[Cicero]

I don't see why people aren't entitled to say that she just isn't up to the job before the hearings start. After they are over will be too late.

Besides which, unless she has some sort of skeleton in her closet which detectives from the DNC manage to ferret out, the hearings are unlikely to reveal much of anything. The senators from both sides will pose for the cameras and make their usual fatuous comments, and if Miers has any brains at all (which I believe she has) she will refuse to answer any leading questions. So, where will that leave us? Right where we are now, but with Miers possibly confirmed. Those of us who think she should not have been nominated have no choice but to speak up now.

[USS Alaska]

Harriet Miers will be on the SC by Thanksgiving, Tom Delay will be leading the House by 2006 and all of the bitchen and moanen will be forgotten....... Tough sh*t for all you whiners. As the Aussies say, "piss off".

[Dog Gone]

You can certainly speak up now, but if the principle objection is that she's an unknown quantity, then it doesn't seem unreasonable to wait until more information is learned.

The hearings will take place in committee. A floor vote comes later.

It's just incorrect information to assert that your only chance to speak up is now.

I tend to favor her because the President has an excellent track record in naming judges. But I'm certainly willing to change that opinion based on what happens at the hearings. I don't know why any reasonable person wouldn't have a "wait and see" attitude unless they already had political reasons to pass judgment before all the facts are known.

[supercat]

So, where will that leave us? Right where we are now, but with Miers possibly confirmed.

And if Miers is withdrawn, where will that leave us? Is there any reason to believe that if Miers is withdrawn the seat will be given to someone better?

[MNJohnnie]

Those of us who think she should not have been nominated have no choice but to speak up now.

That's right, got to have the lynching before the trial cause you all know you are going to lose the trial. Be nice if ONE of you made the case why you are speaking up that doesn't boil down to "She is NOT our choice." So far that is ALL we are hearing from the Anti-Miers. Funny how you all want to play the Dems game and find a nominee who will promise to vote the way YOU want.

[MNJohnnie]

I don't see why people aren't entitled to say that she just isn't up to the job before the hearings start

Prove that statement. You mean "up to the job" like Beyer, Souter, Kennedy, Ginzburg and O'Conner? That is the whole problem here. NICE you have opinions, they are NOT facts. Sorry she is NOT who you want but NONE of you have made even the beginning of the case that she "isn't up to the job". Amazing how supposed "Conservatives" now want an Ivy League school degree and a rabid following among the Legal guild as a qualification for the SC. YOU did hear both Scalia and Pickering DO NOT agree with this opinion of Miers didn't you?