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Rush Limbaugh: Miers Pick 'Disappointing'
Rush Limbaugh is none too happy about President Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, saying it’s a selection "made from weakness.” "There was an opportunity here to show strength and confidence, and I don’t think this is it,” Rush told listeners of his show, America’s most widely heard talk radio program. "It seems to me from the outset that this is a pick that was made from weakness.
Story Continues Below "There are plenty of known quantities out there who would be superb for the Court. This is a nominee that we don’t know anything about. It makes her less of a target, but also doesn’t show a position of strength. "I have a tough time believing that if the White House didn’t feel embattled over all of this stuff with Hurricane Katrina and the war in Iraq and these poll numbers, the choice would have been somebody different, somebody that could immediately be tagged as an originalist, somebody who was in the same mold of Scalia and Thomas, who the president once told us were his ideals for the Supreme Court. "The Democrats are saying some favorable things about Harriet Miers right now, led by dingy Harry (Reid), the Senate leader. He likes her very much. Almost like he’d like to marry her, he likes her so much. "And when you start hearing the President’s opponents start talking about this in the way they’re talking about it, you have to have a red flag go up. "But the main reason I don’t like this pick has nothing to do with Harriet Miers, because I don’t know her. I think the pick makes President Bush look weak. I think the pick is designed to avoid more controversy, to appease.”
Rush said Miers’ nomination "disappoints” him because he feels Bush might be losing a historic opportunity to take the Court in a definitely conservative direction. "As I’ve said, the Court is the last refuge for the left. It is where they hope to institutionalize their beliefs and get their beliefs out of the arena of debate. "This woman could end up being fabulous,” Rush acknowledged, but asked: "Why do we have to take the risk? Why do we have to roll the dice?”
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