"I don't know anybody who is buying what the White House is selling here," said one Republican staffer.
What a shame that qualified nominees have to withdraw from consideration because of what the Democrats have done to the confirmation process.
I really want to BEAT them hard for doing this to the country. Well, in elections!
------ Staffers also said many of them chuckled over a biographical "pocket card" of talking points about Miss Miers that the White House distributed for use by any senator wishing to praise the nominee. "They had to double-space it," said one aide, laughing. ------
This is a very clever way to say what I have felt from the get go. No substance to prove that she is an originalist in the mold of Scalia/Thomas.
how did an article in the times get put in general / chat?
As posted on an earlier thread, the Dems will immediately ask Miers about her advice to the President on GWOT-related issues: GITMO, Abu Ghraib, detention of US citizens, Patriot Act, etc. She will naturally invoke attorney-client privilege and reveal nothing. Fine.
Next the Dems (or Reps) will ask her if she would recuse herself should a GITMO/torture/Patriot Act-related issue come before the SCOTUS, having legally advised the President on these matters. If she says "Yes, I'd recuse myself." then her presence on the SCOTUS to help Bush (and America) fight the GWOT would be pointless. If she says "No, I would not recuse myself." then she has to explain why, why there would be no conflict of interest, how what she knows having advised the President would not bias her opinion on the SCOTUS, which goes back to attorney-client privilege.
And if the White House gives limited waivers for her to answer certain questions, they will have opened the floodgate for more information, on Miers and every nominee in the future.
Give her a fair hearing, she's DOA. This is a foolish blunder by the President that will be capitalized on by his political enemies and his BOHICA'd Base.
If we didn't have the Supreme Court making the law in America, we wouldn't have to torture its nominees and demand an anal exam and a quart of their blood.
They are appointed for life and they screw us royally for years and years without our having any recourse.
Judges, as untouchable tyrants, are destroying America.
Those Republican staff aides are the core group that's needed to move the nomination through the Judiciary Committee and then the Senate. If the WH isn't returning "phone calls and e-mails seeking information about [Ms] Miers[,]" then the nomination is in real trouble. The failure to provide that type of information shows there's little legitimate basis for this nomination.
First the 'Rats in 2000 and 2004, then George Voinovich over Bolton, and now this. GWB certainly is an expert at having his opponents cry like babies. Never thought I'd see the day when Republican staffers would channel Sally Struthers. Hilarious!!
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