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the difference between her and harriet miers is ivy league. is she truly qualified? where are the writings? if you're an academic, you write and give your opinions, you develop, you know, motivation and certain philosophy. where is it? there is nothing there. i have to think that this is just -- this is a very weak appointment. >> david gergen, i'll let you pick this up. david, she was the dean of the harvard law school. she was on associate counsel at the clinton white house. she's a professor of law and the first woman solicitor general in the justice department. >> well, wolf, listen, i had the privilege to go to harvard law school. i'm a product of the elite schools. i agree with james, it's important to have all parts of the country and there are many other law schools. bay buchanan has a child at stanford, first class law school. there are many other law schools. i do think that. but i also want to put in a word for elena kagan who is an excellent nominee. she is no harriet miers, come on, give me a break. she clerked at the court of appeal level. she clerked a
the difference between her and harriet miers is ivy league. is she truly qualified? where are the writings? if you're an academic, you write and give your opinions, you develop, you know, motivation and certain philosophy. where is it? there is nothing there. i have to think that this is just -- this is a very weak appointment. >> david gergen, i'll let you pick this up. david, she was the dean of the harvard law school. she was on associate counsel at the clinton white house. she's a...
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miers. what do you think of those comparisons? >> well, again, i would have to look at the full background of her record. again? ships for ab mikva; clerkship for thurgood marshall; teaching at the university of chicago; work in the counsel's office here; work at the domestic policy committee here; nominated for a federal judgeship, which might have happened were it not for a filibuster on her votes. and the notion that she received a strong bipartisan vote for being the solicitor general, for being the person that represented the interest of the american people and the government as they argued in front of the supreme court. i don't -- i got to tell you i don't understand. i have a hard time understanding the analogy. >> they're suggesting that she'd be a rubber-stamp in the same way that harriet miers was allegedly have been a rubber stamp. >> well, nothing but we'd never be able to compare, either i think in double that of their reza may or i think the impact of the court. >> did the issu
miers. what do you think of those comparisons? >> well, again, i would have to look at the full background of her record. again? ships for ab mikva; clerkship for thurgood marshall; teaching at the university of chicago; work in the counsel's office here; work at the domestic policy committee here; nominated for a federal judgeship, which might have happened were it not for a filibuster on her votes. and the notion that she received a strong bipartisan vote for being the solicitor...
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miers, praising her as someone who had not served as a judge, calling her a wonderful choice who would fill very important gaps in the supreme court. of course now that a democratic president is nominating, they reversed themselves. and what was a great idea with a republic president is not a terrible idea with a democratic president, and they say the lack of judicial experiee is a matter for concern. it's troubling. it's a matter that warrants great scrutiny. i think it was ralph waldo emerson who once said that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. they are not suffering hobgoblins, but i would say the republics should not apply a double standard to the nomination of this qualified woman. this criticism of her is somehow unqualified, because she lacks judicial experience. it is also ignorant of our history and our constitutional government. it's very recently that the path to the supreme court became so rrow. indeed, nearly half of our supreme court justices were nominated to the court from a position other than a judgeship. let m just mention a few of the distingui
miers, praising her as someone who had not served as a judge, calling her a wonderful choice who would fill very important gaps in the supreme court. of course now that a democratic president is nominating, they reversed themselves. and what was a great idea with a republic president is not a terrible idea with a democratic president, and they say the lack of judicial experiee is a matter for concern. it's troubling. it's a matter that warrants great scrutiny. i think it was ralph waldo emerson...
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. >> what my problem with harriet miers was that she did not have legal action. when i sat with their and as your questions that i thought anyone would be a nominee could answer, she did not quite know the answers. that is not elena kagan's problem at all. i always like practical experience. if you had to pick some practical experience that would help the be a good supreme court justice running a law -- a large law schools probably a good one. you have to meet a budget. you have to bring people together. you see the practical effects of your decisions. >> center session brought up that if she is confirmed, there will be for new yorkers on a court. he said, that is a bit too much. your reaction? >> it is the quality of people. that should be the numbers 1 criteria, not where you come from. we do think we have a lot of high quality people. >> i talked about some of the issues. they were thoughtful. >> what do you think? >> we mainly talked about just to she was, where she comes from, and the judicial theory of being a justice. i think she is balanced on executive p
. >> what my problem with harriet miers was that she did not have legal action. when i sat with their and as your questions that i thought anyone would be a nominee could answer, she did not quite know the answers. that is not elena kagan's problem at all. i always like practical experience. if you had to pick some practical experience that would help the be a good supreme court justice running a law -- a large law schools probably a good one. you have to meet a budget. you have to bring...
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but for the market, even if the unrest blows over, a bigger probable harriet miers remains. >> this package would only provide greeks' financial needs for the next couple of years and then it would still be left with a huge interest burden to pay and it would probably not have much growth f any growth in the intervening period. it's more likely the recession there will continue, so i think the markets are also looking forward saying ok, this might tide them over for the next year or so, but what happens then. >> for the past two days, global markets have been failing as the details of the bailout filtered through. if balancing the books can push greece into recession, it can do the same to portugal, spain, and ireland, all under pressure to produce more credible plans, and people in the market say, spain is what frightens them. it's too big to of is a, even as the political willpower could be found. its deficit is lower than ours, but the markets think its growth projections are rubbish, so investors are demanding spain pay 1.3 few percentage points above what germany pays to borrow money a
but for the market, even if the unrest blows over, a bigger probable harriet miers remains. >> this package would only provide greeks' financial needs for the next couple of years and then it would still be left with a huge interest burden to pay and it would probably not have much growth f any growth in the intervening period. it's more likely the recession there will continue, so i think the markets are also looking forward saying ok, this might tide them over for the next year or so,...