Has Harriet Miers agreed to act as a High Court crony, obeying the wishes of George Bush and James Dobson no matter the facts of a given court case?
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter apparently wants to know.
From Bloomberg (via AmericaBlog):
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said he wants to know whether presidential adviser Karl Rove privately assured a conservative activist of how Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers would rule on the court.
Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, said he will would look into a statement by James Dobson, president of the Colorado Springs, Colorado-based advocacy group Focus on the Family, that Dobson has had “conversations” with Rove about the woman nominated to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and knows things about Miers “that I probably shouldn’t know.”
“The Senate Judiciary Committee is entitled to know whatever the White House knew,” Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, said on ABC’s “This Week” program. “If Dr. Dobson knows something that he shouldn’t know or something that I ought to know, I’m going to find out.”
Specter isn’t the only person who should find out. The public needs to know whether the nation’s highest court is being stacked with corrupt cronies who intend to issue rulings based on personal, political or religious self-interest rather than the Constitution.
As a commenter at the Washington Monthly observes:
Either Dobson is concealing vital information from the American public — which is an affront to the nation’s democratic institutions and must be exposed — or Dobson is lying to the religious right as a favor to cronies in the Oval Office.
Addendum: Focus on the Family said Monday night (Oct. 10) that Dobson will devote his Wednesday and Thursday radio programs to rationalize his support for Miers and to air the views of other Bush loyalists.
Not sure where to put this, but here’s an interview with the young man who was on the cover of TIME’s gay teens issue. He identifies as gay but thanks to ex-gay seminars he thinks that homosexuality is a “choice” and that people just act on sex. So once again we get to hear that being gay is all about sex.
https://www.readingeagle.com/re/news/1435470.asp
I think with enormous power comes a certain arrogance that one’s psychological make-up brings the person to experience the delusion that they are untouchable by both the law, the public and those whom he or she is most accountable to. I believe that Dr. Dobson has reached the pinnacle in his life where he views himself as without sin and untouchable by society at large. Therefore, whatever he does, whether that be partisan politics, extortion of citizen’s personal funds, marginalize and stigmatize segments of society (ie gays, women and non-white minorities), influence pedal, influence public opinion and policy, Dobson views himself as the only correct individual and he is untouchable by the legal process. I think in the coming weeks, Dr. Dobson will begin to learn an important lesson in obeying the law of the land and most importantly, humility. One can only hope his popularity will wean.
Interesting. Saw this yesterday. Read the middle paragraph especially. Does anyone know who this “close senator friend and ally” might be that met with Miers on Thursday? Wonder if any of this is related with the Dobson thing. My thought is that an ally of a pro-life group might also have connections to Dobson.
Well its been three or four months since I asked Exodus to get rid of my picture and they still havent done it. I think this could be a great thing for their lack of credibility…please see the Exodus International Website for my picture once again
(Okay, er, interesting rambling feedback thread here.)
Regarding the Miers nomination, I think what happened is that the administration mis-stepped and interpreted their own code-words literally. By nominating Miers, Bush thought he was in line with “Just Us” Sundays I and II where the mantra was “No Activist Judges” and “No Legislating From The Bench”. In Miers we have potentially gotten just that.
But — oops! — what the extremists in the Religious Right *actually* meant was someone who would legislate their brand of morality from the bench; someone with an agressive activist agenda of anti-privacy, anti-choice, and homophobia. These self-righteous asses are going to be so surprised one day when Jesus says to them, “Depart of me, I never knew you.” See how well these hateful moralistic litmus tests serve them in Hell.
O…M…F…G!
He is truly fork faced, that Dobson.
My ancestors weep again…
I have a prediction. If this struggle and conflict continues to get increasingly more intense I would not be surprised if Mr. Dobson isn’t called on the carpet to open up about this. Dobson may have gotten himself into legal hot water or should I say “hellfire”?
Dobson has an ego as big as the Grand Canyon. Just the pure fact that he said he knows about some inside information regarding Miers tells me that the man has an inflated ego. He’s a big time religio-political control freak.