Comments on: Miers confirmation hearings: a preview http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2005/10/08/miers-confirmation-hearings-a-preview/ Don't dis or dismiss this miss! Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:23:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Reasoned Audacity: Politics in Real Life http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2005/10/08/miers-confirmation-hearings-a-preview/comment-page-1/#comment-37772 Reasoned Audacity: Politics in Real Life Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:55:33 +0000 http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2005/10/08/miers-confirmation-hearings-a-preview/#comment-37772 <strong>Vice President Cheney Disses National Review</strong> Spent Thursday night at the 25th anniversary gala for National Review. The talk, of course, was Harriet Miers. I did my own informal poll on how it's trending for her. One conservative commentator I asked immediately launched into a fairly... Vice President Cheney Disses National Review

Spent Thursday night at the 25th anniversary gala for National Review. The talk, of course, was Harriet Miers. I did my own informal poll on how it’s trending for her. One conservative commentator I asked immediately launched into a fairly…

]]> By: Ray http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2005/10/08/miers-confirmation-hearings-a-preview/comment-page-1/#comment-37365 Ray Sun, 09 Oct 2005 11:51:25 +0000 http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2005/10/08/miers-confirmation-hearings-a-preview/#comment-37365 Elitists have set arbitrary 'standards' as qualifications for the Supreme Court. The Constitution itself does not require the best judges, the best legal minds, or the best of anything. A special interest group has established a privileged class in a nation that claims to treat all people as equals under the law. They now apply their secret measure to rate the qualifications of Harriet Miers. Sophists have has already substituted "legally accurate without volunteering information" for "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." They use elaborate procedures and legal precedents to suppress self evident truth from juries of ordinary men and women. They fashioned an irrational barrier between the intelligence community and law enforcement agents which protects the violent and increases potential injury to victims. They wish to exclude consent of the governed from their deliberations. Those who follow the main stream media understand that when a reporter becomes an advocate they can lose their objectivity and impartiality (e. g. Rathergate). Some lawyers spend a lifetime as advocates and then become judges and were are to believe they will be objective and examine each case on its merits. In a society of equals, anyone with personal integrity, analytical skills, commitment to public service, and ordinary intelligence and experience should be sufficiently qualified to serve in any public office. Finding someone with such attributes that is willing to withstand an onslaught of negative personal attacks is difficult enough. Let's not put additional, unconstitutional, stumbling blocks in the way. Elitists have set arbitrary ’standards’ as qualifications for the Supreme Court. The Constitution itself does not require the best judges, the best legal minds, or the best of anything. A special interest group has established a privileged class in a nation that claims to treat all people as equals under the law. They now apply their secret measure to rate the qualifications of Harriet Miers.
Sophists have has already substituted “legally accurate without volunteering information” for “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” They use elaborate procedures and legal precedents to suppress self evident truth from juries of ordinary men and women. They fashioned an irrational barrier between the intelligence community and law enforcement agents which protects the violent and increases potential injury to victims. They wish to exclude consent of the governed from their deliberations.
Those who follow the main stream media understand that when a reporter becomes an advocate they can lose their objectivity and impartiality (e. g. Rathergate). Some lawyers spend a lifetime as advocates and then become judges and were are to believe they will be objective and examine each case on its merits.
In a society of equals, anyone with personal integrity, analytical skills, commitment to public service, and ordinary intelligence and experience should be sufficiently qualified to serve in any public office. Finding someone with such attributes that is willing to withstand an onslaught of negative personal attacks is difficult enough. Let’s not put additional, unconstitutional, stumbling blocks in the way.

]]> By: Jack Yoest http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2005/10/08/miers-confirmation-hearings-a-preview/comment-page-1/#comment-37268 Jack Yoest Sun, 09 Oct 2005 03:36:48 +0000 http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2005/10/08/miers-confirmation-hearings-a-preview/#comment-37268 <strong>William F. Buckley, Rush Limbaugh, George Will at NR's 50th. Not Cheney</strong> Charmaine, Buckley Your Business Blogger and Charmaine attended National Review's 50th Anniversary Gala in Washington DC Thursday night with 998 other dear friends. A celebration of a half century of journalism and innovation and wit. The Evening's ... William F. Buckley, Rush Limbaugh, George Will at NR’s 50th. Not Cheney

Charmaine, Buckley Your Business Blogger and Charmaine attended National Review’s 50th Anniversary Gala in Washington DC Thursday night with 998 other dear friends. A celebration of a half century of journalism and innovation and wit. The Evening’s …

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