Okay, maybe another post on Miers
I was going to shut up about this until the hearings, but the ratcheting up of this issue among so many conservatives I respect really annoys and disturbs me. There is a great article a (above link) in the WSJ about President Bush's choice of Harriet Miers.
Melanie Kirkpatrick says many things I believe, so of course I think she's very smart. But she really is on target with the following excerpt.
"Many of my friends on the right have signed up for the conservative revolt against Harriet Miers. Count me out--at least for now.
I don't know enough about President Bush's most recent nominee for the Supreme Court to stand up and shout, "Hooray for Harriet." Her judicial philosophy remains a mystery and the White House's attempts to explain who she is have been ineffective, to say the least.
But I do know enough about Mr. Bush's judicial appointments over the past five years to give three cheers for his record on picking judges. Almost to a man and a woman, they are judicial conservatives who are already shifting the ideological balance of the federal judiciary to the right. Conservatives who have rushed to bash Mr. Bush for his selection of Ms. Miers should brew themselves a cup of chamomile tea and go back and review the roster of Bush judges. They'll sleep better, though it's probably too much to hope that they'll wake up with a more open-minded perspective on Ms. Miers."
I swear the clucking among some "intellectual" conservatives has gotten to be much too much. There is no reasoning to it anymore. The Dems are laughing for now, because most of their "job" has been done for them. Instead of waiting to see if President Bush is truthful, they began whining immediately. God, they sound so much like the Move-On crowd when Hillary isn't liberal enough. Not attractive...and not smart.
UPDATE (10/21/05)
Again, must see Media Lies for some heartfelt comments from someone else who is astonished about the uproar in the conservative blogosphere. His last two sentences especially strike home:
"A lot of people are complaining that the President has abandoned them. I can't help but think he's feeling the same way right now."
Melanie Kirkpatrick says many things I believe, so of course I think she's very smart. But she really is on target with the following excerpt.
"Many of my friends on the right have signed up for the conservative revolt against Harriet Miers. Count me out--at least for now.
I don't know enough about President Bush's most recent nominee for the Supreme Court to stand up and shout, "Hooray for Harriet." Her judicial philosophy remains a mystery and the White House's attempts to explain who she is have been ineffective, to say the least.
But I do know enough about Mr. Bush's judicial appointments over the past five years to give three cheers for his record on picking judges. Almost to a man and a woman, they are judicial conservatives who are already shifting the ideological balance of the federal judiciary to the right. Conservatives who have rushed to bash Mr. Bush for his selection of Ms. Miers should brew themselves a cup of chamomile tea and go back and review the roster of Bush judges. They'll sleep better, though it's probably too much to hope that they'll wake up with a more open-minded perspective on Ms. Miers."
I swear the clucking among some "intellectual" conservatives has gotten to be much too much. There is no reasoning to it anymore. The Dems are laughing for now, because most of their "job" has been done for them. Instead of waiting to see if President Bush is truthful, they began whining immediately. God, they sound so much like the Move-On crowd when Hillary isn't liberal enough. Not attractive...and not smart.
UPDATE (10/21/05)
Again, must see Media Lies for some heartfelt comments from someone else who is astonished about the uproar in the conservative blogosphere. His last two sentences especially strike home:
"A lot of people are complaining that the President has abandoned them. I can't help but think he's feeling the same way right now."
posted by RightinFlorida | 9:37 PM
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