Irvine511
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the Right gets angry:
the more i think about it, the more of a godsend Harriet Miers appears to be. no, i don't think she's qualified in the absolute sense, in that i am certain there must be a hundred lawyers equally as good as she is. i am dismayed at Bush's reasons for nominating her, his culture of cronyism, etc.
but the collective right wing meltdown is starting to make me very happy -- they conservatives are in a civil war, there is no way that Miers (at least from what we know) will be the Scalia/Thomas everyone was hoping for, and the Dems have been wisely silent on her nomination.
however, based upon the above paragraph, is the right starting to get out of hand? is Harriet-bashing a new pastime? is it uncouth? undignified? is it right to beat up on this woman in order to save the conservative movement?
what happened to demands of fair up-or-down votes?
to my mind, one word: karma, bitches.
Some conservatives have called on the president to withdraw her nomination, and a few have urged senators to vote against her. If the president withdrew the nomination, we believe that he would seek a replacement who could unite conservatives — as he no doubt expected Miers to unite them. But that nominee would be tarnished, perhaps fatally, by the suspicion that the president was forced to pander to the Right. The president, moreover, surely does not want to risk looking less than strong and steadfast. The prudent course is for Miers to withdraw her own nomination in the interests of the president she loyally serves.
http://www.nationalreview.com/editorial/editors200510141544.asp
the more i think about it, the more of a godsend Harriet Miers appears to be. no, i don't think she's qualified in the absolute sense, in that i am certain there must be a hundred lawyers equally as good as she is. i am dismayed at Bush's reasons for nominating her, his culture of cronyism, etc.
but the collective right wing meltdown is starting to make me very happy -- they conservatives are in a civil war, there is no way that Miers (at least from what we know) will be the Scalia/Thomas everyone was hoping for, and the Dems have been wisely silent on her nomination.
however, based upon the above paragraph, is the right starting to get out of hand? is Harriet-bashing a new pastime? is it uncouth? undignified? is it right to beat up on this woman in order to save the conservative movement?
what happened to demands of fair up-or-down votes?
to my mind, one word: karma, bitches.