CNN: HARRIET MIERS HAS WITHDRAWN!

[SoFloFreeper]

just breaking!!!!!!!!

[RockinRight]

Actually, I think the Dems will f--- up the opportunity they have and it will backfire.

This is a GOOD thing for the GOP, potentially.

[mosquitobite]

Right. The fight is what gives the citizenry the STUPID positions of liberals & Democrats. Why the WH couldn't get this is beyond me. We don't need a stealth - we have a majority. The right nominee could send red state Democrats home packing for good!

[sinkspur]

They can freely say they were willing to support the President's nominee, but she was sunk by the "radical right wing". Whomever the next nominee is -- unless he/she's definitely more liberal/moderate than Miers, will be portrayed as a pick forced on the President by the Terry Schiavo/Pat Robertson freaky right wing, and opposed on that basis.

Yep. Bush "is captive to his right wing." That will be the theme, especially if he picks someone who has openly supported overturning Roe v. Wade.

Every single far-right choice will be an "exceptional situation," subject to the filbuster.

You just watch.

If I were Bush, I'd ask O'Connor to stay on for a year or so, then try again right before the election.

Ingraham is STILL trashing Miers, railing about the speech.

You won Laura. You won. You are disgraceful by continuing in your jihad against Miers.

[not2worry]

I won the bet with the hubby. I felt that if Harriett was the person President Bush thought she was, that she would not let the President and his family go through the process that would hurt his Presidency or divide the Country.

God Bless Harriett Miers. IMHO, she is everything President Bush, in his heart, felt she was as a person and an American!

[fox0566]

Has anyone ever considered the fact that maybe Janice Rogers Brown is one of the judges who wanted to be removed from consideration because she didn't want to go through this process? Maybe even more than one of the judges that we would have wanted to be considered for the Supreme Court had taken themselves out of the running voluntarily. We really don't know what President Bush was left to work with. It looks like he made a careless choice in nominating her, but I don't have all the facts either.

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

Most people who followed that excuse thought it was a lie. Some sources in a position to know said that some of the conservative women jurists (people like JRB) were angry and said that the WH lied about them withdrawing.

I guess I haven't been Freeping enough. Thank you for that info. I hadn't heard anything about that. Now that I have a broken foot, I have no excuse for not Freeping 24/7, lol.

[You Dirty Rats]

We want this. We want the nuclear option. We want tough leadership. We want all the senate RINO's exposed so we can get rid of them too.

Be careful what you wish for. You might get all of that -- and a devastating loss in the Senate when the 'Rats and moderate Republicans prevent a vote.

[RushCrush]

Thanks for your reply, I appreciate it. It's just that the word 'independent' scares me sometimes.

[nicmarlo]

Thank The Lord

AMEN!!!

[johnny7]

This 'fight' should never have been fought.

Our real fight lies in the Senate... with socialist Democrats and the RINO quislings.

[Dolphy]

He was until he recommended not nominating Brown or Rogers but someone more acceptable

Such is the political reality that some here refuse to face.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I was using the "up or down vote" in a generic sense. I know the Senate votes, for God's sake...didn't fall off the turnip truck this morning.

Once again. From the beginning 99.9% of what I heard was whinning. She is not Brown. She is not Luttig, blah, blah, blah.

I did hear some reasonable objections based on fact and circumstance.

But for the most part, I heard the whinning of a 2 year old child who did not get what his way.

It is not that they objected. It is how they objected. IMHO, it was no better than the way the dems piss and moan when things don't go their way.

[Rider on the Rain]

It was the right decision, and I respect her greatly for making it.

That's exactly how I feel about it.

[inquest]

Way too many on here blow EVERYTHING so far out of proportion it is silly.

I agree. All the brooding about how "Bush is undermined" serves absolutely no consrtructive purpose. The only possible thing it could accomplish is become a self-fulfillng prophecy. The only thing he's been "undermined" in doing is nominating judicial candidates who don't have a solid constitutionalist track record. But his hand has been strengthened when it comes to nominating those with good constitutionalist track records, and if he takes advantage of that, we need everyone on board.

[areafiftyone]

The manner in which Miers was sunk gives the Dems in the Senate a huge lift. They can freely say they were willing to support the President's nominee, but she was sunk by the "radical right wing". Whomever the next nominee is -- unless he/she's definitely more liberal/moderate than Miers, will be portrayed as a pick forced on the President by the Terry Schiavo/Pat Robertson freaky right wing, and opposed on that basis. They've wanted an opportunity to derail the process, and it was just handed to them. It would have been much better for her to have failed on a vote where there would be a lot of Democrats on record as having opposed her. Now, the withdrawal will be blamed entirely on the right. And the Dem "support" for her will be there excuse to derail future nominees.

Exactly right. Now we can't even blame this one on the Dems - we did it to one of our own. Did you know that a Conservative Christian group took a whole full blown ad out yesterday in a paper asking Bush to withdraw Miers? How pathetic is that when they don't even know what she is like?

[WrightWings]

That explains why her revised answers to the Congressional questionnaire were not turned in by last night's deadline.

Fox reported last night that her revised answers were submitted at 11:40PM. I remember thinking that late hour was kind of odd.

Now I know why...

[unsycophant]

Kristol on FOX, saying conservatives "deserve" this, and blahblahblah, on the heels of talking about indictments coming out 'tomorrow'. NOW the new left can get behind the (lying, cheating, crony-loving) President again.

Kristol believes we "need this". Yeah, an embattled White House is exactly what we need for the rest of President Bush's term.

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

Go nuclear if need be. But get her on the bench.

Sounds good to me!

[Becki]

Laura Ingraham just began her show by saying "The first thing we should do is thank Harriet Miers, what she did was a hard thing to do."

I haven't listened to Laura in 2 weeks. I haven't been able to take her being so nasty.

I have heard very principled disagreements with the Miers nomination, namely Rush and, I believe, Gary Bauer on F&F the other morning. They were principled without being nasty.

I have seen and heard way too much nasty lately, here and elsewhere. And I have been very disgusted.

If we cannot present our points without dropping to that level, we are no better than the moonbats.

Becki

[Bryan24]

A handful at FR have opposed Miers nomination since the moment she got it. My own personal impression has been that their impetus was religious affiliation and little else.

I was opposed to her almost immediately because she had so little experience doing any deep legal "wrangling". WE need someone who has had to reason out constitutional problems and is a strict constructionist. From what I read of Meirs, she was neither.