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October, 2005 Entries


October 31

    • Alito and Abortion
    • This Morning, In Movies
    • A Teacher's Tribute
    • I'm Slow
    • ZZZZZZZZZ
    • Another Reach Across the Aisle
    • Amen, Brother!!
    • Schumer Channels Rosa Parks
    • Specter on Alito vs. Bork
    • Quoatazzzz
    • Re: Alito and the Blackwell Case
    • Alito on Judicial Restraint
    • Silly Talk
    • The Fifth Catholic
    • We Want Sandy!
    • More Reid
    • Copycat!
    • Predictions
    • Alito and the Blackwell Case
    • More Alito & Abortion
    • Alito on Spousal Notice
    • The Announcement
    • Fight to the Defeat!, Left Says
    • Subtle Signals!
    • Cornyn on Alito
    • More Alito & Abortion
    • Re: Alito & Abortion
    • From the White House
    • No Cause for Delay
    • Things to Know About Alito
    • Alito: Cream of the Crop, as the Senate Well Knows
    • Another Dem on Alito, 1990
    • Alito & Iran
    • This Is the One and Only Time I Will Point this Out
    • Congratulations, President Bush!
    • Specter on Alito, 1990
    • Ted Kennedy on Alito, from 1990
    • Alito 101
    • Reid on Alito
    • re: Abortion
    • Abortion
    • Thank You, Mr. President

October 30

    • SCOTUS
    • Unless the President Intends to Wait Until Wednesday
    • Rumors
    • Re: Superprecedents
    • Justice Kozinski?
    • So Does a Jud.-Comte. Announcement Suggest
    • Assessing Alito
    • Superprecedents
    • Not Janice Rogers Brown
    • Robby George for SCOTUS!
    • We Hear
    • Shields gets it wrong (but a little right)

October 29

    • Diane Sykes

October 28

    • No More Stealth Picks!
    • Up-or-Down Vote
    • I Take One Last Quick Look at
    • Re: Why Hewitt Is Wrong
    • Poll Numbers
    • Why Hewitt Is Wrong
    • Today? Scalito?

October 27

    • Responsible Journalism
    • More Names
    • What an Idiotic Press Release
    • Unanimous Confirmation
    • From a Nightline E-mail
    • Is Morrison Dead?
    • Speaking of Disgraceful
    • Sigh
    • Short Lists
    • Re: Mahoney
    • NARAL
    • Rumors, Rumors . . .
    • More Reax
    • Leonard Leo on Miers
    • An Act of Courage
    • The Saddest Thing?
    • Neas, In Awe of Principled Effectiveness
    • White House Statement
    • The Withdrawal Strategy
    • Specter Speaking on the Senate Floor
    • Miers Withdraws
    • Congressional Quarterly Looks to Kyl

October 26

    • Hewitt v. NR
    • re: The Withdraw Now Crowd
    • Joining the "Withdraw Now" Crowd
    • More Call for Withdrawal
    • Re: Miers Should Withdraw Now
    • The Trouble with Harriet
    • This Nominee Must Be Withdrawn, Continued
    • Louisiana's Vitter on Meeting Miers
    • Is the Tide Turning?
    • Miers Should Withdraw Now
    • Another Off the Fence
    • That Speech
    • Miers: Social-Activism & the Courts Post Piece
    • And Excuse My Eye Roll
    • Miers on the Courts & Social Activism
    • If I Could Laugh About Miers
    • Here's

October 25

    • This Sounds Promising
    • Begging Pardon
    • Re: How Ridiculous is Susan Estrich?
    • Silly "Borking" Talk Aside...
    • Those Settlements
    • "It's time for President George W. Bush to give up on Harriet Miers. She is not qualified to be on the U.S. Supreme Court."
    • Identities and Mysteries
    • How Ridiculous Is Susan Estrich?
    • The Ethics of Opposition
    • Strange Bedfellows
    • BetterJustice
    • For What It’s Worth
    • “Escalating”

October 24

    • Specter’s Revisionist Account of Roberts’s Testimony
    • PFA’s Miers Highlights
    • Advice to Chief Justice Roberts
    • WithdrawMiers.org
    • The “Proportional Representation Requirement”
    • Will Miers “Go Souter”?
    • Bush Will Not Release Records
    • Monday 4
    • Is the White House Fabricating Excuses?
    • Who Doesn't Have the Votes?
    • Demanding Docs
    • The Serial Souterization of America

October 23

    • The Academic Dogs Not Barking
    • "What Miers Must Show"

October 22

    • George Will on the Question of Questions
    • Have We Hit the Tipping Point?
    • The Malpractice Settlements
    • More on the Questionnaire
    • Round Two
    • Miers's Religious History
    • "Absence of Yes + Time = No"
    • "Miers Backed Race, Sex Set-Asides"

October 21

    • Chief Justice Roberts: a Potted Plant?
    • Are Typos Relevant?
    • Details, Details
    • TradeSports.com
    • I Say "GOP Insiders" Are Sexist Elitists!
    • Is the Schedule Slipping?
    • Miers-Dubya Election-Time Legal Fees
    • Must Reads in WSJ
    • Madison Avenue, the RNC Is Not
    • And the Hill Walk of Pain Is Over

October 20

    • Another Missed "Detail"
    •  Document Demands
    • Hey, Chairman!
    • Suddenly, It All Makes Sense
    • Gloomy and Demoralized
    • Out on the Ledge
    • Strategy Du Jour
    • Bankrupt Arguments
    • And Now: The White House's Second Faith-Based Strategy
    • More on that E-mail
    • Re: The RNC USAT E-Mail
    • I Was Just Thinking....
    • The RNC's Latest E-mail
    • "Vulnerable Miers might not survive "
    • RE: "Insulting"
    • Business
    • "Backfiring"
    • Ouch

October 19

    • More Bar Dues
    • Some Perspective on Miers's Questionnaire
    • Re: The Questionnaire
    • Re: Miers and Judicial Nominees
    • Re: More Questions
    • O Pioneer
    • The Committee
    • Bainbridge on Miers and Roe
    • Miers’s Experience
    • Miers’s Attention to Detail
    • The Last Straw
    • Leahy on Miers’ Questionnaire
    • Miers and Judicial Nominees
    • Current Prediction
    • Make Like Good Girls and Sign!
    • Nov.7
    • Crazy Eights
    • Back to Bases

October 18

    • The Abortion Survey
    • A Really Safe Choice
    • The Left Is Beginning to Settle In to Its Default Position
    • John Ensign
    • Washington Post on Miers and Roe
    • Clarifying Positions--Or Lack Thereof
    • Maybe the Media Has "Bought" the White House Line. But has the Conservative Base?
    • Miers Changed Over the Course of Months. Why Are We Supposed to "Trust" She Won't Change Over the Course of 20 Years?
    • Never Mind?
    • Miers and Abortion
    • Kudos
    • A Mild Dissent From a Mild Defense
    • Pioneers, Perhaps
    • NEW ALLIES
    • Or, Nevermind
    • A Hinterlands Testimonial
    • A Mild Defense of Miers During Her Schumer Visit
    • re: Abortion
    • Miers & Abortion
    • Tax Troubles?
    • Human Being v. Grammar Machine
    • The (Non-)Vetting of Harriett Miers
    • Taylor Is Skeptical Too
    • People Are Reading This One First
    • Vitter on Miers
    • Her Answers to the Judiciary Cmte
    • Miers Today
    • The ABCS of Opposition
    • A Quick Confirmation?
    • A “Litmus Test” for Miers
    • Some Good Advice from Mr. InstaPundit
    • the Anti-Miers Mo Gets Money
    • This Is So Painful
    • the Specter-Miers Mystery

October 17

    • A Defense of Condi
    • David Frum
    • How Am I Supposed to Take The White House Seriously?
    • What Are They Thinking?, Continued
    • "I do not believe they would do that to a man."
    • What Is the RNC Thinking?
    • By the Way, This IS the Quote of the Day
    • Gov. Mitt Romney on Miers
    • Excuse ME for Finding This Lame Too
    • One Can Always Dream
    • Assurances and the Separation of Powers
    • Harriet and the Vetting Process
    • Over 3,000 Votes
    • Are Miers’s Critics “Crazy”?
    • 52 Votes?

October 16

    • re: Rice
    • Harriet Miers, Pragmatist?
    • Condi 2008...Nevermind
    •  Harriett Miers . . . Slumlord?

October 15

    • Did Harriett Vet Judicial Nominees?
    • Clarification on Miers and the White House’s Judicial Selection Committee

October 14

    • Re Gerry's post
    • Re: Miers and the White House’s Judicial Selection Committee
    • Ed's Worry
    • White House Communications on Miers
    • Miers and the White House’s Judicial Selection Committee
    • Quote of the Day: "It's like seeing your mother-in-law drive off a cliff in your brand-new Mercedes."
    • Of Precedents and Presumptions
    • Re: Scully
    • The Portrait of a White House in Disarray Over This Nomination

October 13

    • The Market
    • Shalala’s Delusion?
    • Hmmmmmm . . .
    • Did the White House Smear Batchelder?
    • About that Acckk!!
    • Re: Accck!!!
    • What Scott McClellan Had to Say About the FedSoc Testimony Today
    • Acccckk!
    • Confirming Based on Ideology Led to Mediocrity
    • Shania Twain on Miers
    • Miers & Recusal
    • Fund and Miers
    • More on Miers & Fed Soc
    • Reaching Out to Joe Biden: A Sure Way to Help the Miers Cause
    • RE: Noonan
    • Bill Pryor for Scotus!
    • Even Mary Understands
    • I Still Want to Believe
    • What a Disaster for Weeks Now, John Fund Describes...

October 12

    • Pat Robertson Threatens Right Critics of Miers
    • CWA on Miers
    • Harriet Miers Petition
    • Question Time
    • You Go Girl!
    • Senate Republicans
    • One Way to Find Out
    • I Guess This Is What You Call Wishful Thinking
    • Mark Levin
    • A Gonzales Impersonator?
    • C-Span Plans
    • Just an Overlook? Or Something Else...?!
    • AG on GMA
    • Illegal Maid, Maybe?
    • I'm Not Laughing
    • This Is Depressing
    • The "Warren" Questions
    • Ralph Neas? Who?

October 11

    • Getting It Right Can Be Hard Work
    • Criticisms
    • Soft Bigotry on Our Minds
    • Paul Mirengoff
    • Whelan Takes Down Sunstein
    • Miers & Parental Notification
    • Blank Slate -- Quote of the Day?
    • Soft Bigotry
    • "I wouldn't want to go through it today, I'll tell you that much."
    • The White House's Challenge
    • The Woman Problem
    • Is There A Constitution in the House?
    • I Know I'm Normally a Huge Fan of Arlen Specter and Vice Versa
    • If I Were the White House, I Don't Think I Would Send This Out
    • Lucianne.com Stands By Her Man
    • "I Think That's Possible"
    • Eugene Robinson & Jim Dobson Vaguely on the Same Page
    • Are Surprises Coming?

October 10

    • RE: HOLDING OUR FIRE
    • RE: Fund
    • Fund Reassesses Miers
    • Holding Our Fire -- and our Breath
    • Miami Debate
    • A Fox Synopsis
    • Did Miers's Firm Do "Shoddy" Work?
    • The Paper Trail, Such that It Is
    • Miers's Record
    • Debating Miers on the Sunday Shows
    • Can We Have a Witness?

October 08

    • With Friends Like These...
    • Insulting
    • For the Record
    • Miers, Abortion & Women
    • Randy Barnett Asks...
    • Religion When It Suits
    • At Least
    • The Crash and Burn Scenario
    • Hruskaism Redivivus
    • Slate on Justice Hecht
    • Is Harriet Better than Connie?
    • "Disaster"
    • The Administration, Ms. Miers, and the Federalist Society
    • O Great

October 07

    • More on Moving Forward
    • This Is the Mood
    • Miers and Bush and the Constitution
    • "What Would Kristol Do?"
    • The Whittaker Comparison
    • On Prudential Judgment
    • Meir & Warren
    • Warren Sigh
    • RE: Withdraw
    • "withdraw"
    • Depressing

October 06

    • Moving Forward
    • M&Ms and Compassion
    • M&Ms
    • Beldar for the Defense
    • Memo to Miers-Nomination Defenders
    • Dan Coats
    • Not Souter but Whittaker?
    • Re: Hide and Seek
    • Miers's FEC Record
    • A Case Against Trust
    • Sexism? Elitism?
    • Miers and the Left
    • Flashback Note: O'Connor Assurance
    • Harriet Miers, a Gift to Ralph Nader?
    • The Mood in D.C.

October 05

    • On Life and Laws
    • Hide and Seek
    • Responding to Will
    • Disagreeing (for a change) with Randy Barnett
    • Miers the Broker, Miers the Nominee
    • K-Lo's New Rule
    • Miers on Life
    • You Know, I Joke About These Things
    • "She Is Not a Completely Blank Slate"
    • John Cornyn

October 04

    • Martin Frost,
    •  I Hear You Roar
    • re: Sex and Credentials
    • Sex vs. Credentials
    • re: Sex & the Supreme Court
    • The Sex Thing (No, I Won't Say "Gender")
    • Hruskadamas
    • Re: Hruskaism
    • Hruskaism
    • Fashion Advice for John Roberts
    • Beldar: Not Cronyism
    • Miers re: Owens
    • There's Something About Harriet
    • Answers
    • The Paper Trail
    • Miers on Guns
    • More From the Right
    • More Thoughts on Miers
    • "She shares my philosophy...that judges should not legislate from the bench."
    • Randy Barnett Positively Nails the Point …
    • Miers on Texas Sodomy
    • It Doesn't Really Help Me, But...
    • Letterman Does SCOTUS
    • Well, Eleanor Smeal Is Half Happy
    • "Cronyism"
    • Barnes on Miers
    • Defending Miers
    • Another GOPer Doesn't Exactly Go All Out in Support of the President's Pick
    • Hey, Harry, Call Me Before You Do Something Wild and Crazy, Man
    • It Was Andy Card's Idea
    • More Cautious than the Priests for Life Were Yesterday

October 03

    • Pat Leahy Wants Me!
    • Me Too, Andy
    • Sigh
    • Supporting Miers
    • Initial Thoughts on the Miers Nomination
    • Slow Reax
    • Um...Ken?
    • What Does Harriet Miers Think?
    • People for the American Way Wants a Roberts Clone!
    • "Appears to be an Outstanding Nominee"
    • From Elaine Donnelly
    • The Trust Thing
    • Now This Will Make the Difference!
    • Going Around
    • When You Put It That Way...
    • From One Nervous Senator
    • Gulp
    • Getting to Know Her
    • Cheney on Rush
    • Prediction
    • From a Hill Type Who Wants to Believe
    • "Missed Opportunity"
    • Miers, Abortion & the ABA
    • This Is Up at NR World Headquarters Now
    • Views
    • "You'll Be Happy with Harriet's Record, Rush. Trust Me."
    • Another Take
    • Veep Cheney Is on Rush's Radio Show Right Now
    • She Was a Dem
    • John Thune Is Going to Wait and See
    • re: Hewitt
    • Hewitt on Miers
    • More from the "Christian Wire Service"
    • She Had a Hard Time Getting a Job Because She Was a Woman
    • Miers’s Qualifications
    • Getting to Know Miers
    • Press-Pass Duty
    • Trusting
    • In Her Own Words
    • Feinstein
    • Another Profile
    • The Senate
    • A Prediction
    •  The Miers nomination
    • DNC on Miers
    • Me, Mark, and Miers
    • "Conservative Group Opposes"
    • Rallying
    • “If we were going to take a position on this divisive issue, the members should have been able to vote.”
    • Franck & Miers
    • Chills, Continued
    • "When it comes to a cross-examination, she can fillet better than Mrs. Paul."
    • "The Miers nomination...is an unforced error."
    • Chills
    • Leonard Leo on Miers
    • I Need to Get Myself One of these For the Miers Confirmation Process
    • That's What the White House Was Hoping For
    • This May Not Be At All Fair
    • Now It Makes Sense...It's Getting Us Ready for Bork
    • What Will the Christian Coalition Say?
    • I Suppose It Is Worth Pointing Out
    • Miers Profile
    • Early Reax
    • Re: Miers
    • Garnett on Miers
    • Cornyn on Miers
    • Miers and Recusal
    • Miers
    • Miers
    • Did They Know Who They Were Sending Their Talking Points To?
    • Off Course, Earlier than Thursday
    • You Know, I Saw This Coming Thursday
    • The No-Judicial Experience Thing
    • In Case You Were Not Believing Yet
    • Recusals
    • Miers
    • Miers on the Wire
    • Harriet Miers
    • Slightly More Serious Prediction
    • 8 ayem
    • One Last Time on Slate's Noah on Graham and Ginsburg

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