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To: Lane3 who wrote (141737)	10/5/2005 5:15:30 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794187

So which is it? Is the senate supposed to defer to presidential discretion in SC nominations or isn't it? What is the principle here? The whole constitutional idea of Senate conformation was to keep the President's unqualified friends off the court. My take would be that you confirm her if she is qualified, which she is. And not confirm her is it is cronyism, which it is. Obviously-unless she blows up during the hearings-she will be confirmed.

To: Lane3 who wrote (141737)	10/5/2005 6:02:55 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794187

"The Cronyist in Chief: Further (Snarky) Thoughts on the Miers Nomination: The most shocking thing about Bush’s nomination is that so many people are shocked by Bush’s nomination. What exactly did they expect? I realize that some people still have a strange form of cognitive dissonance in which every time they look at GWB they see the face of Ronald Reagan. But most everyone else should have seen this coming. Bush is no conservative; he is a cronyist – a believer in the divine right to give all your friends cool jobs. GWB is like the frat guy you knew in college who’d get drunk and say, “Dude, when I’m president, I’m gonna make Bubba the attorney general…and since Skeeter handles the beer funds I’ll make him the Secretary of the Treasury…and I’ll make the hot chick in my Chem lab the…” * I will admit, though, that when it comes to judicial nominations, GWB is following in Regan’s footsteps. Like the Gipper, Bush prefers to appoint women who have no apparent qualifications and are a complete cipher as to how they will serve once they become a justice. * A request for all the die-hard Bush loyalists: can you please, please stop praising the President for his loyalty. Loyalty is not an unqualified virtue. While it can be a valuable character trait it is not always a noble one. Young gangsters and old coon dogs, for example, are also loyal but we don’t want them picking our Supreme Court justices. * Why are the people who say they want an “originalist” and a “strict constructionist” on the bench whining about Miers qualifications? If you plan to legislate from the bench then it certainly helps to have a brilliant legal scholar. If you want someone who can interpret the Constitution properly you just need someone who’s literate. * I’m also tired of the underlying snobbery that implies that since Ms. Miers went to SMU rather than an Ivy League school that she is unqualified to serve on the Supreme Court. I realize that after you pay $125,000 for an education that, as Will Hunting says, you could get for $1.25 in late fees at the public library, you might feel entitled to prestigious government posts. But we shouldn’t hold it against Miers that she had to wait until late in life to take advantage of cronyism rather than being able to profit from it in time to fill out a Harvard application. * Too many people are making a big fuss over the fact that Miers donated $1000 to the Al Gore campaign in 1988. So she was a democrat in the late ‘80s; so was most every other Texan. Remember the phrase “Reagan Democrats”? That was us, democrats who actually voted for Reagan. Know why you don’t hear about “Bush Democrats?” Because we all became Republicans. * Some perspective: I too supported Al Gore in the ’88 primary. If I can transform into a Republican-voting religious-right wing-nut in seventeen year, I’m sure Ms. Miers could too. Posted by Joe Carter " evangelicaloutpost.com