[falpro]

You didn't answer it because you don't operate on principle, you operate on politics.

I told you why I didn't answer it. Now you're calling me a liar just like you're calling the President and Miers liars.

I see how you operate Oh cBOLDt One.

[Gondring]

Now you're calling me a liar just like you're calling the President and Miers liars.

Interesting point.

Bush had emphasized to his aides, however, that he wanted to nominate a woman or minority. Federal appellate Judge Priscilla Owen had been under serious consideration and, an administration official said, was willing to endure another fight, after surviving a Democrat-led filibuster of her nomination to the New Orleans-based federal appeals court. She did not withdraw her name from consideration, the official said.

But Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and other Senate Democrats had warned Bush that the nomination of the strongly conservative Owen would provoke an all-out fight and likely trigger a filibuster.

So with his approval rating dropping after the government's response to Hurricane Katrina, Bush turned to Miers, his trusted adviser. Officials had floated the idea of nominating her with top outside legal advisers the week before, and they believed the Republican Party's conservative base would be content with her nomination.