Miers Says She’ll Give Senators More Info
Miers said she would try to give more information about herself to senators in charge of her confirmation after one said what she has submitted so far was “incomplete to insulting.” Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said Miers has taken “the most extreme position of anyone I have ever known on abortion, assuming she believes that there ought to be a constitutional ban on abortion which would make it a crime except if a woman’s life is at stake.”
https://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/20/D8DBPSI00.html
How Bush Can Save Bush – Peggy Noonan
The White House itself can be a disorienting place to work. You feel at once in charge of and at the mercy of, both powerful and besieged. Now Mr. Bush is in the first political crisis of his presidency, a crisis unusual, even perhaps unprecedented, in modern American politics, in that his own side has risen up and declared it no longer sees him as one of them. George W. Bush showed real humility when he made his big change 19 years ago, and one suspects it is whatever bedrock humility that remains behind the smirk that can help him turn his fortunes around now. The president would be well advised to look at the stakes, see what’s in the balance, judge the strengths and weaknesses of his own leadership, and get back to the basics of conservatism. Which again would take humility.
https://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110007427
Who was the 2nd choice? -Â Ann Coulter
From the beginning of this nightmare, I have taken it as a given that Miers will vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. I assume that’s why Bush nominated her. Pity no one told him there are scads of highly qualified judicial nominees who would also have voted against Roe. Wasn’t it Harriet Miers’ job to tell him that?… without a conservative theory of constitutional interpretation, Miers will lay the groundwork for a million more Roes.
https://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/anncoulter/2005/10/20/172029.html
The Conservative Revolt : Six reasons why conservatives have turned on Bush – Fred Barnes
WHY have so many conservatives suddenly revolted against President Bush, nearly five years into his presidency? I think their split with Bush is ill advised, counterproductive, and in some ways childish. But there’s no doubt it’s happening and it’s serious. And there’s more to it than disappointment with his nomination of Harriet Miers. Bush, of course, is a conservative, but a different kind of conservative. Three, the White House has grown a bit arrogant and self-centered. That’s what naturally occurs after a president is reelected. Five, the press is happy to abet the revolt. For the media, the situation is the best of all worlds. The feeling of conservative critics was that Bush had trivialized an enormously important Supreme Court nomination by choosing his legal counsel. Can the broken relationship between Bush and conservatives be repaired? Certainly. It’s probably just a political phase anyway.
https://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/235mjdqp.asp
Miers Once Vowed to Support Ban on Abortion But Conservatives Still Question Nominee’s Views
In contrast to Roberts, who said in his questionnaire response that he had argued orally before the Supreme Court 39 times, Miers has made no such appearances. With a corporate practice that rarely involved trial work, Miers, 60, said that she had identified eight cases that went through complete trials, of which she was the lead counsel for four. Specter told reporters that Miers had embraced two Supreme Court rulings—including the 1965 case Griswold v. Connecticut—that are considered important predecessors to the 1973 Roe ruling. Miers phoned Specter on Monday night to say she had not endorsed Griswold, and the senator’s office later that night issued an e-mail saying Specter “accepts Ms. Miers’s statement that he misunderstood what she said.” Yesterday, however, Specter told reporters that his recollection of the conversation remains “the one I gave you” Monday.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/18/AR2005101800715.html
The vulnerable nominee – Robert Novak
George W. Bush’s agents have convinced conservative Republican senators who were heartsick over his nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court that they must support her to save his presidency. But that does not guarantee her confirmation. Ahead are hearings of unspeakable ugliness that can be prevented only if Democratic senators exercise unaccustomed restraint. To nominate somebody implicated in a state lottery dispute in the past without carefully considering the consequences goes beyond incompetence to arrogant neglect. Miers remains so shaky, however, that she may not be able to survive confirmation hearings that go beyond sparring over how much of her judicial philosophy she will reveal.
https://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/robertnovak/2005/10/20/172022.html
Newsview: Strategy on Miers backfiring
Fred Greenstein, a political scientist at Princeton University, suggested the need to do damage control over the flawed early response to Hurricane Katrina and to the CIA-leak investigation may have thrown Bush and his advisers off stride. Republicans hold 55 of the 100 Senate seats, so the arithmetic seems to favor the president. Yet the situation could change rapidly – either for better or worse for the White House – once Miers testifies.
https://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1154AP_Marketing_Miers.html
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