aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

More Miers

Let’s just say I’m not as optimistic as the liberals who say that she’s the best we can get.

Nathan Newman points out that big business loves Miers:

That some Democrats—including some in the blogosphere—have gone soft on Miers reflects a fundamental betrayal of the working class base of the party. It pisses me off no end that because Miers MIGHT be soft on a few social issues, folks are willing to overlook the fact that she, like Roberts, worked for rightwing corporate law firms, both of which had tough union-busting divisions. In fact, Roberts brought one of the nastiest anti-union cases of the 1990s to the Supreme Court, thankfully a case he lost.

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People wonder why Democrats are losing working class voters. It’s not because they care about abortion and gay rights; it’s because when it comes to the courts, they don’t seem to care about anything else, including the economic issues that many pro-life voters would turn against the GOP over if they were highlighted in the debates.