Doesn't Harriet Miers deserve an 'up or down vote?'

[quaoar]

It's only been a few months since Republicans launched a TV ad campaign demanding that Democrats give John Roberts a "fair up or down vote." That was the only "fair" thing to do in a democracy, they bellowed with righteous indignation.

Now, however, a fair up or down vote is out of the question. They have launched a full-court press to get Miers to withdraw. This is just dripping with irony, which, of course, the Republicans don't see, because if they did they'd have to be ashamed.

Here are some quotes from the summer -- compiled at mydd:

http://www.mydd.com/story/2005/10/25/05237/124#readmore

"Every President, Republican or Democrat, deserves to have his nominees voted on. Every Senator has a responsibility to exercise his or her constitutional duty to vote on the President's nominees, and every nominee deserves a hearing, a committee vote, and an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor."
Sen. Elizabeth Dole (NC), November 13, 2003

"All of the president's nominees--both now and in the future--deserve a fair up or down vote..."
Sen. Sam Brownback (KS), May 24, 2005

"Throughout this debate, we have held firm to a simple principle -- judicial nominees deserve up-or-down votes. Vote for them. Vote against them. But give them the courtesy of a vote."
Sen. Bill Frist (TN), April 28, 2005

"The President's nominees deserve a fair up or down vote."
Speaker of the House, Rep. Dennis Hastert (IL-14), May 18, 2005

[Jacobin]

1. Republicans are prejudiced against her for her religion

christians are under attack.

Why does the right want to prejudge her?

why does the RW elite want to limit SCOTUS justices to Ivy League School alumni?


We deserve answers.

We demand she be given an opportunity to testify before congress and make a fool of herself and the chimp!!!


:evilgrin:

(I like the way you think.)

[quaoar]

2. I also love

how the Republicans -- who were aghast at Democrats' demands to see Roberts' records and papers -- are now demanding that the White House release records about Miers.

Just amazing.

[tenshi816]

3. Yes, by all means,

give Harriet Miers and up or down vote ASAP! I believe it would be publicly humiliating for her, but since it's something the Republicans feel so strongly about, why don't they get right on it?

[JPZenger]

4. Alexander Hamilton Smacks Down George W. Bush

A quote from Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist Papers. The Federalist papers were written by a few of the founding fathers to explain to the public the rationale for the proposed U.S. Consitution.

The Federalist No. 76 - The Appointing Power of the Executive
4/1/1788 by Alexander Hamilton

"He (the President) would be both ashamed and afraid to bring forward, for the most distinguished or lucrative stations, candidates who had no other merit than that of coming from the same State to which he particularly belonged, or of being in some way or other personally allied to him, or of possessing the necessary insignificance and pliancy to render them the
obsequious instruments of his pleasure."

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"Miers said that Bush was the most brilliant man she had ever met. She needs to get out and meet some more men."

- Randi Rhodes on Air America