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Tuesday, October 4, 2005 |
Ralph Nader: "Bush is falling, but the Democrats are sinking faster.
On defending our civil justice system from the corporate attack on injured or defrauded people's right to their full day in court, the Democratic Party is gutless.
On moving serious corporate reforms to stop corporate crimes that have drained trillions from workers, investors and pensioneers, the Democrats are spineless.
On challenging the huge waste, fraud and corruption in government contracts and programs under the Republicans, the Democrats are hapless.
On raising the impoverished minimum wage to give working Americans a living wage, the way Senator Ted Kennedy has been calling for, the Democratic Party is clueless."
4:00:49 PM 
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Bush nominated his former personal lawyer and current White House Counsel Harriet Ellan Miers as the replacement for retiring Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor yesterday.
It seems Bush prefers single women. And he likes to nominate personal friends.
MercuryNews: "As the point-person for the legal defense of the Bush administration's positions, Miers undoubtedly shares his conservatism.
But some of the most pointed criticism of her nomination Monday came not from Democrats but from movement conservatives frustrated by the president's failure to elevate someone who is known as one of their own."
VillageVoice: "Conservative commentators are appalled, depressed, and bitterly disappointed, and those were some of the more polite comments. Harriet Miers is not the openly committed conservative ideologue of their dreams. Pat Buchanan summed up the objections to Miers: 'Bush capitulated to the diversity-mongers, used a critical Supreme Court seat to reward a crony, and revealed that he lacks the desire to engage the Senate in fierce combat to carry out his now-suspect commitment to remake the court in the image of Scalia and Thomas'. This was the conservative sentiment before it came out that Miers apparently long ago claimed to support gay rights."
Apparently Ms Miers is not an extremist conservative or criminal neocon, as the Republican mullahs would have preferred.
3:51:28 PM
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