CNN: HARRIET MIERS HAS WITHDRAWN!

[SoFloFreeper]

just breaking!!!!!!!!

[Cuttnhorse]

we're talkin reality, caused by guys like you bangin your spoon on the highchair!

Insightful comment...with guys like you supporting Miers it is no wonder she's toast.

[Soul Seeker]

Absolutely True.

We have had the edge in this fight all along, if we were willing to use it. We were guarenteed some 40 Republicans votes. There are enough red state Dems to run the vote tally up for re-election next year. Not only them, but Dems in states such as Wisconsin that are close in elections. Forget the RINO's. We have more posible DINO's if proper pressure from the people is exacted.

[clawrence3]

And, the final nail in that bridge will be when Roberts or this next nominee vote to uphold Roe v. Wade. Sad day, I think.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

"Well, NO ONE is perfect, but I'm close ;)"

I'm never wrong. Wait...I take that back. Once I thought I was wrong, but then realized I was wrong. :OP

[GarySpFc]

Almost all the "unfair" attacks on Miers' nomination, however, were based on her lack of qualifications for the position. This wasn't a Borking -- she wasn't attacked as a danger to the American way of life (no one talked ominously of Harriet Miers' America), her religious beliefs weren't denigrated, and her prior writings weren't deliberately distorted.

Your post is totally false.

[Republic of Texas]

Whatever the reason, she withdrew. Her rights were never violated, and any criticism she received, warranted or not, comes with big league pay.

[Steve_Stifler]

Not an exact quote, but Ann stated or wrote that she had better qualifications (academic and professional) than Miers and that she (Ann) was still not qualified to be a Supreme Court justice.

[Txsleuth]

Wouldn't you bet that if Ted did get on the Supreme Court...the ACLU would say he would have to recuse himself...

[F.J. Mitchell]

LOL! That's right.

[processing please hold]

I think the truth is too horrible for them to see, so they twist it to what they want it to look like. They denied a nominee the chance to have her say before a committee for the office of the Supreme Court.

Maybe instead of slapping each other on the back, they should slap each other in the face to snap themselves out of the delusion they are in. She was denied her hearing.

[trubluolyguy]

What do you think about tomorrow Bush nominates Patrick Fitzgerald to the SCOTUS and at the same press conference, Fitzgerald announces no indictments?

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That fat tub 'o goo Teddy Kennedy would have a heart attack.


I LIKE it!

[Tulsa Ramjet]

"The president was willing to release some documents, Miers didn't want to do so."

Spin it anyway you want it. You were not in the room. This thread is slowly starting to become soooo......Wilson/Plame.

[Nameless]

How is he not a zealot? He seems to be saying that unquestioning belief in a Bronze Age religion (Updated in the Iron Age by a charismatic leader) is a qualification for the highest court in the land. Maybe you believe that there is a grandfatherly old gentleman who lives in the sky in a place called "Heaven" and has magical powers, but I don't. What percentage of people scoring two standard deviations above the mean in standardized IQ tests share his and Miers belief system? Back in the Bronze and Iron ages, respectively, both aspects of this religious tradition were cutting edge and represented great advancements in moral reasoning and religious thought, but they don't stand up to the accumulated empirical knowledge we have now.

[Wolfstar]

Sorry if that ruined your day, Cupcake.

It didn't ruin my day, Sugar. It ruined something much larger and more important.

[rwfromkansas]

I supported her pretty strongly for a long time, but I have to say, the 1993 speech did concern me.....

I am glad she has withdrawn.

The idea that this will weaken Bush for the rest of the term is too far. She withdrew of her own accord; Bush didn't tell her to leave (that we know of).

Now, Bush needs to put up somebody we all can like yet will get some moderate Dem votes, at least enough to win.

[clawrence3]

Well, I'd like to see the exact quote, because I don't think being a TV pundit give you more qualifications than being White House Counsel.

[Republic of Texas]

How was her right to a hearing "denied"?

[ohioWfan]

When I, as a Christian, see Christianity mocked on a conservative forum and by conservative 'leaders,' it gives me pause, and makes me wonder where I am, and why I am here.

Christians have been the strongest supporters of the Conservative movement, getting out and working the phones and going door to door. It is unwise for others to deliberately alienate us by ridiculing what we stand for and who we are.

[GarySpFc]

I suppose then that her own words showing she was pro abortion didn't bother you?
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I would have to see something she wrote that was very emphatic. I know friends of Miers, and she is NOT PRO-CHOICE. I say that as a former vice-president of one of the largest pro-life organizations in the country.

[clawrence3]

Me too ; )