Are these dems or republicans?

I don’t see how we’re any different than these people now.

I am ashamed of conservatives who are beginning to sound, look, act and use the rhetoric of leftists.

There was a time when I shared the views of other conservative Christians who believed in the president and fighting the war on terror. I have just perused a couple of websites where there were cartoons making fun of President Bush and Ms. Miers, and I think this kind of behavior is absolutely despicable.

There is not respect, faith or love anymore, simply disdain, criticism and contempt.

From Beldar Blog “Professoriat to Dubya: Shut up and do what we tell you, you’re just the President“:

If you have any doubt that much of the opposition to the Miers nomination is generated by reflexive elitism, I humbly submit these comments by Randy Barnett, the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law, whose anti-Miers WSJ op-ed I criticized on similar grounds earlier this week:

I do not expect any president to know enough about judicial philosophy to pick judges on his own. I expect him or her, however, to appoint advisers who do know about such matters and follow their advice.

Catch your breath, and then re-read that closely. “Any president,” sez the good professor. I suppose that would include, for example, Duke Law grad Richard Nixon, Yale Law grad Jerry Ford, Yale Law grad Bill Clinton, and all of our 23 other lawyer-presidents (including that Lincoln fellow, who didn’t go to law school at all!).

If you believe the world should be run by philosopher-kings, by experts, by PhDs and law professors (mere J.D. degrees don’t qualify, it seems, and don’t make me laugh by suggesting that a mere voter’s opinion might count); if you believe that the rest of us are just too damn dumb to be trusted with pointy objects, puddles of water deeper than 1/2 inch, or judicial nominees — well then, this makes perfect sense.

However, if that’s your view, then you ought to re-write the Constitution. Because it very specifically vests the appointment power in the President, whether he’s a lawyer or a butcher or a baker or a candlestick maker. (A mere Harvard MBA, again, is presumptively incapable of managing to tie his shoes or pick a judge, never mind that Roberts fellow or any of Dubya’s other nominations.) What’s important, according to the constitutional scheme devised by the Founders, is that “We the People” pick a President, who then picks the Justices, who are then confirmed or not via the advice and consent of the Senate. But let’s just do away with all that nonsense. How can the United States Senate compare to a faculty senate? How can the President of the United States think that sixty-two million votes in the last election give him a right to make this decision?

bwahahahaha! It is surprising to me that Clinton, with his sunglasses and his jumping on stage to play the saxaphone, with all of his criminal behavior, is sitting in the company of people who knew how to behave themselves like Abraham Lincoln, who in retrospect, doesn’t fit the elitist view of a man who should ascend to the presidency at all…yet Clinton would seem to be the uneducated one; not Lincoln. Lincoln’s writings still stand the test of time; I don’t recall a single quote of Clinton’s that will go down in history.

“I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer who remarked to a companion once that ‘it was not best to swap horses while crossing streams’.” The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume VII, “Reply to Delegation from the National Union League” (June 9, 1864), p. 384.

But Beldar, my goodness. Here you are reaming out a liberal law professor when I’ve been seeing this same exact rhetoric coming out of the mouths of conservatives. tsk tsk. It would seem they’ve changed sides. They, too should take a look at those founding documents they seem to be so quick to forget. And I thought conservatives were all about holding onto the spirit of the original founding documents and didn’t agree with the constitution as a “living document”! Oh well, to the victor goes the spoils, so they say.

See more at Mark’s post at Blogs for Bush.

He suggests that we sign this petition and pass the word to support Bush’s nomination of Miers.

Yeesh. My representatives are Dick the Turban and Barack Osama Bama. Puleez–sign the petition..!

See Real Clear Politics: “Republican Senate is Weak, Not Bush”

Update 10/9: Captains Quarters has a great post “Three Part Disharmony“, and he points to his piece “How Harriet Unleashed A Storm on the Right”

Hugh Hewitt weighs in

Jay Sekulow: ACLJ Calls Harriet Miers – President Bush’s Nominee to Replace Justice O’Connor – an “Excellent” Choice for the Supreme Court

Listen to Jay Sekulow’s audio clip on Harriet Miers