Comments on: Hitting The Media’s Glass Ceiling

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 03:12:12 +0000

The link I attached is to a PressEthic, a blog run by a class I’m in at NYU. I discuss this post, so I thought you might be interested in checking it out. Thanks!

By: Marie

Marie — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:36:20 +0000

I heard a ver batim of the Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton today and it’s like he knew this day was coming — he wrote explicitly against this sort of presidential aciton.

By: David

David — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 23:13:41 +0000

I am having a hard time figuring which comparison is more apt: Bush as Caligula, or Bush as Nero. Probably a combination of the two.

And in answer to the question of how someone with no obvious experience can be elevated to a position they would appear to be completely unqualified for, well, Bush would fall into that category, and look how well his presidency has gone so far.

By: kbn

kbn — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 14:36:03 +0000

Great post, Christy! I’ve been following all the coverage, yet still completely missed this until you pointed it out – and I was a Women’s Studies major!

By: Nome Igloo

Nome Igloo — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 13:30:27 +0000

If Clarence Thomas can be a supreme court justice, anybody of average intelligence can be a supreme court justice.

By: Sharon Cox

Sharon Cox — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 12:53:53 +0000

Thank’s for that one Nancy, glad I moved from Montana. When I lived there many of us use to think we should cecede from the nation, declare war, surender and then ask for federal aid. Guess it doesn’t matter where we live with the nut case in, no one is safe….It is looking better with all the court cases coming down, just wish they would hurry up, before he gits this Miers in. Latest polls 62% against the war…This Miers should not pass the comitte, but probably will……Blessings

By: Nancy L.

Nancy L. — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:57:35 +0000

Brace yourselves. Next it’s Bush’s valet for Secretary of Commerce, and the White House chef is slated for the head of the FDA.
Is it certifiable time yet?
If he’s drinking again, or really never stopped and is mixing it with antidepressants, we may end up invading Montana or worse.

By: Marie

Marie — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 03:41:16 +0000

#24, Nick, You are far too logical — you can see things so clearly from across the pond.
Many of us also would have expected a nominee who would at least have had some experience in interpreting federal law vis-a-vis the Constitution.
But that’s so passe` with Bushie in the White House — cronyism is the byword.

By: Nick Caine

Nick Caine — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 03:21:17 +0000

A serious question to the American contributors of this website.

How can you be nominated to be a United States Supreme Court judge? If you have never been a judge, at any other leval of the judiciary system.

In Britain, you canâ€™t just become a high court judge, or a Law Lord. if you havnâ€™t been a judge, of high repute and with a number of years of practice behind you.

It just beggars belief that you can get to such a lofty position. Without first having to serve as a recognised judge, at a lower leval.

By: afterthought

afterthought — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:37:49 +0000

Marie,

I think they are trying to be too clever.
There should be no question that this person
lacks the record for this job.
It is, in fact, an insult to the institution
that she would be nominated.

By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:19:51 +0000

Mama said if you can’t say something nice about someone, then don’t say anything.
Who is being discussed here – an applicant for the job of office secretary?
Does this woman have any credentials, experience or capability in the rule of law? Of course not. She is a run-of-the-mill attorney, who made her way to the top, and she is probably good to her mother.
How does that qualify her to make decisions of law that will affect the entire nation?
This is no place for a crony. And for the other women he was said to have considered, this is neither a place for an extremist.
I think George has flipped out. I think the pressure is too great.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:13:44 +0000

What little is known about Miers suggests she is a political operative with some extreme views if not extreme qualifications. In a nutshell, Miers probably fails the “Three Strikes Test” for the Supreme Court:

X Dubious Qualifications
X Extreme Views
X Proven Partisan Operative

For the full story, see:

“Miers Fails the Three Strikes Test”

By: bill

bill — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 21:58:09 +0000

Maybe someone out there has put together a timeline that displays such things as:when was mier elected to the whatever in texas and how long did she stay in office?
How long did she run the state lottery?
How long was she the president of the Texas Bar?
There are other questions that need to be fitted in and I think that there appears to be inconsistancies that might just be clarified by examining these potential incons as part of a timeline.
billjpa

By: afterthought

afterthought — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 21:37:37 +0000

Well Lesly,

Have you noticed that America seems to have the
depth of a fashion/gossip magazine?

By: Ryan Neat

Ryan Neat — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 21:35:33 +0000

Robert,

They would be saying she must have given him a blow job, but since Bush is in the closet, more likely that’s how Roberts was chosen…

By: Lesly

Lesly — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 21:33:35 +0000

Her nomination being a joke or not, can they stick with issues that disqualify her instead of reporting her shoe size?

This is the kind of frivolous reporting you’d expect in fashion magazines. My interest in her fashion sense in on par with whether or not Monica swallowed.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 21:32:56 +0000

Ask any Right Winger if Clinton had appointed someone with credentials similar to Miers what would they have said…

By: afterthought

afterthought — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 21:30:04 +0000

This nomination sets a very bad precedence.
Some questions to the group:
1) Is running the country just some kind
of joke to the Cheney administration?
2) Now that the ABA (I think) has been eliminated
as raters of nominees, is there no standard whatsoever?
3) What happens if a supreme has to recuse in all
cases involving the Cheney administration?
4) Wouldn’t you think someone as unqualified as
Miers SEEMS to be, would be petrified to
go so far over her head in such an important role
or is she so unqualified that she doesn’t know?

By: Patriot

Patriot — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 21:26:02 +0000

Funny! I needed that!

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 20:50:27 +0000

John Roberts argued before the Supreme Court many times and was highly respected, even by those who disagreed with his politics.

Miers was the presidents staff secretary, and a lottery commissioner.

John Roberts is qualified for the job, Miers is commically unqualified.

If Miers even came close to Roberts in terms of resume, I’d be outragged by this media coverage. As it is, I find her nomination a joke and so does the media.