Cindy Adams analysis of the Harriet Miers SCOTUS-nomination fiasco (in the N.Y.Post, Oct. 14, 2005):
From the brain of a chief judge: Harriet Miers created a new type confrontation. Between two kinds of conservatives. The Economists who funded the Republican revolution and the Culturalists who were its shock troops. Culturalists are those whose evangelical agenda is overruling Roe v. Wade, allowing God into schools, preventing same-sex marriage. Economists are those whose concern is limiting government power and opposing regulations in areas of tort law, local environmental restrictions, regulations against business and industry. This group even has its splinters. Social conservatives who say this is the sole preserve of the states, industrial conservatives, who know controlling one power source is easier than 51. Where this goes depends on which side the justices choose to stand.
.... Convincing the Republican controlled-Senate that Miers is "a good Christian" and the President "knows her heart" may please Rev. Dobson and Pat Robertson but won't chain those recognizing the enormous role the Supremes play in our lives. The Republican Revolution tiger is drooling. Who he eats for lunch will be Harriet Miers.
Per this chief judge? Even with her makeover, even when "they" kill her three brooches, three necklaces and purple suits, she ain't going noplace.
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