I don't buy that. Most of you are blaming past incivilities on the fact that the president nominated Miers. It's like the man who said, "Officer, it wasn't my fault I bashed my wife's face in. SHE messed up dinner!"
It was president Bush's fault that many opposed this nomination. The vitriol, the sheer viciousness of the opposition, however, was NOT his fault.
I haven't been "incivil" with her. I turned against her slowly when it became she was neither qualified nor particularly conservative.
The 1993 speech released last night was the last straw.
"It was president Bush's fault that many opposed this nomination. The vitriol, the sheer viciousness of the opposition, however, was NOT his fault."
You're somewhat right. We don't know it was Bush himself. But whoever decided that the best way to control opposition was to insult it, like DU does its opposition, it was definitely their fault, this 'elitist, sexist,' crap that was spewed at the dissenters. That didn't work, either, as it only pissed off the base more and turned some actively against the President.