OpEdNews: Oppose the Outrageous Harriet Miers Nomination

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Mon, 3 Oct 2005 13:24:59 -0400 (EDT)

OpEdNews: Oppose the Outrageous Harriet Miers Nomination

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OpEdNews.com October 3, o

 

Immediately Oppose the Outrageous Nomination of Harriet Miers Don't

delay, send your senators a message that this insult to the judicial

system by Rob Kall http://www.opednews.com

 

Dear Senator Spector

 

I hope you are feeling the same level of outrage as I am. You have

been handed a nomination that smacks of pure cronyism, an instant

replay of the vice presidential nomination—where the person delegated

to help select the nominee selected herself.

 

We have a nominee who accepted a plum partisan appointee job as

Lottery director for six years. This is not in itself, bad, but it is

not good enough for a member of the supreme court. A person who takes

a job like this is allowing herself to coast, unchallenged by growth

opportunities, accepting an easy path to comfortable income. This is

not the character we want in a member of the supreme court.

 

Based on this nomination, president Bush must believe we must have

zero good judges who have enough experience and competence.

 

This woman is a purely partisan player who promises to make Michael

Brown look good.

 

Even Chris Matthews says that this is patronage.

 

How partisan is she? David Frum, White house speechwriter, reports,

" In the White House that hero worshipped the president, Miers was

distinguished by the intensity of her zeal: She once told me that the

president was the most brilliant man she had ever met, "

 

As an attorney, as someone who respects the law, you must find this

nomination an obscene abomination—a total disregard for the sanctity

and integrity of the supreme court.

 

 

Will Bunch, columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, reports on his blog

 

" But she does know better than just about anyone else where the

bodies are buried (relax, it's a just a metaphor...we hope) in

President Bush's National Guard scandal. In fact, Bush's Texas

gubenatorial campaign in 1998 (when he was starting to eye the White

House) actually paid Miers $19,000 to run an internal pre-emptive

probe of the potential scandal. Not long after, a since-settled

lawsuit alleged that the Texas Lottery Commission -- while chaired by

Bush appointee Miers -- played a role in a multi-million dollar

cover-up of the scandal. "

 

 

And it gets much worse. read the rest of this article then use the

action form to tell YOUR senator to dump this offensive latest

rendition of Bush/Republican mediocrity and cronyism.

 

PS is it me or does she have that Right wing extremist religious nut

proclivity for too much eye make-up, like Katherine Harris and Tammy

Faye Baker?

 

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Rob Kall