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No, wrong. Why should these people suffer for deciding in favor of their families. The fact is, it is none of our business. These people have the right to make these decisions without our scorn or anger.

The fact that Miers IS the remaining 20% is the reason that I am supporting her if she doesn't back out.

Thanks for your insight, Pukin. Bush knows the importance of this appointment. He knows the stakes are high. I don't believe he would squander this opportunity by nominating someone in whom he didn't have complete confidence.

The 80% denial coupled with the Republican Senators, spinless wonders all, left Bush in a tough situation.

No, wrong. Why should these people suffer for deciding in favor of their families. The fact is, it is none of our business. These people have the right to make these decisions without our scorn or anger.

I wasn't talking about the nominees, I was talking about the RINO and Dem Senators who have created this mess.

Miers will not back out. Here are a couple of paragraphs from the legalunderground:

Probably the harshest criticism leveled at Miers stems from her only foray into pure politics: her two-year term as an at-large member of the Dallas City Council from 1989 to 1991. She didn't run for re-election after she won the State Bar presidency. It was a tumultuous time on the council, with contentious issues such as the Wright Amendment, Dallas' light-rail system and council redistricting all in play. Although none contacted would speak for attribution, some of her former council colleagues still criticize Miers as uncommunicative and worse. Yet others praise her.
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Says Miers: "I'm not universally liked by everyone because I have very strong views of what's right and wrong, and I take my positions seriously and I fight for them strongly. And the role on the council was different in the sense that you really, in that arena, have to take the positions you feel are in the best interest of the city. And on a variety of very controversial issues, I felt very strongly about them and took a very aggressive position, and as to some of the council members, that made me unpopular because they were on the other side of those issues."