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Read this, and then you tell me.
GEORGE THE BETRAYER AND HARRIET WHO
Actually, we do know where she stands.
Harriet Miers.
The president’s pick for the Supreme Court. The Texas nobody.
She has a record and it tells us all we need to know about her.
During the Reagan Revolution, she was a Democrat. Until the George W. Bush star began to rise, she donated to Democratic politicians – like Al Gore and Lloyd Bentsen. She has donated directly to the Democratic National Committee. Her Republican contributions did not begin until George W. Bush became her political patron.
In a career that has spanned an era in which individual liberty has been repeatedly attacked by big government, and the judiciary has grown imbalanced and tyrannical, she hasn’t written or said a word in opposition or protest. Nor has she been any sort of pioneer for women’s rights – having spent the bulk of her legal career with a woman already sitting on the Supreme Court.
If she wasn’t the president’s friend, no one would know her name. She had a very nice legal career in Dallas, but is in no way an attorney, judge, scholar or thinker of national stature.
Further, she was specifically recommended for this position by Harry Reid, the outspoken and liberal leader of Senate Democrats.
Finally, the most telling piece of her record is the pattern of policy initiatives to come out of the White House during her tenure as the president’s top lawyer. During her year, the Bush Administration has emphasized big government at the expense of the Constitution. The recent suggestion by the president – which he undoubtedly developed with his legal counsel – that the federal government take over disaster response from the states, and put the military in charge, spits in the face of the Tenth Amendment.
And Harriet Miers signed off on it.
That tells us all we need to know about her.
She says she supports what the framers of the Constitution wanted, but as the president’s top lawyer she didn’t stop him from going against the clear intent of those same framers.
She’s a George W. Bush lackey, and that’s not good enough. We don't trust him that much anymore. And it is an incredible act of ingratitude, gall and arrogance for George W. Bush not to recognize that and take a different course.
George W. Bush is president today because he promised American conservatives that he would appoint conservatives to the Supreme Court. With a half century of uninterrupted liberal dominance, conservatives feel that the Supreme Court has been hijacked and that it has become a political arm of government, instead of a strict defender of the Constitution.
George W. Bush said he’d change that.
And history was ripe to let him.
With the Supreme Court having done a great deal of its most divisive business with 5-4 votes, and with Republican-appointed Sandra Day O’Connor being the swing vote in 75 percent of those cases, and that most typically on the liberal side, the seat George W. Bush has promised to Harriet Miers is the seat that makes all the difference.
It was the entire reason he was elected.
Conservatives wanted sanity in the courts. They elected him to put it there.
And yesterday he kicked them in the teeth.
A great many true legal scholars and true conservatives were passed over for a cipher. People whose thoughts were known, people who had not hidden away all their lives, were passed over so a seat on the Supreme Court could be given out to a close friend. The swing vote was left to twist in the wind.
It was an act of cowardice and treachery.
Because it was George W. Bush who told conservatives he would appoint “another Thomas or Scalia” if they re-elected him. And they did. The difference in his second election was the “values vote,” and that came from conservatives worried about the courts.
And this is how he has repaid them.
The lame duck has become chicken little.
Either not truly committed to the conservative cause, or afraid to make a stand against Democrats in the Senate, George W. Bush punted on the single biggest decision of his presidency.
And then he sent Dick Cheney out to promise that in 10 years we’d all be glad Harriet Miers was on the court.
What a disappointment and betrayal.
Instead of using his second term to courageously pursue the agenda he preached, the son has become the father and we’re faced with another not-quite-Republican President Bush. After all the money conservatives gave, after all the votes, after all the effort, after all the promises, he took the easy way out and left his supporters in the dust.
Conservatives gave the Republicans the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives. No other group has been as faithful to the GOP or as essential to its success. And this is how they are repaid.
The one thing they wanted is the thing they will not get.
We do know where she stands.
Right next to George W. Bush.
And given his conduct of the last two or three years, that’s reason enough for conservatives to oppose her.
23 posted on 10/04/2005 6:12:01 AM PDT by conservativecorner
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1496274/posts#comment?q=1PS It is so much fun to see them explode in on themselves!
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