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Today at TPMCafe, Supreme Court Watch's Jack Balkin writes about Harriet Miers as a big business conservative, while House of Labor's Nathan Newman looks at her time as a corporate lawyer in Dallas. Also, Ed Kilgore explains why James Dobson decided to give the nominee--and the White House--some breathing room...for now.
Reed Hundt looks at Miers, voting, and Iraq. For more on Iraq, check out Matt Ygelsias's questions about the DLC's suggested change in our Iraq policy, and America Abroad's Daniel Benjamin's discussion of our strategic failures (despite claims to the contrary).
In other news at TPMCafe, Todd Gitlin writes about his recent trip to China, and Warren Reports' James Weingarten explains why lawyers in Mississippi and Louisiana are calling for a delay to changes in the bankruptcy law.
If Thomas Frank is correct, it isn't in the GOPs interest to have Roe, (more accurately Casey or Griswold depending on what you view as the basis of abortion rights upon) remain the status quo. Roe is the GOPs single most effective tool to mobilize their base, without it, they simply don't have support.
It seems to me that many make the mistake of either blaming Carter or giving too much credit to the Goldwater movement for the GOP backlash. In my mind the keys to the rise of conservativism is had its genesis in the Roe decision.
With Watergate and Vietnam the GOP was looking like roasted turkey, but two good things happened for them. And, despite their protestations to the contrary they were the ending of the Vietnam War and Roe. On the one hand Nixon's disasterous Vietnam policy seemed like a defeat, but when the war ended the stone around the parties neck was released. Yes, Nixon was terrible but he and Nam were behind them. Out of the ashes came Roe, an issue that was untainted by GOP corruption and backed by the moral righteous of the evangelical right. A cause was born.
Maybe Bush and Rove, don't want Roe overturned?
October 4, 2005 11:31 AM | Reply | Permalink