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Best Line I’ve Read In Ages
From Powerline’s rough transcript of today’s Alito confirmation hearings comes the following gem of an exchange: […][SPECTER:] Do you agree that Casey is a super-precedent or a super stare decisis, as Judge Luttig said? ALITO: Well, I personally would not get into categorizing precedents as super-precedents or super-duper precedents or any… SPECTER: Did you say…
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Either National Review Reads Andy(I)’s Site
…or great minds think alike. Matthew J. Franck on the Miers nomination: “It all could have been a strategy. It wasn’t. But it would have worked as one.”
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It’s Carpet-Callin’ Time
I’ve known Andy(I) for a long, long time and so I believe he’ll forgive me when I say: Bud, you’ve done run right off the intellectual tracks. The Miers withdrawal – a timed, planned diversion from potential indictments in the Affaire de Plame? Dude, I scored two points from pure Machiavelli himself on that stupid…
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President Bush Taps “Scalito” For SCoTUS; Conservatives Relieved “Mierito”, “Souterito” Remain Unnominated
Michelle Malkin has a complete roundup. Best reaction I’ve seen thus far? Kathryn Jean Lopez deadpanning: “I just got the White House talking points on Alito. Nowhere in them does it say that he is one of the best male lawyers in New Jersey.” Heh.
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A Bit Late – Opposing The Miers Nomination, Or: I AM The Base, Jive Turkey!
Well, I had a really lovely piece cooking on the Miers nomination but it looks like it won’t be necessary now. Thanks to an IM from Brad, I was alerted to Miers’ withdrawal. I skipped over to CNN.com and was greeted with this alert: “Reluctantly” – I’ll bet. Hooray for the conservative side of the…
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More Conservative Miers Reax
The conservative reactions to the President’s pick of Harriet Miers for Assoicate Justice continue to roll in, prime among which is George Will’s acerbic column from this morning, which began thusly: Senators beginning what ought to be a protracted and exacting scrutiny of Harriet Miers should be guided by three rules. First, it is not…
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Positive Miers Reax
While I’ve certainly been down on the President’s selection of Harriet Miers to be the next Supreme Court Justice, there have been those on the right who are willing to view the whole affair in a more positive light. Beldar, in particular, has been verbose on the issue, rebutting the cronyism claims, spanking National Review…
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Someone Stole My President And Replaced Him With An Alien Clone Intent On Destroying The Republican Base
Or, at the very least, that’s what I think has to have happened for him to nominate Harriet Miers to the SCoTUS. Reactions have been mixed with a decidedly negative tone, from profound disappointment to saying the White House is stuck on stupid to calling it a rope-a-dope to a real diversity play to outright…