She's a sacrifice. She will not be confirmed and both Bush and Miers know it. Bush's second nomination will be more conservative and Bush will fight for a confirmation.
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What nonsense!
Oh man, the delusions abound.
What makes you think she won't be confirmed?
What makes you think she agreed to lose a confirmation vote?
There were tons of established judicial righties out there, and Bush chooses this person.
My word, what's the point in sacrificing someone?
Why not do it correctly the first time?
And Bush signed the Campaign Finance/Speech Repression act because he "knew" the Supreme Court would never approve it. We know how well that worked out.
Keep dreaming.
I agree with you, Pabianice. I think Bush is just being nice to her, knowing darn well there is going to be a dickens of a time getting her confirmed.
Exodus International affiliation? Ha. The libs are going to go absolutely ballistic over that one.
She won't be confirmed. Betcha.
I'm afraid Miers will be easily confirmed. After the required Dimocrat/liberal blustering and document-demanding, of course.
Sure hope you're right! This is the first comment I've liked since holding my breath when she was announced.
How can she avoid confirmation if the libs like her? The team-playing Republicans will vote yes and the Dems will push her through because they know this is as good as it's gonna get for them. In fact, they couldn't have found a better candidate amongst themselves!
She'll be confirmed easily.
Of course she will be confirmed. Get a grip.
Huh? That is not leadership. Pick a conservative jurist and fight for them, dammit. That's why the thousands of volunteers gave up their lives in 2004 to re-elect this man. Not for wimpy "sacrificies", not for milquetoast moderates his father would appoint.
Too complicated... I like it though.
Lay off the kool aid.
Democrats are vicious, but they're not stupid. I believe there is more of a chance that the Republicans block her nomination than the dems, who realize that Bush's choice could have been, for them, a helluva lot worse. If there is any Bush "strategery" involved, perhaps he will let the dems unload on her, and then have her withdraw for some "unnamed" medical problem. Or, more Machiavellian, to have her "blow" the confirmation hearings by letting it slip out that she is really a hard-core right-winger.
This is the "swing" seat. Is Harriet Miers the number one choice that Bush (who allegedly won the election) can proffer? She is, at this point, a marginally acceptable choice--one we would have been thrilled with if Presient Clinton or Carter nominated her. But, this was supposed to be Bush's opportunity to change the face of the Court (and the direction of this country) for generations to come.
I'm not interested in someone who is marginally accepatable but more easily confirmable. I want the most conservative (and reasonably young) choice available. And, if it takes the nuclear option to get a confirmation, so be it. If Bush finds that he doesn't have enough Republican support in the Senate for a Janice Rogers Brown or a Priscilla Owen, there would be time enough to choose a slightly less conservative (but more confirmable) candidate. What Bush has done, to my way of thinking, is to ask a girl to the prom whom he knows will accept, instead of asking the prettiest girl in school, and, failing that, the second prettiest, etc.
I seem to remember how that worked out.
This was one of my thoughts as well.
She is loyal enough to put up with all the BS of being a sacrificial lamb.
However, why play games?
He can get anyone through now who is qualified. I'll go to the mat for the guy if I'm convinced the nominee is worth it.
While I hope you are right, you are going to have to explain the logic of how the Senate is going to reject Miers.
For Democrats, this is the scene from Animal House where the kid is reading playboy on the bed, and the girl in the bunny suit flies in through the bedroom window and lands on his lap.
Why must this be so hard for conservatives? Clinton gets a chance to appoint a justice, and who does he go for? Ginsberg, ex-ACLU chief counsel. Had to be a no-brainer for him, right?
We get TWO SHOTS! One, we get mysterio, and next we get a DNC donor and Al Gore supporter.
Why? How STUPID do they think we actually are? It's a question to which I fear the answer.