Is the nomination of Harriet Miers the catalyst for the collapse of the libertarian-conservative alliance that was built during the Cold War and has survived largely thanks to the bastards who organized 9/11 ?
This article at Outside the Beltway makes a strong argument in favor of that proposition.
The nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court solidifies in me the idea that an interesting (yet counterproductive) Bizarro Conservativism has arisen since the 2000 election.
First, the Republican Congress, elected on the promise of fiscal reform, has been a complete disgrace
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Now we have the nomination of Harriet Miers, a woman who by any account has no credentials to sit on the highest court in the land. And what are we told? “Trust me.” We conservatives, libertarians, and populists have been assured that this is a woman of faith who will vote correctly on abortion, a conservative who will vote correctly on issues of marriage and family, and a woman of tradition who will vote correctly on issues broadly defined as values issues.
In other words, her judicial philosophy is an outcome-based philosophy, under which she will use her correct and superior values, and decide cases in the right way.
Funny, but this used to be called judicial activism — something conservatives have been railing against for at least 50 years. Yet the “party of ideas” is now all about judicial activism, because they think it has turned in their favor.
Hallelujah. If this was John Kerry appointing one of his trusted advisors to the Supreme Court and saying “Trust Me”, the hard right would be in an uproar. What reason is there to trust George W. Bush in his decision ?
