Miers extreme antichoice:89 council race:Newsmax

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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.

•  This needs far more coverage.

  I keep telling people that Miers is a disaster waiting to happen, but the Dems' position seems to be "let's not fight her, because we all know he could have named someone worse."  He DID name someone worse.  It just isn't as obvious.

  by Black Max on Tue Oct 04, 2005 at 01:10:10 PM PDT

  •  I totally agree

    I think the conservatives are going a little too far on this one (from their point of view).  I have no doubt that this Miers lady is some sort of extremist and that conservatives are going to love her once she starts legislating from the bench and dismantling generations of freedoms won via the courts.

    I don't know yet about opposed, I think she needs to be totally and thoroughly vetted by the Senate and hopefully a skeptical Republican caucus will help with that.  That doesn't mean getting access to documents as White House counsel (those are rightly priveleged, most likely; unlike Roberts' solicitor general memos, which absolutely should have been released since he was acting as our lawyer, not the president's).

    by salsa0000 on Tue Oct 04, 2005 at 01:42:37 PM PDT

•  She's a Trojan Whorse

  I agree completely. Of course Bush want to leave his mark on the Court by selecting Justices who will enact his policies. And of course Harriet, who told David Frum that the president was the most brilliant man she had ever met AND has become an evangelical Christian will be against reproductive rights. I expect that she will also be against teaching real science instead of creationism, against stem-cell research, and ardently pro-business.

  She must be opposed. Bush is weak now. We must demand a nominee who is a proven moderate. We must fight to ensure the continued separation of powers.

  by Linda at Now Tank on Tue Oct 04, 2005 at 02:18:55 PM PDT