The Hartford blog promised for October 24th is posted on the October 17, 2005 post.




Now it begins.  The attacks on Harriet Miers are beginning to surface.   The front page headline in the Peoria Journal Star on 10/19/05, “Miers supported abortion ban.”  My response—good.  Maybe the conservatives who have been slow to support her will start to give the support they should.  I certainly don’t believe her opposition to abortion will hurt her in central Illinois although it won’t please the editorial staff of the Journal Star.  An incumbent Democratic legislator tried to use that same issue in the last election in a Democratic district and lost the election anyway.


Then ultra libertine Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein from California is quoted as saying, “This raises very serious concerns about her ability to fairly apply the law without bias in this regard.”  What absurd dribble!  What she means of course is that she is afraid that Ms. Miers will actually follow the Constitution and strike down the murder of the unborn for the abomination it is.  We can certainly pray that it happens and happens quickly.  We have been murdering our unborn for over thirty years and it is well past time that this court sanctioned murder stops and stops now.  


Do you understand this?  Our government, yours and mine, has through our Supreme Court sanctioned, approved, allowed, and encouraged the murder of between 32-45 million unborn babies over the last thirty two years.  That same Court has sanctioned, approved, allowed, and encouraged mothers to become murderers.  That same Court has sanctioned, approved, allowed, and encouraged medical personnel to become murderers.  The libertines know this and demand that it continues.  We as a government through the Supreme Court, a majority of five unelected people, have murdered 32-45 million innocent, unborn babies.  The inhumanity of it!  The sin of it!  The condemnation of GOD of it!


The headline in today’s Journal Star page A3 reads “’She would not get a majority.’”  The sub headline; “Democrat says Miers lacks confirmation votes.”  My respond—I think he’s wrong.  Then in the last three paragraphs, the unidentified Associated Press reporter begins the guilt by accusation assassination of her character.  Here is a quote, “Knight Ridder Newspapers reported Saturday that Texas officials paid Miers’ family more than $100,000 for a small piece of land in 2000—10 times the land’s worth—despite the state’s objection to the way the price was determined.”  


The information from this paragraph and the next is so sparse it is impossible to know the truth.  Miers’ family includes who?  Why was the land purchased by the State?  We know from the recent history of the city’s attempt to purchase the local water company that it is very difficult to determine the value of real estate.  Of course, the State is going to object, the State wants to pay as little as possible; the seller wants to receive as much as possible.  Real estate, if there are no impediments, is a classic example of supply and demand.  Who determines what is small?  Who determines what is the fair market value of the land?  This according to the article happened in 2000.  Was anyone accused in a court of law of wrong doing?  Was there a trial?  Was there a conviction?  My guess is that the answers to the last three questions are no, no, and no.  As I said, it is the season for character assassination by accusation and guilt by accusation.  
        
I am not a Washington insider.  I do not have an inside pipeline to the power brokers of the country.  This is my prediction on the Miers’ nomination if no new, damaging information is proven and if the libertine Democrats don’t filibuster.  She will be confirmed!  (I have been right before; I have been wrong before.)