WASHINGTON - President Bush countered conservative displeasure Saturday with a detailed defense of his Supreme Court nominee, saying White House counsel Harriet Miers would bring to the bench vast experience in the courtroom and at the highest levels of government.
"No Supreme Court nominee in the last 35 years has exceeded Harriet Miers' overall range of experience in courtroom litigation; service in federal, state and local government; leadership in local, state and national bar associations and pro bono and charitable activities," Bush said in his weekly radio address.
"Throughout her life, Ms. Miers has excelled at everything she has done," he added.
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You've got to love these constant propaganda-controlled lies. If you constantly tell the lie to the American people again and again over time, the American people will finally start to believe it to be true. And Harriet Meirs will step up to the Senate confirmation hearings, refuse to say anything regarding her opinion on issues, and be voted in on a straight party-line vote. At least that's the White House pipe-dream. Only there's a slight problem. The liberals and Democrats don't believe in the White House lies anymore--they've seen enough of it over the past five years. But now the conservatives are starting to see the light. According to the Yahoo story:
A growing number on the right have expressed displeasure with Bush's selection of Miers to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court.
The grumbling stems from Miers' career, which encompassed 28 years as a corporate attorney in Texas, stints as a member of the Dallas City Council and as chairwoman of the Texas Lottery Commission and, since 2001, as a top member of Bush's White House staff.
None of the positions provide a public record clearly identifying her as a strong conservative.
The White House refuses to provide any proof in their statements. They are certainly not going to release any legal papers that Miers may have worked on as White House counsel to provide details of her judicial philosophy--can't let the evil Democrats see those scanalous details. They're basically saying to their conservative base, "Trust us--we know what we're doing!"
Now here's the real kicker in the Yahoo story:
Robert Bork whose nomination to the high court was rejected by the Senate in 1987 called the choice of Miers "a disaster on every level."
"It's a little late to develop a constitutional philosophy or begin to work it out when you're on the court already," Bork said Friday on MSNBC's "The Situation with Tucker Carlson." "It's kind of a slap in the face to the conservatives who've been building up a conservative legal movement for the last 20 years."
You know that both the White House and Miers are in trouble when you've got a hard-lined conservative like Robert Bork calling Miers' choice "a disaster on every level."
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