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RNC and White House tell own flock Miers is crony
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Faced with growing opposition even from their own, the Republican
National Committee and the White House held a joint mobilizing
conference call to rally their most reactionary supporters behind
Harriet Miers, their "get out of conviction on appeal" free card.
The point was to assure them that her votes on the Supreme Court
were already predetermined. Here is a typically chilling quote
from the transcript of that sesssion:
"He and she [the president and Miers] both understand that if she
were to get on the court, and she were to rule in ways that are
contrary to the way the president would want her to approach her
role as a justice, it would be a deep personal betrayal, and would \r
be perceived as such both by him and by her."
This is absolutely nothing more than a patently crony nomination,
and is perceived by even its proponents as exactly that and being
sold as such. It is a matter of the utmost urgency that you
communicate to your senators that this nomination is not worthy of
any consideration at all on that basis alone. As if our members
of Congress had not sold the people so far down the river already,
do we really need ANOTHER hardcore administration loyalist on our
Supreme Court?
TAKE ACTION NOW TO STOP MIERS AT http://www.nocrony.com
We all know how much the reactionaries love their talking points.
Here are ours:
1) NO BUSH CRONY EVEN DESERVES A HEARING
Have we not seen the disaster wrought by installation of hardcore
administration cronies in positions of the highest responsibility?
Must our Supreme Court go the way of New Orleans? There are many
jobs in this world where you have to qualify to even GET a job
interview. Surely a seat on our Supreme Court is one of them.
Some say they need to hear what she has to say. That is just more
of the same surrender babble, and is based on two false premises,
that we don't ALREADY know where Miers stands, and that she will
disclose anything meaningful under examination. There is nothing
coming but another Roberts' style stonewall, and for all those
reasons we say NO HEARING.
2) THE MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC DEMAND A MODERATE
It's time to fight for what we really want on principle. It's
time for those who would presume to represent us to take up that
fight. And the American people will tolerate NO MORE extremist
far right appointees to our Supreme Court. Every day Bush's
popularity rating sinks to a new record low. It is only his
totally corrupt party caucus, now with a temporary majority in
the House of Representatives, that has prevented the initiation of
impeachment proceedings already for his incompetence and
malfeasance. We the people demand that any further nominees be
no worse than true MODERATES. That's our position and we're
sticking to it.
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