[lit-ideas] Re: was that a slap in the kisser?
- From: "Stan Spiegel" <writeforu2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 13:33:36 -0400
Carol -
Why do you consider JR "meagerly qualified?" He may be evasive, hardto pin
down on substantive issues, too conservative, questionable about civil
rights, women's rights, etc.. But as an eminently qualified lawyer, perhaps
the most experienced lawyer regarding the SC -- given his 39 times in front
of the Supreme Court -- in the country today, he hardly seems "meagerly
qualified."
I only hope he's a Souter in disguise. He's shown he knows how to make the
case for both liberal and conservative clients. He's got the intellectual
firepower, experience, empathy (at least intellectual empathy). Certainly
he's worrisome because he's kept his real viewpoints hidden from us, except
what we've been able to glean from his writings.
Using "meager" to describe him throws me.
Stan Spiegel
Portland, ME
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol Kirschenbaum" <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 9:40 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: was that a slap in the kisser?
> "...all publicly opposed the appointment."
>
> John, I don't mean to be dense. It's just that I am, perhaps, in this
> instance. I wasn't talking about opposing JR in general, at the outset.
>
> To clarify:
> Did they [Dems or columnists, for that matter] publicly express outrage
that
> Bush effectively promoted a questionable nominee from justice to CHIEF
> justice? That's the part that feels like a slap in the face. Did any of
the
> Dems publicly express astonishment at such gall on the part of Herr Bush?
> If he did what it seems he did, I'm astonished that any Democrat voted for
> JR, on principle. But this can't be so. Nobody sane would promote a
meagrely
> qualified applicant for clerkship to CEO, right?
> awaiting clarification,
> Carol
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John McCreery" <mccreery@xxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 6:19 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: was that a slap in the kisser?
>
>
> >
> > On 2005/10/01, at 10:11, Carol Kirschenbaum wrote:
> >
> >> Ursula, I am to take your reply to mean that I *didn't* miss anything
> >> here?
> >> That Billy Bob John Roberts really was promoted from a possibly
> >> unqualified
> >> candidate for justice to a possibly extremely unqualified cj, without
> >> even a
> >> whimper from the Dems? Realize, please, I posted in all seriousness,
> >> living
> >> in the conservative sticks as I do.
> >> Carol
> >>
> >
> >
> > Carol,
> >
> > With all due respect, "without even a whimper from the Dems" is utterly
> > inaccurate, when Minority Leader Harry Reid, Minority Leader Nancy
> > Pelosi, and DNC Howard Dean > John McCreery
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