[Lazamataz]

I despise Pat Buchanan. But this time he's wrong.

[operation clinton cleanup]

After Nixon named Blackmun, Ford named Stevens, Reagan gave us the malleable O'Connor and Tony Kennedy, and Bush's father gave us that textbook turncoat Souter, presidential assurances are not enough.

What makes this nominee different from the others is that Bush has known her for 20 years!

[Old Professer]

athanellen made Bush do it.

[GSlob]

"There is no evidence Harriet Miers possesses the judicial philosophy, strength of intellect, firmness of conviction or deep understanding of the gravity of the matters on which her vote would be decisive to be confirmed as associate justice of the Supreme Court."
This should be logically carried a few steps further. There is no evidence that Harriet Miers exists, and even that if she does, that she is not a cardboard cutout or a wax sculpture... And the proper reply should be the question "and so what?" Nonexistence is NOT a disqualifying event - quite the opposite, for there is no malice or evil to be expected from a non-existing object.
In Caligula's times the Roman senators were mostly preoccupied with reciprocal political denunciations. Who could doubt that his horse, once appointed to the Senate, was among the best of the lot? And his horse DID exist.

[Brad’s Gramma]

WAKE UP!
FIRE IN THE HOLE!

CLICK THE BLASTING MACHINE
STOP FREEPATHONS!

[ex-snook]

"Why did Bush do it?"

Think Bolton and Wolfowitz. Bush is patronage rewarding those who brought him to the dance before returning to sing Home on the Range. Expect more of the same. It's like the Clinton pardons. Do it while you have the power.