[ContemptofCourt]

http://buzz.nationalreview.com/

A source close to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in to me this morning to dispute the claim:

“Today, James Dobson has suggested Karl Rove said that most of the women on the ‘short list’ asked not to be considered. Karen Williams did no such thing. Her name was in the running up until Miers was selected. She did NOT withdraw her name.”

[mosquitobite]

LOL, so Rove has a conversation in private with Dobson. Wants Dobson's approval so the religious right will toe the line for the nominee. Specter threatens a subpeona and Dobson tells the truth to the public, as he SHOULD. The White House LIED to Dobson, expected it to stay confidential and none would have known better.

And I used to think Rove was a political mastermind. You don't LIE to a Christian man and expect him to continue lying FOR YOU!

Makes me sick on 2 fronts: 1 that the religious right is willing to support a nominee SIMPLY on the issue of abortion alone and 2 that the WH is so BLATENTLY using the religious right to forward their OWN agenda (which, btw is not a originalist agenda).

I'm sick about hearing about Mier's religion! And I'm an evangelical myself! Religion in and of itself is NOT a qualifier nor a disqualifier for the SCOTUS, imho...

If we get an originalist, we ALL get what we want in the end. Shortsightedness... good grief!

[kingu]

What still nags at the back of my mind - if Miers was the point person for vetting candidates for the SCOTUS and also in consideration for the position, isn't that a total conflict of interest? "We can't find anyone, Mr. President, aside from myself."

The story floating that someone backed out over the weekend and Andy Card pushing Miers to take the slot sounds most reasonable at this point. They self imposed a deadline of that Monday to announce and didn't feel that they had enough time to fully vet another candidate...

Of course, this begs the question to be asked - why not? Someone should have assumed that at some point in eight years that Bush would be making a nomination or two, and they should have had a thick file full of folks already vetted and ready to step forward. I don't like the reactionary implications here.

[Les_Miserables]

The claim that most female candidates withdrew their names to avoid the "persecution" that would insue from the Democrats is really hard to swallow. Who in their right mind would do that if they were honest motivated jurists? They are a fearless bunch, especially motivated females...This whole spin is just malarkey from the WH IMO. If in fact the females on the list were such Wusses and we are left with Miers, Bush should have fallen back to his "best qualified" list and picked a guy like Luttig. (a non female...there I said it...I must be a sexist..for wanting a superior known conservative judge on the bench)