[libstripper]

Time for Harriet to withdraw her nomination. By not doing the right thing for President Bush she comes to look more and more like a shameless brown noser who gained his confidence simply to obtain power for herself.

[Terpfen]

By not doing the right thing for President Bush she comes to look more and more like a shameless brown noser who gained his confidence simply to obtain power for herself.

That's some diabolic diabolicism.

[edcoil]

I wish NRO would stop acting like democrats - and sounding like them too.

[EagleUSA]

GWB's personal agenda is more important than the country itself..witnessed by his multiple failures to support his campaign promises, this choice, and the illegal Mexican situation. Elitism is as bad as liberalism, and his having similar consequences for this country.

[tdewey10]

"The Miers nomination IS the most catastrophic political miscalculation of the Bush presidency."

Fixed.

What were the President, Mr. Card, Mr. Rove and Ms. Miers thinking?

I do hope that Ms. Miers is renominated for a CoA post.

[Parmenio]

The Tradesports book on Miers being confirmed is down 32% from yesterday - from 65% to 30%.

http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/contractSearch/

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Now that's a good column. It's way better than Krauthammer's column.

[IamConservative]

What is interesting about the difference between Miers and Roberts is that Roberts is percieved to be an intellectual and Miers is not. Otherwise, we know as little about eithers judicial philosophy as the other.

[cynicom]

Miers is just another hangerson toady that attached herself to someone in a position of power. Toadies are dime a dozen.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Hope the naysayers celebrate when they get what they wished for, Miers taken out of contention, replaced by Alberto Gonzales as the nominee.

[AmericaUnited]

The Miers nomination might be the most catastrophic political miscalculation of the Bush presidency

In other news... pundits are knocking themselves out trying to OUT SHRILL and OUT HYPERVENITLATE the last guy ("Hey look at me").

[GraniteStateConservative]

By not doing the right thing for President Bush she comes to look more and more like a shameless brown noser who gained his confidence simply to obtain power for herself.

Bush is way too stubborn to let her withdraw even if she wanted to.

[q_an_a]

I wonder how many of the opinion writers are the only child in their family? I expect them to start holding their breath or pounding on the floor...maybe that only what happens with liberals who have no rules.

What makes anyone think that President Bush would let down a friend? Why do you think that a man who would take on the aRabs, the French, the Germans and the left in war would roll over for NRO and Weekly Standard? Someone needs to sell the naysayers a vowel so they can get the message.GWB will not change his mind.

[CharlesWayneCT]

"John Lowry here, look at me, look at me, I still oppose this nomination for the same reasons I did 3 weeks ago, but nobody's paid any attention to me for a while"

"I've been opposing this nominee for the same reasons for almost as many days as any other opponent out there, and I deserve equal treatment".

[Reagan Man]

>>>>The Miers nomination might be the most catastrophic political miscalculation of the Bush presidency.

Wrong Rich. Spending the taxpayers money like a liberal, expanding the fedral bureaucracy and ignoring immigration reform have been Bush`s biggest failures. Unless Miers screws up royal, she'll be confirmed.

[Cboldt]

The stealth strategy always had a whiff of deception about it. In this nomination, the whiff is becoming a stink of contradiction and bad faith.

And some argue that government by deception is a good thing, as long as the other guy is the victim. I argue the opposite, in "Uncertainty," the Nominee.

I believe the DEM party is morally and ethically corrupt.

It's demoralizing to realize that GWB and the GOP are headed in the same direction, at least in the realm of Judicial nominations.

[EternalHope]

The Miers nomination might be the most catastrophic political miscalculation of the Bush presidency.

It was a miscalculation all right. President Bush was caught completely by surprise when a small group of Republican pundits decided to Bork Harriet Miers.

Real hatred has been on display, aimed at President Bush. It hit its target. The President has been weakened substantially.

The Republican party has been weakened too. A house divided against itself cannot stand. There is a good chance this will lead to liberal victories in 2006, and a Hillary Presidency in 2008.

Many evangelical Christian conservatives, like me, are totally disgusted by the way this was done. To me, lies and character assassination are still lies and slime when used by Republicans, not just when used by Democrats.

But still, I suppose congratulations are in order. They/you have won a great "victory". I'm sure you will enjoy your triumph.

[Sir Gawain]

Republican presidents have long been drawn to the “stealth strategy” on judicial nominations, picking conservatives, or supposed conservatives, without a public record so it will be harder for Democrats to oppose them.

Otherwise known as the pathetic cowardly spineless approach. Funny how Democrats don't use that strategy.