If GOP Senators are unwilling to accept her nomination on hope alone, that is very understandable to me.
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What many of the "bots" don't realize is that there is no room for error here. None at all. It is not like she might turn out to be the first non-conservative justice on the court...right? Again, the "trust me" mentality is very risky when there is no room for risk taking.
This entire process is perfectly demonstrative of why the president should not be extended trust here. Confirmed or not, there is absolutely no winning in this fight for Miers. It's shocking to me, that they do not seem to realize this and are gearing up to fight back. It's just a question of how much you lose and under what circumstances.
Picking an avoidable fight with your strongest (and frankly only) supporters at a time when you need to be consolidating their support, is a perfect demonstration of Bush's wildly illogical political judgement lately. How can you say that after this spectacularly incorrect assessment of what we will acquiesce with, that Bush even has a clue at this point what we are expecting from her votes? I don't know what's gotten into the man. This is a slow hemoraging political suicide, waged by a party leader on his own party, when he's surrounded on all sides by emboldened and hostile external enemies. It's nuts.
Presidential nominations are the product of voting him in. There are no consultations with the Ultra Ultras required by the Constitution to make them.
Originalists believe in sticking to what the Founders intended and they did not want the electorate involved. They placed the choice carefully and deliberately in the hands of the Executive with approval in the Senate.