(Sen. Tom) Harkin: Miers' withdrawal shows power of right wing

[sabra]

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051027/NEWS09/51027005


Harkin: Miers' withdrawal shows power of right wing

Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa said today that the president's withdrawal of Harriet Miers' nomination as a Supreme Court justice is "an illustration of just how powerful and how much sway the right wing has over the Republican Party."

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"I don't know Harriet Miers and I am making no case for her one way or the other," said Harkin. "But I just think the way she was treated, the Republican Party can kiss the women's vote goodbye for awhile now, and I think that is going to hold true for the next couple of elections."

Added Harkin: "The right wing of the Republican Party sort of reminds me of a petulant child who just doesn't get its way. Therefore, they're going to throw a temper tantrum."

What's "sad," said Harkin, is "President Bush and the rest of the Republican Party caved into this."

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Exactly the right response

The right wing of the party makes people nervous.

Play up the idea that Bush caved to these lunatics.

[cantstandbush]

25. I bet Miers thought she was part of the RW. How do you think she feels

now?

[Sin]

29. She feels like

She needs to be more extreme to fit in with her ilk. crazy neo cons never think that there party betrayed them they think that they need to goose step better so all the wacko's won't point and scream at them because they know they haven't fallen asleep yet.

[Paradise]

35. he did. n/t

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Good for Sen. Harkin!

It is important that more and more Dems are out telling everyone how the Republican party is in the hand of these extremists.

[Justitia]

3. Very true, and very clever of Harkin to call them on it. -eom

[Southsideirish]

4. Its because they hate independent working women w/o husband & kids.

[Paradise]

36. true AND funny :) n/t

[madrchsod]

5. the local newspaper here in ronnieland

said that the republicans that are running washington are destroying reagan`s vision...ok that wasn`t much of a vision. the republicans are in turmoil and it`s best to just sit back a watch...oh a few well chosen words here and there certainly keeps the pot well stirred.

[rodeodance]

6. exactly my words/thoughts. glad to see it from him

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

7. BINGO! My thoughts exactly.

[C_U_L8R]

8. Yes !! Kiss the women's vote goodbye !!!!

mysogenist fck-ups

[LiberteToujours]

9. I thought we didn't want her?

How come suddenly we're upset that she wasn't nominated? Or are we just playing mind games with the American public by pretending to be?

[Straight Shooter]

10. We didn't want her. She was a disaster in the making.

However, we didn't want her because she was disastrous for America. The right wing didn't want her because ... well, I still can't figure that one out :)

[Buns_of_Fire]

18. They didn't want her because she wasn't far ENOUGH to the right!

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Memo to : this is what you get when you suck up to your RW nutjobs...

[TrogL]

22. I kind of liked her

I was hoping she'd turn out to be Dubya's "worst mistake" in Republican eyes, getting nominated as a "conservative", then swinging waaaaay left.

[Straight Shooter]

23. Oh, I see.

You like to live dangerously, eh? ;)

[pretzel4gore]

32. not disastrous enough maybe(?)

that's the difference between the dems and the gopigs...the gopigs truly hate the us in USA! but try telling that to the cud chewers!

[alcibiades_mystery]

20. On to the next fight

No time for the purity police and other half-steppers.

[mzmolly]

11. I love the way he's playing this fiddle!

:evilgrin:

[uppityperson]

12. "The way she was treated"?

Isn't she the one without any judicial experience who refused to answer the questions she was asked? I don't understand how she was treated wrongly except by being nominated in the first place. Is this what you all/ Harkin means?

[Justitia]

13. I think he's talking about the negative ads, talking heads campaigns

decrying her, etc - all from the far RWers.

[AndyTiedye]

14. She Would Have Been a Sure Vote to Overturn Roe v Wade...

...but maybe not Griswold v. Connecticut.

The Fundies want it all.

[JPZenger]

15. If She Had Real Qualifications, It would have been harder for rightwing

If she had real qualifications to be on the court, then it would have been much harder for the right-wing to oppose her. As it was, even the people who didn't care about her politics were uncomfortable with the choice.

[TheDonkey]

16. No, it shows WEAKNESS of this president

Democrats need to be careful not to embolden the already crazed right-wing.

[0007]

17. I believe this while Miers thingy was premeditated.

...and things are going as planned.

Much the way Rather was set-up.

[alcibiades_mystery]

21. You'll believe anything that gives your opponents all the power

and you none. They're always right and siuccessful, your side's always losing and doing it wrong.

Same old story.

Here's the problem: You're not cut out for politics. You're a masochist. You like losing, so you imagine losses even when you win.

[0007]

26. LOL!! You'd go broke as a foture teller my friend!

[alcibiades_mystery]

31. Go kiss more Bushista ass

They're sooooo smart and powerful....waaaaahhhh....they always win.

:eyes:

[truthisfreedom]

27. i agree that it might look that way, but i'm guessing bush really wanted

her to be in SCOTUS and when he came up against opposition, he let her believe she had his support but he worked with his gang to try to come up with an alternative. in other words, she started out as a bad bush idea and became a stalking horse.

[0007]

30. Don't you think Gonzales and the Texas judges would have

squared with junior on her ability to perform? Or did junior indeed take to heart Harry Reid and his advertisement for the gal?

I just don't believe junior has full control of issues that strongly affect the course of events

[rodeodance]

19. scary (the power of the RW).

[fshrink]

24. Really?

I would have thought that pulling the country in a stupid war, falsifying votes, embezzling right and left, violating the constitution over, priviledging the rich, among others, would be enough to substantiate the power of the right wing. What it really shows is that when the idiot insists in making a decision on his own it flops.

[hippiegranny]

28. The extreme right wing was BLAMED

for the pull-out, but I think it was really because Harry and Bushie got uncomfortable once they realized some of their super secret clubhouse meetings were going to be called into question. A perfect example of the kind of half-hatched plans the little toadstool comes up with when his handlers lose their grip on him.

[Fairlyunbalanced]

33. She was just as stupid and unqualified as him...

I wonder if he's not only stupid and evil, but lives in some sort of "opposite dimesion" in which Miers was "smart", the Iraq war could ever possibly bring about "peace", and in which the RW could ever be "moral".

So bizarre. They make me wonder sometimes if I'm crazy.

[radfringe]

34. I suppose we could say

bush* got belted by the bible....?

[Festivito]

37. Also shows the weakness of Bush.

All he MIGHT have remaining as a base is a sheep-like group of news-ignorant people with a myopic agenda.