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The Trouble With Harry
By MAUREEN DOWD
Conservatives may consider Harriet Miers the last straw.
But what will Harriet Miers consider the last straw with conservatives?
Maybe it will be Bork Borking her.
The old Supreme Court nominee reject rejected the new Supreme Court
nominee, calling her "a disaster on every level" and "a slap in the
face" to conservatives. Robert Bork complained to Tucker Carlson on
MSNBC last night that Ms. Miers had "no experience with constitutional
law whatever," that it was wrong for W. to choose a justice simply to
have a woman's perspective and that conservative reaction veered
between "disapproval and outrage."
WHAM! BLAM! POW!
Way to crack the gal right across the kisser, when she's already on the
ropes from so much conservative wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Senator Sam Brownback suggested it would be futile for the "very decent
lady," as he dismissively called her, to compete with John Roberts's
masterly performance because that would be like "following Elvis."
Pat Buchanan told Keith Olbermann that conservatives were "agonized,"
"depressed," and "virtually heartbroken," and Charles Krauthammer
wrote: "If Harriet Miers were not a crony of the president of the
United States, her nomination to the Supreme Court would be a joke, as
it would have occurred to no one else to nominate her." Ouch.
Conservatives are shocked to discover that President Bush has been
stuffing his administration with cronies and mediocrities in important
places? If Ms. Miers were a sworn foe of Roe v. Wade and an ardent
advocate of originalism in constitutional jurisprudence, would the same
conservatives be so sick about her qualifications? Clarence Thomas,
after all, was anything but a leading light of American jurisprudence.
The New Republic this week chooses the biggest 15 hacks in the Bush
administration, noting that "no administration has etched the
principles of hackocracy into its governing philosophy as deeply as
this one." Ms. Miers wins at No. 1.
W.'s case for her elevation is their closeness, because she is, as
Alexander Hamilton put it, one of the "obsequious instruments of his
pleasure."
But there is some sign, at least, that there are limits to cronyism,
even for the Bush administration. The president had nominated Timothy
Flanigan to be deputy attorney general, a job in which he would oversee
all U.S. attorneys, the criminal division of Justice and the F.B.I. His
qualification for this was a stint as Alberto Gonzales's deputy White
House counsel, a job where he helped write the torture memos. In
Congressional testimony at one point, he said that waterboarding was a
good thing, because it doesn't leave visible or permanent marks. After
his White House stint, Mr. Flanigan was a senior executive at Tyco
International, where his main contribution was hiring Jack Abramoff,
the Republican influence peddler, to protect Tyco's offshore tax
shelters. Yesterday, Mr. Flanigan withdrew amid growing questions.
The right is right about Ms. Miers's insufficiency to join the
Brethren, even if the right is cynical. Actually, there's a lot of
cynicism in the Miers affair. Those on the left are perfectly happy to
look away from mediocrity because it is the lesser of two evils,
because they were spared the nightmare of a reactionary maniac.
W. is so loath to leave his little bubble - where caretakers tell him
how brilliant and bold he is - that he keeps selecting the people in
charge of the selection committees. It's just so much easier to choose
a sycophant who's already in the room than to create one from scratch.
He used to disdain pointy-headed liberals from Yale, but now he's angry
at pointy-headed conservatives demanding some sort of genius for the
Supreme Court, rather than a den mother who did all of W.'s legal wet
work and who prefers John Grisham to Leo Strauss.
While the Bushies have been trying to reassure the right that W. knows
Harry's heart, that she's a good Christian church lady who will vote in
a way that will please them, Harry is probably working herself up to a
good grudge against all those meanies who are savaging her as a
lightweight apple polisher. Imagine! After she rechristened herself
midlife as born again and Republican for them.
Even if she was going to be a loyal conservative jurist before, why
should she be now, after all the loathsome things they've said?
The old maxim goes that a neoconservative is a liberal who got mugged
by reality. But if you're a conservative mugged by conservatives, neo
and paleo, it may have the opposite effect and turn you into ... David
Souter!!!!
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09 Oct 2005 10:10:57 AM |
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The Trouble With Harry
By MAUREEN DOWD
Conservatives may consider Harriet Miers the last straw.
LMFAO! Maureen has found a new low. Can anyone really take this mindless
dingbat seriously? What kind of dizzy theory is this, "Harriet may rule against
her better judgment out of spite for the nasty things that Buchanan,
Krauthammer, et al, said about her?"
A crowning example of cutting-edge, modern, liberal logic!
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| User: "Michael Gray" |
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| Title: Re: Harriet will turn against right wing if they keep insulting her |
08 Oct 2005 09:17:22 PM |
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On 8 Oct 2005 12:29:09 -0700, wrote:
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Senator Sam Brownback suggested it would be futile for the "very decent
lady," as he dismissively called her, to compete with John Roberts's
masterly performance because that would be like "following Elvis."
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Elvis is a famous, rich, but rotten corpse.
So it *would* be like following him.
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| User: "RHR" |
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| Title: Re: Harriet will turn against right wing if they keep insulting her |
08 Oct 2005 02:54:48 PM |
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On 8 Oct 2005 12:29:09 -0700, wrote:
Maybe it will be Bork Borking her.
The old Supreme Court nominee reject rejected the new Supreme Court
nominee, calling her "a disaster on every level" and "a slap in the
face" to conservatives. Robert Bork complained to Tucker Carlson on
MSNBC last night that Ms. Miers had "no experience with constitutional
law whatever," that it was wrong for W. to choose a justice simply to
have a woman's perspective and that conservative reaction veered
between "disapproval and outrage."
Constitutional Law is trivial. It is not like doing quantum mechanics
or algebraic geometry. Basically, what a Supreme Court Justice does
is decide what they want a law to mean and then twist what they find
in the constitution or some prior decision to mean just that. If we
had an effective parliamentary system in the US instead of an imperial
presidency and clumsy bicameral congress, it wouldn't be necessary to
have a Supreme Court to step in and make laws or curb the executive.
So if Harriet's weltenschauung is close to yours, she will be, for
you, a satisfactory Justice of the Supreme Court.
RHR
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