75% Chance Miers Nomination is Withdrawn (John Fund says on John Batchelor Program)

John Batchelor Program - WABC Radio ^

[RobFromGa]

Tradesports on Miers to be confirmed

[XJarhead]

Fund says odds of withdrawal are 75%. Again, what do you think the odds are?

Less than 10%.

[Map Kernow]

I don't respond to epithets. I thought I could have a gentlemanly discussion with at least one Miers supporter. How wrong I was.

[Map Kernow]

You're a stand-up guy, Marine. Thanks for the reply.

[F.J. Mitchell]

That's a gas.

[RobFromGa]

So, if she's not withdrawn, will you admit to not having any common sense?

I'd wager there's a 95% chance none of these people will ever admit they were wrong on anything.

[alcuin]

They are NOT the base.

Allow me to shift the emphasis:

They are not THE base.

Nor are you.

You're merely part of it.

As I am.

[Miss Marple]

I know that the most vocal on this site want her name withdrawn. I do not think that the majority of freepers want her name withdrawn. Let her appear before the committee, and give her an up or down vote.

There are quite a few people objecting to Miers for reasons other than her supposed lack of qualifications. Quite a few have an ax to grind on some other policy of the Administration. To the rank-and-file GOP voter, this attack on the nominee is distasteful. My elderly neighbors, staunch Republicans, are incensed at the pundits. I don't have percentages of support, but I have read 64%, which is pretty good for Miers given all the attacks she has had thrown at her.

The thing is, YOU don't have any figures either. It's pretty risky to base your assumptions on something by the number of anti-Miers posts here. A couple of them have made it a full-time job to post, making sure that the issue is always on the screen.

I support Meyers having a hearing, where we can judge her knowledge of the Constitution and her judicial temperment. Her integrity is without question. Then the Senators can vote.

[alnick]

You won't even give people a chance to know who the next nominee is?

You're against giving the public, including yourself, a chance to know the current nominee.

[proud American in Canada]

Please, I really want to see her implications justified, that President Bush is a drunk lush, incapable of thought deep enough to actually appoint a SCJ.

I haven't seen or heard her on radio or t.v. (I don't get Fox news), but Coulter's "boozing it up" comment in her first Miers article did it for me--it was repugnant.

[GarySpFc]

They are hemorrhaging right now. Just my opinion, I don't have any sources.

Having talked to my senators office I can tell you there is far more pressure coming from Republicans to confirm Miers than for her to be withdrawn.

[Miss Marple]

I don't believe I have ever used the term "libertarian" and as far as the term "far-right", well, if I have used it to distinguish from people like me, who are on the right but, as we have been told so often, "not real conservatives."

[F.J. Mitchell]

Never say never again, until you have considered the alternatives.

[jdhljc169]

You are wrong.

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I guess that tells me something about you. It seems to me that you would rather have an unknown than a known constrictionist.

[Mr Cobol]

This isn't about the topic you posted but since you were listening I have a question.

I was listening on internet and someone was talking about 100.00 bills being made in North Korea. The guy said Nixon gave the authentic plates to Iran and in 1996 when we changed the face of the bill that made the plates useless. So Iran sold the plates to NK and they figured out how to........

The feed was cut off as it does so often, but when it came back they were talking about Gaza. Did you hear it and did I miss something?

[XJarhead]

...appoints someone close to him, without consulting the people to whom this appointment has meant so much for not just years....

I don't understand this at all. Exactly which people should he have "consulted" with that he did not? Can you name them, because this makes no sense to me at all.

[mosquitobite]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aTjbZvUB7vaQ&refer=us

[Spiff]

Even if she's withdraws, don't expect any of the names that have been floated the past 10 days or so to be the next one nominated. That will start this whole process all over again.

I would rather have the seat open for a while than to put a substandard or unacceptable Justice in it. Let's get this right - this is important.

[Revolting cat!]

There was once a lawyer named Miers,
Who entartained Supreme Court desires,
She cried: "elitist",
"You and Laura are the Greatest!"
But still couldn't find any buyers.

[TheForceOfOne]

Great post, again. :)

Like Liberals who are afraid of letting the majority settle social issues, and have used the courts to force these issues upon us, so do the anti-Miers people who would do anything to prevent her from reaching the hearings.