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If I were a disinterested observer, as I am when watching extreme cage fighting, and wanted to see blood for the sake of seeing blood, then I'd want to see the hearings. Instead, I am and have always been a strong supporter of President Bush. For that very reason I profoundly hope either he will withdraw Miers' nomination or, far better, that she will withdraw out of her alleged loyalty for him.

Otherwise, this thing is going to be a total catastrophe. The DemonRats aren't even going to have to try to Bork her. All they'll have to do is display her abysmally diminishing list of qualifications. Once that's happened, they'll use it to smear President Bush for sending up such a "horribly unqualified crony." That being stuck to him, there won't be much left of the administration and his presidency.

The only way out of this vile, squalid mess is for her to BAIL NOW.

All [Senate Dems]'ll have to do is display her abysmally diminishing list of qualifications. Once that's happened, they'll use it to smear President Bush for sending up such a "horribly unqualified crony."

It isn't a smear if it's true. As far as "qualified" is concerned, she's borderline. But the Dems'll be able to make the charge with a clear conscience because they let the even-more-unqualified Julie Myers go forward into ICE -- an agency this Amnestîzo White House would just as soon see fail, anyway. Myers-with-a-y has never supervised more than three people before in her short, achievement-poor life. So Bush owes the Dems for letting her skate into the new job, where career agents are already looking at openings in agencies that will still enforce the law.

Miers-with-an-i, on the other hand, has done good stuff like run the Texas Bar Association, a left-wing lawyers' union dedicated to increasing the lawyerization of everything in society.

Are there any arguments being made in her favour except, "Trust President Bush," and, "she's the right religion"? The first of those is insufficient, and the second, frankly, offensive. Not to mention an unconstitutional qualification for office.

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The DemonRats aren't even going to have to try to Bork her. All they'll have to do is display her abysmally diminishing list of qualifications. Once that's happened, they'll use it to smear President Bush for sending up such a "horribly unqualified crony." That being stuck to him, there won't be much left of the administration and his presidency.

Danger Danger!
Report to Assimilation Camp

But seriously, you make a good point. And once that meme is out, it (WRONGLY, but perception means something) tars many other Presidential appointments. It also tars him, personaly, with some nasty labels.

I don't want to see the blood on the floor either. I don't want to see W and this poor woman humiliated. If she is as loyal as he says she is, she will withdraw. If not for him, at least for herself. Surely she can see by now that the SCOTUS is way beyond her ken. If she is as smart as he says she is, she has to know that.
Or is the WH such a bubble that all who labor there think they are the best in the world?