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CNN: HARRIET MIERS HAS WITHDRAWN!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: Prysson
My only worry is that he might nominate Gonzales.

After all the griping about cronyism, I hope GWB would be a little gun shy about nominating someone he calls a friend like Gonzales. I'd hate to see him nominated too.

441 posted on 10/27/2005 6:22:03 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (If you decide to kick the tiger in the ass...you'd better be prepared to deal with the teeth.)
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To: NautiNurse
"It wasn't acceptable to allow the confirmation process run its course."

Wrong...she should not have even been nominated, and apparently she agrees with me...not you.

442 posted on 10/27/2005 6:22:09 AM PDT by Cuttnhorse
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To: You Dirty Rats

Please explain how the withdrawel of a woman with very little track record is a win for the democrats? LOL, they've been Harriet's most ardent supporters during this process. Harry Reed's first pronouncements sounded as if he'd nominated her.

Putting another Souter on the court would have been a win for the Democrats! We have no way of knowing Miers wouldn't have morphed into one.

Conservatism won. Miers may have turned out to be a good conservative. I don't think so. The next nomination should have a track record, and should be a known quantity before any of us sign on.

One unknown quantity lost, is NOT a win for the democrats.


443 posted on 10/27/2005 6:22:12 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: livius

It's not about whether Bush has a setback for a couple weeks. It's about who is influencing our society for the next 25 years.


444 posted on 10/27/2005 6:22:16 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters
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To: VictoryGal; Cboldt
"The first thing we should do is thank Harriet Miers, what she did was a hard thing to do."

I couldn't listen to Laura this a.m. Thanks for posting that quote....I agree. Thank you's are in order.

445 posted on 10/27/2005 6:22:21 AM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: buckeyeblogger
Click Glenn Beck
446 posted on 10/27/2005 6:22:23 AM PDT by andyandval
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To: sinkspur
It'll be Edith Clement or that Williams chick from SC.

The manner in which Miers was sunk gives the Dems in the Senate a huge lift. They can freely say they were willing to support the President's nominee, but she was sunk by the "radical right wing". Whomever the next nominee is -- unless he/she's definitely more liberal/moderate than Miers, will be portrayed as a pick forced on the President by the Terry Schiavo/Pat Robertson freaky right wing, and opposed on that basis.

They've wanted an opportunity to derail the process, and it was just handed to them. It would have been much better for her to have failed on a vote where there would be a lot of Democrats on record as having opposed her. Now, the withdrawal will be blamed entirely on the right. And the Dem "support" for her will be there excuse to derail future nominees.

447 posted on 10/27/2005 6:22:26 AM PDT by XJarhead
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To: You Dirty Rats

<< Some of us felt that way about this pick. Paraphrasing Otter from "Animal House": "We f***** up; we trusted him." >>

I guess you won't make that mistake again!


448 posted on 10/27/2005 6:22:28 AM PDT by unsycophant
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To: GraniteStateConservative
We've got your back, Mr. President

Who does? Ingraham, Lott, Coulter, Kristol, etc.?

449 posted on 10/27/2005 6:22:30 AM PDT by Dolphy
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To: duffthor
Wow...I was pretty close on the date/time prediction thread.

I think yours was the closest - but based just on a quick scan for the number "27"

450 posted on 10/27/2005 6:22:31 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: jporcus
That's a load of dung. She's been picked for a lifetime appointment to the most important court in the land. Her writings point to something other than conservatism, she can't talk constitutional law and she screwed up her first questionnaire so bad that it had to be done over. She was also late with the do over, but now that she has pulled her nomination I can see why. Follow conservatism first, and individuals second. Philosophy over personality for those of you who don't know or read history.
451 posted on 10/27/2005 6:22:31 AM PDT by conservativecorner
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To: mountainfolk
I will never forget what has been done to this woman and to this President.

OK, and what exactly do you plan to do about it? Sit there and stew?

While you're wallowing in the grudges that you're nurturing, you might want to take the time to remember that your side had very little to offer in the way of arguments to support her. A lot of "trust Bush", "she's an Evangelical", and when all else fails, rather shameless attacks against her opponents for being supposedly unpatriotic by making life difficult for Bush. Pretty much nothing else of substance. If you enjoy continuing to lose like this, then by all means, keep up that method of argumentation.

452 posted on 10/27/2005 6:22:38 AM PDT by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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To: TommyDale

Agreed.


453 posted on 10/27/2005 6:22:40 AM PDT by MortMan (Eschew Obfuscation)
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To: unsycophant

Sadly, I suspect that you're right. It was one of the first things that crossed my mind (re the situation at the WH).


454 posted on 10/27/2005 6:22:48 AM PDT by livius
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To: Dog

Agreed. I was trying to keep an open mind...when I read the text of the speech I was furious.


455 posted on 10/27/2005 6:22:49 AM PDT by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve..)
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To: Cboldt
Trent Lott is doing a good job too - on FoxNews.

He was until he recommended not nominating Brown or Rogers but someone more acceptable

What a Pµ§§`/

456 posted on 10/27/2005 6:22:52 AM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Maybe she told Bush yesterday. He looked relaxed and confident as he delivered his speech at the Economic Club yesterday.

President Bush Outlines An Agenda For Economic Growth [Spoke at Economic Club today]

It will be fun to watch the MSM trying to speculate about two topics at once...the Plame affair and the upcoming SC nomination.

Each lib paper has to choose which headline to run.

457 posted on 10/27/2005 6:22:53 AM PDT by syriacus (Bush hasn't done a bad job, all things (WOT, vagaries of Nature, Lib lies + obstruction) considered)
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To: VictoryGal
Couldn't agree more. A huge thanks for Ms. Miers for doing what needed to be done.

My yes, what a patriot she now is... a few minutes ago she was a witch, a bumbling lackey, a toady.

458 posted on 10/27/2005 6:22:56 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: SoFloFreeper
My first choice as well, JRB.

I still believe Miers deserved to be heard.

459 posted on 10/27/2005 6:22:57 AM PDT by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: nicmarlo

Thanks. Same here. We all deserve a do-over from time to time.


460 posted on 10/27/2005 6:23:03 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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