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HARRIET MIERS REMEMBERED AS ANTICHOICE EXTREMIST
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We should not be mislead. Just because the right is up in arms --- temporarily I am sure---doesn't mean we should think this is good for the Democratic party or the long term welfare of the American people.
George's father had to nominate a non controversial, no real trail candidate like David Souter , because the earlier Bork nomination battle had left such a bitter taste but it did result in the nomination of the slightly more moderate Justice Kennedy. Kennedy upheld Roe in Casey decision. Souter was nominated upon the recommendation of a moderate Republican, Sen, Warren Rudman. No one knew Souter well. Rudman, bush or Republican politicians.
But after spending 10 years with her a pretty daily basis, George Bush knows her better than anybody and certainly has information about her that his Dad didn't have about Souter.
We should stop cheering ----on this site and in the offices of Democratic senators. Harry Reid doesn't want an anti choice justice, but choice is very low on his priority list. We may have moved GWB into a corner, but he is sly and I think he pulled an anti-choice judicial rabbit out of his hat. When judges are anti choice they are almost always also willing to eviscerate the civil rights laws, environmental and workplace protections that Congress has legislated on the basis of the broad reach of the Commerce clause and the 14th amendment.
In tennis you may be getting pounded at the net or the baseline and you throw up a lob to disorient your opponent and go on to win the point. Dubya just lobbed.
Miers should be opposed
LINK
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/10/3/225534.shtml
With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...
Monday, Oct. 3, 2005 10:52 p.m. EDT
HARRIET MIERS REMEMBERED AS ANTICHOICE EXTREMIST
The woman who managed Harriet Miers' one and only political campaign remembers her as a pro-life extremist.
"She is on the extreme end of the anti-choice movement," Lorlee Bartos tells the Dallas Morning News in Tuesday's edition.
Bartos managed Miers' 1989 run for a seat on the Dallas City Council.
"I think Harriet's belief was pretty strongly felt," Bartos said Monday. "I suspect she is of the same cloth as the president."
Bartos told the paper that Miers revealed she had been "pro-choice in her youth" - but "a born-again profound experience" prompted a change of mind. .........
That same year, however, Miers donated $150 to the Texans for Life Coalition.