The End of Harriett
Posted by TFG on October 27th, 2005
AJ Strata says about all I have to say about Harriett Miers, and it’s not so much about her as about her detractors:
The message from the Miers fiasco is clear. Only purebloods can be offered for positions of responsibility. If you are not a pureblood, then there is no depth the purebloods will go to knock you down as a mudblood.
I am against abortion – but do not think making them illegal is the answer or will stop the majority of abortions. I am for controlling our borders – but not for ripping people out of their homes and away from their jobs and dumping them over the border jobless and homeless because their paperwork is not in order.
I am for diversity and against quotas and set asides, and against racism. I am for civil unions for same sex couples, but against marriage for them, while I support their right to do what they want in private, as long as they keep in private and away from my kids.
I am a mudblood conservative. And if I am not careful, I now know the purebloods will stop at nothing to take me down if I were to put their ideology at risk. It happened already at Redstate – where I was called a moron and idiot before being banned for not following their rules on name calling!
Be sure to read his post, if you give a damn about the whole mess. I suspect that most don’t. The opposition was, from the get-go, some weirdo intersection of the Hearty Republican bloggers, and the egghead lawyers & academics. Subset C was highly populated, given the tendency of eggheads to bloviate endlessly. Bottom line, though — there will be much jackassery, but this one will bite the instant experts in the ass.
Honestly, though, King Tut-Tut:
I have every right to voice my opinion.
No shit??? Everybody knows this here in America, the nation in which you live. Your endlessly wounded pride is a marvel to anyone who got past junior high civics.
And for Jeffro: First, who would you all like to see? Don’t go getting passive-aggressive on us now. You and your buds wanted Harriett out. You got it. Those of us who were content with the President’s choice of Ms. Miers are waiting for the Magic Nominee Bullet. Don’t let us down now.
October 27th, 2005 at 10:49 pm
Done with your usual aplomb. Incoherent, muddled, and a complete distortion of my opinion.
My feelings aren’t hurt, and the point of the post (which, typically, blew right past you) was that the principle of an up or down vote was not violated.
October 27th, 2005 at 11:03 pm
Whatever, dude. Those are your words. Cracks me up that you feel like you have to re-assert that right to have an opinion, like someone told you didn’t.
I’d love to know what’s incoherent, though. Care to be specific, professor?
October 27th, 2005 at 11:08 pm
Thanks for the link. You know somebody was going to walk away disgusted. Just happens to be those of us who agree in the big picture with the cons, but simply wish they would temper their emotions and consider a more reasonable approach. Reason does not equal far right.
Now we know. So simple – yet profound. Coherent? Coherent is a sunset with a beer looking over water at a sunset. The rest is BS.
October 28th, 2005 at 7:57 am
” the principle of an up or down vote was not violated.”
I know you must be kidding.
The very fact of the matter is stories were already circulating in the MSM that “if a vote were to be taken now” Ms. Meiers would have not been confirmed. In other words — nudge, nudge, wink, wink — “ain’t gonna happen, Mr. President. Initiate Plan B.”
So what’s the point in having hearings at all if the up or down vote will be taken over lunch and passed along to the MSM, rather than after hearings and passed along to the President?
I suspect you people who bitched and complained about the nomination of Ms. Meiers are in for a rude awakening with Plan B.
October 28th, 2005 at 8:39 am
Incoherent, muddled, and a complete distortion of my opinion.
Yes. That practice of blockquoting something is definitely deceptive, and incoherent, and muddled!
Waah!
Bad Scott, quoting a line and linking it. You are really stooping to the lowest depths to make a blog point these days!
/sarcasm
Good gawd, I know it’s true of many professional journalists, but when did so many bloggers become such thin-skinned whiny babies?
October 28th, 2005 at 10:29 am
People sometimes confuse having a right to express themselves with having a right to not have anyone argue against what it is they’re expressing. The end result is usually one of two things: Sulking (”I’ve got every right to voice my opinion”) or anger (”Incoherent, muddled, and a complete distortion of my opinion”).
We should focus on what’s important, the balance of the court and its representation of the American people.
Harriet Miers should never have been nominated because the Supreme Court doesn’t need any more people with 1950s sitcom names. Seriously: Do you know anyone named “Harriet” who isn’t in assisted living? Given that we already have a “Clarence” on the court, and given that we just got rid of a “Byron,” I think its time we put people on the court whose names reflect involvement with modern times. For example: “Jason.” Or “Jose.” Or how about a “Shaneequa”?
President Bush, in nominating John Roberts, has chosen a course that moves us, to paraphrase Dan Quayle, “pastwards into the back.” Nominating a man who is both a “John” and, in a sense, a “Bob,” sends the wrong message. We are no longer a nation of Bobs and Johns — and I write this as a “Tom.” We are a nation made up of people who name thier children things like “Apple” and “Vestee.”
These are important decisions. We shouldn’t let our discussion about them turn to irrelevancies.
October 28th, 2005 at 6:31 pm
So, the FACT that the woman’s writings and speeches were incoherent–except for the part where she tells us that the courts’ main job is to make sure “mean people” can’t hurt anyone’s feelings (ref.: 1993 speech to Dallas Women’s Club) don’t mean a thing to you?
Miers was a catastrophe in the making. At least with David Souter we had reason to THINK we were getting a good guy. Miers left no doubt where she was headed as soon as that slapped that black robe on her.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Meanwhile, you want to read an INSPIRING speech by a dynamite potential nominee, check out:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1510443/posts
October 28th, 2005 at 8:25 pm
“WitherTheFool”
If only.
October 28th, 2005 at 10:06 pm
Is it any longer possible to disagree with someone without being subject immediately to ad hominem invective? Apparently, there is only one true path and all those not on it are foul wayward beasts too loathsome to merit mention or too stupid to accept help from their betters when offered.
Meanwhile, I’ll keep not posting from the ditch less traveled.
October 29th, 2005 at 10:57 am
There seems to be a lot of people throwing around the word “incoherent”. I’ve only looked at a few of the writings and speeches of Miers, and none in any great detail. But by the definition I learned, they ain’t incoherent. Maybe you folks have some new code-word for “stuff I don’t like.”
Since you didn’t provide a link, I went and tracked down this speech, and could only find a Washington Post article about it, followed by about a million blog posts interpreting the Legacy Media interpretation of a speech given 12 years ago at a rubber-chicken dinner. Pardon me if I don’t shit a Conservative brick, Wither.
November 1st, 2005 at 1:07 am
Program on the emergence of civilization.
“14 species of large animals capable of domesitcation in the history of mankind.
13 from Europe, Asia and northern Africa.
None from the sub-Saharan African continent. ”
Favor.
And disfavor.
They point out Africans’ failed attempts to domesticate the elephant and zebra, the latter being an animal they illustrate that had utmost importance for it’s applicability in transformation from a hunting/gathering to agrarian-based civilization.
The roots of racism are not of this earth.
Austrailia, aboriginals:::No domesticable animals.
The North American continent had none. Now 99% of that population is gone.
AIDS in Africa.
Organizational Heirarchy
Heirarchical order, from top to bottom:
1. MUCK – perhaps have experienced multiple universal contractions (have seen multiple big bangs), creator of the artificial intelligence humans ignorantly refer to as “god”
2. Perhaps some mid-level alien management
3. Evil/disfavored aliens – runs day-to-day operations here and perhaps elsewhere
Terrestrial management:
4. Chinese/egyptians – this may be separated into the eastern and western worlds
5. Romans – they answer to the egyptians
6. Mafia – the real-world interface that constantly turns over generationally so as to reinforce the widely-held notion of mortality
7. Jews, corporation, women, politician – Evidence exisits to suggest mafia management over all these groups.
Movies foreshadowing catastrophy
1985 James Bond View to a Kill 1989 San Francisco Loma Prieta earthquake.
Many Muslims are being used like the Germans and Japanese of WWII::being used to hurt others and envoke condemnation upon their people.
They can affect the weather and Hurricane Katrina was accomplished for many reasons and involves many interests, as anything this historical is::
1. Take heat off Sheenhan/Iraq, protecting profitable war machine/private war contracts
2. Gentrification. New Orleans median home price of $84k is among the lowest in major American cities, certainly among desirable cities.
Our society gives clues to the system in place. We all have heard the saying “He has more money than god.” There is also an episode of the Simpsons where god meets Homer and says “I’m too old and rich for this.”
This is the system on earth because this is the system everywhere.
god is evil because of money.
I don’t want to suggest the upper eschelons are evil and good is the fringe.
But they have made it abundantly clear that doing business with evil (disfavored) won’t help people. They say only good would have the ear, since evil is struggling for survival, and therefore only the favored could help me.
The clues are there which companies are favored and which are disfavored, market domination being one clue, but they conceal it very hard because it is so crucial.
I offer an example of historical proportions:::
People point to Walmart and cry “anti-union”.
Unions enable disfavored people to live satisfactorly without addressing their disfavor. This way their family’s problems are never resolved. Without the union they would have to accept the heirarchy, their own inferiority.
Unions serve to empower.
Walmart is anti-union because they are good. They try to help people address and resolve their problems.
Media ridicule and lawsuits are creations to reinforce people’s belief that Walmart is evil (disfavored).
The middle class is being deceived. They are being misled into the unfavored, and subsequently will have no hope.
Amercia is a country of castoffs, rejects. Italy sent its criminals. Malcontents.
Between the thrones, the klans and kindred, they “decided” who they didn’t want and acted, creating discontent and/or starvation.
The u.s. is full of disfavored rejects. As far as the Rockafellers and other industrialists of the 19th century go, I suspect these aren’t their real names. I suspect they were chosen to go and head this new empire.
Jesus Christ is a religious figure of evil. These seperatist churches formed so they could still capture the rest of the white people, keeping them worshipping the wrong god.
And now they do it to people of color, Latinos and Asians, after centuries of preying upon them.
Since Buddism doesn’t recongnize a god, the calls are never heard, and Chinese representation is instead selected by the thrones.
It was set up this way. Perhaps dyanstic thrones had a say, but maybe not.
Budda was the Asian’s Jesus Christ::: bad for the people. “They came up at the same time for a reason.”
Simpson’s foreshadowing::Helloween IV special, Flanders is Satan. “Last one you ever suspect.”
“You’ll see lots of nuns where you’re going:::hell!!!” St. Wigham, Helloween VI, missionary work, destroying cultures.
Over and over, the Simpsons was a source of education and enlightenment, a target of ridicule by the system which wishes to conceal its secrets.
Jews maim the body formed in the image of “god”, and inflicted circumsision upon all other white people, as well as the evil that is Jesus Christ. I believe Islam is the one true religion, and those misled christians and cooperating Jews who attack “god’s” most favored people will pay for it dearly one day.
November 1st, 2005 at 10:44 am
what the fuck? Islam the only true religion? A bunch of freaking towelheads that dont use toilet paper!