"She needs a crash course in constitutional law."

[CatWoman]

ouch!!!!!

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 - After a blistering week, the White House is scrambling to control a conservative uprising over the nomination of Harriet E. Miers to the Supreme Court, with President Bush pitching his choice directly to the public on Saturday as his Republican allies plotted strategy to shore up support.

"Harriet Miers will be the type of judge I said I would nominate: a good conservative judge," Mr. Bush said in his weekly radio address. He added, "When she goes before the Senate, I am confident that all Americans will see what I see every day: Harriet Miers is a woman of intelligence, strength and conviction."

It was the third time since he picked Ms. Miers on Monday that the president has come to her defense. His remarks came as Senator Arlen Specter, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who presides over confirmation hearings, offered a blunt assessment that was yet another sign that the nominee faced an uphill battle on Capitol Hill. Though Mr. Specter called Ms. Miers "intellectually able," he said she had a "fair-sized job to do" to become fluent in the language of constitutional law, which will be essential for senators who want to examine her judicial philosophy in deciding whether to confirm her.

"She needs more than murder boards," Mr. Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, said in an interview, referring to the mock question-and-answer sessions most nominees use to prepare for their confirmation hearings. "She needs a crash course in constitutional law."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/politics/politicsspecial1/09confirm.html?ei=5094&en=bcd785a5d2c24e9a&hp=&ex=1128830400&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print

[karlrschneider]

1. Hmph. That'd be like me giving a crash course in flying.

(pun or whatever it is, intended.) :D

[Maat]

2. Great ..

instead of a scholar, like Lawrence Tribe, we are going to have the Church Lady (who doesn't remember the stuff she learned in ConLaw). True, if you're a Rethuglican hack, you are going to come up with the result the Thugs want you to, but you (she) could at least learn the buzzwords!

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

3. I know, I know,

Constitutional Law for Dummies.

Sorry, I shouldn't joke about it, This is so sick. She doesn't know constitutional law which is really all she needs to know. What a disaster in the making.

[unblock]

28. supreme judiciating for dummies

[FloridaPat]

4. Why bother. * will just tell her how to vote.

[ClintonTyree]

15. I think that's been the plan all along.......

to have a willing dupe on the Court that they can program before, during or after every case brought before it.
I'm not saying Miers is unintelligent because she certainly is. However I think this was the intention of the bush administration from the start. She'd be a living legacy of bush's failed administration for decades to come.
The buzz on this morning's talk shows was "how this was going to affect bush's legacy". :eyes: Sorry guys, there's no saving bush's legacy, it's doomed to be considered one of if not THE worst administration, ever. I found it shocking that all that's being considered in bush's "precious legacy". :puke:

[MADem]

30. But what will she do when his alcoholic dementia sets in?

Let's hope she'll use her time to bone up on the law, seeing as the Supremes do not have an especially arduous schedule. Assuming, of course, that she even gets out of committee....

[marmar]

5. I didn't think the Supreme Court was a place...

for on-the-job training. Bush has made a mockery of all levels of government - I've never seen so much patronage and cronyism.

[DS1]

25. Why do you hate education?

[kestrel91316]

6. She's going to be another whiz-bang justice the likes of Thomas.

Betcha Scalia takes her under his wing and writes her opinions for her just like he does with Clarence.

[AirAmFan]

7. Miers's Constitutional experience is very specialized--one case only.

See http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB112864645334762361-Sj2_Gofu_kpjkW4C082xxUY4W_E_20061006.html?mod=public_home_us .

[H2O]

14. Thanx

Wow! Thanx for that post!

Basically, her experience in Constitutional Law was mainly to help elect George W. Bush. That's definitely cronyism right there.

[wryter2000]

18. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[cosmicdot]

34. funny thing about Dick Cheney's 2000 address ...

using the Wayback Machine http://www.archive.org/ to find captured Poppy Bu$h's presidential library foundation trustees in the year 2001, the trustees are listed with their home location, Dick Cheney is shown being from Dallas, TX.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010508104304/http://www.georgebushfoundation.org/bush/asp/OverView/Trustees.asp
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y5CB623FB

(for current trustees see
http://www.georgebushfoundation.org/bush/asp/OverView/Trustees.asp)

Oh, look, there's Ken Lay, a couple of Democrats, too ...

2001 Trustees
`````````````
Don A. Adam
Bryan, Texas

Joe L. Allbritton
Washington, D.C.

Walter Annenberg
St. Davids, Pennsylvania

Thomas Ludlow Ashley *
Washington, D.C.

Dexter Baker
Allentown, Pennsylvania

James A. Baker, III
Houston, Texas

Sam Bamieh
San Mateo, California

Perry R. Bass
Fort Worth, Texas

Griffin B. Bell
Atlanta, Georgia

Bruce Benson
Denver, Colorado

Jack Blanton
Houston, Texas

Katherine E. Boyd
Hillsborough, California

Nicholas F. Brady
Easton, Maryland

Daniel B. Burke
New York, New York

Governor John Ellis Bush *
Miami, Florida

Jonathan J. Bush
Killingworth, Connecticut

Marvin P. Bush
Alexandria, Virginia

Neil M. Bush
Houston, Texas

Prescott S. Bush, Jr.
Greenwich, Connecticut

William H.T. Bush
St. Louis, Missouri

Andrew H. Card, Jr. *
Washington D.C.

John T. Cater
Houston, Texas

Charles Cawley *
Wilmington, Delaware

Richard B. Cheney
Dallas, Texas

James W. Cicconi *
Washington, D.C.

William P. Clements
Dallas, Texas

Tony Coelho
Alexandria, Virginia

Dan W. Cook, III
Dallas Texas

Lodwrick M. Cook *
Los Angeles, California

Edwin L. Cox
Dallas, Texas

Mr. & Mrs. Earle Craig
Midland, Texas

Harlan Crow
Dallas, Texas

Trammell Crow
Dallas, Texas

Walter Curley
New York, New York

Barbara Fish Daniel
Houston, Texas

Robert A. Day
Los Angeles, California

William H. Draper
Atherton, California

Archie W. Dunham
Houston, Texas

Nancy Ellis
Boston, Massachusetts

William S. Farish, III
Versailles, Kentucky

Luis A. Ferre
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Laurie Firestone
Newport Beach, California

Max M. Fisher
Detroit, Michigan

Brad M. Freeman
Los Angeles, California

Craig L. Fuller
McLean, Virginia

H. Laurance Fuller
Chicago, Illinois

Richard L. Gelb
New York, New York

Preston M. Geren, Jr.
Fort Worth, Texas

C. Boyden Gray
Washington, D.C.

Alan Green, Jr.
Portland, Oregon

Michel T. Halbouty
Houston, Texas

Adele Hall
Shawnee Mission, Kansas

John M. Hennessy
New York, New York

Mr. & Mrs. Henry Hillman
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Eric Hilton
Los Angeles, California

Bobby Holt *
Midland, Texas

Roy M. Huffington
Houston, Texas

Ray L. Hunt
Dallas, Texas

Donald M. Kendall
Purchase, New York

Dorothy Bush Koch *
Bethesda, Maryland

Terri Lacy *
Houston, Texas

Jack Laughery
Rocky Mount, North Carolina

Kenneth L. Lay
Houston, Texas

J. Hugh Liedtke
Houston, Texas

Carl H. Lindner, III
Cincinnati, Ohio

John H. Lindsey *
Houston, Texas

John D. Macomber
Washington, D.C.

Cary Maguire
Dallas, Texas

Frederic V. Malek
Washington, D.C.

Donald B. Marron
New York, New York

Lynn Martin
Chicago, Illinois

Louis Marx
New York, New York

Elvis Mason
Dallas, Texas

Frederick D. McClure *
Dallas, Texas*

William A. McKenzie
Dallas, Texas

G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery
Meridian, Mississippi

Robert Mosbacher
Houston, Texas

William P. Moss
Dallas, Texas

Brian Mulroney
Canada (Honorary)

Edward N. Ney
New York, New York

Peter O'Donnell
Dallas, Texas

Gerald L. Parsky
Los Angeles, California

Heinz Prechter
Southgate, Michigan

Dan Quayle
Scottsdale, Arizona (Honorary)

Sigmund Rogich
Las Vegas, Nevada

Susan Porter Rose
McLean, Virginia

Roy Ryu
Seoul, South Korea

William A. Schreyer
Plainsboro, New Jersey

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Santa Monica, California

Brent Scowcroft *
Washington, D.C.

Peter Secchia
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Melvin F. Sembler
St. Petersburg, Florida

Samuel K. Skinner
Chicago, Illinois

Joshua Smith
Lanham, Maryland

Alex Spanos
Stockton, California

Jacob Stein
Hicksville, New York

Robert H. Stewart
Dallas, Texas

Robert S. Strauss
Washington, D.C.

John H. Sununu
Washington, D.C.

Jack Valenti
Washington, D.C.

Robert Waltrip
Houston, Texas

Jerry Weintraub
Burbank, California

John F. Welch
Fairfield, Connecticut Gary Winnick

Gary Winnick
Beverly Hills, California

Richard D. Wood
Indianapolis, Indiana

Stephen A. Wynn
Las Vegas, Nevada

Gordon Zacks
Columbus, Ohio

Fred M. Zeder
Rancho Mirage, California


* Member of the Board of Directors

[BrotherBuzz]

8. Perhaps Karen Hughes can take the same damn course...

Karen Hughes: "Our Constitution cites 'One Nation Under God'."

I'm just saying...:shrug:

[mandyky]

13. and a crash course in Arabic alphabet and homonyms

if she is going give the 4 R speeches to them furiners! LOL

[BrotherBuzz]

27. Oh, those courses are already offered at the State Department...

If she had only bothered to look, she would have discovered the Diplomat Corps has extensive programs designed to avoid just such faux pas. If she had also bothered to listen, she would also have discovered she was surrounded by professional people who have advanced through the ranks of the Diplomat Corps that would have offered to advised her better. Listening appears to be a problem with Karen Hughes, perhaps she should visit an otolaryngologist and get the wax cleaned out of her ears.

I'm just saying...:shrug:

[TheCentepedeShoes]

9. So why would you ( * )

nominate someone who had limited Constitutional knowledge? Oh, gee, answered my own question. :eyes:

[insanity]

10. Bush has a good trend going.

For some reason, Bush likes to appoint people who are not qualified for positions they don't deserve. Bolton, Miers, and Brownie to name a few. Two out of those three have already fucked up on the job, is Bush trying to maintain his perfect record? Now I understand why the dude ran all of his companies into the ground, he doesn't have an ounce of management skills.

[H2O]

11. What I have heard

She had a great deal to do with covering up the mess about the National Guard when he was the Texas Governer.
Of course, a friendly judge on the Supreme Court might be nice if you need a few pardons....... :hide:

[mandyky]

12. I winced when I heard that too!

Jesus Fucking Christ, if she needs a crash course on the Constitution she DOES NOT belong on any Supreme Court - state or federal!

Nominated.

[wryter2000]

16. Come on, Specter

You can evolve from reptilian to fully human. I know you can.

[Aviation Pro]

17. Idiot (Specter)

Sphincter needs to be reminded that a "brain dump" normally follows a "crash course." There is little or no retention of the information no matter how "brilliant" (not) the applicant, nominee, aspirant is.

My suggestion for Dowager/Old Maid Miers is to give up her delusions of grandeur and exit ungracefully in a full face plant on the Rose Garden lawn.

[MADem]

31. I sometimes wonder if this isn't a Monkey Feint

He puts her up to satisfy the WOMAN FOR A WOMAN crowd, and then she bows out, and he proposes another crony with a slightly longer paper trail, ALBERTO GONZALEZ, who makes it through the gauntlet because they will not want an even worse candidate on the third try, and then he slides "Harry" into the newly vacant AG slot.

He can tell Pickles, hey honey, AH TRIED!!!

And he can tell the far right, hey, she was one of Y'ALL, and YOU gave me shit about it!

And so long as she doesn't screw up totally as AG, he can tell the "intellectual conservatives" that she WOULDA made a good SCJ, but you guys were MEAN to me!

[DoYouEverWonder]

19. The first question they should ask her in the hearings

is "Have you ever read the Consitution?"

[cassiepriam]

20. How about a crash course in ethics while she's at it. nt

[radfringe]

21. bush* got himself into a QUAG-MIER with this one

The reich-wingers are up in arms because Miers isn't as radically rabid as they are. Even some repug-senators are concerned over the lack of information - although I don't know why they seemed surprised since the bushies have never willingly divulged any information

meanwhile - most dems seem to be taking a wait and see attitude, prefering to watch the repugs fight amongst themselves, and occassionlly throwing in supporting comments about Miers which starts up the repugs fighting all over again

I've heard alot of theories about why bush* picked Miers... but it seems to me that the most obvious is the most likely -- bush* screwed up....again

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

22. Doesn't Stanley Kaplan have a Supreme Court Justice prep course?

[leesa]

23. How come Roberts could say, during his hearings, that he wasn't up on

constitutional law and this woman can't? Is it because he's cuter?

[leesa]

24. How come Roberts could say, during his hearings, that he wasn't up on

constitutional law and this woman can't? Is it because he's cuter?

[ck4829]

26. Maybe she and Ann Coluter can take a course together.

[Buns_of_Fire]

29. Answer This Question Correctly and YOU TOO Can Earn A Diploma

In Constitutional Law!

The three branches of the federal government are:

1. The Left Branch, The Right Branch, The Little Branch Connected to the Right Branch
2. The Executive, The Legislative, The Judicial
3. Larry, Moe, Curly

Mail your answer to the Close-Cover-Before-Striking School of Constitutional Law, and we'll tell you if you have the makings of a future Supreme Court Justice! Don't delay!

Name: Georg Harriet Miers
Address: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
City, State: Washington, D.C.

:eyes:

[BlacknBlue in Red NC]

32. That was great, Buns...

too bad she probably couldn't even get that one right...those lefts and rights are SO confusing...

lol:silly:

[Arkham House]

33. Life's Little Ironies...

I've hated Specter for almost 40 years because of his role in the "single-bullet" theory fraud the Warren Commission tried to foist on the country...and now, as a sick old man, I find that he's one of the very few people who can even momentarily help in the headlong flight of the US towards fascism...a "moderate" Republican heading the Judiciary Committee. God save us all...:-(...