Emerging supporter of Harriet Miers: businesses

[jody]

Emerging supporter of Harriet Miers: businesses

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"Having two justices, Roberts and Miers, who we expect to join him shortly, that's adding two to nothing from the point of view of that kind of experience. That's big for the business community," says Bruce Josten, the top lobbyist for the US Chamber of Commerce. He predicts that other business groups, many for the first time in their histories, will take a higher profile role in court fights.

"Business is getting involved for the first time because, in the last decade, we've had a litigation explosion in this country that is unmatched in the industrial world - $250 billion in annual tort costs, much of it paid by the business community," he adds. "There's a concern in having with an understanding of business and commercial law from a real-world perspective."

For more than a year before Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement, the US Chamber had been evaluating potential candidates from federal circuit courts on the basis of their record on business issues and making its views known to the White House. "We were very proactive," says Josten, who says that Miers was not among those ranked, because she had never been a judge.

While the Chamber and other business groups, such as the National Association of Manufacturers, have yet to formally endorse Miers, they are talking up her business credentials.
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Benito Mussolini said, "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power."

[napi21]

1. I don't know about Roberts, but Miers was a Corp Lawyer.

I would expect she would continue to lean toward their support.

[blm]

6. Roberts has a record of ruling for corporations over workers and consumers

He's definitely in on the fascist agenda.

[blm]

2. And why corporate media pushes the prolife angle - To hide the profascist

agenda of Bush's nominees.

[jody]

4. First president of National Association of Manufacturers was Samuel Bush,

father of Prescott, grandfather of George H. W. Bush and great grandfather of George W. Bush.

NAM was involved along with the American Liberty League in the plot to overthrow the White House and have General Smedley Butler replace President Franklin Roosevelt.

[blm]

5. And Poppy's brother was head of US-China Chamber of Commerce for years.

Deals made with Chinese industrialists in the 70s facilitated the rise of WalMart, and now America suffers for its losses to cheap labor as BushInc heaps on our national debt which China has been buying up like crazy.

I doubt this is coincidence.....the global fascists have been at work for decades.

[Norquist Nemesis]

3. It's no suprise seeing as how she's a corporate lawyer

Between the big business bootie and protecting the unborn, she's a dream come true for Republicans! Screw the rest of the citizens.

[blm]

7. I'm kicking this thread, jody.

I think it's too important a point to get ignored.

[blm]

8. and once more for luck.

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[jody]

9. I agree and once more.

:hi:

[blm]

12. Hey...it's important.

And when more people realize it, the better.

I loathe how the media pushes the prolife angle while completely ignoring the profascist one.

[jody]

13. blm, it's just you and I among all the DUers.

:banghead:

[blm]

14. Maybe repost with an aggressive subject line.

Like:

FASCISM ALERT: CORPORATIONS LINING UP BEHIND MIERS.

[jody]

15. Good idea. I'll do it and thanks. n/t

[KharmaTrain]

10. Corporates Have Been Calling The Shots All Along

Screw the fundies, this is BFEE payback to their biggest contributors/benefactors.

Roberts also was a gift as he's as pro-business as they come. Most of what the court reviews are in the realm of corporate and big business. The social cases come by once a term, the adjudicating of big lawsuits go on constantly. Miers is a guaranteed vote to strike down any worker grievance, anti-monopoly or tax loophole case.

Also, it's a safe vote should there be another Nixonian confidentiality showdown on the court where meeester boooosh will need lots of certain friends to protect his bacon.

[blm]

11. The fundies are just being duped while BushInc builds a fascist empire

for the family and their cronies.

[SoCalDem]

16. Talk about "judge-shopping"..and activism on the court

:puke: