THE CIRCLE STARRING HARRIET MIERS

A NEW HORROR MOVIE The Circle debuted yesterday at the White House and it is scaring the McKrap TM out of people in political theaters across the land (story).  In her first starring role as a judge, Harriet Miers speaks the line on everyone’s mind, “What do you mean me?”

THE PLOT OF THIS MISPLAY of justice starts out simply enough.  A simple man seeks to please his wife (Laura 2005), reward his friend (Miers), and save his own a$$, all at the same time.  His neighbors (Democrats) are turned into zombies.  His friends (Republican Right ) are turned into monsters.  What happens when a simple man tries to keep too much inside?  What horrors await us?  Who will get chewed up and spit out first?

PREVIOUS HERETIK POSTS ON HARRIET MIERS [Bush Gone Wild]  [Brilliance]

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WHY IT'S SO HARD TO HAVE A REVOLUTION PART ONE   [Balkinization]  I sympathize with the movement conservatives who are bemoaning the Miers nomination, even though I don't share their politics. President Bush promised them a forthright movement conservative in the mold of Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. What he delivered instead was first a rock solid establishment conservative in Chief Justice John Roberts, and now an old-fashioned Dallas, Texas business conservative in Harriet Miers.

THE HERETIK NOTES that what the people who look for in a revolutionary return to "Constitutionalism" is actually a counter-revolution against all that the New Deal attained.  If constitutional supporters more honestly announced that this was their goals to average Americans, solid support for the "conservative" ideals might sublimate to gas and evaporate in an instant.

THE GRADES ARE IN [Professor Bainbridge]  In the course of an otherwise plausible defense of George Bush's nomination Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, Hugh Hewitt observes:

It is a solid, B+ pick.

With all due deference to Hugh, whom I like a lot, and at the risk of never getting back on his radio show as resident wine guru, I'd have to grade that comment somewhere around a D-. Indeed, I'd rank it down there with the late GOP Senator Roman Hruska's infamous defense of Nixon nominee Harold Carswell:

"Even if he is mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they?"

The Supreme Court of the United States is no place for B+ picks. It's a place for A+ picks.

THE HERETIK SUSPECTS President C + Augustus graded Harriet Miers on a curve.  All within the circle move up a grade or more to A+ material.

 

MORE: Miers Ushers in Age of Aquarius [Berube]  Harriet and Babs Take Tea [Neil Shakespeare]

MORE TO FOLLOW

Comments

[Karen]

bush gone wild indeed! The freak has balls - biggest condemnation right now is cronyism, and he counters it with THE ULTIMATE CRONY! amazing.

[Paul Hooson]

Consider the facts, a 60 year old unmarried woman, who is a "born again" Christian, and named Harriet. This hardly sounds like a progressive judge who will rule for privacy rights in cases involving freedom of speech issues for such as pornography, or for Gay Marriage or other cultural freedom issues involving privacy rights for minority views of culture.

Compared to Roberts, a former corporate lobby attorney for the coal industry who sought to gut clean air and strip mining rules, Harriet Miers is the type of social conservative who will rubber stamp a 5 to 4 social conservative majority to gut any issue in which cultural freedom or privacy rights are at stake. The past decision allowing homosexuals freedom of privacy in their own home from arrest from sodomy laws was luckily decided favorably in a past court. In this new court, decisions regarding the right of persons to be safe and secure in their own homes from the morality police knocking down their doors and arresting them for issues that should be protected as personal taste and privacy will be far less secure.

Democrat Harry Reid may have of proposed Miers to Bush. Yet Reid is far more conservative than many other democrats on social issues, and is also seen as a prolife democrat as well.

Those that support full privacy rights or believe in cultural liberalism will be unhappy that the Supreme Court will become a major tool by which cultural conservatives impose their vision of culture on American society in much the same way as an American version of the Taliban could be expected to have done. Yet this movement of latter-day pharisees are the one's who control the Presidency, Senate, Congress and Supreme Court today.

For some reason all of the books, movies, screenplays, music,and stage plays, and other culture hasn't moved society in the direction of cultural freedom. It is indeed dark days in America. In every regard, the Bush presidency is absolutely terrible compared to even the Bill Clinton days. And the dark clouds of cultural conservatism are yet another rain cloud on freedom of thought.

My Website www.progressivevalues.blogspot.com, constantly views issues through a progressive prism. And yesterday a fascinating statistical analysis proves why it is difficult for democrats to be elected president due to a bias built-in the electoral college that favors small states that vote republican. A vote in montana has the weight of more than two votes in California or New York for example. This feature is worth a look.