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Pray she withdraws
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The merits of the case for Miers must be
based on evidence that can be examined and weighed,
and there is none in her case. Being a constitutionalist,
someone who respects the constitution and the separate
rolls of the Legislative Body to legislate and the
High Court to uphold law is not something that we
should have to hope exists in her defining character
and convictions. I am sure she has a “good heart”.
But there is no verifiable evidence in her practice,
or in her expressed opinions, written nor oral that
assert that she is going to protect our Constitution
from further damage and erosion of our individual
rights, freedoms and liberties that make it possible
for us to be the prosperous nation that we are.
It does not matter if Miers is an evangelical
Christian. Many Evangelicals in our country entertain
or embrace socialist political constricts which
reject fundamental liberties and rights that are
stipulated in our US Constitution. They reconcile
their conflict by embracing the view of our Constitution
as a living breathing document that is not fundamental,
but rather, subject to interpretation and modernizing.
The President's and the White House's reaction
to the opposition to Harriet Meirs's nomination
is patronizing and tone deaf. He and Laura
Bush have acted out in public as if conservative
opponents to Miers were being capricious. His actions
suggest that he views “conservatives” as a monolithic
group that is gullible and one-dimensional. It's
hard to fathom that Bush wouldn't realize how
insulting his defense is, to argue that she's a
good candidate because she's evangelical. So what?
The American people love our freedom.
We don't want a Leftist authoritarian Supreme Court
and we don't want a Right Wing authoritarian Supreme
Court. Being forced to do something or be something
is not a virtue. The virtue in being a Christian
is a choice by our free will. Roe vs Wade was an
abuse of power and a mockery of the Constitution,
granted. The Court in making that decision
acted thuggish, dismissing the liberties and freedom
of the states in which abortion was not legal.
It was not their decision to make, at least not
with the pretext of one's right to privacy.
It
is wrong to want to replace one Court decision which
is a rule by fiat with another. To honor
the spirit of the Supreme Law of the land, is to
want the court to uphold the Constitution as it
is written, to protect our civil liberties and our
private property rights regardless of our individual
faith. That Miers is an evangelical Christian does
not matter in terms of her qualifications and merit
to serve on the Bench. Is she prone or predisposed
to legislate from the bench? That is the question.
There is no evidence, no paper trail to quell such
concerns and such fundamentally important considerations.
The President's choice and the White
House's defense of it can be construed as patronizing
and that is very uncomfortable for I want very much
to support the President. I have had much hope and
faith in him. And we, as a country, need him to
be a strong leader for us and against our enemies.
He must understand how seriously this act abuses
the good will of his strongest and most loyal supporters.
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