Nominating this woman is hardly "doing his job" as he promised to do. The supposed animus against Ms. Miers is not personally motivated against her. It is the supporters of Ms. Miers who seem to be unable to offer anything in her defense to actually demonstrate a qualification to perform even minimally in the position to which she has been nominated. The best defenses offered by the White House have amounted to second-hand or third-hand assurances of how they think she may vote, at best. In their relaunch of the candidate (not a good sign when you have to relaunch a nomination because of the original response) the Administration official quoted couldn't come up with anything specific except that she's a good bowler. While that may have seemed like an awesome qualification at the time, people who take nominations to important positions (as opposed to members of the Bush cult of personality) beg to differ. It may comfort you to try to dismiss valid criticisms of this and several other nominees (remember the days when this Administration's nominees were actually qualified?) as arising from some sort of personal animus, but you'd be wrong. And the defenses offered so far do not address the substantive defects of this nominee and the nomination process as currently operating at the White House.
Relax, Harrie isn't going to get through. She was never intended to. It's going to be Gonzales. Mark Our words. If there is one thing that can be said for Al baby, it is that he is qualified to sit on the court, compared to Harriet. And in many ways is probably sufficiently conservative, if it weren't for those nagging questions about the 2nd Amendment, A Woman's Right to Infanticide, and La Raza.
Not trying to resurrect a thread but just got around to answering your post after a fun trip to the Tulsa Oktoberfest. Being around non political people can be quite refreshing at times. I believe that Harriet Miers not only deserves a hearing, but is entitled to one. She was nominated by the duly elected President of the United States, and she accepted the nomination in good faith. If the bullying by the egotistical self serving pundits and their clique in the conservative publication business in any way results in Miers not getting her opportunity to present her views and answer oral questions, the bad fallout for the Republican party will be immeasurable. I can go back and forth on all that has been said before but it does all boil down to her right to be heard by those involved in the process. I hope the hearing goes on as planned in November and she will either pass or not. Since I plan on a six week vacation after Thanksgiving, I hope it will be over since I will have limited access to the Internet and won't be able to follow the aftermath all that much. Maybe that would be just as well after all!