CNN: HARRIET MIERS HAS WITHDRAWN!

[SoFloFreeper]

just breaking!!!!!!!!

[Donna Lee Nardo]

So now after the furor over this dies down, we can expect Fitz to announce his indictments I suppose. Fitz wants as much bang for the buck so to speak.

[lqcincinnatus]

Ditto, ditto, dito, ditto, dito, ditto, dito, ditto, dito, ditto, dito, ditto, dito, ditto, dito.

[BushMeister]

There is NO distinction between what you people did to Ms. Miers, and what the Left has done to countless Republicans and conservatives for many years.

Put some ice on that. We stopped an unqualified crony with liberal leanings who writes as well as Bush extemporaneously speaks from infecting the Supreme Court for 20 years.

Sorry if that ruined your day, Cupcake.

[Allosaurs_r_us]

 You are right, but the sad reality is that there won't be enough votes to defeat a filibuster, and there won't be enough votes to change the rules (the so-called "nuclear" option).

 

I hope you are wrong on this. If the people will get off their duffs and express their opinions as fiercely as they did their opposition to Meirs, I see no reason why we should not be able to come up with the votes in the Senate to Nuke the obstructionists. I believe the American people are sick and tired of the Senate sitting around on their butts doing everything possible to screw the other side. There are moderate Democrats who are pretty fed up with their party being hijacked by the lunatic fringe from the left.

 

This country needs a good knuckles and blood bar room brawl over this. We elected these people to work for us and or the betterment of the country. The lunatic lefties are forever spouting they are the majority opinion of the country, which is absolute BS, and the only thing they are going to understand is a swift kick in the a$$. Well it's long past due. It is time to start leaning on the pussies we elected and have them stand up for the principals that got them elected. The only way they are going to do this is if we start holding them accountable.

 

It is certainly apparent to me the conservative voice had a lot to do with Harriet Meirs withdrawing her nomination. Now if we can just get all of those who got involved in this to show as much passion toward their own Reps and Senators failings we might be able to actually take advantage of the situation.

 

This is an opportunity to put some momentum back into the conservative movement. The worst thing we can do now is become complacent. It would be falling right into the DimWits plans to take our President down or make him a lame duck with 3 years left of his term. Pessimism is our number one enemy.

[SupplySider]

It's not about abortion - it's about that lovely piece of paper we call the Constitution.

I'd like to believe that President Bush thinks that, too, but I'm not at all sure.

It seemed like James Dobson was sent out to send the message "she's a bible believing Christian, she'll rule against Roe and be a good justice because she has the right personal beliefs", nudge nudge wink wink.

I'm all for bible believing Christians, but it scares me if that was the president's thought process. We just want a justice who will uphold the constitution! Is that too much to ask?

[processing please hold]

I see, I opposed Miers because I wanted a proven strict constructionist on the court,

You KEEP MISSING THE POINT, she deserved to be HEARD, it was her right as an American.

[gopwinsin04]

Everyone gets one mulligan Mr. President! Now go back in there with Garza or Luttig and make the Dims heads hurt...

[Republic of Texas]

You are correct that work has to be done behind the scenes, but the people must also be led from the front. Maybe Frist is uncomfotable with that, if so, he should not have volunteered for a LEADERSHIP position.

[clintonh8r]

Miss Miers: Thank you for doing the right thing.

Mr. President: Please nominate a conservative.

[ohioWfan]

Telling of what? That character matters to me? That integrity and trust are qualities that I admire?

Telling, indeed. I didn't see the President calling anyone vile names, and ridiculing anyone who didn't measure up to his standards.

I respect the President far more than I do the goons on this forum who have been downright evil in their attacks on this woman, and on the President. I don't trust the nasty extremist minority on this forum any more than I trust Howard Dean, John Kerry or Ted Kennedy. They're peas in the same pod.

And no ridicule from you or anyone else will change that.

[Dog]

That's the way it works with people who are such a tiny, powerless minority....

OK....enough...if we are such a powerless bunch of angry knuckle draggers why did this White House withdraw the name?

[Siena Dreaming]

she was his personal legal counsel and she shares his religious zealotry

Oh, here we go. Now Bush is a religious zealot? Sheesh.

[puroresu]

Red State Democrats are the key in this fight, if there is to be one.

The Democrats don't want a fight over the Supreme Court. The reason for all this bloviating and bullying and filibustering of lower court nominees was to bully Bush into NOT sending up a clear, determined, constitutionalist nominee. Few people pay attention to lower court nominations, though even on those obscure nominations their filibustering got them into some trouble, as Daschle learned on election night.

A fight over a constitutionalist Supreme Court nominee would result in the public siding with the nominee. The Democrats know this. Can anyone seriously imagine the public siding with the likes of Kennedy, Schumer, Durbin, and Biden if they viciously smeared Janice Rogers Brown? Heaven couldn't deliver more ignorant and unattractive foes for us than the Democrats on the judiciary committee.

If the Democrats filibuster, they'll soon be flooded with phone calls and e-mails running five-to-one against them. That might not matter to Teddy or Chucky, but to a Democrat Senator from Florida, Louisiana, the Dakotas, Nebraska, or Arkansas, it's a different matter entirely.

The 'Rats don't want this fight. We should. Of course, our victory would be contingent upon our side actually fighting back. We did so with Thomas. We didn't with Bork.

[mobyss]

"she deserved to be HEARD"

And if she had written anything or said anything of substance over the last 30+ years, I'm sure people would have "heard" it. Problem was, she didn't.

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[GraniteStateConservative]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1501301/posts

[TAdams8591]

I agree with you about Trent Lott.

But Miers is hardly one of our own.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

The quagmire in Iraq

Haven't you been paying attention? Iraq is most certainly no quagmire; they've gotten their constitution ratified quicker than America did.

And as for Miers' withdrawal...eh, oh well. Now let's see if Bush picks a proven conservative instead of a stealth candidate. Maybe this time the nominee will go far enough to get to the hearing. (also hopes the conservatives don't each other this time around)

[clawrence3]

We shall see. I hope we don't get down the road with unforeseen circumstances and even you start wondering whether Miers would not have been better : (

[Semper Paratus]

Would love to see Ted Olson on SCOTUS when the treatment of al-Queda prisoners comes up.