Image Credit: White House photo by Paul Morse.
Editorial: President Bush Appoints Harriet Miers to Supreme Court
BBSNews - 2005-10-03 -- President George W. Bush appointed Harriet Miers to the United States Supreme Court during a quiet morning announcement today. She brings years of loyalty to George W. Bush and a stellar career as a trial lawyer to the venerated seat on the court made available by the retirement of distinguished and well-beloved Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
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White House Counsel Harriet Miers speaks after being nominated by President George W. Bush as Supreme Court Justice during a statement from the Oval Office on Monday October 3, 2005.
Image Credit: White House photo by Paul Morse. |
Her appointment also brings much hand-wringing and downright soul-searching and recrimination to various and sundry GOP type conservatives who feel betrayed. William Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard, opined "I'm disappointed, depressed and demoralized."
Vice president Dick Cheney was pressed into service to reassure Rush Limbaugh "You'll be proud of Harriet's record Rush, uh, trust me," on todays show.
Besides reassuring the neocons, the aquiessence of some stalwarts of the evangelical community was not particularly notable given that Ms. Miers is a 60 year-old pro-life evangelical who has the potential to maybe swing the court a wee bit to the right.
FRC's president, Tony Perkins, commented in a press release:
"President Bush has long made it clear that his choices for the U.S. Supreme Court would be in the mold of current justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. We have no reason to believe he has abandoned that standard. However, our lack of knowledge about Harriet Miers, and the absence of a record on the bench, give us insufficient information from which to assess whether or not she is indeed in that mold.
And the dapper and well connected with wealthy evangelicals Jay Sekulow is singing Ms. Miers praises as well. Sekulow gushed: "Once again, President Bush showed exceptional judgment in naming Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court to replace Justice O'Connor."
We feel that Ms. Miers is the perfect stealth candidate for an administration that wanted to do a trade deal, say woman for woman, where Sandra Day O'Connor would get replaced with someone the polar opposite on probably the most hot-button issues of the day, abortion and civil rights. (Translation for GOP trough suckers and kool-aid drinkers: The Gay Avengers.)
Ms. Miers is a perfect choice to advance this evangelical unwavering position regardless of Constitutional rights. As Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid pointed out today Ms. Miers is a trial lawyer. A very good trial lawyer. In her rarified strata, she's a trial lawyer that could give former vice presidential candidate John Edwards a run for his money. As the Whitehouse "pit bull" she may very well be able to swing the court far to the right.
Ms. Miers will be confirmed with maybe a slightly higher number of votes in favor even than the Roberts confirmation. And Karl Rove will have been successful in making the "Bush" agenda really come true even as liberals go along thinking this leaves more time to press on hurricane Katrina and the politics of corruption permeating the GOP led government.
Those that think this is a win for the more realistic segments of society, and let us be clear, we mean those more socially aware of multi-culturalism; personal responsibility as opposed to governmental imposed responsibility, a persons right to choose and make life and death decisions for themselves etc in other words, we mean real conservatives.
Not what has now become of conservatism in the United States of America.
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