CNN: HARRIET MIERS HAS WITHDRAWN!

[SoFloFreeper]

just breaking!!!!!!!!

[cake_crumb]

"I personally think that BOTH sides of this debate have NOTHING to celebrate. Both showed their posteriors on NUMEROUS occasions."

Bears repeating BUMP

[Republic of Texas]

I would call getting a majority in the Senate, only to find out that your nominee must also please the minority, going nowhere fast.

[TAdams8591]

I am sure there is much he doesn't like about the Bush presidency and has said so.

There's a possibility he may even want to see it fail, an awful charge (and one I wouldn't make), if true.

But he is not going to use the Miers nomination or take direct action to actually help do it which was the original charge to which I responded.

[clawrence3]

She AND Bush knew - that was the big difference between her nomination and Souter, Kennedy, O'Connor. I can just see you people fighting for Sparta during the Trojan war: "People of Troy, don't be fooled - the horse is hollow!!!"

[caryatid]

Oliver Wendell Holmes died, aged 85, on October 7, 1894.

You have cited the father of Justice Holmes, who was a physician and professor of medicine at Harvard.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. would serve on the Supreme Court longer than any other person-thirty years. He was called "The Great Dissenter" because he was often at odds with his fellow justices and was capable of eloquently expressing his dissents. Louis Brandeis often joined him in dissents, and their views often became the majority opinion in a few years' time. Holmes resigned due to ill health in 1932, at age ninety. He died in 1935 [just months short of his 94th birthday] and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery next to his wife.

[dorathexplorer]

My son (4) is literally obsessed with Dora. He saw the new Dora Dollhouse on tv and the next morning was crying and whining wondering where his house went, as if he actually owned it already. Silly children. Thank God for programs though, like that, that teach our children some good. There aren't many left.

[Theodore R.]

There are two Oliver Wendell Holmses. The one on the Supreme Court was still around after World War I. The poet-father-doctor must be the one who died in 1894.

[SJackson]

The headers are classics.

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[Warren_Piece]

I, for one, supported Miers because I am an intellectual elitist. Although she did receive a law degree -- a negative indicator of intelligence -- her undergrad degree was in mathematics. This makes her the smartest person ever nominated to the court.

This is priceless...

[Mo1]

Go talk to John McCain and his pal for that

[George W. Bush]

Stealth conservatives are probably off the list now. And open conservatives will not be able to get past a filibuster.

Let's see. So Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg can sail right through with no questions asked.

But someone who actually respects and knows the Constitution can't get a hearing, let alone confirmation?

I begin to think some of you really do favor liberal court activism.

Anything to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, eh?

[BigSkyFreeper]

You gave no proof. I have proof-- an attorney friend of Priscilla Owen heard about this Rove-created campaign and asked her if it was true, and Owen said she "most emphatically" did not tell Bush not to nominate her.

I wasn't talking about that, but, nice try.

[Soul Seeker]

Anyone seen this?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1510376/posts

Dr. Dobson Says Bush Made 'Wise Decision' on Miers Nomination

[darkmatter]

I think Bush should nominate Janice R. Brown. Most of the 7 RINOs are on record saying that they would not allow a filibuster on the three nominees that were part of the "compromise" (read sellout) deal.

Further, just as ACTS 2:38 said, Bush needs a unified party more than anything else right now. Bush needs to "dance with the person who brought him" and stick to his base.

Not only is it the right thing to do, but it is good political strategy. The conservative "base" is much larger than the liberal "base". Liberals have to hide from their liberal lable and PRETEND to pander to the middle. Conservatives dont have to pander to the middle, because their are enough of us to affect the outcome of elections as November 2004 proved.

Nothing would improve the President's fortunes better than overriding the liberals in Congress through a knock em down drag em out fight. If there is anything that can fight the "lame duck" lable the MSM has tagged on him, it is a victory that demonstates which party really does hold the reigns of power in Washington.

[dorathexplorer]

We ALL have the same God, republican and democrats alike. We should NOT let a party affiliation separate us or allow us to pre-determine someone elses belief and cause a divide.

Because when it comes down to it, God will judge us by how we serve him, and how we treat others is part of that. It's sad that the democrats have gone so far off the edge, they seem unreachable. But now is the time we must pray for them, instead of turn our backs.

[Wolfstar]

Why are you posting on Free Republic?

For the same reason(s) you post here. I've been here a long time. Since 1997. (In the early days, various software crashes caused those of us who registered before 1998 to have to reregister.) It used to be a place where mainstream conservative and Republican people were welcome.

[nyconse]

Sure, we can so count on the Senate to use the nuke option in order to stop the filibuster right?

[Siena Dreaming]

I think every day.

You speak of party. I belong to no party. However, I am a conservative. Currently, the Republicans are moving the agenda forward. Albeit, not as quickly as many immature people who do not have a deep knowledge of history would like. However, I actually am quite inspired by what progress has been made.

The immature and impatient ones will complain, of course. However the seasoned men and women will understand that this is a process...step by step by step.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Judge Brown has been my #1 choice from the start. Hopefully President Bush will nominate Judge Brown or another judicial conservative who is as qualified as she is.

[thoughtomator]

No less ugly than the supporting camp, and it was all entirely unnecessary. For the conflict itself there is no one but the President to blame. A strategy of pre-emptive concessions to the Democrats is simply not acceptable.