Posted on 10/22/2005 4:11:56 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Though not giving it much more than 'rumor' treatment, on Fox & Friends Weekend it was just reported that the White House is reaching out to GOP senators as to their recommendations for 'Plan B' in the event Miers is withdrawn.
One of the F&F hosts clarifed that according to the information Fox has received, it is not WH aides who are doing the outreach directly, but conservative surrogates.
What elase is new, especially for the vapid weekend Fox crew.
Janice R. Brown? Better than plan A.
Perhaps, and they were careful not to overplay it.
But is it inconceivable to you that Miers would be withdrawn? And if it is within the realm of imagination, this scenario doesn't seem implausible to me.
what books are they (FNC) selling today?
I don't have a clue about Miers and would like to see her before the Judiciary Com. before reaching any conclusions.
I trust GWB that she is on the right side of the issues.
My biggest surprise is that she did not fit the mold that I thought the nominee would fit, especially after Roberts was nominated.
Not at this time, she will go through the hearings, no matter the caterwalling from the right wing elite in the DC beltway.
Do you think that if she withdraws, will that imbolden the Dem's to be even more overbearing? That they won, forcing her to withdraw, even though it's the conservatives that are upset? I am not thrilled with her as a nominee, really hoping for Janice Rogers Brown, but Bush seems to be very confident in her.
Doesn't every smart person have a back up plan? What if she was diagnosed with breast cancer on Nov 1? Or was in a serious car wreck this weekend? Seems to me that any president would have plans to fall back on.
I am always amused when the news organizations think it is newsworthy that someone in government has a contingency plan.
They think that since there is a backup plan, someone must know that Plan A is going to fail.
This is very misleading.
Outside conservative groups with no say in the matter are saying this NOT BUSH.
BUSH HAS SAID THE NOMINATION WILL GO AHEAD. LAURA IS THRILLED.
Here's a link to the Washington Times article reporting the rumor. I've also posted it as a separate thread:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20051021-112953-8355r
All these people in Washington DC and the media like to yap, yap, yap about things they know nothing about. They are such an insufferable lot and a bunch of self-important know-it-alls who think they have an "inside track" on things because their mommies and daddies sent them to some snobbish Ivy League school. The fact is that if you put them all in a giant gymnasium, their collective IQs would barely be half that of regular people like GWB or Condoleeza Rice. And that annoys them because they know it.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Tough call.
Reminds me of Wilma just sitting there, churning away. While everybody has an opinion, nobody knows where this is going to go.
Meanwhile, we are suffering fatigue just watching.
If she withdraws it will be because she didn't have conservative support. A truly conservative replacement would have such support, and would unify the party.
These outside groups were asleep at the wheel a week before the nomination. The white house let out word that Miers was one of three finalists and the outside conservative groups had no opposition research on her. She is basically Gonzalez in drag. We had all our ammo out to stop Gonzalez and were broadsided by Miers. When her name was first brought up before her nomination that was the time to put on a full pr campaign not now when it is too late.
A true conservative couldn't get through this senate.
You need 60 votes to have a majority in the senate. We don't have those votes thus we are at the mercy of Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer.
< jumping up and down>
Bye bye, Aunt Harriet!
Having now read the Washington Times article, I need to correct something in my original post here.
Reportedly, WH staff is reaching out to conservative leaders as to their recommendations for handling a Miers withdrawal.
The article names Sara Taylor, director of the Office of White House Political Affairs, as one of the WH staffers who personally placed such calls. She denies it.
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