The first two are immaterial. The third is highly improbable. Those that are moaning the loudest are probably not part of the Republican leadership, either locally, or otherwise.
For those of you who choose any one of those three, oblivion is the correct answer.
You better hope you're right.
Because if you're wrong, when they head out the door into "oblivion" (actually, they will be alive and well and enjoying lives and families and business), your own ship sinks with them, and takes you down to oblivion too.
The classic lose-lose scenario.
That seems to be the way the pieces are aligning, since the party apparatus, instead of trying to find a compromise, seems hellbent on stiff-arming the opposition and forcing them into the ranks.
And that won't work. I'm surprised that the political experts think it will.
True, true. The GOP leadership is hard peddeling this nomination. Geaux TEAM! Rah Rah Rah!
Top-down management has its place, but it is a very risky tactic with the issue (Miers nomination) on the table.