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CNN: HARRIET MIERS HAS WITHDRAWN!

Posted on 10/27/2005 5:54:48 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

just breaking!!!!!!!!


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To: Tulsa Ramjet

OK is Okay with me!


1,421 posted on 10/27/2005 8:09:38 AM PDT by Sunnyflorida
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To: GopherIt

Oh well, if Trent Lott doesn't want "very conservative" nominees, then let's just send up Hillary and go home. God knows we can't get anywhere without Trent Lott on our side.


1,422 posted on 10/27/2005 8:09:48 AM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: ReaganRevolution

If he nominates Judge Brown, he can also tie it into honoring the memory of another blackk woman who died this week, Rosa Parks...would make it difficult for libs to argue that!


1,423 posted on 10/27/2005 8:09:58 AM PDT by princess leah (\)
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To: Aquinasfan
Occasionally putting a judicial stick in the eyes of evil's feels pretty good sometimes. why should we settle for anyone less than a staunch conservative?
1,424 posted on 10/27/2005 8:10:10 AM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet (Let it begin now.)
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To: jennyjenny

There will be more donations from me based on those ads. Free speech is alive and well.


1,425 posted on 10/27/2005 8:10:23 AM PDT by unseen
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To: unseen
The BIG TENT idea is good. BUT you do not pull in groups that are the direct opposite of your base.

The man that knew people, and not parties, was Ronald Reagan. He attracted an idealogical base of conservative people from both parties. The anti-Ross Perot if you will.

1,426 posted on 10/27/2005 8:10:41 AM PDT by ARealMothersSonForever
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To: GopherIt
Two comments this AM before work:

1) O'Conner will now hear and decide on the Church&State and Parental Notification cases. I doubt this forum will reach consensus on who might be responsible for whatever results come from that. Great opportunities for SDO'C to write swan-song majority opinions.

Time for Roberts to do some jiggering of the court docket :-) For what it's worth, Miers would have likely ruled the same way on the Church&State cases as O'Connor, and possibly the same on the Parental Notification ones.

2) I do hope this forum combines with the pundits and the next nominee to apply pressure where it belongs, with all the vehemence we have seen for the last few weeks: the Senate. There lies the source of weakness that the President took into account with the Mier's nomination. Already Trent Lott was on screen signalling that 'very conservative' nominees (by name, Owens or Brown) might not be the 'wisest' choices, implying that the constitutional option is not a done deal at all.

Why am I not surprised that Cave-A-Lott is caving?

1,427 posted on 10/27/2005 8:10:57 AM PDT by steveegg (Take two - this time, nominate a conservative, not someone who would be at least as bad as O'Connor.)
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To: mwl1

Santorum would be a good way for Bush to thumb his nose at and satisfy his base at the same time, but it would also result in PA's scumball Rat Gov Rendell appointing a new Senator. Bush wouldn't do that, I don't think.


1,428 posted on 10/27/2005 8:11:07 AM PDT by LibertarianInExile (Miers did the right thing. Now the President can, by appointing Alex Kozinski, 9th Circuit COA.)
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To: BushisTheMan

You sound like a Sore Loserman.


1,429 posted on 10/27/2005 8:11:12 AM PDT by Pharmboy (The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
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To: GraniteStateConservative
I've heard the meme that Bush plans to appoint the worst possible person post-Miers, out of spite, for weeks-- by pro-Miers folks trying to shout down anti-Miers folks. It's crazy.

Remember the deliriously happy, and justified, refrain at the beginning of the Bush Administration that the 'adults were finally back in charge'?

The aftermath of this disastrous nomination is certainly going to put that thesis to the test...

1,430 posted on 10/27/2005 8:11:16 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Put Principle Before Party. Support Minuteman Jim Gilchrist. www.JimGilchrist.com)
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To: Tulsa Ramjet

I've seen some good looking gay men and my first thought is always...what a waste. :-)


1,431 posted on 10/27/2005 8:11:16 AM PDT by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: arasina; cyborg; Petronski; bonfire; Blurblogger; Slings and Arrows; Lijahsbubbe; Delta 21; ...
What the heck is a withdrawl?

^___^

1,432 posted on 10/27/2005 8:11:22 AM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham
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To: bonfire

Kristol has a right to smirk: He won!


1,433 posted on 10/27/2005 8:11:33 AM PDT by Cedric
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To: conservativewasp

"Ate one of our own again?"

Not really. I was in favor of her because I believed what Bush was saying about her.

But, as I heard her positions and read her writings, I had to say to myself that she didn't seem to be the brightest bulb on the string. Beliefs aside, she didn't appear to be a thinker or if she was, she couldn't express herself well.

Further, if you want to know the truth, the previous two women on the court have not struck me as mental giants either. Ginsberg is a near commie and SDO is a scattergun.

Flame on, Gridley!


1,434 posted on 10/27/2005 8:11:41 AM PDT by lawdude (Err Amerika induces "in-talk-sication".)
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To: PhiKapMom

I was one of those. And I agree, she did the right thing by pulling out. I do dismay that O'Conner will still be sitting on the court. And if Bush nominates someone like JRB, the fight will go on forever.

Boxer and Fineswine are already out there warning Bush not to go there. Do we have enough senators with a spine that will fight the dims?


1,435 posted on 10/27/2005 8:11:53 AM PDT by Jrabbit (Kaufman County, Texas)
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To: Obadiah
Miers selected all the nominees on Bush's short list.

That is not true....she did not select them. There is a volume on this here.

1,436 posted on 10/27/2005 8:12:01 AM PDT by wardaddy (Moderation Fetishists must die!!!!!!!!!!!!!, Free I Love Dane now!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: ohioWfan
It didn't have to be this way.

True.

President Bush could have sent a qualified nominee.

1,437 posted on 10/27/2005 8:12:01 AM PDT by Petronski (The name "cyborg" to me means complete love and incredible fun. I'm filled with joy.)
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To: Pessimist
You mean it doesn't have the bar in the middle

Right. Like your bike.

1,438 posted on 10/27/2005 8:12:04 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper ("Tucker Carlson could reveal himself as a castrated, lesbian, rodeo clown ...wouldn't surprise me")
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To: Black Tooth
This is the last thing I have to say to you. I managed to get through these arguments without calling anyone names (other than Frum and Kristol and Coulter). I have tried to be civil.

You think you are the big winners. Congratulations. When you can explain to me how you are going to get one of your preferred choices through the weak Senate, we will talk.

Until then, go pound sand. Your big victory was getting a woman to withdraw in order to save the Party. It seems to me that Harriet Miers is more admirable than you folks. She at least has a sense of decency.

Enjoy your victory.

1,439 posted on 10/27/2005 8:12:13 AM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's son and keep him strong.)
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To: msnimje

Allen on Laura's show firmly advocating a quick process leading to a Judicial conservative. Thanking Miers for doing this.


1,440 posted on 10/27/2005 8:12:22 AM PDT by Soul Seeker
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