"Some of us elected him to pick a fight"
Here is an excerpt:
Bush didn’t have to pick a stealth candidate. We didn’t elect him to pick a stealth candidate. We didn’t elect him to avoid a fight. In fact, some of us elected him to pick a fight, for the right candidates. He has, to some extent, betrayed that.
Miers has not proven that she’s qualified. Notice I don’t say she’s not qualified, but that she’s not proven that she’s qualified. I have no problem with constitutional lawyers in private practice, a la Rehnquist, serving on the Court. I don’t subscribe to the idea that only judges should be nominated. But appellate law, particularly Constitutional law, is a very complex, specialized and universally important area of law, and not every lawyer has the background, education (practical, not academic), training and experience to do a good job at it. And, practically speaking, the U.S. Supreme Court is almost exclusively a Constitutional Law court.
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