Will this be Bush’s Clarence Thomas?

Harriet Miers accomplished for the Democrats what they have not been able to do on their own, Michael Scherer of Salon points out in this article.
“She single-handedly called into question President Bush’s electoral mandate and helped redraw the political landscape. She fractured the Republican Party’s impenetrable front,” he wrote.
But, he notes, the Miers debacle could end up giving liberals little to cheer about.
“The current political atmosphere echoes 1990, a disastrous time for those who oppose a conservative takeover of the Supreme Court. ‘After a few years of George Bush Sr. being called a moderate on a number of social issues, he finally needed a way to shore up his base before an election,’ says Nan Aron, the leader of the liberal Alliance for Justice, an umbrella organization for civil rights, consumer and women’s groups. “He sent up Clarence Thomas.”
Posted by Melissa Cooley

5 Comments

  1. Joe Williams
    Posted October 29, 2005 at 8:47 am | Permalink

    Miers isn’t Clarence Thomas. The reference to her as being Bush’s Clarence Thomas is really strange and off the mark.

    Miers will be forgotten in a month and nobody will care about her or hear about her again.

  2. NiteRider
    Posted October 29, 2005 at 10:54 am | Permalink

    The nomination of Miers for the Supreme Court was a strange affair from the git-go. Whether it’ll be forgotten in a month remains to be seen. Still, it doesn’t bode well for the President that his nominee was derailed by the hard-core elements of his party. If President Bush now nominates a candidate that satisfies the radical fringe of the party, he does the nation a disservice. Packing the court with ideologs doesn’t advance the cause of justice. The stated goal of some on the right is to pick a fight with Democrats in the Senate, and that is just wrong. We need a Supreme Court that judges on the basis of what’s written in the constitution, not what’s acceptable to the political agenda of one party. The Supreme Court is for all the people,not just the narrow agenda of a radical fringe.

  3. Joe Blow
    Posted October 29, 2005 at 1:29 pm | Permalink

    Ginsburg, Chief Legal Counsel for the ACLU….of course, she’s not out there on the fringe. You libs have no intellectual firepower to your arguments at all.

  4. NiteRider
    Posted October 29, 2005 at 1:57 pm | Permalink

    Joe, you say Ginsburg isn’t on the fringe? I would dispute that, or at least she’s close. And if you’re refering to me as a lib, you’re no one to be talking about the intellectual firepower of others.Considering some of your posts, you add nothing to the firepower of your “conservative” friends.

  5. Greg
    Posted October 30, 2005 at 6:11 pm | Permalink

    Yeah, but Clarence Thomas was CONFIRMED. And the dirt about him stopped immediately upon his confirmation.