George Bush suggested this week that he chose U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers in part because of her religious faith (like Bush, she is an evangelical Christian).
That’s an inappropriate message to send, considering that faith cannot be used as a prerequisite for nominees, and that the White House lectured senators just a few months ago that John Roberts’ Roman Catholic faith was off-limits to questioning and had no relevance to his qualifications.
Bush might have been trying to shore up flagging support for Miers by emphasizing her character, but that only further underscored her lack of qualifications in other areas.
Posted by Randy Scholfield
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He believed in Ol’ Brownie to head FEMA too.
Randy,
Premise: religion and politics are immoral. Therefore the founding fathers set about to establish a moral code within the constitution. That is why they excluded religion and let it be known and chose the wording; congress shall make no law.
When viewed in this light, the constitutional test is confined to and on their intent, which is: Government is confined to the highest moral standard. That said, it follows that individual behavior has a moral measure; the intent of the constitution, which is wary of extraneous collective conduct.
Under these circumstances people can continue to remain free to chose their individual behaviors.
The constitution was never intended to be a venue for personalized opinion.
Bush does not understand this concept.
The more this nomination comes apart at its Right-Wing seams, the more brilliant Sen. Harry Reid becomes for having supported it in the first place.
CF
We can all thank Bush for one thing: He’s flushed-out all of the crazies.
Have you ever seen anything like this?
Ed,
Frankly, no. Even during impeachment, Clinton’s numbers were in the 60% range. Bush’s power base is collapsing under him, and the current approval numbers (38% approval) are going to go even lower next week when the indictments start being handed out.
However, it doesn’t solve the real problem, which is the cabal running our country into the ground. But if their political machine grinds to a halt, sputters and dies, that’s a start.
That they’re doing it to themselves is all the more ironic.
CF
Have you seen the numbers on congress. It’s a rout.
I’ve never seen America this angry.
Ed,
I hadn’t thought of it in those terms, just as a raw feeling out there. If you’re right, it’s very sobering.
One take that’s out there is that the Republicans are as bad at governing as the Democrats are at effectively opposing. What we’ve got is the worst of both worlds.
CF
I think that we humans become outraged as well as angry about being lied to. A feeling of being cheated.
We handle the truth so much better no mater how bad, as truth seems to carry a forgiveness.
We become disappointed about the lie, but seem to deal with it. I guess, at that point the person has become honest and feels disgraced and perhaps we start looking for a way to remove our anger.
Did you watch the news last night about Bush’s phony interview with the soldiers.
He said it would be unscripted. They caught the set-up on tape, telling the soldiers what to say.
Bush just keeps on digging his hole.
I’ve been to grade school christmas plays with better acting.I can’t blame the soldiers, they’re just trying to do their jobs.
Tracy, agreed on both counts.
An animatronic president demands animatronic troops.
http://watergate.info/impeachment/impeachment-articles.shtml
Maybe?
CF
The cabal, it seems, has a plan, so wrecking America may well be their intent. The end game, in their minds, must be a dictatorship.
Stripping the constitution, which they’ve been adamant about, fits the need to control dissent and homeland security is, in fact, a federal police force.
NY mayor Bloomberg got all upset when the subway “terror alert” was declared a farce.
“Did you watch the news last night about Bush’s phony interview with the soldiers.
He said it would be unscripted. They caught the set-up on tape, telling the soldiers what to say.”
I tried to Google this, but got nothing, can someone post a link?
Here ya go, Seedy. The second one is a video compilation. Bush is so flippin’ predictable, isn’t he? Lie, lie, lie . . .
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051013/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_iraq_8
http://www.canofun.com/blog/videos/bushphotoopoct1305.wmv
This was interesting.
Conservative CrackupHow the neocons have developed a political exit strategy.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9674425/site/newsweek/
I’m heading for DC tomorrow, and I’m really anxious to hear what people there are saying. Last year I when went there it was amazing how anti-Bush the whole place was, 90% of DC residents voted for Kerry. I’ll bet I meet a lot of REALLY angry people this week!
Enjoy D.C. Damoon.
I don’t know about all of this Miers thing. It’s like through the looking glass.
My first sense was that this was a feint. Bush nominates a totally inadequate person that must be turned down and by both sides. Doing so drains the fight from opposition to what his nut base REALLY wants and makes the way for a Janice Brown or maybe even that Georgia 10 commandments nut Moore.
But I begin to think I OVERESTIMATED bush. This increasingly looks like “my way or the highway” from bush.bush has never had to be accountable to anyone in life beyond his mother and his wife. This starts to look like “Laura wants a woman, and Mom is always right and says I’m always right” In short this looks like disconnected arrogance not just to the nation at large, but to the very folks that elected bush. But bush stays so sheltered from domestic affairs that I doubt he even knows that more than half of America hates him. So why would he give pause to worry about the other less than half?
Prediction? Miers goes down in comittee. bush goes ballistic……..against everyone.
This is a post I did on the yahoo board about the Q&A Bush had with the troops.For a moment I thought wrong board!by: liebst 10/14/05 10:15 pmMsg: 60185 of 60194WoW, when I first came to see what the simple minded were saying about this. I saw some real life posts from people that seem to have not been blinded by politics. But it did not take long for it to come back to the same ole mindless name calling and total lack of real intelligence.
G.W. got caught stagging a Q&A here are the questions and these are the answers he wants.No that is not new, but what is he can not even get that to go right for him. I guess that is what you get when you need a spin Doctor and hire a Rug Doctor.
Judging from some of the ridiculous post and replies. A large number of posters are paid political hacks. Maybe Bush should hire them, they could spin even the worst happening into a positive.
News flash: “G.W. Bush found to be eating rousted aborted fetuses”.
Neo-con reply: “What a great President he has found a new food source”
Liberal reply: “That liar I knew he was secretly pro-choice. He just sold his soul for the religious rights support “.