on many counts and that was wrote before the Miers withdrawal.
RvW won't be overturned, not imediately anyway. It will be severely limited starting with the requirement that clinics pass health inspections like every other medical facility has to do, that will close about 70% of them right away. They are not the "safe" places the left likes to make them seem like. Twelve weeks will be the cut off with a 24 hour waiting period with added education about abortion, including watching one (recorded video). After 12 weeks it will be for the Mother's life, recorded rape (police record) or incest. Nothing more.
Hitchens commented that he suspected Miers might have been nominated so everybody would bitch about qualifications. If that happened, which it has, Bush could then bring up some vampire from the federalist society. Smart politics, yet pure evil. Mua ha ha ha
-Mike
What Ms. Miers articulated in that speech was one of the basic principles of judicial restraint: that judges stay out of political questions to the extent they properly can.
Ms. Miers, an actual, live, honest-to-G*d trial attorney with some business and political skills (ran a 400-person law firm, president of bar assn) and high-level executive branch experience, would have brought a different, and significant body of knowledge to the Court. Those who have said that she has no experience with Constitutional issues are irrational. The trial court is where the Constitution is applied with full force. People who have nothing but an academic or appellate background lack essential information about the results of their work. To say that she needed to practice before the Supreme Court or be a law professor who wrote directly about Supreme Court cases in order to be qualified for the Supreme Court is a wholly new concept. The real grounds for objection to this woman were "We don't know her." That's because she went to law school in Texas, and she is not an idealogue.
The Democrats look bad for calling an obviously fit candidate unqualified because of their provincialism, and the Republicans look bad because they are far too obviously applying a litmus test. Nobody is coming off well in this little debacle.
Valerie
No, I live in Ohio and can tell you that she scores very very low in the midwest (you know, where Presidents are elected). She might get the Dem nomination but the name McGovern comes to mind for the general election.;)
Scorekeeper, it was meant as a joke. You need to calm down.
Hey SM,
This is worth discussing at your blog. Why do not you write about it. I am so disgusted now. http://freedomforegyptians.blogspot.com/2005/10/saudis-are-applying-their-barbaric.html
I do not know whether you will share my same feelings or not?
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